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This. 1000x this.



Michael Crick
@MichaelLCrick
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As students we were taught the US Constitution has so many checks & balances that a mad dictatorship could never occur - separation of powers between executive, legislature & judiciary; rule of law; two-yearly elections; free media; term limits & so on. What rubbish that was.

https://x.com/MichaelLCrick/status/2013376211930460496

Edit: It is only rubbish because try as they might the Founders could not see the utter black depths of the lack of honour, shame and decency that lawmakers in one party can scrape.

Nah.
It's because of an Enlightenment belief in the rationality of humans.
And the knowability of Objective Truth.
We've been blindsided by this for Centuries.
We prefer the feelz. Always have done.

Another U turn

Government to consult on under 16 social media ban

Plus

Crackdown on mobile phones in schools

Who do you vote for that doesn't support such an outrageous policy? 🧐🥴

Have you young children ?

What is outrageous is damaging young lives by using and accessing inappropriate sites

It is a matter for parents, not the state.

It is for both

At what age are you saying it’s not a danger and sites are not inappropriate?

When a child becomes an adult at 18

Firstly, If you want to credit the introduction of this policy to LOTO Badenoch, that sounds right to me, as it fits in as glib and stupid as all her other thinking - it’s virtually same as Badenoch’s other policy fail, no attempt to reform or improve or update ECHR, just abandon it.

In my mind, children, right from young ages, should have access to the web for learning and communication, and many parents will agree with me. There is no way you can police this parenting, or stop these sensible parents. All the Australian style u-16 internet ban amounts to is a ban on companies allowing under 16’s accounts - that is the only way it’s enforceable.

At this point the ban is wrong, embarrassing, knee jerk policy making of the worse kind. At this point the focus should be on making addictive "click-bait" algorithms illegal and forcing platforms to change them. children should be better protected from algorithms designed to hook them, so smart parents and politicians will be calling for “limited" devices that allow access to helpful, non-addictive content, while blocking social media platforms with the harmful, addictive or predatory algorithms.

So it’s up to good parenting and bad parenting at the end of the day. Good parents will ask what good things will be lost to my children? And have we tried everything else first, before reaching for draconian blanket bans thus losing what will be lost. So it will create two tiers - those kids who get ahead of the others with their access to the internet for learning and communication, and those who get left behind because the dum parents go along with the ban.

If we agree children should be better protected from algorithms designed to hook them, here’s the kicker - at what point in someone’s life are those bad algorithms healthy for people of any age? You said 18 when people become adults - what have they got at 18 and 118 that helps make it not a problem anymore? The only way Badenoch and Starmer should consider getting involved, is asking have we tried everything else on what is bad first, before reaching for draconian blanket bans and losing an awful lot that is good, from policy and action that’s too restrictive.

@chatham58.bsky.social‬

I think it’s wrong to fear Trump’s removal cuz ‘Vance is just as bad.’ JD is smarter, sure. But he’s hugely unpopular. It’d be gold for Dems to have enough Rs finally concede Trump is insane & unfit, then have to ride it out for years w/ a smarmy couchfucker Trump cuck few but Peter Theil support

https://bsky.app/profile/chatham58.bsky.social/post/3mcsqi64nvs2n

Still haven't learnt have they.

They really do hate someone who has risen from deprivation.

They don't hate him for his origins. They hate him for being a vile human being.

Do they ?

So why the 'couchfucker' ?

Because its just an updated slur of hillbillies shagging their sisters and marrying their cousins.

Vance should be criticised for his opinions, not his upbringing.

Vance is mainly criticised for his inconsistency. From a "never Trumper" to a venal sycophant. All in the quest for self aggrandisement and personal power.

Its also because Vance's self-serving political journey has been successful.

And now he's VP and plotting when he should try to remove Trump.

Compare with the likes of Turd Cruz, who have been humiliated by Trump without gaining anything but are ever more sycophantic.

@chatham58.bsky.social‬

I think it’s wrong to fear Trump’s removal cuz ‘Vance is just as bad.’ JD is smarter, sure. But he’s hugely unpopular. It’d be gold for Dems to have enough Rs finally concede Trump is insane & unfit, then have to ride it out for years w/ a smarmy couchfucker Trump cuck few but Peter Theil support

https://bsky.app/profile/chatham58.bsky.social/post/3mcsqi64nvs2n

Still haven't learnt have they.

They really do hate someone who has risen from deprivation.

They don't hate him for his origins. They hate him for being a vile human being.

Do they ?

So why the 'couchfucker' ?

Because its just an updated slur of hillbillies shagging their sisters and marrying their cousins.

Vance should be criticised for his opinions, not his upbringing.

I would have thought even a hillbilly could tell the difference between his sister and a sofa.

When you couch it is those terms so fa so good. Maybe it was just her Chest he feeled?

Republicans against Trump
@RpsAgainstTrump
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We must take over Greenland because of the Russian threat.

Putin is also invited to the “Board of Peace.”

Totally makes sense.

https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump

Doublethink is a process of indoctrination in which subjects are expected to simultaneously accept two conflicting beliefs as truth, often at odds with their own memory or sense of reality.

Not the first time either.

Tariffs were simultaneously supposed to fully fund public spending and replace imports with domestic production.

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself—that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word—doublethink—involved the use of doublethink.

I've always been annoyed that the genius of Orwell was misused by such low grade entertainment as Big Brother and Room 101.

Nor indeed by those who co-opt him as some kind of right of centre hero.

Its a consequence of Orwell's most popular works being 1984, Animal Farm and, to a lesser extent, Homage to Catalonia.

The works of a leftist who hated what other leftists had done when they were in power.

His main criticism of Attlee was timidity.

I think that's unfair on Atlee.

He got a lot done despite resources being extremely restricted.

And Atlee's policies have proven long lasting and pretty durable.

From the source that had the Rosindell story first

EXCLUSIVE: Five Conservative MPs have formally opened discussions with Nigel Farage about defecting to Reform UK, including former Home Secretary Suella Braverman.

As revealed tonight on Dan Wootton Outspoken, five Conservative MPs contacted Nigel Farage over the weekend to negotiate a potential defection to Reform UK. The most prominent figure among them is former Home Secretary Suella Braverman.

While Zia Yusuf and Nigel Farage have publicly stated that the party will not accept any further Tory defections after 7 May, it can also be revealed that Reform UK remains willing to welcome as many Conservative defectors as possible — even if that means extending beyond the previously announced deadline.

Suella Braverman has been considering a move to Reform UK for several months. However, the recent defections of Andrew Rosindell and Robert Jenrick have significantly increased her inclination to make the switch.

https://x.com/charliesimpsona/status/2013315260090892369?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q

That's gonna really make Badenoch's year.