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Ian Williams

@iangwilliams.bsky.social

Writer, occasionally contrarian, militant Menshevik!

created November 13, 2024

335 followers 1,147 following 633 posts

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Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

Make astronauts vote in person!

2/9/2025, 7:46:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social)

www.wrmea.org/israel-pales...

2/9/2025, 5:21:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

The cop knows and shows it is nonsense.

2/9/2025, 3:33:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

Any validity to this quip is ruined by Labour quoting the Sun as a source.

2/9/2025, 3:29:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Financial Times (@financialtimes.com) reposted

How AI models can optimise for malice on.ft.com/4p2JJdr | opinion

2/9/2025, 3:23:10 PM | 23 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

Thames guarantees it to contain lead and other heavy metals, sewage, and PFAs!

2/9/2025, 3:22:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social)

www.sciencenorway.no/israel-and-p... We knew this of course but it's Always good to be vindicated academically.

2/9/2025, 12:24:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

Well if the leader of that government sets the tone with his Faragian pandering, what do you expect?

1/9/2025, 6:11:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

Any evidence apart from his own say say so of his chivalry?

1/9/2025, 12:02:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump's hemorrhoids?

31/8/2025, 8:29:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

Any comment from NYPD to substantiate his claim that he was a white Knight.

31/8/2025, 8:21:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted

Ha. Haha. Haaa. I get it.

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Profile picture Melissa (@nitenitemelissa.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

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31/8/2025, 3:33:50 PM | 2611 526 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social)

Pro-Israeli epithets. In the AP/Guardian report of the Israeli terrorist assassination of the Yemeni prime minister "Iran-backed" appears four times for the Houthi administration. For balance every time that an Israeli atrocity or outrage is reported it should put "US/UK-backed" in front of Israel.

31/8/2025, 4:36:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social)

Verily!

31/8/2025, 4:09:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social)

Maybe just this side of it then! :)

31/8/2025, 3:51:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

April 26 2026! Almost beyond my event horizon!

30/8/2025, 4:18:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pam Keith (@pamkeithdc.bsky.social) reposted

The reason the Minnesota Dems withdrew their endorsement of Omar Fateh is because pro-Israel Zionist donors threatened to pull back their money if the endorsement that was achieved through a fair process, was not pulled. That’s what happened. Question: do you think that drives party “unity.”

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Profile picture Jonathan Cohn (@jonathancohn.bsky.social) reposted

Seems from the case that rogue cops arrested him for the "crime" of being married to a Jewish woman and tried to cover up after. Apartheid state behavior. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

29/8/2025, 12:25:24 PM | 96 30 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

No Harry, just the dog whistle orchestra rehearsing in a higher key than before.

30/8/2025, 2:27:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

I expect the most expedited SCOTUS reversal ever. It is probably being drafted even was we write, before the admin even files!

30/8/2025, 12:08:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

Lots of characters - but skimpy on plot!

29/8/2025, 11:09:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

Biting my nails with the tension. How long will it take the SCOTUS to rush an emergency docket approval of Presidential infallibility?

29/8/2025, 11:07:59 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

And Robert Reich, the sound of silence, AIPAC buys congress and no action on Gaza.

29/8/2025, 10:55:53 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

Congrats on the nice TLS review by the way.

29/8/2025, 10:31:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social)

In case you missed it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=roVy...

29/8/2025, 10:15:41 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

Wait, he was black? Didn't he rape her first :( ?

29/8/2025, 2:51:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

He meant regressing. And no one does regression better!

29/8/2025, 4:41:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social)

draft.blogger.com/blog/post/ed... I just rediscovered this, which I wrote for Tribune in 2017, just as Trump was kicking off the first time. I would modestly say it was quite prescient. I Diss TRUMP But don’t be DISMISSIVE OF HIS FOLLOWERS Ian Williams

28/8/2025, 10:32:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social)

I worked 13 yrs on British Rail, anD I like publicly owned railways. But Trump taking over Union Station raises questions. When did he last travel on a train? When did he convert to control state of Intel and Railways? Are there more plans for socializing US companies? Is he mad? We need to know!

27/8/2025, 8:12:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social)

Jury Nullification Rules. Grand Juries normally rubber stamp prosecutors. The DC Jury laughed out the sandwich-checkers felony indictment. Hope other summoned for jury duty are watching! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

27/8/2025, 2:43:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

Abstain - they are a stain!

26/8/2025, 8:23:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

Not mail. Packages.

