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Oct 8 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
Question for ChatGPT:
The economic policies of fascism have historically benefited the economic elites. So how did the political elites of fascism managed to get the votes of the poor?
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Answer from ChatGPT:
"Fascist movements gained support from the poor and working-class by appealing to various factors beyond just economic interests. Here's how they managed to garner their votes:
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Jul 17 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Q: How an idiot like Trump can deceive so many people and acquire so much power?
A: He hasn't. Trump is just the figurehead. Behind him there's a coalition of American and Russian oligarchs helped by Russian intel and mafia.
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LGBTI+ issues targeted with a "divide-and-rule" attack by Russian intelligence.
A 2021 report by the EU:
"Based on a systematic review of 11 countries' secret service reports, the Russian government is repeatedly identified as the main
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as the main foreign actor (...) The West and Europe is consequently targeted using a divide-and-rule approach, where identifying and exploiting divisive social issues is a core strategy. Equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people (LGBTI+) appear
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Apr 19, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Listen people,
Defeating Putin is absolut priority.
Focus please.
If Putin falls *all* his puppets around the world will wither.
Always strike the snake's head, not its tail.
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Pledges of military equipment to Ukraine:
US £2.5 billion
UK £450 million
Estonia £166 million
Lithuania £166 million
Germany £154 million
France £83 million
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The claims about the Labour leader’s meeting with a Czechoslovakian agent are rooted in the conflicted politics of the UK left in the 1980s – and in attitudes that persist today"
Listen people, Starmer can "make Brexit work" by keeping alignment with EU regulations, such as environmental, labour and consumer regs.
This will facilitate trade with the EU, perhaps rejoining the SM, CU, and a possible future rejoining.
He knows what he's doing.
Besides, Starmer is our best and only choice.
And if we're lucky a hung parliament could allow the Greens and LibDems to condition support to PR.
Jan 11, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Let's see how BBC One's News at Six will cover the news about yet another Downing Street party during lockdown, this time with invitations via email, for a hundred people, booze, etc.
Surprising BBC's News at Six is doing a very good job. It opened on it, and now, at 6:09PM, it is still at it.
Jan 2, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The Blair government was the best government of my lifetime.
And by far.
And I'm very old.
Many replies re Iraq.
The war itself was very short and with few casualties. The chaos happened much later caused by America's/D.Rumsfeld's criminally disastrous post war.
Successes in Bosnia & Sierra Leone.
And Syria is the countercase - no intervention, much worse than Iraq.
Dec 26, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Stanley Johnson
(Boris' father)
A whole life obsessed with "overpopulation".
A little thread.
1973 👇
Up to 2018
In the Daily Express, of all papers:
"We need to limit UK population growth to protect the environment, Stanley Johnson demands"
"Pupils at a Kent secondary school have been removed from lessons and given detentions for wearing face masks in class.
Youngsters at the Abbey School in Faversham have been covering up to protect vulnerable relatives as Covid cases soar across the town.
kentonline.co.uk/faversham/news…
Another parent, Karly May, 32, says her son has chosen to wear a face mask to protect a terminally ill grandparent and his nine-year-old sister, who has chronic lung disease and a weak immune system.
Albie May, 15, has been put in isolation and given after-school detentions"
Oct 14, 2021 • 21 tweets • 5 min read
Links between Brexit/Trump/Boris Johnson and the 2011 warning from then FBI director Robert Mueller about:
"The Evolving Organized Crime Threat"
"(...) the playing field has changed. We have seen a shift from regional families with a clear structure, to flat, fluid...
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networks with global reach. These international enterprises are more anonymous and more sophisticated. Rather than running discrete operations, on their own turf, they are running multi-national, multi-billion dollar schemes from start to finish.
We are investigating...
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Sep 27, 2021 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
Only 106k people watched this speech. It deserves much more, it's just 1min 47secs, watch it now, it's one of the best speechless ever about Brexit.
By Mr David Lammy, British Member of Parliament, re. Brexit, from a few years ago
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108k now. Not bad!
Thank you peeps 😍 😊 🙏 💙
Now, is it too much to dream to take it to a million within a week? 🙂
Sep 18, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Long Covid:
"After three months, my sense of smell did come back, but in a distorted form. I developed parosmia, a condition where your olfactory sensors fail to translate smells in the correct way.
I began to smell the most putrid smell – a mix of sewage, burn and... 👇
chemicals – and gradually realised my brain was translating the scent of some trees and flowers, eggs, coffee, onion and garlic into it.
This – more than the loss of scent – has been incredibly debilitating. I feel so overwhelmed by how horrendous this scent is that at... 👇
Sep 16, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
11.7 million UK school children are being infected forcibly.
Cornwall will get £3million from the Gov to replace the £100m it would get from the EU
falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/19571108.…
Prior to Brexit Cornwall had qualified for funding from the EU due to it being recognised as one of the poorest regions in Europe.
(...) receiving £100m a year for economic stimulus / projects for employment and skills to infrastructure.
Sep 5, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
We need to investigate Nick Triggle
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Aug 15, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
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☀️June 4 2021☀️
Both UK independent medical/scientific/drugs regulators approve the Pfizer Covid vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority (MHRA) and the independent Commission on Human Medicines (CHM) said they had...👇
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weighed the evidence of trials in children and found the Pfizer vaccine is safe and effective. It has already been approved for use in children aged 12 to 15 in the US.
“We have carefully reviewed clinical trial data in children aged 12 to 15 years and have concluded... 👇
Aug 13, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Due to the circulating and highly contagious ☀️Delta☀️ variant, CDC recommends universal indoor masking by all students (☀️age 2☀️ and older), staff, teachers, and visitors to K-12 schools, regardless of vaccination status.
cdc.gov/coronavirus/20…
Whilst here in the UK scientists that criticise our government reckless, irrational, and callous policies towards our children are unfairly attacked.
This is a wonderful thread about it, please read and RT 👇
