Time on my hands to challenge random crap I find, in a futile effort to make at least a few parrots think before they squawk

Joined January 2017
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Chocolate Persian retweeted
🇺🇸 The United States has reached a point where nothing is sacred anymore. Not the protection of children. Not public health. Not truth. Everything is processed through the same machine: us versus them. The United States now lives in two parallel realities. During Trump’s campaign, people weaponized the idea that Biden was “in the Epstein files.” Before that, Bill Clinton was the political piñata of the same story. The pattern is the point. It is not about whether a name is mentioned. It is about how the mention is used. Not to protect citizens, not to clarify facts, not to build accountability, but to score points. When child abuse is processed like campaign material, the moral floor is gone. The pandemic revealed the core disorder. The U.S. could not treat a virus as a virus. It had to treat it as a referendum on identity. Vaccination became a costume. Masks became a flag. Basic epidemiology became a culture war. People were not arguing about risk. They were defending identities. This logic does not stop at culture wars. It spreads into concrete, steel, and electricity. Roads are not rebuilt because a win would belong to the other side. Bridges collapse while committees argue about messaging. Schools rot because fixing them might validate a rival governor. Airports feel like relics. Rail is a joke. Water systems leak. The power grid is decades past its intended lifespan. Blackouts are normalized. Wildfires burn through outdated infrastructure. Floods overwhelm systems designed for a climate that no longer exists. Nothing moves, because movement would imply agreement. The country that put humans on the moon cannot maintain a stable electrical grid. The nation that built the interstate highway system cannot repair its own roads. The place that once executed moon landings, mass vaccination campaigns, and continental scale engineering projects now cannot agree that children should be protected from abuse without checking which party benefits from saying so. This is what a frozen superpower looks like. The two party system has turned governance into permanent opposition. Every solution is framed as surrender. Every improvement is treated as propaganda. Progress itself becomes suspicious, because if something works, it must belong to them. So the country drifts. Living on achievements from the mid 20th century. Airports from the 70s. Power lines from the 40s. Schools built for a different economy, a different century, a different social contract. And while the physical world decays, the political class debates symbols, scandals, and loyalty tests. Reality becomes optional. A society like this does not collapse in a single dramatic moment. It erodes. It stalls. It forgets how to do big things together. It forgets that some problems are not ideological. They are human. When everything is politics, nothing gets built. And when nothing gets built, the future quietly cancels itself. Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1
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Personal platform click exploitation or organised propaganda are the key drivers of most of the output. Those who think X is the new media are deluded. MSM has bias and shortcomings, but journalism underpins output, not personal gain.
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It’s MSM’s job to “make sense” of prioritise a huge range of event and issues that readers and watchers should be exposed to. On X, algorithms carry out this function. Ever wonder why major breaking world stories are invisible, replace by threads of outrage?
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This post and its replies completely miss the point that US taxpayers, through dairy farm subsidies, are subsidising US consumer prices. 10 mins of research would have told you that. Dumping is largely irrelevant.
The dairy cartel can dump up to 1 billion liters of milk a year in order to “manage” supply. It keeps prices of dairy products much higher than the U.S. With 2 million Canadians each month needing access to food banks, this system is hard to defend.
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I’ve just been blocked for the first time based on a single comment that pointed out that rich people leaving the uk was probably not driven by migrants allegedly grabbing housing head of them. Apparently I’m a lefty and deserved to be blocked from the font of wisdom. Jesus wept
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@quackerstich You excel at stereotypes! Thoughtful comments, not so much.
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Chocolate Persian retweeted
🧵 Debunking the “immigrants commit more sex crimes” bullshit. A viral chart claims Afghan men are 20x more likely to commit sex offences than white British men. The bots are out in force so disproving the far right Ballymena bullshit is vital. Let’s dismantle it 👇🏼
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Experiment. I’ve posted a pile of ripostes challenging made up shit with no engagement from the fraudsters. Guess I need to pay up to get noticed. Sadly free speech isn’t free. As Elon says, you are the media now. Don’t let facts get in your way.
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