stayer wrote: Sorry to state the obvious, but, as a son of a father with dementia, it's a bit rich to try to say that Trump will deteriorate more than Joe in a year. Joe is clearly not a high- functioning man any more (!), and this dementia thing can move fast. Who is going to step up when Joe literally needs to be taken away? Kamala has been the disaster she was always going to be.

Perfectly normal, not a bit BAZAR.

Truth Social is now 73 million in the hole after only 2 years. If there is one thing trump is very good at is bankrupting companies, nobody knows more about at that stuff that Donald. 

Have a listen to the Rachel Maddow podcast series ULTRA. One episode covers Fritz Kuhn and the attempt to overturn the US govt and join Germany in WW11.

I've never understood the deep hate a lot of people have for Jews, can someone explain it to me ? unlike others where you can see why people dislike each other due to skin colour/race etc, but what is it about the Jewish that gets so many millions riled up ?

Okey-dokey. 

The same day, an obscure far-right personality posted the same conspiracy theory on X: “Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.”

“I’m deeply disinterested,” he continued, “in giving the tiniest gelati now about western Jewish populations coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that support flooding their country don’t exactly like them too much.”

The post wouldn’t be notable, except as yet another example of the bigoted filth that dominates discourse on X, but Elon Musk — the world’s richest man and the owner of X — responded with an endorsement. “You have said the actual truth,” he replied.

Can't believe I actually looked up to Musk in the earlier days. What a vile, disgusting, disingenuous person he is. This is without any bias towards twitter since my ban, but watching now from the outside all I see is Musk allowing everything he believes in to go on X and everything he doesn't he bans instantly, yet he calls himself an advocate for free speech, a libertarian etc, he is not a libertarian at all, he is an autocrat period. 

Fiddlesticks wrote: Can't believe I actually looked up to Musk in the earlier days. What a vile, disgusting, disingenuous person he is. This is without any bias towards twitter since my ban, but watching now from the outside all I see is Musk allowing everything he believes in to go on X and everything he doesn't he bans instantly, yet he calls himself an advocate for free speech, a libertarian etc, he is not a libertarian at all, he is an autocrat period.

"My view is this: if someone wants to vote for a cruel sociopathic authoritarian, they should do so without being able to pretend they don’t know what they’re supporting. There should be a social stigma for voting for Trump, because what he stands for is so far outside the bounds of acceptable democratic politics anywhere else in the world. But that can’t work unless everyone is aware of Trump’s increasingly violent, deranged insanity.

Instead, the press has succumbed to the numbing effect of the Banality of Crazy, once reporting on every single Trump tweet in early 2017 because it was unusual, but now ignoring even the most dangerous policy proposals by an authoritarian who is on the cusp of once again becoming the most powerful man in the world—precisely because it happens, like clockwork, almost every day."

https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-case-for-amplifying-trumps-insanity

Tlazolteotl wrote: "My view is this: if someone wants to vote for a cruel sociopathic authoritarian, they should do so without being able to pretend they don’t know what they’re supporting. There should be a social stigma for voting for Trump, because what he stands for is so far outside the bounds of acceptable democratic politics anywhere else in the world. But that can’t work unless everyone is aware of Trump’s increasingly violent, deranged insanity. Instead, the press has succumbed to the numbing effect of the Banality of Crazy, once reporting on every single Trump tweet in early 2017 because it was unusual, but now ignoring even the most dangerous policy proposals by an authoritarian who is on the cusp of once again becoming the most powerful man in the world—precisely because it happens, like clockwork, almost every day." https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-case-for-amplifying-trumps-insanity

I see that Finland has been building a wall along their border for the past year, to shut out immigrants. 

''Shut out immigrants'' Is that the truth?

Oh and yes it’s noted🤪

Actually, saw it on the ABC this morning.