Us Brits are good at inventing stuff like that! We invented the concentration camp - during the Boer war in south Africa.
There were 1000s of deaths in those camps due to the appalling conditions; at least that was the story told by the people running them!
If he called them "concentration camps" that might be more accurate!
Yeah but didn't you get a massive load of "exposures" and a and a heaving MASS of gratitude, shouldn't that be enough?
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@Remittancegirl
It is a sobering thought that the world as we know it today may well be completely destroyed by a worthless imbecile who was elected on the basis that he would reduce the cost off fuckin EGGS!
What rubbish, the BBC haven't downplayed the Israeli massacre on 1000s of Palestinians, they have completely ignored it!
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/02/17/palestine-activists-deface-bbc-headquarters/
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Perhaps ants was indeed a poor analogy. Personally, I'm am totally agnostic as to whether we have been visited by aliens. The evidence "for" is fragmentary and generally rather poor, and there is no evidence against.
If they are so advanced - why bother to be covert - do we bother to conceal ourselves from ants?
It occurs to me with the abandonment of religious faith (thankfully) by the young, that belief in aliens may be replacing it to some extent.
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States - The Onion
https://theonion.com/fbi-uncovers-al-qaeda-plot-to-just-sit-back-and-enjoy-c-1819576375/
(satire)
I am not in the least tiniest bit surprised.
Somewhere between 50% and 75% of the world's population believe in a god or gods. There is at least as much evidence for aliens as there is for the existence of a god or gods!
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