“The god who created the earth; who created the sun that gives us light. The god who holds up the ocean;
It was a dark and stormy night...
(I’ve always wanted to tweet that) But seriously, there was a tropical storm when a group of people gathered in the woods.
If they were white, we’d call them “founding fathers” but they were slaves who were about to change the world
A thread
Holup. I ain't learned about this in school. What was this??
— Drunk Tweets, Inc - Mask it or Casket (@DrunkTweetsInc) January 1, 2021
“The god who created the earth; who created the sun that gives us light. The god who holds up the ocean;
Then , the meeting adjourned & everyone went home.
In one week, 1800 plantations on the Island of St. Domingue would be burned to the ground and 1,000 white enslavers would be dead.
The shit had finally hit the fan.
First, they say the Black slaves rebelled against French rule.
WRONG.
The slaves were rebelling against white people because they had heard a rumor
So when they took up arms, they truly believed they were fighting FOR FRANCE.
2. Most people believe the slaves only fought France.
Nah, chief.
Haiti was BALLIN off that free labor.
So, Spain & England assumed, if they helped the slaves, maybe they could move in
That's when this dude François-Dominique Bréda stepped up.
Breda had been a slave but was a free man. He was smart AF and everyone could see it. At first, he just wanted to help out.
They don't like being told what to do. They looked at Breda like he had asked them to do something wild like wear a mask. Plus, if they negotiated with a Black man, that basically meant that they acknowledged him as an equal
They couldn't do that
Spain was right next door in Santo Domingo (later the Dominican Republic) so Breda hooked up with them.
Meanwhile, the rebels were lining behind Breda
"Perhaps my name has made itself known to you. I have undertaken vengeance. I want Liberty to reign in Saint Domingue... Join us & fight with us for the same cause."
Toussaint Louverture
He was THE TRUTH.
The French had heard about him. So when they heard he was fighting with Spain, they had to make a choice:
Give up slavery
Or fight this dude and possibly lose our golden egg?
So Louverture joined the French. He said it was because they banned slavery but something else had happened.
A few days earlier, the Black rebels had attacked Spain and killed ALL the white people there
They were right. Toussaint was lying.
Toussaint found out that the Spanish had been secretly getting the other Black generals to round up women and children and sell them as slaves.
Ending slavery was THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS, so he turned on them.
Seriously. They packed up an entire army and took their asses home.
That was light work for Toussaint 'nem. They kicked the British Army AND the British Navy's ass.
The British quit. The British gov. of Jamaica was scared that Toussaint would inspire slave revolts in the Americas & begged the Brits to keep fighting.
You know I can come over there whenever I want, so you might wanna keep my name out of your mouth.
Dude was shook
He sent the Brits home but he was so afraid of Loverture's influence, he wouldn't let the Jamaican fighters come to Jamaica.
You know they were lying, though.
As soon as Toussaint beat everyone, Napoleon sent his army & his brother in law to the island to take care of these black rebels.
When they got there, they faced off
Well, Napoleon's brother died and Rochambeau was in charge. He knew he couldn't defeat Toussaint, though. The Black rebels were too disciplined.
Then Rochambeau went HAM.
He beheaded anyone Black. He put Black soldiers in sacks and drowned them. He ordered 15,000 dogs who were trained to ONLY attack Black people
But he did something else
Viscount Rochambeau had invented the gas chamber.
One of Toussaint's old homeys Jean-Jacque Dessalines had joined the French.
By then, the Black warriors were weary, they had been fighting for a decade. The French had more firepower. More money. ANd remember, these people were former SLAVES. What did you think was gonna happen if they lost?
But Dessalines promised the rebels a path to victory.
"How?" They asked. "How in the world can we defeat these savages?"
Remember, the white people in Haiti thought Dessalines was on their side when he rode into Port Au Prince. He even had on his French uniform. (It was pretty clean, though)
To be fair, Dessalines didn't have to kill ALL the white people.
Most of them hauled ass.
They were white.
See, Yellow Fever was killing EVERYBODY but the black people, who had developed immunity in the Caribbean AND in Africa.
Napoleon could see that he was never going to win
On Jan 1, 1804, Dessalines said:
"We have repaid these cannibals, war for war, crime for crime, outrage for outrage.”
Some dude named Thomas Jefferson was so scared, that he cut off trade with Haiti
ANd then France sent warships and demanded that...
Hold up, this is the craziest part.
What for?
They said that Haitians had to pay the former slaveowners for the loss of their slaves.
Now, Haiti MIGHT have had the money except that US "Security forces" went to Haiti's national bank in 1919 and took their gold back to NY for "safekeeping."
So what could Haiti, do?
So for years, Haiti has been borrowing the money from the World Bank to pay slave reparations to SLAVE OWNERS.
But it's not all France's fault.
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Both stories reveal how much of a humble human being he is. And one blows my mind because it dismantles what we think about the evolution of sports.
A thread:
Where is the thread? Love when you give us your take on these players. The KC Jones piece was outstanding. Had no idea.
— Bweasey (@Bweasey) December 27, 2020
The first is, that there is an assumption that today’s athletes are faster, stronger, etc. which is is based on ZERO evidence.
For instance, Wilt Chamberlain benched 465 lbs at 59 years old. Arnold Schwarzenegger says he benched 500 lbs on the set of Conan the Destroyer
Most basketball experts say Wilt has the highest vertical leap in NBA history. A few others argue that Michael Jordan did.
I think they’re both wrong.
Why?
