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I am British and grumpy. Tories make me grumpy. Brexit makes me grumpy. Other things too. Most things really. I am a ridiculous blue rectangle in a silly green hat and I demand that you take me seriously!
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(Yes, I know that nobody remembers Carter, and that Americans never heard of them in the first place. People thought they were annoying and "too political" but they gave a shit at a time when almost nobody else did and they were right about pretty much everything.)
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The footage of empty fields and sparsely lined streets makes this a massive propaganda failure for Trump. Even careful editing to hide the worst of it, can't make this look good. I mean, to misquote Carter, suppose you gave a Nuremberg Rally and nobody came?
youtu.be/PYRHyoMClcA?...
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It also leads to legal cases being decided not on the evidence but the perceived "likeability" of the female participants. It's not merely the introduction of aesthetics into political life but the exclusion of everything else.
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Playing the 1812 Overture is a bit on the nose, isn't it? Celebrating a Russian victory? Oh, wait. These fuckwits don't know it's about Napoleon and Russia, do they? They think it is about the War of 1812, don't they? Fucking idiots...
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Nobody is laughing about this in any country that relies on America though. In NATO, in Ukraine and in America itself this is an unremittingly grim spectacle to be forced to witness.
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I'm not hopeful. I can't see how Israel makes it to 2028 from here. I'm not sure America does either.
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They dream of a white "Christian" King ruling over a new Kingdom of Jerusalem but they'd settle for its complete destruction.
This is insane, racist blasphemy and it must be opposed by all Jews, Christians and Muslims before *everybody* loses and millions die.
Deus does not vult it!
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They want to kill as many Jewish and Muslim people as possible and if it spills over and gets other brown people killed then that's just a bonus for them. Yes, even if those people are Christians!
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I always assumed that he was wearing a mask and putting on a silly voice so that his friends wouldn’t know that it was him in the crappy cartoon with all the dorks.
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"If we resist, Trump will just kill us all!" Yes, he'll certainly try. That's actually *why* you need to resist.
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My junk folder is like that, only in French, because some French guy signs up to everything and is too stupid to get his own email address right. Funniest thing I found in it was "Cougar pour moi" and I thought, surely the French have their own word for that?
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This is not to say that I think that Trump is running Israel. I think that the same people who are running Trump are running Israel. It's American, Russian and, to a limited extent, Israeli fascists, most of whose names we don't even recognise.
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It seems that Baroness Falkner regards any kind of resistance to the EHRC's segregation policies, however "peaceful" and "orderly", as a potential threat of violence. This says a lot about what feels to me to be an extremely violent mindset on her part.
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Certainly one of the things that all of the various anti trans groups have in common from the Nazis to the "Gender Criticals" to the Evangelical Christians is their love for controlling other people's lives. Authoritarianism isn't just a political description, it's a thought pattern
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I was forced to sit through some "Prompt Engineering" training today. It was mostly claiming that AI would write Python and SQL for me. I didn't realise that I was getting off lightly. At least they didn't try to sell me on the merits of muppet sex.
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I imagine a saddo. He's pushed his luck too far and she's had enough. "I'm not going to have sex with you, you fucking muppet!" she declares as she get in the Uber. With mere seconds to formulate a reply he shouts back "Women have sex with muppets all the time!" but she's gone. He goes home and...
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I don't think they want to let the creators place the ads too precisely as that would allow them to introduce the ad break by saying "...but before we talk about that, let's see what shite YouTube is shilling today..."
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It's particularly unforgivable given that the automatic subtitles prove that the system normally knows where each sentence begins and ends. It makes me wonder if they are deliberately making them more annoying to drum up sales of YouTube Premium. If so, that's a scam on the advertisers too.
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I don't want to use an ad blocker. If YouTube would stop putting the ads in the middle of sentences and advertising blatant scams then I wouldn't even think of it but they are sorely tempting me.
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About 50% of the ads on YouTube are for straight up scams.
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Either that or you'd be in prison because one of the other bankers was on the fiddle and decided to frame you when they found out that the auditors were asking where all the money was.
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And yet this piece of shit is still free to fuck about and endanger people's lives:
BBC News - Andrew Tate caught speeding 146km/h over limit in Romania
www.bbc.com/news/article...