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I think either a Russian troll or AI would have good spelling. I think it's just someone trying to join the conversation.

Not enough fluoride for your teeth Spacey...

If you look at the various threads about Trump and the US political situation you'll see that there's already quite a lot of discussion about the factors that led to the rise of Trump. You had a bad experience on this site with your first thread Asymeo, but we're not fixated on Chinese bots.

Then which miserly woman gave him 3 cents??

Unlikely. Payment of sums that large are usually by bank transfer.

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Honey

The surfing event amused me. Apparently the French guy was quickest out to the waves and caught pretty much the only good one of the day. The Aussie competitor sat on his board and waited for a good set that never came. In the end his time ran out. How is that a fair competition? It's like doing the parallel bars but only giving both bars to one competitor.

They didn't have "true crime" TV shows, dash cams, mobile phones, doorbell cams, IR cams on choppers, the Internet, social media, and a 24 hour frenetic news service when you were growing up Red. Just because you see it more now, doesn't mean it's happening more

Head of the IOC in Australia refuted those claims on radio today. Selection panel was 9 independent judges from overseas.

If 85% of sugar is exported, an Australian sugar tax won't hurt them.

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Moon. Has 2 O's and CONUNDRUM only has 1.

If she's been drinking up to 19 cans a day of anything for 20+ years it'd have bad effects. Regular coke probably would have given her obesity, diabetes and tooth decay in that time.

Rupert is the new Goebbels.

Supported by billionaires, Russia, conspiracy theorists and the religious, in a land where most people are at least nominally religious, in a time where attention spans have decreased and more people trust news from social media (which is owned by said billionaires, heavily trolled by foreign actors and has weighted algorithms skewed to support Trump) than fact-checked reporting. The Democrats face an uphill battle, I just hope that enough sane people in the US can be bothered to get off their arses in November and do the right thing.

Quote was right, just expand it and the question is at the bottom.

Orange

Smoking rates have massively decreased. Yes some people are still buying them but VERY few compared to previous decades. Putting a price signal on harmful products does actually work. If a slab of Coke cost $100 instead of $25, a lot of people would look at alternatives.

I'm halfway through reading "QANON and on (A short and shocking history of internet conspiracy cults)" by Van Badham. (A good find at our street library!) It's absolutely shocking reading the history of QANON and what their followers believe. There are literally hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people in the US who actually believe that celebrities and Democrats rape, slaughter and eat children, and that Trump is a god-like figure who is cunningly fighting to bring those people down. Their view of him is that he's playing 3D chess against opponents playing 2D chess. They think every lie he says is absolute truth, when he's proven to be wrong then it's fake news (or a cunning ploy of the Donald). They see it as their duty to harass, threaten and in some cases even kill members of this evil cabal (ie normal people). Yes most are just sad and lonely keyboard warriors wasting their lives and gullibly falling for anything the Russians dangle in front of them, but if even 1% were motivated to actually take up weapons then it'd be an ugly situation. What's worse is that this cult has gone worldwide, and there's true believers in pretty much every country - we're not exempt. Kamala HAS to win this election - the alternative is terrifying.

Yeah I was reading about the Trump/Musk fiasco. The Guardian has a good opinion piece on it - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/13/donald-trump-elon-musk-x-twitter-politician-tech I like the description they have of the event... "...a tech boss being unable to organise a tech event on a tech platform feels like a new industry standard: the brewery’s head of piss-ups being unable to launch a piss-up in his brewery."

Couldn't you just let her sit in the passenger seat like anyone else?

Needless

Trapped rats can lash out.

Circle of trust