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Daisley’s oddly sympathetic to said POTUS, Donald J. Trump, given that in 2021 he defended the #Deplatforming of Trump by his former employer – and blocked me for having the chutzpah to question his defence (twitter.com/nico_macdona...)
He seems to have deleted most of his Tweets criticising Trump.
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Mr Mayor: There’s no such thing as the ‘LGBTQI+’ community.
What do people who are same-sex attracted have in common with those who want to be another gender?
In the old days the socially backward thought what they had in common was all being ‘weird’, if not ‘pervy’.
We saw through that. Not you?
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My comrades in Our Fight UK – “challenging British antisemitism, by standing with Israel” – highlighted her plight and questioned Culture Secy @lisanandymp.bsky.social on whether her government has advocated for her, and why MSM was so silent about this British hostage. twitter.com/ourfightuk/s...
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Are you referring to Tindale, or to Neil?
Since his BBC, Speecie, and #GBNews days, I have found Andrew Neil’s reporting on UK and global economics, energy policy and #NetZero, and French politics to be particularly insightful, with analysis backed up by rich data.
cc @chrischirp.bsky.social
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@eddwilson.bsky.social That is great to hear. While appreciating you are doing this ‘off your own bat’ you want any input on what people would like to use such a service for, do ask.
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I asked about this in the past, and @eddwilson.bsky.social noted the difficulty of doing this. Disappointing, not least as @bbcradio4.bsky.social should be providing this information to listeners.
x.com/eddwilson/st...
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This is fantastical thinking! The reality is that the liberal-Leftists in the #Xodus @Bluesky are often the people who adopt the ‘right-thinking’ and tend to avoid good-faith, evidence-based debate. Read on… x.com/nico_macdona...
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… And Tulsi Gabbard was a Democrat representative in the House, a Democrat presidential candidate, and vice-chair of the DNC (until she resigned in 2016 over its treatment of Bernie Sanders); until recently, Elon Musk was a Democrat.
Hell, Trump was a Democrat.
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Yes, let’s not debate the possibility that science is being politicised in the service of the state and other vested interests. And corrupted by them, not least in the service of justifying taking our freedoms in Lockdown, and dissembling about the source of the Pandemic.
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Sunder: These replies are disgusting.
All but one are from accounts with < 200 followers with no location so, very likely, bots.
Moreover, the replies to all of them pushed back on the racist sentiments. (I added my own pushback.)
I sense you underestimate the importance of community solidarity.
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But it _is_ retreating from the public square that is X, where most of your best and most informed critics are.
I also think it is beholden on journalists to seek out diverse views, beyond those of “people you like”.
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Did you speak out or leave Twitter when it was run by Jack Dorsey, Dick Costolo and then Parag Agrawal, and their moderators’ Left-wing bias – and FBI edict – led to them shadow-banning and actually banning people from the ‘Right’, the ‘gender critical’, Lockdown and vaccine ‘skeptics’, etc?
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Liberals were, and are, perfectly able to operate on X, and probably more able than on Dorsey et al’s Twitter.
What the liberal-Leftists in the #Xodus to @Bluesky resent is that those they consider to be Rightists, -deniers, -phobes, conspiracists and Fascists are no longer suppressed and banned.
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The experts at #BBCVerify also appear to have confused “acres” for “hectares” in a ‘Farm Tax’ fact-check (x.com/MediaGuido/s...)
Not clear how, but not being wise enough to consider that there might be a difference between the two is a worrying aspect of our Ministry of Information.
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Mark: The reality was that on X the ad hominem attacks were much more likely to come from ‘your’ side, Left-liberals and Democrats.
For a good part of #Elections2024 the Harris–Walz campaign and leading Democrats pushed such attacks on their opponents, culminating in the ‘Fascist’ and ‘Nazi’ slurs.
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You did what, Zoe? You encouraged the Guardian and its writers to hide from its most assiduous critics, who are on X – many of who were formerly fellow travellers.
Is criticism so hard to engage with? Are well all just deplorable?
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This #Xodus @Bluesky has precedents, of course.
First to @joinmastodon (few could grok a federated social network); then to FBI-colluding @Meta’s Threads.
Will the Bsky “vibes” last longer than they did for Threads?
Might @X and Threads federate with Bsky via the AT Protocol?