The hatred directed towards Starmer is indicative of the effectiveness of Russian-sponsored extremist propaganda. The resources directed towards influencing public opinion are immense, aided and abetted by the billionaire owners of the right-wing press. Reductive memes spread like wildfire.
Déjà vu. Anyone else remember the early-mid 70s in UK? Cold houses, power cuts, mortgage rates close to 20%, petrol rationing coupons issued, if not activated. Brace herself. Thanks, Fatso…..
Rejoining the EU wouldn’t feel radical at all. It would feel boringly normal — and that’s exactly why people want it back.
"A world-first gene therapy which turns white blood cells into a disease-busting “living drug” has reversed previously untreatable blood cancers." www.positive.news/society/revo...
They tried intimidation. Minnesota answered with people.
Very good piece by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com....
The US under Trump 2.0 has shifted towards authoritarianism as record speed but unlike other examples (e.g. Putin, Orban) it's happened by bypassing institutions rather than permanently corrupting them...
www.ft.com/content/b474...
Six years on, geopolitics is impacting severely on Brexit choices. By @jreland.bsky.social and me ukandeu.ac.uk/brexit-in-a-...
"Far-right politics has been in Britain for a century, during which no paying market has ever been found for this kind of worldview."
Says @frasernelson.bsky.social, who made a lucrative career out of publishing the racist rantings of Taki, Douglas Murray and Rod Liddle.
archive.ph/sbEpa
On 31 Jan 2020 UK left the EU .
Travel is harder, visa processes hamper mobility, and border checks delay parcels, food & medicines.
Please get involved in changing this and join European Movement UK
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www.europeanmovement.co.uk/membership-2...
#VoicesofLostFOM #SaveFOM
#RejoinEU
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As an experiment I typed 'AI took the fun out of sex for cattle - what is AI going to do for the human mind?' The solemn factoids which resulted indicate that AI suffers from a total lack of sense of humour due to hyper-literalism and OCPD.
AI needs psychiatric help, but it may be incurable...
It's rather like current politics. The biggest nut-cases have risen to the top (or, at least, prominence) thanks to USA tech bros, sociopaths, psychopaths, megalomaniacs and would-be global rulers with the agenda of by-passing all democracy and political processes.
This is what you don't hear every time this junktank appears on the BBC.
*Why not?*
Great exposure by Sam and @desmog.com
Given that population of the USA has, on average, 1.2 guns per capita, I am surprised that Trump still walks.
#Penryn My Town Council Update.
The last council meetings were busy with budget votes. We are planning to invest more in town improvements, attracting external funding to deliver more projects supporting the community.
More here: www.facebook.com/share/p/16Vw...
In the case of anyone in Trump's gang it is to be expected.
De gustibus &c.
Notice how while Trump is speaking there’s no election results on the screen for Miami where they just elected a Democrat to mayor, the first woman, 20 point margin, in a seat that Republicans have held for 30 years. The wave is real. More elections tonight to come.
WINNING OF MAYOR IN MIAMI/DEMOCRAT EILEEN HIGGINS
( REPUBLICANS WERE IN THAT POSITION
FOR LAST 30 YEARS)
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THE BLUE WAVE IS STILL STRONG
🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.
#Falmouth Hospital to close in May: Mebyon Kernow strongly opposes this ludicrous project and will campaign to defend this vital community asset.
There is a petition to have Robbie Gibb sacked.
Robbie Gibb said if he doesn't get his way, he'll blow the BBC up. It's ridiculous that a man like that has a spot on the BBC's board. Our public broadcaster MUST be independent. Agree? Sign to get Gibb sacked:
act.38degrees.org.uk/act/sack-rob...
There is a lot of irrationality in the US. God bothering, conspiracy theories and voting idiotically for lunatics by idiots against their own best interests.
Orwell and Arendt saw the possibility of this and warned against it.
Perhaps they mean very slightly left wing compared with the Press in the USA?
I had the misfortune to listen to #BBCr4 this evening. The voices I heard were:
The leader of the fascists in France
(praising the leader of the fascists in the UK)
The leader of the fascists in the USA
The leader of the fascists in Russia
I'm told the BBC has a left wing bias???