26/8/2025, 1:28:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

which one?

25/8/2025, 5:25:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

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23/8/2025, 3:30:35 PM | 10724 2763 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social)

"Trump" used to mean fart. These MAGA cabinet members and officials would indeed bottle his farts and sell it as perfume. Sorry, I hope this not giving the Trump family a marketing idea.

22/8/2025, 8:28:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

Jaguar? American? Steady on there, old chap!

22/8/2025, 12:21:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

Do not forget Saudi Arabian, named after the Saudi tribe.

22/8/2025, 12:14:30 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

Well I am sure many of them were voters- of course he had to speak to them :)

21/8/2025, 4:07:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social)

Apart from being overawed that Drumpfy Dumpty is celebrating making peace in an imaginary war between Albania and Azerbaijan, aren't we relieved that Enver Hoxha is not around to pal up to the US President and share a taco bowl with him, Netanyahu Putin and Kim?

20/8/2025, 6:02:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social)

"Trump Says Smithsonian Focuses Too Much on ‘How Bad Slavery Was’" Next, the need for the Holocaust Museum to showcase effect of the camps on vocational training!

20/8/2025, 5:48:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social)

Look how clever I am, attracting all these firefighters, he says, as he puts the matches back in his pocket.

20/8/2025, 3:21:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

Look how clever I am, attracting all these firefighters, he says, as he puts the matches back in his pocket.

20/8/2025, 3:21:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

Watch those oh so definite articles.. Some of the responsibility..

20/8/2025, 12:04:46 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

It did help that the Bush GOP staged a dry run for the Jan 6 riot at Florida voting!

19/8/2025, 7:59:45 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social)

Trump preening himself about the European leaders coming to Washington is like an arsonist basking in the reflected glory the firefighters who turned up!

19/8/2025, 7:19:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social)

Trump preening himself about the European leaders coming to Washington is like an arsonist basking in the reflected glory the firefighters who turned up!

19/8/2025, 7:06:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

With such a spineless backup team, he might be better off alone!

18/8/2025, 1:11:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

They are not recruited for physical or mental fitness.

18/8/2025, 12:06:51 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

That is the Mac of someone who exposes himself to children.

18/8/2025, 12:28:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

Ah, but within ten years Trump and RFK will have developed anti-gravity - or levitation as we used to call it!

17/8/2025, 11:33:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social)

A quick round up of the interviews that had me accused of being Nazi, a bearded clam, antiSemite, who Mossad should go after and ICE deport, and puzzlingly, owner of a window air-conditioner in New York! x.com/DropSiteNews... mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/pi8CXm... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu9I...

17/8/2025, 7:09:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

They'll none of them be missed If they drop off your list

17/8/2025, 5:55:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) reposted

A shooting in Crown Heights early this morning has stolen the lives of three New Yorkers and injured eight more. I’m grateful for the first responders who rushed towards the danger and worked to save lives. We cannot accept gun violence in our city.

17/8/2025, 1:21:20 PM | 11016 1531 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

"Empathy" is Greek for giving opponents everything they ask for?

16/8/2025, 9:07:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

What would he say to these reincarnated slave patrols?

16/8/2025, 9:03:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

But unlike ICE, they were reticent about doing it in public.

16/8/2025, 7:35:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Flemming Erik Carlson (@flemmingcarlson.bsky.social) reposted

Friend sent me this. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

We should make allowances for Chamberlain. On his return, despite "Peace in our time," he initiated massive rearmament for the UK, Did not divert military age to a massive ethnic cleansing of UK citizens, in a combined Brownshirt/KKK/ICE operation

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Profile picture Justin Wolfers (@justinwolfers.bsky.social) reposted

Boardroom chatter has changed. It used to be: “How do we beat our competitors?” → Competitive capitalism and the genius of the invisible hand. Today it's: “How do we please Trump?” → Crony capitalism and the corruption of the golden handshake.

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Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

So he never endorse Democratic candidates unless he has been personally introduced. It is not phrenology, but those dead eyes indicate someone who knows show that he knows what he is saying holds no water!

16/8/2025, 4:49:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 (@chanda.bsky.social) reposted

I've noticed that many of the non-Palestinians I know are very worried about damaging their relationships with fellow non-Palestinians. They worry that being vocally and actively opposed to genocide will damage relationships. 1. Is that relationship more important than the sanctity of human life?

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Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

It is a stunning achievement find enough integrity in Cooper to shred without a microsurgeon in attendance.

