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>> It's been like what, only two weeks? This shit is exhausting already. > It's meant to exhaust you. * https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/18862470346649
by throw0101c 2y ago
>> It's been like what, only two weeks? This shit is exhausting already.
> It's meant to exhaust you.
* https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1886247034664964548 https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1886247034664964548
Ezra Klein:
> That is the tension at the heart of Trump’s whole strategy: Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him. […]
> What Trump wants you to see in all this activity is command. What is really in all this activity is chaos. They do not have some secret reservoir of focus and attention the rest of us do not. They have convinced themselves that speed and force is a strategy unto itself — that it is, in a sense, a replacement for a real strategy. Don’t believe them.
* https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-trump-column-read.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...
- trimethylpurine 2y agoThese quotes and articles are awful. Both sides are so insanely annoying to me. The media has gotten completely out of touch with reality and with people.
- okeuro49 2y ago[flagged]
- bende511 2y agoyou already had Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. what more immiseration could you really be hoping for
- okeuro49 2y agoThey're nothing like Trump? You should research what happened to Liz Truss.
- wesselbindt 2y agoSince you're asking, yes they are. Johnson is a right wing populist, and Liz Truss recently spoke at a far right conference, complaining about the deep state thwarting her plan. They're Trump without the funny accent.
- dboreham 2y agoParent is probably noting that neither is now in office, in part or whole due to their stupidity and criminality.
- meheleventyone 2y agoThe guys a fan of Tommy Robinson (at least from a glance over his post history) so y'know they probably weren't extreme enough.
- bende511 2y ago[flagged]
- bloopernova 2y agoWhat sort of opinions?
- okeuro49 2y agoHave a look at Free Speech Union UK for some examples.
- bloopernova 2y agoWhy not just paste some and link to their source?
- kaimac 2y agoThese days if you say you're English you'll be arrested and thrown in jail
- xnorswap 2y agoThese days, if you say you're English, you get arrested and thrown in jail. ( - Stewart Lee's taxi driver, over a decade ago. )
- wesselbindt 2y agoThis happens in the US too [1,2,3]. In fact, regarding freedom of the press, they rank 55th in the world, well behind the UK, which ranks 23rd [4]. And if you think Trump is anything but the standard neoliberal order accelerated, I've got a bridge to sell you. For example look at the Laken Riley act. A blatant and complete teardown of judicial order (punishment for being _suspected_ of crimes), and 58 democrats helped pass it. Trump is par for the course, he's just a bit rude about it. [1] https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/10/texas-ut-lecturer-arrested-fired-palestinian-demonstration/ https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/10/texas-ut-lecturer-ar... [2] https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240425-more-than-100-arrested-at-us-university-pro-palestinian-protests https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240425-more-than-100... [3] https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892277592/federal-officers-use-unmarked-vehicles-to-grab-protesters-in-portland https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892277592/federal-officers-us... [4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Press_Freedom_Index https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Press_Freedom_Index
- okeuro49 2y agoI'm comparing the UK with ten years ago.
- philk10 2y agoThatcher was bad enough as was Boris and you want worse than them?