Indeed - we were so keen to share that at one point we were sharing our monarch with about a quarter of the globe - whether they liked it or not.
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I think it was usually there all along, just as they age, they stop being quiet about it. Plus, accumulating conspiracy theories take their toll.
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“The sun never set on the British Empire, because even God couldn’t trust the English in the dark”
*variously attributed to an unnamed Indian nationalist or to John Duncan Spaeth
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That is going to be true of any western-formed and led organizations that came out of the era decolonization that is looking to, you know, NOT shit on the rest of the world like the Western powers did for a few centuries.
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All through the 90s (it probably started before that, but it’s the first time I was aware of it), the far right hysteria over FEMA reached epic proportions. I think 9/11 made it subside a bit, but I’m sure many from the black helicopter crowd will get triggered over the word “FEMA” even now. So the fact that they clutch their pearls over WHO does not make me bat an eye.
They’ve been hysterical over the UN going back to at least the Birchers, and the WHO is part of the UN. The conspiracy theories over “globalists” (and we all know what that is code for) and “one world government” goes back generations, making UN a natural target of this concern. Following this script, I understand how WHO falls into this; I still don’t really quite understand why FEMA did/does.
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Yeah, in her particular case, I just don’t get it. I did not notice anything like 15 years or so back? And then, started seeing stories like this in the past year or so and it’s like…what the heck happened to her? Like you say, maybe it’s suppressed and some sort of age-related thing happens - or maybe there are moneyed interests involved…and viola! Crazytown.
Well, they can respect cultures without recommending dangerous and ineffective health practices. Those are not mutually exclusive goals.
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So they work at the border and, presumably, live within commuting distance and they’ve never been there to see for themselves?
(Narrator: ‘Of course they fucking havent’)
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It’s been going on for a while. See for instance this from 2013:
Here she is in the Guardian more or less claiming Occupy was a government conspiracy
It goes back much further .She has a had a zealous disregard for the facts ever since her first book, and has long been called out for it.
I think she has just become more blatant having finally destroyed all her credibility after it was she was confronted by a historian, live on national radio, who pointed that her last book (and by her extension her Phd thesis) on a shocking misreading of the facts.
(the headline undersells this: she was claiming that gay men were regularly being executed based on a legal phrase in the sentencing that actaully meant the exact opposite).
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It sure seems that way. Or they see what they want to see, I guess. It’s bizarre to a delusional level that I simply can’t explain.
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I mean, IT IS becoming a fascist state, but just not how she’s imagining it.
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Have you ever thought about why it’s called “Doctors Without Borders”? Because it’s a front for the sinister globalists who want to institute a satanic one world government ‘without borders’, see?
Wake up Sheeple! Research it!
/s, as I wish I didn’t have to be sure to clarify just in case.
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I suspect that, if you are so wrapped up in your job as an Eternal Guardian of the Homeland against the mysterious darkness of Snow Mexico that you are willing to harangue random people just passing through; you probably also nurse a strange set of fantasies where The Other Side is some kind of ‘outside the wire’ zone; rather than, y’know, a first world democracy that is pretty un-foreign by the standards of possible travel destinations. Heck, outside of Quebec they even speak a substantially intelligible dialect of American.
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I guess the WHO thing is off, right?
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It’s like she’s in a competition with Glenn Greenwald to see who can elicit the greatest disgust from their former readers.
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And like many of her ilk she sees being banned from twitter as a sign of how seriously she must be right about the conspiracy of the day. None of them ever seems to consider that the ban might be society’s way of telling them to straighten up and fly right.
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