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Wonderful moments yesterday, Pat, as my 6 yr old daughter and I practised piano. She's been learning classic at school. Eyes opened soon wide as I explained that when we play Jazz there are NO wrong notes 🙂🙂
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Just to save people a little time: open.spotify.com/track/3aEJMh...
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2/2
All 4 hypersonic, and all but one of 20 missiles were stopped
▪️4/4 Kindzhal
▪️10/10 Kh-101 cruise missiles
▪️2/3 Kh-22 cruise missiles.
▪️2/2 Kh-31P anti-radar missiles
▪️1/1 Kh-35 cruise missile.
▪️460/479 UAVs, which is 96% success (277 shot down, 183 stopped by EW)
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Soboroff: "How did you find out that the president of the United States was going to usurp your authority and deploy your national guard here in California?"
Newsom: "I got a call from a staffer."
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I.e. as soon as anyone admits 'these people have Nazi ideology' then there is a moral obligation to start removing them from society, but European elites won't allow that politically (because they've always been on the boundary of hard right / fascism themselves)?
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Is there any real difference between the 'modern radical right' and the old Nazis? Are people not using the word 'Nazi' because it's loaded with a lot of historical baggage, or is it because once we accept there are Nazis, we're morally obliged to do things that everyone is too scared to do?
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Interesting piece, but mostly for observing how utterly clueless someone so wealthy can be. By the end you realise, this guy has not grasped at all what's going on 😬 He thinks Trump just wants to make a few quid 🤣🤣
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There's a decent argument that Dawson, the editor at the time, pushed Europe to war by demanding a referendum in Czechoslovakia. Never held to account, of course, being one of the upper class elites 🙄
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Westminster journos happy to report Tories blaming Labour for 14 years, but a couple of months after Labour won, they were all "oh look at Labour blaming our Tories. How pathetic!" Been listening to the Origin Story podcasts about appeasement...The Times of a London has it changed a bit! 😕
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100%. The damage done by the right over 14 was catastrophic. The Right won't accept that, because their moderates were exiled. Labour spent a yr trying to stop everything collapsing. But if you never leave Westminster you don't see all the damage, right? 🙄
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The Westminster set are completely enamoured by him, and it's very difficult to see why...🤷
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Good! You're correct that I don't know, and I so hope you're right and I'm completely wrong 🤞🤞🤞🤞🙂🙂
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I think I'm getting it now. You can't say "yeah these guys are Nazis, but I still think my commentary is balanced" because you can't have a Senior Times Political correspondent saying Farage is a Nazi, because he's largely seen as a respectable vote now in the UK? Is that it? Anywhere close? 🤷
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They won't. By Christmas the US will be like Russia. Social media is going to be very weird when they're all too scared to tweet 🤷
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Nothing. It's all over....for now. Americans should look at Burma for a good model if hi to fight back (NB: with that model it will take 20-30 years)
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From abroad, it looks like that time has passed. The Burmese rebels offer a good model for how you guys could move forward to retake the US
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The big battle is coming. Combative tweets from Newsome today. Interesting they targeted him and California first. If they win this one, Dems will have to stop doing angry tweets and peaceful protests, it'll be way beyond that...😬😬
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I genuinely believe that if most people had to go back even ten years, maybe less, after a few mins there. They'd hate it.
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www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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So glad you didn't mention wonderful Taeyong, so it dint get awkward 🤣🤣
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You've got to feel for them eh Derek? All their lives told "we're the leaders of the free world!!" And now this...no wonder they're in denial 🤷
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As a Data Analyst, I found the awful polling to be more surprising. Where do you think it went so badly wrong? 😉 (I do know, just joshing!!)
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On the one hand, the old building was gorgeous! On the other, the new flats look pretty good 😬
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Hitler got as far as he did because high profile people in the UK thought they were so fucking smart because they went to Oxford and worked for the Times don't you know? And well....here we are again!!
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"it's good to have someone who will shake up the system"
"The old ways weren't working for working people"
And the worst is watching people you've respected and liked turn out to be brain dead idiots who can't see what's going on. The daily grind of "oh ffs! No you as well.." 😕
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Yes, and every day businesses are finding new suppliers, expanding EU staffing, redesigning products without American components, etc...5-10 years for the EU to rearm without the US seems long, but 6 months gone already. Tick tock....