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The UK has been badly managed for as long as I've been alive, which is half a century.

This isn't party political. The tories have been worse than Labour in many respects but it's a shit show all round imo.

Royal Dutch Shell for the win!

"Labour struggling to get handle on Goa'uld immigration"

[Daily Mail]

This is coming from someone that voted in an authoritarian regime isn't it. Irony is very ironic.

Let me guess, it was Alex Jones.

Did he fall out of a window?

"Alex Jones"

Lol.

Sure, but a lot of them have essentially been programmed.

Antivax is a strategy, not a serious point of view.

You didn't address my point.

Which is unsurprising.

Democracy cannot survive unless we find a way to ensure we know when are listening to the people that are part of our demos and NOT people that are outside of it, actively trying to destroy it.

We had freedom of speech in the west before the Internet. That speech was not anonymous.

And equally, we in the west are so used to genuine free expression of ideas we assume everyone who speaks is real and genuine. Meanwhile, outside actors are weaponising social media to divide us, errode trust and spread conspiracies. There are worse things that banning American media platforms - look at what they are doing to America.