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Twitter refugee. Fuck Elon. Dad, ad guy. Resisting arguing about politics since the US election :-(
Here for transport, cycling, urbanism, news. & toy soldiers.
LGBTQ rts are human rts. 我很想香港。I just block trolls (& most DMs) rather than engage now.
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It always starts with promises of ‘efficiency’.
They say they’ll make the trains run on time.
It’s only later you find out where they are running to.
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So far. And the figure seems low.
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Putin will instruct his bitch how to steal elections.
Your vote has already been counted.
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The traditional GOP that backed Trump have not realised they worked for their own doom.
They leap on MAGA and become Russia’s bitches like Trump, or they are axle grease under the bus.
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Weirdly, computers are used for billions of financial reactions daily, so they certainly CAN be accurate and secure.
Whether voting machines are, I have no idea.
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Do approval ratings matter when democracy and free elections are dead?
Asking for a country recently taken over by a Fascist junta.
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Millenia without natural predators will do that. Why waste resources on stuff like flight, defences, and intelligence when life consists entirely of peaceful slumbering and eating plentiful food?
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But no inquiry into 'There is a large graveyard filled with my enemies.' - Elon Musk
It's almost as if they CAN tell what is figurative language when they want to.
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Extra irony. They are not even using these cuts to reduce the debt. They want to INCREASE debt to pay for more tax cuts.
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Kinda depends. The classic slow-moving zombies that go towards sound would be easy to outwit and destroy. Society would crush them pretty quickly.
The faster, smarter sort, not so much.
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Free speech absolutism!
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Nepo baby is ketamine baby.
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Right wingers hate to pay for other people's health care.
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Aligning himself with MAGA? Mass firings of anyone he labels as DEI? His whole 'have more babies' agenda? Supporting right wing groups around the world? Speaking to a German extreme right wing group right after definitely not doing a seig heil on stage? Rehiring the fired racist poster? ...
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Christian nationalism has sweet FA to do with Christianity. It's about white power.
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These guys hate paying for other people's healthcare.
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I hope to heck they are in time to save us. The Nazis ARE in power.
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Challenging the belief that white Christian nationalist males should control everything and never be questioned.
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It's all 100% authoritarianism - the polite word for Fascism.
It's all about control, for the financial and political benefit of a those with their hands on the levers of power.
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Led by Lara Trump I hope.
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Anyone who uses words like 'cuck' is worth blocking. Whoever they pretend to be, they are MAGA.
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Fascism never runs out of enemies. Real or imaginary.
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This is not JUST retribution. It's a coup. We are fucked.
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I'll settle for purple.
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Anyone want to invite him to a wedding?
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November 5? An election? He thinks there will still be a Republic by then?
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They’ll still blame democrats. For whatever BS reason they are told to.
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And 80%+ of US aid to Ukraine was spent in the US on US weapons, made by US workers at US companies.
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Yes!
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Bannon is yesterday's MAGA. Trump has shiny new boosters, so has thrown Bannon under the bus.
He has just not adjusted to his new role as axle grease though.
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People died of Covid19 while denying it was real.
And now, there is are fantasists controlling the USA, and Twitter/X. Reality will have to hit hard to have any effect.
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The only surprising part of this to me is 'fax'.
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Not legally? So 'yes'?
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I'm all for hurt. But spare OUR guys*, okay?
* For now anyway. Until we don't need them anymore.
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I hope it is not too late. These are not normal times. Where were they in November?
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If? When.
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I hope you are right and the line will hold.
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It was always a dirty little secret. Now it's in the open and saying ' So?'
Once you fire everyone with integrity, and stack every position of power with a MAGA lackey, there is no 'legal' or 'illegal' left. Just brute force.
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Once you fire everyone with integrity, and stack every position of power with a MAGA lackey, there is no 'legal' or 'illegal' left. Just brute force.
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He's also stacking courts and ignoring court orders he does not like.
Yes, I am worried. I have never seen such a hard veer to authoritarianism. These guys have no intention of giving up power. Ever.
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Will the midterms (if they happen) be free and fair? He is dismantling every safeguard.
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'Constitutional crisis' has been and gone. This is an all out coup.
Will there even be midterm elections in 2026? If there are, will anyone other than MAGAs be allowed to vote?
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Mafia Dons have never cared about legal. Only power.
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FDR did make demands. Many were related to granting independence to British colonies.
Trump would have backed colonialism and demanded a cut.
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He didn't just buy the property. He bought a slice of Trump.
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Trump and Elon have done their very best to make racism cool.
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Exactly. But in fairness, he wants to do that to every blue state of the USA too.