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Written by dee_le_brun on 2024-11-12 at 07:18

Free speech in the Trump 2.0 era. People turn up at performance of Anne Frank's Diary with Nazi flags. The press refer to them a "demonstrators."

[#]trump #maga #uspol #nazis #annefrank

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/11/11/demonstrators-nazi-flags-appear-at-diary-of-anne-frank-performance-howell-michigan-american-legion/76194690007/

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Written by dee_le_brun on 2024-11-10 at 01:48

The Tony Blair Institute issues an encyclical on the fabulous AI future. AI will quickly displace three million UK jobs, but long-term losses will be “relatively modest” So that’s nice. The report is based on data generated by GPT-4 so ..

[#]ai #work #tonyblair #bullshit

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/08/tony-blair-institute-reports-on-ai-in-the-labor-market-using-numbers-they-made-up-with-gpt-4-again/

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Written by dee_le_brun on 2024-11-09 at 20:19

Interesting take on the US election - during COVID the population briefly got to experience social democracy and liked it. Rent controls, govt assistance and labour regulations all designed to support average people came into force. Despite the pandemic most people felt secure for the first time in their lives.These expired during Biden's term in office and for most people all they knew was that they were there under Trump and life got harder under Biden.

Trump will make things harder still....

[#]uspol #uselection #trump #socialdemocracy

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/09/trump-victory-explanation-scrutiny?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

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Written by dee_le_brun on 2024-11-09 at 00:57

Jon Stewart makes the important point that in these uncertain times, there is one thing that we can be absolutely certain about - that whatever the pundits say will be wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLiagIdA84c

[#]uselection #legacymedia #pundits #jonstewart

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Written by dee_le_brun on 2024-11-07 at 22:39

Neo-Nazi pulls off surprise win in KKK district.

From #theonion

[#]parody #humour #uspol #uselection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnZRVZce5Qs

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Written by dee_le_brun on 2024-11-07 at 04:11

Bernie Sanders rips the Democrats for ditching working people to simper to the financial markets.

[#]us2024 #berniesanders #uspol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5Ho7pjr0mo

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Written by dee_le_brun on 2024-11-06 at 06:09

I think a lesson from the #uselection is that political parties taking on populists have to go big and go progressive. The more of the same except by us approach is failing around the world.

[#]uspol #auspol #uselection2024 #trump #populism

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Written by dee_le_brun on 2024-11-06 at 06:04

3 things I find wild about the possibility of a second Trump Presidency:

1. Project 2025 - the gutting of Federal Govt staff and their replacement with Trump loyalists.

2. RFK being in control of US health agencies - promising to ban vaccines and fluoridation on day one.

3. The Supreme Court ruling the the President is not subject to law - so ordering the army to arrest or assassinate rivals, no problem, selling US secrets to a foreign power, fine ...

Then there's the thing about mass deportation of immigrants - make it four.

And he's getting crazier by the day ... that's five.

That's just off the top of my head.

[#]uspol #uselection2024 #trump #TrumpFascist

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Written by dee_le_brun on 2024-11-05 at 23:36

Bomb threats to Georgia polling places linked to Russia.

[#]uselection2024 #bombthreats #russia

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fake-bomb-threats-linked-russia-briefly-close-georgia-polling-locations-2024-11-05/

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Written by dee_le_brun on 2024-11-05 at 01:14

Far-right wing nut and former PM of Austalia, Tony Abbott, has been sacked as a Trade Advisor in the UK. He was brought on as an "anti-woke" troll by Boris Johnson and appears to have contributed virtually nothing except to be a walking FU to anyone who thinks government exists to improve the lives of citizens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZOvPfR_qHU

[#]tonyabbott #brexit #ukpolitics #trade #SovereignCitizensWingnuts

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Written by dee_le_brun on 2024-11-02 at 01:28

So, X (formerly Twitter) was supposed to be a bank and "the everything app" by now. In fact, Elon said that it would "blow his mind" if people weren't able to use it for their "entire financial life" by now. I wonder what happened?

