Taya Bass
@travelingflying · Jul 6, 2026
Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
That is an accurate description of what happened
03:53 PM · July 7, 2026 · 162.1K views
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