Zombie
@Zombie@feddit.uk
- Comment on This is gold 4 weeks ago:
Taleya, I think, is alluding to the fact there are also non-Marxist forms of communism.
For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_communist_ideologies#Anarchist_communism
- Comment on The wierd alliances of the Iran–Iraq War 4 weeks ago:
StoneToss is a pseudonymous American neo-Nazi political cartoonist who publishes a webcomic of the same name.[3][4][5][6] Launched in June 2017, the comic has espoused racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic, and antisemitic views, including Holocaust denial.[1][7]
- Comment on Pick one 1 month ago:
Only helms with facial hair are worthy.
- Comment on Avon river 1 month ago:
What a stupid meme. Clearly the Celts are the chads in this case and the Romans the buffoons.
- Comment on The only woman on the Declaration of Independence 2 months ago:
Context:
Mary Katharine Goddard (June 16, 1738 – August 12, 1816) was an early American publisher, and the postmaster of the Baltimore Post Office from 1775 to 1789. She was the older sister of William Goddard, also a publisher and printer. She was the second printer to print the Declaration of Independence. Her copy, the Goddard Broadside, was commissioned by Congress in 1777, and was the first to include the names of the signatories.[1][2] In 1998, Goddard was inducted into the Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame.[3] Goddard owned a slave named Belinda Starling. Upon her death in 1816, Goddard’s will posthumously freed Starling and bequeathed to her all of Goddard’s property.[4]
- Comment on Alan Turing could have lived his whole life twice over and he would still have to wait 18 years for Gay Marriage to be legalized in the UK 2 months ago:
Propaganda? Lmfao. Alright.
- Comment on Alan Turing could have lived his whole life twice over and he would still have to wait 18 years for Gay Marriage to be legalized in the UK 2 months ago:
We didn’t keep our parliament. It was dissolved and only reestablished in 1999 after decades of Tory rule and protest from both the Scottish people and political class.
The legal system is merely a formality, what does Westminster care if we use a different court system when we’re still beholden to the same laws? A treaty was signed keeping it, why risk throwing that all away to impose a judicial system that is very similar to what Scotland uses anyway.
The enthusiastic participation in Empire is a mixed bag. There were both proponents and opponents, both in the common folk and the political class.
You seem to have strong opinions for somebody who has clearly not read anything on the topic.
If reading isn’t your style, this YouTube channel is interesting:
Slavery from a Scottish point of view https://youtu.be/ilPrYoVrdNE
The Massacre of Glencoe https://youtu.be/-FZktUwCgk8
- Comment on Alan Turing could have lived his whole life twice over and he would still have to wait 18 years for Gay Marriage to be legalized in the UK 2 months ago:
Aye, okay, only if you completely ignore the entire history of Scotland and England from about 1100 onwards.
- Comment on Alan Turing could have lived his whole life twice over and he would still have to wait 18 years for Gay Marriage to be legalized in the UK 2 months ago:
What you’ve said isn’t even close to historical fact.
Wales didn’t voluntarily join the union because it wasn’t an independent nation at the time. It was colonised by the English.
The Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542 (Welsh: Y Deddfau Cyfreithiau yng Nghymru 1535 a 1542), also called the Acts of Union (Welsh: Y Deddfau Uno), were acts of the Parliament of England under King Henry VIII causing Wales to be incorporated into the realm of the Kingdom of England.
The legal system of England and the norms of English administration, including the use of the English language only, were applied to a mainly Welsh-speaking Wales. This created a single state and legal jurisdiction, which is now called England and Wales.
In 1284, with the Statute of Rhuddlan, England had annexed Wales, which was excluded from parliamentary representation in Westminster. Wales was divided between the Principality of Wales and many feudal territories called the marcher Lordships, which were effectively unified under the laws. The English system of county government was also extended across all of Wales.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Laws_in_Wales_Acts_1535_and_15…
As for Scotland, yes the parliament voted for it but there was much shenanigans afoot.
The Treaty details were agreed on 22 July 1706, and separate Acts of Union were then passed by the parliaments of England and Scotland to put the agreed Articles into effect. The Treaty of Union was eventually passed in the Parliament of Scotland. The first Parliament of Scotland was a unicameral Parliament that was first mentioned on record in the 13th century, when a meeting took place in Kirkliston in 1235. The Parliament met until “prorogued sine die” following months of intense debate, with 110 voting in favour for the treaty to 67 against. It is notable that 123 of the 300 members of Parliament were missing from one of the most controversial votes of the age. The passing of the vote has been described as a vote “to end Scotland’s independence”.[3]
After the negotiations ended on 22 July 1706, separate acts of parliament were drafted by both parliaments to implement the agreed Articles of Union. The Scots proponents of union believed that failure to agree to the Articles would result in the imposition of a union under less favourable terms, and English troops were stationed just south of the Scottish border and also in northern Ireland as an “encouragement”. Months of fierce debate in both capital cities and throughout both kingdoms followed. In Scotland, the debate on occasion dissolved into civil disorder, most notably involving the notorious “Edinburgh Mob”,[13] which threatened “Destruction to all the Promoters of the Union”.[14]
As the Parliament of Scotland was deliberating on 22 October 1706, the session had to be suspended “because the mob was threatening to break in”;[15] although this did not ultimately occur, they subsequently “attacked the house of Sir Patrick Johnston, a commissioner for union and former Lord Provost of Edinburgh.”[15] “Troops were brought into the city with orders to shoot if necessary, and several regiments were placed at Queensberry’s disposal on the Scottish border and in Ireland in the event of trouble.”[16] The prospect of a union of the kingdoms was deeply unpopular among the Scottish population at large, and talk of an uprising was widespread.[17] However, the treaty was signed and the documents were rushed south with a large military escort. Andrew Fletcher, a prominent Scottish patriot, argued that the ratification of the treaty would see Scotland “more like a conquered province”.[18]
- Comment on I am begging the mods to make this into a rule 2 months ago:
Aye, normally bot accounts have a wee robot emoji, but I don’t see anything for Grumpus
- Comment on I am begging the mods to make this into a rule 2 months ago:
Genuinely starting to think this is just a bot account, it doesn’t provide context because it has no means of knowing the context.
It pulls images and titles from Reddit (or elsewhere) and is spitting it back out at us.
- Comment on Shout out to ancient translators, we never hear much about them 2 months ago:
Well, that and it’s a trick of diplomacy. It gives you some extra time to think. It’s still done today. For example, Putin when discussing in German or English.
Not to mention if your “barbarian” isn’t as good as you thought, or claimed, then it removes the chance of an embarrassing misunderstanding.
- Comment on SCOTLAND FOREVER 2 months ago:
Checkmate. They got merged into one in 1994, just called The Highlanders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlanders_(Seaforth,_Gordons_and_Camerons)
There’s also the wildcard, the Atholl Highlanders.
It has been described as the only legal private army in Europe.[3]