16/8/2025, 4:22:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

"honest elections" a subject close to Putin's heart!

16/8/2025, 4:16:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Adam Schwarz (@adamjschwarz.bsky.social) reposted

“Putin would eat you for lunch.” Today, exactly that happened.

15/8/2025, 11:48:12 PM | 23750 7635 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

And of course they take illegally parked cars straight to the crusher. Naked class warfare,

15/8/2025, 9:04:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Deirdre Assenza (@deirdreassenza.bsky.social) reposted

DC will need a historical monument to The Hurl of Sandwich

15/8/2025, 7:37:47 PM | 711 112 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

Like the sell out bastard Jeffries, it is an "illegitimate issue." everyone should live in a rent-stabilized (not controlled) apt.

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Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

It is an "illegitimate issue." everyone should live in a rent-stabilized (not controlled) apt.

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Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

Hakeem Jeffries approves Cuomo's attacks on Mamdani for living in a rent controlled apartment: "It's a legitimate issue that has been raised, and the [Mamdani] campaign is going to have to address it." It is an "illegitimate issue." everyone should live in a rent-stabilized (not controlled) apt.

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Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

OPUS Dei opposes DEI.

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Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

Hakeem Jeffries approves Cuomo's attacks on Mamdani for living in a rent controlled apartment: "It's a legitimate issue that has been raised, and the [Mamdani] campaign is going to have to address it." It is an "illegitimate issue." everyone should live in a rent-stabilized (not controlled) apt.

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Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social)

Hakeem Jeffries approves Cuomo's attacks on Mamdani for living in a rent controlled apartment: "It's a legitimate issue that has been raised, and the [Mamdani] campaign is going to have to address it." It is an "illegitimate issue." everyone should live in a rent-stabilized (not controlled) apt.

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Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

Jeffries is an illegitimate shill. Or as we used to say in less woke times - a bastard.

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Profile picture USDemocracy (@usdemocracy.bsky.social) reposted

Protesters are flooding DC streets to demand two things: that the National Guard be recalled and that the Epstein files be released. We stand with you, DC. Lawmakers, where are YOU? It's your job to stop this. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

Is it just my imagination, or are most of those drafted in law enforcement of different skin complexion from most people in the District.?

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Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rydm...

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Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

My kids often quote chunks of TP at me.

11/8/2025, 3:54:33 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Harry Turtledove (@hntdove.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

We were newlyweds when we found Terry's stuff. I started reading passages out loud to her, and I just don't do that.

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Profile picture Saul Staniforth (@saulstaniforth.bsky.social) reposted

Jon Williams from @rorypecktrust.bsky.social : "The murder of 6 journalists in a single incident is one of the worst attacks on journalists ever... killing and targeting journalists is a war crime"

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Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

Exemplary taste Laura.They are on my shelves and on those of my kids as well, along Terry Pratchett whose works fill our family shelves, - along with those of this Turtledove character.

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Profile picture Mark Hamill (@markhamillofficial.bsky.social) reposted

Yeah JD, we remember. We will never forget your boss was best friends with the guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring. And then that guy was "silenced" forever. And now we will just not talk about anything else until they... #ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files

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Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

The basic principle of Munich. There's a refreshing honesty to it! :)\

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Profile picture Phil McDuff (@mcduff.bsky.social) reposted

This is genuinely western liberalism summed up in a 30 second video. Incredible. Put it in an art gallery.

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Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

Are they his golfing trophies?

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Profile picture Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted

Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.

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Profile picture Cinjaa (@cinjaa.bsky.social) reposted

Post Forever‼️ substack.com/@lindarey/no...

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Profile picture Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) reposted

Donald Trump has three candidates in this race for mayor.

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Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

A run of the mill Starmerite

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Profile picture Jessica Elgot (@jessicaelgot.bsky.social) reposted

BREAKING: Homelessness Minister Rushanara Ali resigns after it was revealed she had moved out tenants in her rented home and then raised the rent. More soon

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Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

That is tragic not comic, Expel them from the comic group!

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Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

Turned Paradise into a parking lot. Got to keep the Cybertrucks somewhere!

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Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

acciracy is indeed desirable! :)

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Profile picture Ian Williams (@iangwilliams.bsky.social) reply parent

The Gestapo and KGB were more discrete and polite in their raids.

7/8/2025, 1:58:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Naadir (@randomvariable.co.uk) reposted

Learnt from the TF podcast that the UK government didn't apply the Online Safety Act rules to online gambling, and I think that tells you everything you need to know about how the country is run.

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