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The Memory of Floyd

30/5/2020

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Not many people will know about Pope Innocent the third's crusade to eliminate Catharism in southern France, which began with the massacre at Béziers on 22 July 1209.

The Cathars were being persecuted by the Catholic church but when the Pope's army surrounded Béziers it's people refused to give the Good Christians up. The heretics were a minority in a Catholic city loyal to the Pope, so this was a dilemma as the army could not draw their swords on people who believed in the right god. However the army's leader, the Abbot of Citeaux, Arnaud Amalric ordered;

"Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius."

Which translates as "Kill them. For the Lord knows those that are His own" or as the phrase has become known "Kill them all and let God sort them out".

This ruthless killing mentality would be considered a war crime in present day Europe. We'd be appalled at the thought of innocent lives being taken in the pursuit of fellow citizens, who although good people and well loved, might not be following all the rules.

That's why we are shocked and disgusted when the President of America announced "When the looting starts the shooting starts". This is not a man who needs time to think about innocent lives; no these are the words of a crusader who declares war on civilians without conscience.

That's why we might consider when one person burns down a police station it is a crime but when 50,000 people are lighting fires it is a revolution.

Minnesota refuses to hand over the memory of George Floyd to Trump, united against their oppressors, the massacre of Minneapolis will be at Trump's hands.
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Covid Convalescence

4/4/2020

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As I burrowed through Wikipedia I discovered that Bahnsen once said "man is merely a nothing with self awareness", and so began my Covid existential crisis, in what was otherwise an unimaginable period of feriation.

In that very moment I received a notification on my Twitter feed which said "We are the virus". I don't know if I had a mild panic attack when I realised the truth in this or if instead I had Corona light and nearly died. Either way I'm not likely to see a doctor until 2025.

What's happening right now is one of the strangest events in human history and yet it seems hyper normal. In the old days people saw pestilence as one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse but our generation has taken it as an opportunity to complete Tik Tok, Netflix, and Candy Crush. I've a cousin who's spent the last two weeks categorising his favourite dance acts from America's Got Talent.

So at a time like this when our grandparents would have been worrying about poverty, food shortages, and inevitable death we're more concerned about when the pubs will be re-opening and what's coming up next on daytime tv. Either through middle class complacency or the optimism of modern life we're perfectly content to wait Covid out.

Yes indeed, the end is far from nigh despite a worldwide pandemic gripping every nation on earth. In what could have been an anarchist's wet dream, we have instead developed a global staycation that's allowed people to discover vodka cheese, tonic wine, and the female eunuch.

Despite this all of our lives are changing right now as a result of international self isolation. I for one have taken to watching You Tube tutorials on how to cut my own hair, and I doubt I'll be paying for a haircut ever again. I can see a future without hair salons and cornershop barbers. There will be many more changes I'm sure, from the way we shop to the way we work, to the way we death stare someone who coughs in our general direction.

At the end of all this many of us will be able to say that instead of thinking about death, Covid 19 brought us a new way of thinking about life. Whether that means you're using zoom to connect with loved ones, talking to Jesus, or recycling your milk cartons, it doesn't really matter. The outcome is that you stopped to smell the roses and thought about your life for thirty seconds. Maybe someone will discover its meaning.

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Report The Pope

21/6/2018

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The misrepresentation of truth, emotional manipulation, fake profiles, and false representations. All terms you’d associate with fake news, click bait, and propaganda used by online rags to gain trust and integrity.

We all know fake news is a huge problem in political warfare these days, the Democratic Party have even pointed to Russian interference in the US presidential elections. Frankly we’re now in a battle for the truth as well as being in a battle to maintain our freedom of speech and access to free online material.  

In this battle for truth it has been left up to individuals to report abusive users on social media platforms. Earlier this year there was a campaign to remove Donald Trump from Twitter when he posted a tweet threatening nuclear war on North Korea. Users felt it breached one of Twitter’s rules; “You may not make specific threats of violence or wish for the serious physical harm, death, or disease of an individual or group of people.”

However the campaign was unsuccessful and Twitter continued to play a part in the American President’s peace negotiations with the North Korean Dictator and vice versa.
So what do we do when we see high profile accounts that break the rules, should we continue to report them? Twitter as a business may not remove them as they benefit both from advert revenue and indirect endorsement.

However I don’t think we can stand idly by when we see a profile that’s a blatant fake account, especially one which promotes populist rhetoric that misrepresents the individual in real life, especially an individual who may not even be aware the account exists, or who may not even know what a computer is or that the internet was invented.

That’s why I believe we all need to report the Pope’s account @Pontifex to Twitter.

The Pope’s Twitter profile is clearly a fake account, pretending to represent Pope Francis or as he’s better known to his friends, Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Nowhere in the bio does it state that it’s a parody account or an account of the Vatican, which is why it needs to be shut down.

The evidence as to why it’s clearly not the real Jorge Mario is very clear:
1)      Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina his primary language is Spanish yet all his tweets are in English. I wouldn’t make this point if the tweets were bi-lingual or multi-lingual but the fact they’re all in English is crazy.
2)      Begoglio is head of the church, he tweets several times a day however he never tweets Bible quotes, very suspicious indeed.
3)      The account has 17.9m followers but only follows 8 people, wouldn’t the real Pope know more than 8 people? I think he would. All the accounts the Pope follows are other pretend Pope accounts, it’s like a Nigerian scam, there can only be one Pope surely (I know, controversial).
4)      The account always tweets in vague terms and never refers to real life events or real life people directly.
5)      The account never tweets personal information or posts selfies or other indicators that this could be the real life Jorge Mario Bergoglio.
6)      The account has been set up since February 2012 but his Papacy didn’t begin until 13th March 2013.
7)      Pope Francis is 81 and has publicly stated that he has no idea how to use a computer, he’s also an outspoken critic of capitalism and refuses to own a smart phone.

I for one think it’s time we face up to the truth of the matter and end this lie, don’t live in denial, report the Pope. End fake accounts now. 
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