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Margaret Killjoy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2364 total appearances

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Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Yeah, and getting grazed. Yep. The world would have been a very different place if he had not turned his head. Yep. Violet Gibson was a thin woman, about five foot one. Her father was the Lord Chancellor of Ireland. She grew up... She's Anglo-Irish, right? And she grew up like... Oh, wow.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Yeah, and getting grazed. Yep. The world would have been a very different place if he had not turned his head. Yep. Violet Gibson was a thin woman, about five foot one. Her father was the Lord Chancellor of Ireland. She grew up... She's Anglo-Irish, right? And she grew up like... Oh, wow.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

And like Lawrence of Arabia, she's crazy as shit. But people use this to invalidate and claim that her action wasn't political or thought out. And that's what I want to argue against. But I can't argue against her being crazy as shit. And I'm going to tell you why. But... She grew up rich as hell.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

And like Lawrence of Arabia, she's crazy as shit. But people use this to invalidate and claim that her action wasn't political or thought out. And that's what I want to argue against. But I can't argue against her being crazy as shit. And I'm going to tell you why. But... She grew up rich as hell.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

And like Lawrence of Arabia, she's crazy as shit. But people use this to invalidate and claim that her action wasn't political or thought out. And that's what I want to argue against. But I can't argue against her being crazy as shit. And I'm going to tell you why. But... She grew up rich as hell.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

She was a debutante, debuted in Queen Victoria's court, which I only vaguely understand what is through mostly my friends who are from the South. Most tellings of the story come down to, I don't know, she did it because she was crazy.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

She was a debutante, debuted in Queen Victoria's court, which I only vaguely understand what is through mostly my friends who are from the South. Most tellings of the story come down to, I don't know, she did it because she was crazy.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

She was a debutante, debuted in Queen Victoria's court, which I only vaguely understand what is through mostly my friends who are from the South. Most tellings of the story come down to, I don't know, she did it because she was crazy.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

I am going to make the case that she did it because she was a politically committed Catholic socialist who wanted to do right by God and people by killing a man who went on to be responsible for millions of deaths, who was also crazy. She was always esoteric. She was raised Protestant, right? Her mother became a Christian scientist, and so she herself experimented with Christian science.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

I am going to make the case that she did it because she was a politically committed Catholic socialist who wanted to do right by God and people by killing a man who went on to be responsible for millions of deaths, who was also crazy. She was always esoteric. She was raised Protestant, right? Her mother became a Christian scientist, and so she herself experimented with Christian science.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

I am going to make the case that she did it because she was a politically committed Catholic socialist who wanted to do right by God and people by killing a man who went on to be responsible for millions of deaths, who was also crazy. She was always esoteric. She was raised Protestant, right? Her mother became a Christian scientist, and so she herself experimented with Christian science.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

And then she got into theosophy for a while, but then she converted. She found another esoteric religion to get involved in, Catholicism, when she was 26, and she stayed a Catholic for the rest of her life. She was sick all of the time. Her body carried the scars of many surgeries, and she spent years working at various pacifist organizations.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

And then she got into theosophy for a while, but then she converted. She found another esoteric religion to get involved in, Catholicism, when she was 26, and she stayed a Catholic for the rest of her life. She was sick all of the time. Her body carried the scars of many surgeries, and she spent years working at various pacifist organizations.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

And then she got into theosophy for a while, but then she converted. She found another esoteric religion to get involved in, Catholicism, when she was 26, and she stayed a Catholic for the rest of her life. She was sick all of the time. Her body carried the scars of many surgeries, and she spent years working at various pacifist organizations.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

The craziest thing she did, which is left out of the leftist accounts of her story, but it's included in the right-wing accounts of her story that are, like, demonizing her. But they're verifiable. I believe this happened. So she used to walk around Dublin with a Bible in one hand and a knife in the other.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

The craziest thing she did, which is left out of the leftist accounts of her story, but it's included in the right-wing accounts of her story that are, like, demonizing her. But they're verifiable. I believe this happened. So she used to walk around Dublin with a Bible in one hand and a knife in the other.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

The craziest thing she did, which is left out of the leftist accounts of her story, but it's included in the right-wing accounts of her story that are, like, demonizing her. But they're verifiable. I believe this happened. So she used to walk around Dublin with a Bible in one hand and a knife in the other.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Oh, yeah, no, like, yeah, no, it...

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Oh, yeah, no, like, yeah, no, it...

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Oh, yeah, no, like, yeah, no, it...