Primary sources? No, but there are independent secondary sources by people with no skin in the game.

Antiquities of the Jews by Josephus (circa 93–94 CE).

Annals by Tacitus (circa 116 CE)

The earliest Christian writings are also more about the teachings of a disruptive Jewish preacher who was then crucified, than they are about magic.

Let’s not do the ‘every Christian’ thing. It’s worth remembering the US has a very ‘unique’ type of Christian.

This. There is evidence that a preacher called Jesus existed, was crucified, and was well-regarded enough to start a following that persisted even after his death.

There isn’t, however, strong historical evidence for any of the magical parts of it.

Just for balance, I can see how you could think shipping slaves from Africa to America via the Pacific and then the North Sea (of all places?) was unlikely. Maybe this person just isn’t aware of the Atlantic Ocean.

You have to remember that America’s political spectrum is skewed heavily to the right.

‘Liberals’ only appear left-wing because your centre ground is much further to the right than many other developed countries.

In other countries ‘Liberals’ occupy the centre ground, with the left and right wings on either side.

Also, it was a lot less insidious - the crazy stuff was a lot easier to detect.

Granted, stuff like Time Cube Theory usually ended up incorporating antisemitic and anti-islamic tropes, but you’d have to wade through literally pages of red flags before you got there.

Now this kind of stuff is more sneaky - it presents as more reasonable, which makes it much more dangerous.

The Golden Age was before Web 2.0

Before just anybody could easily post content, there was a barrier to entry - you had to learn how to put HTML together. Sure, it wasn’t too hard, but it kept people like mad relatives from posting their racist nonsense for the world to see.

Disclaimer: I’m making absolutely no political commentary here - my brain just likes playing pattern spotting games…

The groups of three images to the side of the lower red box and lower green box are also the same as the groups of three immediately above and below the upper red and green boxes.

Edit: found another four.

Ah, right.

“Mar-shuh’ness”. It’s a bit trickier to transliterate how to say the back part. It’s like the perfume company, Chanel - it’s that same “Shuh’ne” sound.

Based on absolutely nothing, my guess would be from the French pronunciation with a bit of a vowel-shift.

If you’re getting old like me, you might remember Harry Enfield’s Mr Cholmondley-Warner sketches. (And if you’re not, definitely look them up!)

Ha, honest truth!

About 30 minutes away is the similarly-named Cholmondeston (Chum-stn).

These two places are in Cheshire. There’s also the always confusing Wynbunbury (Winbry), and the birthplace of Lewis Carroll, Daresbury (Darsbry).

For the international folk who might not know, “Cholmondeley” is pronounced “Chumly”

Segue - Seg? Segyoo? No, it’s Segway.

German?

And guess what I found when I opened my phone up? That’s right, wires. The thing is filled with wires.