I understand that businesses can choose to advertise wherever they like. They can't be forced to advertise with a particular platform, just as they can't be forced to advertise on a particular TV channel or newspaper.
It is totalitarianism to force them
Lots of people think Musk is a good guy because he allows shitposting on X. He isn't. He wants an authoritarian state with himself in charge
Sueing companies to force them to advertise with you is weird. Companies are free to advertise with whoever they like
Looks like Musk flushing more money down the toilet
I can't see any knives or axes in that film clip. Just some fatties running away.
Why are people so gullible?
Those welfare payments aren't going to highly productive highly skilled liberals on the east and west coast
They are going to conservative voters in the middle. Until Conservative voters can stand on their own 2 feet and not depend on liberals for hand outs the US isn't going to change
How is 56 double 26?
Le Pen never got more than 30% of the vote in the first round, she was never favourite to win.
People get themselves over excited by stuff like this
The populist/authoritarian right are in retreat in lots of European countries: Spain, Poland, UK, France.
Spain, UK, Poland, now France. Populist right slipping back badly in lots of big European countries.
Not sure that is true at all?
The US economy is run by highly educated, highly skilled, highly productive liberals living in diverse communities on the east and west coast. They pay large amounts of taxes into the federal government
The federal government spends that money on poor, ill, unproductive communities, who mostly vote republican. The liberals subsidise conservatives.
If those big federal programmes really were scaled back, and the money used to cut taxes liberals would get a lot richer, and conservatives would get a lot poorer. That is why Republicans find it so hard to deliver on promises to cut back federal programmes or reform Obamacare. If they did it is their own voter base who would suffer the hardest
I realise that isn't something people want to hear, but if you want to change the liberal domination of America you need to understand that the economy, and the federal government is entirely dependent on them
I think most people don't see the big picture, just what is happening to their own finances and their family
But the sad truth is that Conservative states are struggling - dependent on federal funds, declining life expectancy, chronic il health. Until that changes the liberals will always have a huge advantage
I'm OK with the Amish, but Putin and his cronies are a menace to the world
I will let you know if I am in Crete any time soon, next stops for me are Ireland and Spain again
Inside the EU the UK had to compete with Germany and Holland for labour costs
Outside the EU the UK has to compete with Turkey and Albania for labour costs
The standard of living in the UK has fallen hugely in the UK since Brexit but the only way to get labour costs down fast enough is to import loads of cheap labour
This was always a feature of Brexit, not an accident
Andrew Bridgen is a nutcase
You do know that Orwell was very left wing?
That he fought with the Communist International Brigade against Franco in the Spanish Civil War?
If Orwell was alive today he wouldn't be a fan of MAGA?
Why don't people do the research?
Plenty of so-called patriots would be giving secrets to the Russians now if they had the chance
The election he has called is not a French Presidential election. Thats not due for a few years yet
Whatever happens in the current elections he has called doesn't effect the Presidency
It's like the difference between a Presidential election and a mid-term. All he has done is brought forward the mid terms in response to the European parliament elections
I think you might need to look at the economics again. Republican voting states are the most heavily dependent on federal funds. Democrat states are the biggest contributors towards federal funds
Once you understand that you understand why liberals come to dominate so much of american political and economic life
It is the golden rule. They have the gold. They make the rules
Once again the huge problem for Republican states is that they are massive financially dependent on Federal funding. Unless this changes and Red states learn to stand on their own 2 feet and stop their dependence on handouts all of this is just nonsense
What is this gibberish?
That still doesn't mean that Germany is going to pivot towards Russia
It's not going to happen? Russia is a Chinese puppet state with a fucked economy. Anyone forming an alliance with them is going to have to subsidise them economically. China is prepared to do that. Germany isn't
This is bonkers. Germany isn't going to pivot towards Russia.
This bloke is an idiot
That sounds an awful lot like a tantrum to me
Maybe your mum could give you a bit more juice, and you won't be so cranky
The chances of India and China sharing a currency are zero
The chances of anyone sharing a currency with Russia are zero - it's a basket case
Why do people get taken in by this?