History has taught us that democracies can fail. The democratic process and tolerance alone cannot shield us against a determined, numerous, intolerant adversary. No free, liberal, democratic society can be neutral on the question of its own survival.
@TheGMcConnachie
Stewart Lee’s act is basically one long narcissistic sneer, repeated slowly over and over and over and over, to appeal to an audience of sneering narcissists. There are troll bots on X with more imagination.
@abierkhatib
@daemonscaraxes
Don’t worry.
Four hostages freed and reunited with their families.
Hundreds of eager martyrs enjoying their 72 virgins.
Everyone’s a winner!
@jordanbpeterson
AI will be able to detect deepfakes effectively, though we need the political will / financial incentives to create and roll out such tools.
A verified archive of original footage and audio for automated crosschecking and flagging would be a simpler, more immediate solution.
@ellebeecher
@Serena_Partrick
They’re not going to feel any less socially awkward after you’ve hugged them.
All you’ve done is flirted with them and created a false impression of emotional connection, putting yourself and other women at risk.
@DieselDave12345
True. I was chatting to a retired farmer yesterday as he was trimming back overgrown trees that were encroaching on the road. Council land, council responsibly, but they haven’t been doing it so he went out and did it himself.
@AaronBastani
Like BLM did? Or Antifa? Or the London riots where a bunch of entitled thugs rioted over the death of a gangster on his way to murder someone?
@MrEwanMorrison
It’s much easier to make “ok” music these days due to technology and simpler public taste, so far fewer pursue their art to greatness, and less great music.
@jk_rowling
@lnmackenzie1
@bindelj
@HotchkissRhona
The woke cult really is a fascinating study in narcissism and psychological projection. We use fairy tales to teach children to be wary of predators, human or otherwise, but I wonder if we need new stories to inoculate them against this darker, more insidious threat.
In the first video, you will see a locomotive carrying children and women. It was part of a large convoy of civilians who began heading towards southern Gaza on the instructions of the Israeli occupation army, which promised a safe path for them to cross.
In the second video,
@BurnsideNotTosh
With satnav, driver and safety “aids”, Bluetooth connections, CarPlay, etc, modern cars require an aircraft style checklist just to set things up before you set off.
@someguynamedre
@profdws
Check your facts. This is the specific lynch mob “welcome” he tried to incite elsewhere. People are commencing long prison sentences right now for far less.
Muslims within the Republic of Dagestan in Southwestern Russia are currently Storming the International Airport in the Region in order to reportedly “Kill Israelis and Jews” after Rumors began that an Israeli Aircraft was preparing to land at the Airport; this has been going in
@Larkabroad
@SameDayCoventry
@metpoliceuk
She’s not being investigated for drawing a flag but for a hate crime, which, if convicted, and if she’s here on a visa, is grounds for deportation, under the Immigration Act 1971.
@Michael_Yon
If shutter is 1/8000 of a second ,and the blur is around 9 inches, that’s a bullet speed of around 6000 fps at 150 yards. Also the drop angle at that point looks to be around 3-3.5 degrees when you level the photo to the bottom of the lecturn sign. Does that sound reasonable?
An excellent breakdown of modern Russian propaganda techniques, and how it works on a different, deeper level than most people realise. Examples around the Belarusian election protests and Russian's interference in Western democracy.
@FXMC1957
She’s also responsible for the restoration of our canal network by including it as part of our transport infrastructure when she was transport secretary.
@JamesCantorPhD
You're wrong James. AGF is a fetish, and even if it weren't, it wouldn't give him special privileges when it comes to choosing where and with whom to indulge that "atypical sexuality" . There's this little thing called "consent" which you seem to be overlooking.
Muslims within the Republic of Dagestan in Southwestern Russia are currently Storming the International Airport in the Region in order to reportedly “Kill Israelis and Jews” after Rumors began that an Israeli Aircraft was preparing to land at the Airport; this has been going in
@labourlewis
Imagine you were a US politician, who declared, during your oath to uphold the constitution, that you did so under protest, and looked forward to the day it was scrapped, would the inevitable outrage be “confected” too?
@PaulKitchenMan
@MikeB2023
Workplace is obviously some distance beyond the edge of the ULEZ. The 2 miles is presumably just the portion of the journey within the ULEZ.
@DavidLammy
Reminds me of the Earl of Halifax, writing to fellow appeaser and prime minister, Neville Chamberlain:
“Unless I am wholly deceived… Hitler was sincere when he said he did not want war.”
