writer. telly director. earned a few shiny things. scotland is home. i own a pub in ireland. working on a project in chicago. science. history. atheist. he/him/his. 🏴
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i believe this... i also believe one of my ancestors lost all his posh bloody stones gambling on the old firm.😐
(back when it was the old old old firm. 🧐)
"Humans have been gambling since the Ice Age"
(from joseph howlett at sci-am)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humans-have-been-gambling-since-the-ice-age/
It stuns me reading and seeing all the mainstream media stories that Trump’s speech is covered as if it were given by a normal president.
It was in fact an incoherent mess of bragging, recriminations, lies, vague promises and general nonsense delivered by a mumbling idiot caked in orange make-up.
Watch it if you don’t believe me.
Until these rants are covered accurately, I don’t have much hope for American media.
"the first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. the next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other."
[ - bertrand russell, john greer slater, peter köllner (1996). “a fresh look at empiricism: 1927-42”, p.441, psychology press ]
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