Whenever I see old Vance-Pants I try and remember which character he played in ‘Team America - World Police’.

Dad!!!

châteauneuf doh crap 🤦‍♂️

I’m seriously considering having this projected on a loop at my funeral. It’s brought me so much joy in later life.

For reasons which will be apparent to the lovers of detail, this slur on an entire avian sub-sector is distressing at a domestic level and possibly libellous at a legal one.

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Nothing tells you more about power of social media than current views on London. Northern pubs used to be full of people who ‘hated’ The South and the capital. Now it needs rescuing and the mayor (who happens to be brown) must leave because it’s ’arre capitul!’ They still rarely go there/move there.

Me too Nick. Lived in this area for many years. I’m now back in Lancs where some tap-rooms have angry men telling me what a sh1t-hole London is (another SM-stoked narrative) and I can’t help feeling that getting on the news with London AND a ‘migrant hotel’ feels like a double win for this lot 🤷‍♂️

It’s leadership, and the media that should be holding truth to power that’s failed. News that tells people what they want to hear, not what they need to know has failed the people of many countries. The political parties promising ice cream and blowjobs get oxygen. The ones presenting truth don’t.

Whilst it’s a serious topic for sure, I just woke half the house laughing out loud at this 🤣🤪

This may be hope/wish by me rather than a quantifiable rationale but surely as the futility of hard(-ish) right thinking unfolds under Trump, along with a shifting, modernising political framework to fill, the idea of trying something new might stick more than it has in the stagnant trad patterns? 🤔

Ok. Fair play for explaining some of it. But I’m still not sure how we arrived at Musk rigging machines. I think we both bat for the same team and it pains me to lean towards Musk but we ain’t gonna win with supposition or wishing. No evidence Musk rigged machines. I just feel we’ll win with truths.

Hmmm.. I think we need to be careful here. The Right, worldwide, plays the ‘I wish it, therefore it is truth’ game. I don’t want to join in with that. Any evidence to back this up or are we playing rumour bingo with those thicker than a submarine hatch?

Educate me and make me know this is truth.

I think the interview was interesting and made valid points on possible weakening of a party’s position by obfuscation. It wasn’t a hit piece. It was discussion and didn’t leave anyone capable of rational thought doubting Trump’s questionable state of mind IMHO. Different discussion. Different show.

I know it’s arguably a reach comparing these 2 elements of UK current affairs but the irony and hypocrisy is strong with this. You can just empty your head on a post with no recourse and no fear that you’ll be reprimanded or questioned. We live in weird times where winning appears to be only goal.

Explain this to me like I’m 12 James. Which bit are you painting, how far is ‘as far’ and why?

I’m not being obtuse or questioning anything. Just don’t fully grasp it.

[love your posts and learn loads but sometimes I’m a bit ‘dim’ 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️]

Maximise with the arrows…. I’m sure you knew that and it isn’t your point I know.

But I use Bluesky on iPad way more than on my phone and it’s fine. It’s not somewhere I go for ‘sexy’; it’s where I go for words, and it does that. Always room for a polish but it isn’t spoiling the app for me TBH.

Isn’t just an American thing though Mr S373N (if I may call you that). Here in UK you can hate our PM all day despite his party shifting stuff slowly but surely in the right direction. Xitter is full of folk trying to prove he’s gay, like that’s gonna change anything if he is 🤷‍♂️. We have idiots too 😋

Problem with getting grown up positions is that you have to have grown up ideas. Racism in the UK is essentially written in crayons on X & turning racism into joined up writing is hard. Hopefully. And hopefully it makes a lot of people look stupid.

It’s a wish and a hope but I’m sticking with it.

Also, my (apparently great) reply above had no reference to American politics specifically. It’s a general comment on what right-leaning folks THINK left-leaning folks believe regarding borders. It had no connection with any mythical Biden Harris ‘open invite’. I think you need to debate better IMHO