Well let me tell you a story:
In 1956 Bill Russell was selected for the US Olympic basketball team
During this time, pros weren’t allowed in the Olympics, so the International Olympic Committee tried to say that he was ineligible since he had already signed with the Celtics, even though he hadn’t played yet
Luckily, Russell prevailed and led the team to the gold medal as the captain.
But if they would have stopped Russell from playing for the US basketball team, he would have STILL been in the Olympics.
How?
Because Bill Russell was one of the greatest high jumpers I. The world.
A thread.
Maybe a smart person on American Twitter will see this and respond with facts.
— Jay Makinze | Nigerian Yute, #EndSARS \u277c (@Mr_Teekay) November 9, 2020
Why do democrats fight against Voter ID laws?
Do people just walk around & live their lives without a form of identification?
If yes, how do they live?
If no, why the fuss to show ID to vote?
1. Would you agree to a law that required you to get a blood test every time you used the bathroom?
How about a law that required you to slice one millimeter off your penis every time you used ketchup?
I bet you’re thinking “But those laws have no point.”
EXACTLY
Every single large-scale peer reviewed study ever conducted says voter fraud does not exist on a meaningful scale.
Dating back to 1982, there have been less than 500 prosecutions. If we multiplied that by the literal billions of votes cast...
There are LITERALLY more people who claim to be abducted by aliens than there are convictions for in-person voter fraud (Seriously, there was a
When Richard Hasen, a law professor and author of the 2012 book “The Voting Wars” looked at 30 years of data in search of voter fraud changing the outcome of an election, he couldn’t find a single instance
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Below I am adding to the list including several newly documented mechanisms.
*thread*
1. Heat stress reducing crop yields https://t.co/7SNN00rNox\xa0
— Jim Baird (@JimBair62221006) February 14, 2020
2. Heat stress on farmers (sometimes fatal) https://t.co/jYKjwATe5S, https://t.co/wtcp0kT8Wk\xa0
3. Heat stress on livestock (often fatal) https://t.co/MxogLlksC2, https://t.co/RiJ0A7ezld, https://t.co/rGX2UTTUJM
Several primary impacts relate to altered soil & plant chemistry & biology:
1. Disruption of the phosphorous cycle - the second most vital element for plants after nitrogen
2. Decreased content of key nutrients in major
3. Reduced chill hours required for many plants to bloom normally in the
Other additional primary impacts include:
4. Fossil fuel pollution impacts on crops - this is not a result of climate change per se, but is included since it is due to the same root cause (fossil fuel use):
'future warming and unmitigated ozone pollution in the US, could cause a decline\xa0of 13% in wheat crops, 28% in soybean yield, and 43% in maize by 2050'
— Jim Baird (@JimBair62221006) September 19, 2020
& in India, ozone is 'killing crops that could feed 94 million'#ClimateCrisis #AirPollutionhttps://t.co/T3iTCj5C0X
On September 28, 2016, an unprecedented tropical storm progressed rapidly across South Australia. Truly - this thing was unusual. The sky folded in on itself. It tore towns to bits.
Australia's @climatecouncil pointed out that the storm was so unusual at least partly due to the influence of climate change, and that this is due to get worse.
https://t.co/76ekkfJpR8
I'm going to use brief snippets from my book to fill this out! The storm's primary impact on the grid was the destruction of several major transmission lines. When I say destruction - I mean they snapped like twigs.
Here's what happened in the following seconds:
- A voltage spike from the line falls
- Wind turbines automatically shut off due to software settings that trigger shutdown during a spike
- The interconnector to Vic tried to compensate, failed and died
- All of SA blacked out
Watch along:
Just 15 mins until the launch event for our new advice to Government on the Sixth Carbon Budget. If you haven\u2019t registered, you can watch live on YouTube from 10am. Link: https://t.co/PjlcIDSYEC #UKCarbonBudget pic.twitter.com/1zOTfmxDVp
— Climate Change Committee (@theCCCuk) December 9, 2020
Will tweet along snippets. Pretty relevant to...............everything, really. #UKCarbonBudget
"Instead of being just a budget, it's a pathway we have to tread to reach net zero in 2050" @lorddeben
Just like quite a few other modelling exercises, CCC use a spectrum between behaviour change and between technological change. #UKCarbonBudget.
Both = best (just like @AEMO_Media's Step Change scenario in their ISP)
'Balanced' is what they use for their recs. "We're doing 60% of the emissions reductions in the first 15 years, and then 40% in the next".
The slinky kitty curve....good to see. No evidence of delaying action to Dec 29 2049, here. #UKCarbonBudget
"By front loading, we're minimising the UK's contribution to cumulative emissions" - really important point. A slow path to net zero - more climate harm than a fast one. #UKCarbonBudget
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chimeric infectious clone grants were there.https://t.co/DAArwFkz6v is in 2017, Rs4231.
https://t.co/UgXygDjYbW is in 2016, RsSHC014 and RsWIV16.
https://t.co/krO69CsJ94 is in 2013, RsWIV1. notice that this is before the beginning of the project
starting in 2016. Also remember that they told about only 3 isolates/live viruses. RsSHC014 is a live infectious clone that is just as alive as those other "Isolates".
P.D. somehow is able to use funds that he have yet recieved yet, and send results and sequences from late 2019 back in time into 2015,2013 and 2016!
https://t.co/4wC7k1Lh54 Ref 3: Why ALL your pangolin samples were PCR negative? to avoid deep sequencing and accidentally reveal Paguma Larvata and Oryctolagus Cuniculus?