Muslims within the Republic of Dagestan in Southwestern Russia are currently Storming the International Airport in the Region in order to reportedly “Kill Israelis and Jews” after Rumors began that an Israeli Aircraft was preparing to land at the Airport; this has been going in
@intel_jakal
@cogatonline
@UN
Those are questions for the UN to answer, but if they were being prevented from accessing all that aid by the IDF, it would be global front page news.
@mrssomerset
@ellebeecher
@Serena_Partrick
My point exactly. The vast majority of men won’t take it as flirting, but if you can’t identify the dangerous ones who will, surely it’s better to play it safe. Pathological altruism and unmerited “kindness” can easily get you into trouble.
A great children's book ( for age 8-12 ish ) I read as child, set in Nazi occupied Poland, that might help parents give their children a sense of what's going on in Ukraine in an age appropriate way.
@Nielslein
@Osinttechnical
If you look closely, you’ll see the “flash” creates no highlights or shadows on the bridge or vehicles, and appears more like the application of a gradient to the footage using the photoshop “screen” layering function. This is consistent with an electro-magnetic effect from the
@Beardyface4
@jordanbpeterson
@nytimes
Exactly. You make a good point regarding the woke abuse of the passive tense. e.g "marginalised". It's a key part of their strategy. Everything has to be framed as something that is "done to them" rather than the result of their own choices.
@alzheimerssoc
@BinkyBrewer
You meant well, but the result was awful.
This kind of horror story approach is fine for anti drink-driving or smoking ads where the whole point is to terrify the viewer into changing their behaviour, but not when the sufferer and their family can do absolutely nothing to about
@HamWa07
It’s water vapour briefly condensing and becoming visible like clouds under the high pressure of the shock front, and then re-evaporating in the low pressure trough immediately behind it.
@NiliSaar72_2
Of course. It’s how we learn from past mistakes. What I do find fascinating are the various AI translated speeches you can find on YouTube these days. I don’t speak German so I’ve only ever heard Hitler’s speeches as meaningless angry ranting, but when you hear them in English,
@stem_feed
They all require the same force to push. Anything greater than 0 Newtons.
If you’re interested in actually moving the things, that’s a whole other question.
@SpeechUnion
Legal protection is useless when we don’t have physical protection because our leaders haven’t got the guts to do what they have to do to remove the threat.
@ClarkeMicah
Russia has regularly paraded Ukrainian POWs in this way, They have also tortured them, starved them and denied them medical care and contact with humanitarian organisations. It has variously been condemned, denied or ignored by commentators depending on allegiances.
@NiliSaar72
Well worth a read . You can skim most of it, but the section near the end about principles underlying our response is very good, and I think can form the basis of conversation and policy about what we are prepared to tolerate in this country.
@RespectIsVital
@Figuregirl1977
You don’t want to be wrestling him if there’s a chance he, or the woman with him could grab your gun. The fact he tried to get up shows he wasn’t willing to comply. Therefore other methods of asserting dominance could reasonably come into play. Without seeing what lead up to
@RegReagan2
@NeilDotObrien
Calling for more politicians to be threatened to the point they resign in fear is encouraging terrorism. See section 1 of the Terrorism Act.
@metpoliceuk
Twitter's Community Notes is by far its best new feature. Fake news is tearing society apart, and for the first time we have a platform with crowd sourced fact-checking built right in.
These people came to this location because it has been spread that racists were coming to attack them. This misinformation was spread entirely to create this content. Don't spread it MR Tice!
@saikrishna_1993
@stats_feed
The 3 million who died in the famine were not part of the war effort. Indian military loses were less than a quarter of Britain’s alone.
Message to the men of Iran, from the Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi :-
“ This new round of marching mobs of the misogynist Islamic regime to the streets, to impose the mandatory hijab on Iranian women, shows the growing fear, helplessness, and fragility of this regime at both
دور جدید لشکرکشی اوباش رژیم زنستیز اسلامی به خیابانها برای تحمیل حجاب اجباری به زنان ایران، نشانگر هراس، درماندگی و شکنندگی روزافزون این رژیم در سطح داخلی و بینالمللی است. جمهوری اسلامی امروز، پس از تحریم سیرک انتخابات از سوی اکثریت ایرانیان، افتضاح موشکپراکنی ناموفق به