What I'm saying is Twitter is exactly like an 18th century London coffeehouse (I am working on dressing accordingly)
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whether or not the slave trade ought to be abolished was a Hot Topic
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exactly...which is to say there were tons of people in favor of keeping it, and the idea of abolishing it was radical and controversial
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incidentally what are your thoughts on keeping papists firmly under the boot by keeping the practice of that idolatrous religion outlawed?
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opposed! but that would put me decidedly in the minority back then
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oh dear... you don't approve of the company's actions in india then i suppose...
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correct, it's been nothing but mistakes since Mary and Philip didn't work out
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then you do at least have the common sense to realise that foreign papist *powers* are at work undermining our great nation
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of course! I understand perfectly well WHY Britain opposes them, I just happen to be on their side
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From a truly enlightened perspective, the world was under full Nazi hegemony until the 1960s, when a few crack appeared in the hideous edifice, but Nazi rule wasn't rolled back significantly until the late 1990s, & even now the fate of the Free World balances on the knife's edge.
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Reminded of the wonderful description in Hitler's Empire by Mark Mazower of a former SS man who became, and I quote, "the management guru of 50s West Germany."
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A good book?
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Not one of the best I've ever read, I don't think even that anecdote rendered the entire thing worthwhile. Now, Richard Evans' books, particularly for the darkly funny Nazi suicide anecdotes, definitely worthwhile.
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The Coming of the Third Reich and its successors.
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or 19th century, or early 20th century, or 10th century or 5th century... weird how all humans who ever lived were nazis until very recently
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Yeah, white men in the 1700s were generally not woke
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Black men were though
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