[#]twitter #elonmusk #everythingapp #uspol #bullshit #fail #misinformation #maga

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/1/24285681/x-elon-musk-everything-app-bank-fail

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Written by dee_le_brun on 2024-10-30 at 08:46

Trump came to power promising to ban Muslims, accusing Obama of being a "secret Muslim" and supported the invasion of Iraq. To be fair he was deeply critical that they didn't "take the oil" while they were at it. Now he needs the Muslim vote he's singing a different tune.

[#]trump #islam #uspol #uselection2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRu3rCqmEd0

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Written by dee_le_brun on 2024-10-26 at 11:31

The final nail in the coffin of legacy media - Washington Post and LA Times simper to Trump on behalf of their billionaire owners - refuse to run endorsements of Harris even though Trump has spoken publically for arresting journalists and ending democracy.

Democracy dies in the dark, but you know, we really want those tax cuts for the rich.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/25/news-election-endorsements-washington-post-la-times

[#]latimes #WashingtonPost #legacymedia #trump #uselection2024

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Written by dee_le_brun on 2024-10-24 at 08:23

Talking with friends last night and the conversation turned to the US Election. One said "We're watching the decline of the Roman Empire."

[#]uspol #uselection2024 #romanempire

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Written by dee_le_brun on 2024-10-19 at 05:52

I did it. Twitter account deactivated. In 30 days it will be deleted completely.

Good riddance ...

[#]deletetwitter #twitter

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Written by dee_le_brun on 2024-10-18 at 23:55

Toying with the idea of deleting my X (formerly Twitter) account. It's been sitting there dormant since Elon announced that he's donating $47M a month to Trump.

What are the pros and cons?

Is there a danger of it getting hijacked by bots in the deactivation process?

Will it ever be worth going back to (I have around 1200 followers)?

Any thoughts welcome ...

[#]TwitterDelete #shouldIdeletetwitter #bots #datasecurity

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Written by dee_le_brun on 2024-10-18 at 10:42

The final phase of capitalism - the destruction of the population in the name of profit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8wWoQ3_F00

[#]latestagecapitalism #overwork #dystopia #DystopiaWatch

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Written by dee_le_brun on 2024-10-11 at 22:11

"Murdering meteorologists won’t stop hurricanes. I can’t believe I just had to type that.”

Meteorologists face death threats after the usual suspects, Trump, Musk and the US Republican Party, push conspiracies claiming that they secretly control the weather. All this is happening while deadly hurricanes approach the US coast.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/11/meteorologists-death-threats-hurricane-conspiracies-misinformation

[#]weather #hurricanes #hurricanemilton #conspiracytheories #trump #elonmusk #uspol

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Written by dee_le_brun on 2024-10-10 at 04:39

Sydney University has spent more hiring consultants to tell it how to remediate staff underpayments than it has spent remediating staff underpayments. Go figure, this is what happens when public institutions embrace neo-liberal ideology.

[#]sydneyuniversity #consultants #wagetheft #auspol

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/10/revealed-university-of-sydney-spent-millions-more-on-consultants-than-repaying-wages-of-casual-staff

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Written by dee_le_brun on 2024-10-06 at 06:52

The Guardian doing the if you don't unconditionally support Israel then you're anti-semitic thing. See, the story is not that Israel is killing children but that some people have referenced a stereotype when talking about them killing children which is unacceptable.

The writer doesn't give one example of someone actually using the term but instead lashes out at coverage of war crimes, presumably they shouldn't be covered. He also questions the notion that Israel is killing children - he actually says how could they deliberately do that? They're just killing anyone if there are children included that's just their bad luck. So there.

The Guardian is the last legacy media I subscribe to and they're pushing it...

[#]gaza #israel #warcrimes #antisemitism #guadian

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