lordmortefond.bsky.social
'That's life, son. At your age it'll make you laugh, but one day it'll make you bloody cry.'
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You've got to write all this up as a book.
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'..when this is all over...'
I love an optimist 🙂
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I have listened to way more interviews with Musk than is good for my mental health, and I've never heard him say ANYTHING which suggests genius, brilliance, or even basic insight.
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Anyone who knows someone on drugs and saw him knew what they saw. Anyone who ever took drugs knows EXACTLY what they saw. This isn't the first time he's zonked out of mind in front of cameras or at the White House.
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It's the "I don't like it, and it better stop" which gets me: it's black-and-white evidence of his infantile thinking.
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Nesrine Malik is far-and-away the best journalist writing for the Guardian.
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Exactly this.
Hitler didn't break the law, because he changed it to accommodate his plans.
The US is at a pivotal point in it's history, and I really don't think that enough people are aware that the country is on the precipice.
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Israel is starving children, and a Labour government is being equivocal.
This will shame them forever.
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Tim O'Brien summed him up best: he's deeply ignorant, but he has a highly-developed lizard brain which alerts him to, and enables him to evade, the consequences of his stupidity.
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I think you'll find that the bankers, industrialists, politicians and media make sure that socialism has never been properly attempted in a developed country.
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There's a BYD dealership in my hometown of Leamington Spa.
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Remember Rishi Sunak? He said that Israel had the UK's unequivocal support today, and in the future.
Translation: Israel, you do whatever the fuck you want to the population of Gaza, and you have our total support.
Greenlighting genocide.
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"Hand out the arms and ammo..."
Mellow?
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Imagine an intruder enters your house and murders your wife and kids.
You trace all his direct family, relations, friends, associates, work colleagues, anyone who's ever served him in a shop or restaurant, anyone he ever went to school with...and you slaughter them all.
What does that make you?
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You forgot one: Ending presidential pardon power.
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The practice of a reporter asking two questions at the same time is self-defeating: invariably, Trump will be more comfortable bullshitting at length about one of the questions, thereby giving him cover to answer the more dangerous one with a one-sentence dismissal.
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The descent continues.
Clips like this will be played 50 years from now, and everyone will ask "How could we not see where we were heading?"
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Because the Democrats are looking forward to being back in power soon, and they don't want too much transparency and accountability.
Not when it's their turn at the trough.
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What the fuck is Elon Musk doing there?
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If America survives Trump, it will have to look long and hard at its guiderails, including the Constitution.
Getting rid of pardon power is only a necessary first step in ensuring this madness never happens again.
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I would sincerely hope that my government wouldn't have a military stacked full of psychopaths - the kind of people who get a kick from massacring medics, shooting unarmed civilians, and dressing up in the underwear of slaughtered women.
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I'm not. I'm just not a fan of ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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These tunnels. Are they in the room right now?
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Wrong:
Proportionality of response is required by international law.
It was slaughtering civilians, and now it's starving them.
'Targeting' suggests accuracy: Israel is simply obliterating Gaza.
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Nurse!
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As I said earlier, it's like debating with a pigeon.
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'Weaker', please - it's a comparative adjective.
Anyway, how about the Vietnam war?
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Your obsession with 'strength' is, quite clearly, fascist.
Here's a tip to help you cope with your anger: don't deny your fascism - embrace it. Out and proud!
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"Hamas is about to be wiped out"?
What are they - germs? insects? a disease?
You certainly sound like a fascist.
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"Shame to be old and have zero grasp of the nature of war or understand that wars are won by the stronger side."
This is exactly how the Nazis, had they prevailed, would have justified the genocide of the Jews and the Slavs.
You are, as I surmised, a fascist in the truest sense of the word.
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I'm old enough to have argued with rabid supporters of apartheid South Africa.
You exhibit precisely the same mindset; it's like trying to debate with a pigeon.
Over and out.
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Are you aware that what happened in the Warsaw ghetto was an atrocity, not a blueprint?
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Difference is, we in the West are financing, arming and providing political and moral cover for Israel. That's not the case in the other examples you cite.
Just accept it: if you're an apologist for what Israel is doing in Gaza, you're a fascist.
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When buying a car, order one without an engine and save thousands!
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KL: "We've invited bids to build extermination camps, gas chambers, and the railway lines to transport people there."
Me: "That melted-faced harpy is pure evil."
Far too many people: "Please don't be critical about someone's looks - that's very mean."
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No Jack Reacher?
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Get rid of the presidential pardon completely.
There is no justification for it whatsoever.
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Now use your bully pulpit to apply that fine sentiment to Gaza.
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I can't remember much from my MBA in the mid-80s, but one thing has stuck:
if an established product is rapidly losing market share in a fast-growing market, that product is totally fucked.