And the way our democracies work means the liars seeking political power don't even need a majority to believe them, they merely need to control, or preferably own, enough mass media and to know how to abuse an easily corruptible electoral system.
Then once in power, the bamboozle becomes the truth
12.10.2025 18:26 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
"Allegations"
#TheWashingtonPost #RIP
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12.10.2025 18:31 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Russell Vought is one of the most dangerous men in Trump's admin - a fully paid up cult member, who is also competent. He's busy firing 1000s of federal workers based on conspiracy theories, all while the New York Times praises him as an ordinary "small state conservative"
bsky.app/profile/thom...
12.10.2025 14:33 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
I wonder if there'll come a point when someone on the Hard Right tells us that 'Priti Patel can only be properly integrated when she changes her name to a more Anglo-Saxon one like Petra Paterson... a bit like the Jews did in the good old days.'
12.10.2025 17:51 β π 22 π 3 π¬ 2 π 0
Or Crullea Braverman?
12.10.2025 18:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The Washington Post documented 30,573 false or misleading claims made by Trump during his first term. An average of about 21 per day.
Despite Trump vomiting a deluge of daily lies since returning to office in January, no one appears to be bothering to keep a running total.
12.10.2025 17:59 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
I have theory about this mess which I may write up.
12.10.2025 17:59 β π 13 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0
If you're going to make a dramatic mini-series claiming to be the "true story" of the serial killer Ed Gein, you really should not be able to fill it with conjecture and murderous events so clearly false that the producers would have to claim "no contest" in a defamation trial.
@netflix.com #Monster
12.10.2025 17:31 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1
πΈπ¦Saudi Arabia's Saud al-Faisal
π¦πͺThe UAE's Abdulla bin Zayed Al Nahyan
π§πBahrain's Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa
π΄π²Oman's Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdulla
πΆπ¦Qatar's Ahmed bin Abdulla Al-Mahmou
12.10.2025 16:09 β π 29 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Somehow taking the work of Iain Banks, Douglas Adams and Alan Moore and turning into a vicious ethnonationalist libertarianism...
12.10.2025 16:42 β π 62 π 4 π¬ 5 π 0
As I note in the article, Thiel literally named his company Palantir after the all-seeing stone used by Sauron in LoTR.
12.10.2025 16:44 β π 42 π 6 π¬ 6 π 0
The story of social media in the last few years is not one of a self-righteous liberal flounce, but of fragmentation: network effects are a thing, and if most of the people you like to talk to switch platforms, there feels little point in remaining behind. If we have lost influence, that's at least partly down to the government's reluctance to use its convening power to reshape the information environment, and its odd commitment to a site owned by someone who wants Keir Starmer in prison.
Also thisβ¦
Why stay in an environment that wants to do everything it can to undermine you⦠one which threatens democracy itself with its distorting algorithms, its conspiracy theories and its disinformation⦠?
There is no credible reason to stay on X. But there are many to leave.
12.10.2025 17:15 β π 26 π 5 π¬ 2 π 0
I'm old enough to remember the National Front and I honestly see no difference between the divisive rhetoric being spouted by the likes of Jenrick and the NF propaganda of the late 70s and early 80s.
Any One Nation Tories still left in the party should be ashamed of their own silence.
12.10.2025 09:09 β π 54 π 17 π¬ 4 π 2
Shame matters far less to Tories than power and party loyalty. They despatched shame when they backed Johnson, even as he threatened and kicked out their allies. They canβt remember what shame should feel like any more.
12.10.2025 09:18 β π 33 π 2 π¬ 6 π 0
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12.10.2025 11:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So Iβve taken theirs
What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once youβve torn them down?
βIβm old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. Youβre old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrickβ
Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
12.10.2025 08:44 β π 1688 π 626 π¬ 49 π 30
Kai, Iβm gonna be honest, I think he shares a special bond with most girls your age.
12.10.2025 01:00 β π 1761 π 394 π¬ 221 π 29
Diane Keaton was a true Californian. She was a self-described oddball, uniquely stylish, deeply creative, funny, and an acting legend who could steal the screen in comic and dramatic roles alike. She was in a class all her own, an icon.
12.10.2025 01:16 β π 9509 π 1418 π¬ 167 π 88
I keep seeing this get posted. The AZ electors were charged a year and a half ago. The AZ Superior Court ENDED the case five months ago. The AZ AG will have to appeal to the AZ Supreme Court or go back and start again with a grand jury. Please stop sharing this.
12.10.2025 01:36 β π 4924 π 1132 π¬ 151 π 28
This Is Fascism
12.10.2025 01:43 β π 27140 π 11471 π¬ 633 π 668
There's no end to his lies.
12.10.2025 02:05 β π 1941 π 373 π¬ 225 π 39
The cruelty is the point
12.10.2025 02:38 β π 5082 π 2374 π¬ 298 π 118
Reese Witherspoon on Diane Keaton hiring her as a fresh-faced girl from Nashville. #RIP
12.10.2025 04:00 β π 3265 π 673 π¬ 45 π 41
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
12.10.2025 04:23 β π 11773 π 2398 π¬ 232 π 123
Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.
About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages
12.10.2025 04:59 β π 7638 π 3044 π¬ 180 π 315
I donβt think Biden was president on J6.
12.10.2025 05:02 β π 2685 π 715 π¬ 215 π 104
Sir Sadiq Khan calls for pause on new immigration rules
The mayor of London said the changes had
Iβm concerned about the changes to the Skilled Worker visa route and the impact it may have on Londoners working for Transport for London, our other public services and beyond.
12.10.2025 06:11 β π 353 π 74 π¬ 12 π 5
Tax Haven Tice has hinted that he would like to become Chancellor if Reform were in government.
It would be like Liz Truss on⦠well, whatever it is Liz Truss is on.
12.10.2025 06:39 β π 360 π 82 π¬ 33 π 3
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