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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 1h

Did they even empty the building before demolishing it?

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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, but the question is "How?"

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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 2h

Because the 3 'co-equal branches' have all been captured by the same entity - the former Republican Party - and are thus all working together to destroy America.

Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 2h

Agree with this.
I've seen it in a totally different arena: fans of a TV show - a drama - who wanted to it turned into a soap so that they could watch the romance between their couple on the show, rather than just hints that their imaginations could run with.

Most fans just wanted their drama show.

Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 12h

I thought women are "too emotional", of course incels have never actually met a woman though, have they.

Sigh.

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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 12h

I get that, but you protest immigration if it affects - or think it affects - your world. If you are going to then move someplace else, it makes the protesting pointless.

I imagine some people would be upset & want to move on, but I doubt they are the ones actually protesting, in the main.

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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 15h

Yup.

I still don't get why anyone thinks those protesting immigration would want to emigrate somewhere themselves, though.

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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 16h

Millions of FOREIGN randos...

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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 16h

I thought that both the Clintons had visited Epstein Island.

There are going to be a lot of high profile names linked with him, who are guilty of nothing more than poor judgement in whom they associated with, because that helped him.

But every person he associated with should be investigated.

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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 17h

I'm fully modernising a property at the moment.

Whilst I've had to knock a few holes into the walls here & there, I haven't DEMOLISHED anything...

Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 23h

Whatever makes you happy.

Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 1d

I'm still on twitter because most of the non-political things I follow haven't moved here. 🤷‍♂️

Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans are tourism repellant.

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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently.

Sigh.

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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 1d

No, I think it is "garbage in, garbage out".
We heard a lot about these AI companies scraping the web to train their models.

That is hardly a curated data set of the sum of all human knowledge. Whilst there is a lot of knowledge on the web, there is also the sum of human mistakes, many times over.

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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 1d

Aside from: why would far-right anti-immigrant protesters want to leave the country that they are protesting in?

So Rs are now openly advocating what they claim Ds are doing - encourage immigration of any sort so that they will vote for them...

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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 2d

I think I see your mistake here: these aren't trained professionals who know the law, or what they are doing, they are overgrown bullies running around scaring & hurting people for their own enjoyment. Endorsed by criminals in power.

If they're changing plates it's because they think it's cool!

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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 2d

The BBC, in particular, seem to be treating Trump as a slightly eccentric but otherwise normal President.

That isn't the case, he's a threat to America - which he is trying to destroy for his own ends - and as a consequence he is a threat to the entire world.

There is nothing remotely normal here.

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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 2d

I appreciate that, I just don't think that I've ever felt that EVERY party has come up with a deal-breaker top-level policy that I definitely won't vote for, previously.

And I've held my nose a few times & voted for parties I'm not totally happy with.

We live in interesting times...

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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 2d

I vote anyway, I'm content that my vote is counted, even if it isn't decisive.

Although all parties seem to be working hard to come up with policies that I REALLY don't want to vote for...

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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, Ted, is the evidence in the Epstein files?

Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 3d

That seems fair enough if everyone was peaceful.

Deliberately silencing the Trump supporters is as much against the US Constitution as deliberately silencing those against him.

I like the ratio there, though.

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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 3d

It puzzles me the way the BBC reports on Trump - they treat him & his regime just like any other US President, when that is clearly not the case here.

At the very least they could be pointing out that it very much looks as if he is keen to become a dictator in charge of America.

Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 3d

I live in an area that elected blue, so my vote wasn't a decisive one.

Recently it changed colour by quite a wide margin, so again my vote didn't really count. 🤷‍♂️

But at least I don't feel that the ward was 'designed' to vote a certain way.

In the UK we seem more inclined to kick our politicians!

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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 3d

As far as I understand it, in the UK we (mostly) don't look at who we are putting in a ward.

I hadn't really appreciated until this year that we try to make each ward contain roughly the same number of people.

Boundaries are generally sensible geographic ones rather than picking who is in a ward.

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