westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/ali... "Trump’s US is not ‘some other place’. His contempt for the global rules-based order and his normalisation of cruelty, hatred and the othering of vulnerable groups, have deeply impressed proto-fascists everywhere and been energetically adopted in the UK"

The dangerous absurdities of politics and social trends in the US and UK exposed in this trenchant article. Strongly recommended.

Discourse in America is close to a state of epistemic collapse. Until that is effectively addressed, we'll just be re-arranging deck chairs. The re-election of an insurrectionist to the Presidency would've been impossible if facts and evidence were privileged.

Pretty sure Thiel wrote the fwd on later editions...

..becoming more & more convinced that Trump was an incredibly useful & disgusting chrysalis

And People

And their greed! www.politico.com/magazine/gal...

Americans are dying from their own stupidity.

One hell of a thread that shows the stupidity of the US without mentioning the biggest idiot of them all who is leading them down the path of destruction and decline.

And not letting them speak freely ironically!!!

And Scared!

I don’t agree, it’s the stupidity of their electorate.

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Another great thread: bsky.app/profile/dhne...

George W. Bush and Donald Trump are both shrewd and cynical and play stupid to harvest the stupid vote because it's an easy cynical and effective path to power in the monstrosity that is the United States.

Oh! www.thesun.co.uk/news/3650522...

Orange Man Bad? That's a new one. What's next - Farage riots?

I think the voters deserve some of the credit. Like, at least 51.66% of the credit.