Humblebrag

Am I to understand this the “before” photo then?
“Speaking earlier on BBC Breakfast” – that was shown during breakfast – those BBC programmers are some cruel, cruel people.

Well, the Mormons ended up in Utah because they were persecuted out of every place else, sometimes violently. And then they turned around and massacred non-Mormons.
(a) You’re talking about my ancestors; (b) Your observation doesn’t refute my point in the least.
The mobs chased the Mormons out of the country at gunpoint because my ancestors kept gathering in one place—Kirtland OH, Jackson County MO, Nauvoo, IL—and tended to all vote the same. The locals felt that their votes were being snuffed out by a bunch of heretical weirdos, and so the Mormons were harassed out of their homes over the question of who was to be in charge of the place.
As far as the Mountain Meadows massacre, that was ONE horrific incident, not a trend nor a practice nor a doctrine. The folks passing through had engaged in fighting words in Cedar City, threatening the local Mormons with official violence from the U.S. army (not an idle threat, given that they’d come after us before), and so the locals went off to the camp in Mountain Meadows a few days later to “settle things.”
In other words, that incident isn’t an example of a war over religious doctrine but Yet Another Attempt to settle the question of “who’s in charge of this place,” with the US and THEM breaking along religious lines.
Most of U.S. history in the West consists of wars over jurisdiction between Europeans and Natives. Does being a “redskin” or “paleface” cause war? Or does the desire to rule over THEM cause it?

I don’t understand how anyone can spend so much time out of their day obsessing about how they feel, how they feel men think they feel, how they think capitalists think they feel, how they feel the patriarchy think they feel. FFS, get a job. A real one. So much navel gazing…oy vey.
Could she be any more insignificant or boring.

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