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See my reply to your other message. Trump is horrific in every way. But that doesn’t abdicate Biden from significant responsibility. The Dems knew who Netanyahu was for decades. And they have been enablers of the Israeli state we see right now despite everything they knew.
No red lines Biden said for Israel. Enough said. He enabled what we’re seeing.
Genocide Joe
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You know real kings don’t have any power right? What you have in the USA is much much worse than having a king.
From where I’m sitting the media has way too much respect for the office. They’re overly deferential. The office has to earn respect day in day out like the rest of us.
Public abundance is a well funded and functioning public transit service. These people don’t want public abundance. They want private abundance for a very few and public scarcity for everyone else.
Trump’s so obsessed with getting a ‘deal’. Any deal. It doesn’t matter if it’s a good one or not. Which makes him dreadful negotiator. Arse of the deal.
These ‘deals’ will be nothing burgers at best. This is all smoke and mirrors. Hence you don’t need real trade negotiators.
It’s always the ones you most suspect…
Also his brand is wrecked forever. And he’s attached his personal brand so closely to Tesla. Quite how him coming back as full time engaged Tesla ceo merits a 10% stock pop I don’t know (from down 5% to up 5%). Tesla continues to be Elon’s meme stock.
Regardless, X being unable to pay its loans and filing for bankruptcy protection would likely lead to a significant sell off of Elon associated assets. Wrapping a loss making company and its loans into another loss making company riding the AI froth offers some protection to his TSLA stake.
Musk wraps his X debt which could easily lead to a TSLA margin call, into xAI. So he passes the debt from a shitty company to one with AI froth and he hopes staves off being a forced seller of TSLA stock which is his only liquid asset.
US needs a general strike
I don’t think Europe has accepted or even understood yet that the road ahead leads to Europes direct involvement in the conflict. Either in Ukraine or on their own borders. There is still a lot of wishful thinking going in Europe. We’ve seen enough of that over the past decade.
He is right. And Europe still hasn’t really understood or accepted what that means. If the US bails, it means, I believe, Europe’s direct involvement in the conflict. I see no other viable option. Otherwise Europe cedes Ukraine and who’s next on the menu.
Democrats need to be hammering on about inequality. The fact they weren’t and defended the status quo is what cost them the election.
Trump a moron. Putin and Xi can read him like a child’s book. They’re about 8 moves ahead of him.
And Boeing. So probably unsafe.
Trump has no values. None. He just wants a ‘deal’. Any deal. To make him look big. Doesn’t matter if it’s an awful deal.
Boeing. So probably unsafe. And will get zero foreign sales after Trump has torched 80 years of relationship building with allies.
All these guys like Witkoff & Trump have no idea what values actually are. They don’t have any. All they want is a ‘deal’. Any ‘deal’. Doesn’t matter if it’s a good one or bad one. Just give us a deal. Literally like market trader mentality.
And a kill switch just in case any US ally that bought them does something the administration doesn’t like. No thanks. Also, Boeing. So probably unsafe.
No former allies will touch it with a barge pole.
It’s so important for the left to start talking about inequality more and what they plan to do about it. Defending the status quo won’t win elections. Inequality is THE problem that needs solving in America. Everything else flows from inequality.
While wrecking relations with Europe, Canada and Mexico. A larger economic block than the USA itself.
Well done for leaving X!
You should get in touch with bsky.app/profile/gary...
It’s a distraction technique. Hey don’t look over here at the yawning inequality the system we want to continue is creating. Don’t look over here at your deteriorating public services and standard of living. Look over there at those folks - undocumented migrants - they’re the reason you’re poorer.
The EU needs to get a grip and lead on social media regulation. Otherwise social media is coming for the EU. What’s obvious is that if social media companies want algorithmic control of the feed, then they exert editorial control on content, and should be treated and regulated as publishers.
It’s really simple. If social media companies want algorithmic control over the feed they become publishers and should be regulated as such.
Wishful take sadly. Realpolitik applies.
Thank you for this. Excellent
They can start by regulating social media companies as publishers if they force an algorithmic feed onto users by default.
Social media desperately needs regulating. They are publishers the moment they decide what appears on your feed. And should be regulated as publishers. It’s astonishing they’re still largely unregulated by federal authorities around the globe.
Rather than criticising actual ‘tyrants’ in Russia and China he’s fixated on democratically elected leaders in Germany and the UK.
Just a fox on a roof in central London tonight.
The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.
It would only work if stamp duty was abolished obviously - which is a dreadful tax in almost every respect. The tax should be paid by the seller who typically has the funds, so CGT would be appropriate (like in most other countries!). It will take a brave government to do it.
Absurd that an individual has the power to override the justice system. Whataboutism doesn’t justify Biden’s actions.
Haha. Yes one of mine has made it clear no bird friends are allowed.
What a creep he is
All bluster. Mutually assured destruction stops the red button being pressed. Changing some wording on a doctrine won’t change that.
Comparing apples and oranges. Not wanting to wallow in a toxic soup of bots, misinformation and hate is a perfectly acceptable response. Leave X to rot. Too many X users are still caught in the sunk cost fallacy which is how they justify saying.
At least the neck beard had a shave. Small mercies.