I am reading your replies. Some of you are very retarded. One day I aspire to edit out your genes for the benefit of future generations. This is the work we do at my lab in Beijing.

Part of the problem is that academics are simultaneously the best and the worst placed to tell us about the past. Best placed because they know the literature and sources and, on the whole, are smarter than the average person on the street (although that’s hardly an accolade).

Spanish Monarchs, seeing the UK convert to Catholicism 437 years after the Great Armada:

Historic power move to get a Bishop of Rome to offer felicitations for the marriage of divorced British royals.

Without women, most men would be content with Papa John’s and a mattress on the floor. It’s a woman who inspires a man to aim higher.

REMINDER that Van Gogh painted "The Starry Night" in a mental asylum, Dostoevsky wrote "The Gambler" to pay off gambling debts, and Dickens wrote "The Christmas Carol" when he was broke and his wife on their 5th child. Stress has produced more art than "slow saturdays" ever will

Happy St George’s Day🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿!! I wrote rose🌹in Japanese calligraphy😊

Westerners, when they encounter a country that actually uses it's military for deterrence, instead of an endless stream of wars of aggression:

Bannon single handedly preventing WW3 rn. Not the hero anyone wanted or expected but the one we all need.

The Germans are back to saying this stuff again folks. Nicht so gut!

⚡️BREAKING Member of Chinese Communist Party: If countries join the War alongside Israel, don’t exclude the possibility that Major Countries would join Iran

It’s now official…not just a meme.

Every Western country's government is structured in the same way. First, there is a progressive liberal party (e.g., Democrats). That party's policies can be summed up as: 1 Right now, legalize marijuana and provide government-funded gender transition for children. 2 In five

Really striking how even Reform imitate language of liberal consensus. Britain was built on attracting the brightest and the best! It empirically wasn’t. Anglophone world meant Britain was a society built on *emigration*. Interesting that even insurgent right adopts US rhetoric.

It is becoming clearer what has happened in the Middle East over the weekend, and over the last week. A 🧵

BANNON: You saw why Bibi can’t be trusted. The ceasefire was as much to save Israel. That’s the hidden story. They bit off more than they could chew. Yesterday was brutal for Israeli citizens, especially in Tel Aviv and Beersheba.

Safavid - Ottoman conspiracy to conquer New York City.

This is SO good. “They hate our freedoms” No, they tried to emulate your freedoms. The CIA and MI6 stopped them!