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Were the Crusades Defensive? - A Response to Steven Crowder

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From the confines of YouTube a horrible tale has gone forth... For the sake of the Flying Spaghettimonster, do your homework! Three Arrows debunks the tale, and there's not much left. =SOURCE MATERIAL= Jonathan Phillips - Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades (2010) Thomas Asbridge - The First Crusade: A New History (2005) Thomas Asbridge - The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land (2011) Thomas F. Madden - The Concise History of the Crusades (2013) Susanna A. Throop - Crusading as an Act of Vengeance, 1095–1216 (2016) Toby E. Huff - The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China, and the West (2017) Jonathan Riley-Smith - Crusading as an Act of Love (1980) BadHistory Thread on Bill Warners Lecture:  https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/1ocyxr/review_why_we_are_afraid_a_1400_year_secret_by_dr/

Brexit: PragerU vs. Reality

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Joy, beautiful spark of the gods... =Support me via= ► Patreon: https://patreon.com/ThreeArrows ► TipJar: https://ko-fi.com/threearrows =Other Stuff= ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/_ThreeArrows ► Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/3Arrows/ =SOURCES= EU Budget Breakdown: https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/eu-budget/expenditure_en https://what-europe-does-for-me.eu https://fullfact.org/europe/did-auditors-sign-eu-budget/ MEPs/MPs occupational background: EU: https://www.academia.edu/4994264/Who_are_the_MEPs_A_Statistical_Analysis_of_the_Backgrounds_of_Members_of_European_Parliament_2004-2014_and_of_their_Transformations?auto=download UK: House Of Commons Library: Briefing Paper Number CBP 7483, 12 November 2018: Social background of MPs 1979 - 2017 by Lukas Audickas, Richard Cracknell Post brexit trade talks: https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-trade-uk/u-s-says-seeking-to-cut-tariff-non-tariff-barriers-in-uk-trade-deal-idUKKCN1QH300 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/b...

The Marketplace of Ideas

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...or How to Fortify Democracy =Support me via= ► Patreon: https://patreon.com/ThreeArrows ► TipJar: https://ko-fi.com/threearrows =Other Stuff= ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/_ThreeArrows ► Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/3Arrows/ ► Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ThreeArrows Subscribe to Mexie! www.youtube.com/c/Mexie Thumbnail by: twitter.com/skutchdraws =SOURCES= Streitbare Demokratie in Deutschland und den Vereinigten Staaten. Der staatliche Umgang mit nichtgewalttätigem politischem Extremismus im Vergleich - Flümann, Gereon (2015) Income inequality in the U.S. from 1950 to 2010 by Holger Apel: http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue72/Apel72.pdf American attitude towards climate: https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/majority-rules-american-attitudes-climate-7-stats Liberal Democracy is in a Crisis by Helena Rosenblatt: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/27/liberal-democracy-history-us-politics ALEC / Koch Brothers: https://www.thenation.com/article/alec-ex...