Here's one take on the current Twitter situation (video is nine minutes long):
"This guy [in the video] wins todays internet award for correctly analyzing all the factors in Twitters lockdown.
The intelligence community built a "Censorship Deathstar" by scrapping everyone’s data and Elon just threw a fat monkey wrench into the whole machine."
[Telegraph] For Remainers, the EU has always been a bastion of grown-uppery: grown-up policies, grown-up attitudes and grown-up attitude towards humane, collective action. Writers make pilgrimages to Brussels, Berlin and Paris to report back in glowing terms on how the grown-ups do it, making unfavourable comparisons to horrible infantile Britain, with its poor impulse control and malfunctioning economy.
The last week has provided a potent reminder of how misplaced this veneration of the EU’s heavy hitters is. Before we get to Germany, let us begin with France, which is, once again, in the grips of an apocalyptic rioting spree. Streets are literally aflame following the police shooting of a 17-year-old boy. Although rioting, mass disruption and thuggish violence occur with comparative regularity in France — the sinister mob of gilets jaunes and recent protests against Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms provide just two examples — these appear to be the worst in 18 years.
In France, this means public buildings burnt, over a thousand arrests, fireworks galore, looting and arson attacks on schools, town halls and police stations across the country. Imagine something on even a fraction of that scale occurring now in Britain. Precisely. You can’t.
And surprise, surprise, Macron — the Remainiac posterboy — appears once again to have precisely zero control over his country. He has been urged to declare a state of emergency, and he has called the violence "unjustifiable". That’s all very well. But the underlying tensions between French police and its ghettoised minorities Moslem colonists show no signs of improving. Macron is presiding over a society coming dramatically unstuck.
Yet until last week, reading the outpourings of die-hard Remainers you’d have thought Europeans had never had it better. You could easily find rhapsodies about how, freed from Britain’s toddler tantrums, the EU had been able to forge ahead and "deepen" its partnerships and develop greater geopolitical clout.
One has to laugh. Greater geopolitical clout without Britain? Leaving aside America, it was Britain and Britain alone that gave Volodymyr Zelensky prompt and forceful assistance, all while Europe, seemingly held back by pacifist Germany, made pointless gestures as Putin’s bombs rained down on Kyiv.
#2
"the sinister mob of gilets jaunes"
All populists are a sinister mob, don't you know? Uppity peons, why, in the 1790s look what they did in France? Or *shudder* in the time after the Great War in Italy and ...Good Heavens! They must be Nazis!!!!11!!! (/sarc)
#3
Yes, and us Yanks are the most unruly yokels of all.
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Indeed, @#2. "Populism" is code for the likes of Trump, Orban, Meloni, all MAGA (or country equivalent) types which must be crushed.
The Fauci Flu measures conveniently put pretty much a stop to the Yellow Vest "mob". And to think it pretty much all [peacefully] originated from rural residents who were quite ticked off at higher fuel prices who don't have the benefit of a urban transportation system and rely on their cars and tractors.
But, Macron got reelected, so they must really like him there in la belle France, right? lol
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[RIA] In fact, mocking the manifestations of Joe Biden's ill health is, as it were, a bad form, including because there is no need to look for reasons for giggling for a long time. Therefore, let's show respectful seriousness to the episode that happened at the fundraising event for the election campaign.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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