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Her and Mouat the model of efficiency here. Rolling them in, making no mistakes and waiting for the error from the other team.

People often live in a vacuum, so they think that events happen in a vacuum as well. As you say, this is deeply erroneous given how interconnected the works in fact is.

Standard. Deflect, deny, gaslight. Never accept fault or fallibility. The part of the world that would like to actually see human civilisation continue can only hope that all of these things will, eventually, add up enough to remove the man, and everyone who thinks like him, from any kind of power.

Well, yes. that's certainly one word to describe it right now.

Personally I never knew why they view the storage temperature of certain types of fruit to be so important.

As per above, we'd exist at least one, hopefully more.

Yeah, it's just "people holding a different political opinion" apparently.

I wish I could say I was surprised. This is who the man, and those who support him, have always been. Other people have given them leeway because of supposed "legitimate concerns" for too long. See them for who they are. They are saying it loudly enough and have always been.

I understand this. It can be both a motivator and a paralytic.

Looks like Stokes has copped a really nasty one in practice, if his social media is any judge. That or he's been pissing off the other kind of bouncers again

And yet the rates of violent crime over the past few years, as well as decades are either stabilised or dropping. I think social media has a certain part to play in inflating the level of the statistical threat, there. NB. What exactly does "decline of the demographic of the country" mean, here? Curious as to the context.

No disagreement there, but there does appear to be a difference in the brazenness and the number of the lies from the current US administration compared to others, election year or not.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdx41r62601o Vance is such a deceitful reptile. Embodies the "smart" part of his voter base.

I've never really understood the "oh, he's just talking shit" argument re Trump, especially given the way things have panned out. When someone tells you who they are, believe them, and take them seriously. Especially when they have the power to back up anything they say. With respect to this particular thing, it doesn't surprise me. The only question will be how far things will be pushed. I do think that this is one matter that could generate enough pushback to result in a huge amount of civil unrest, though.

We can only hope that this, along with the ICE thuggery, will have an effect on the midterms in November. Another hope is that those midterms will be totally free and fair.

Which, as you say and must be emphasised, is a big problem in of itself.

Put him in Gen Pop, reasonably sure he'll only leave one way then.

Farage, Starmer, Badenoch and even Davey have been mentioned in them, from discovery so far. So was Corbyn and the Reform UK treasurer, apparently. As such, I think it's a dangerous game for anyone to be even inferring cleaner hands at the present time, even though it appears very clear that getting Mandelson involved in government was a massive error for many reasons.

To add to the above, appointing Mandelson in order to schmooze with the sociopaths currently in charge across the pond was as clumsy as it was stupid and there should be repercussions for that even without all this additional filth.

A question that might also be asked of those (perhaps justifiably) offering a large amount of criticism of Starmer at the present time, considering (in most but not all cases) this matter appears to name names from across the political spectrum. Mandelson is clearly filthy, and it's entirely possible Starmer may pay for it, and for acting in spite of the due diligence that showed such filth, with his own position. But let's not ignore the omnidirectional hypocrisy occurring on this matter.

On the balance of things, probably more likely. The whole debate around jury nullification and the right of juries to apply it is very complicated.

I reckon that's about spot on, sadly. By far the biggest force multiplier for any individual negative (or positive) sentiment in all of history.

Think it makes more sense when is known that these people genuinely, honestly, don't think they're beclowning themselves. They really think what they say is truthful. That's where the decay in the very idea of truth, or at least the means to spread such decay, has gotten us today.

Sadly I think it's been shown multiple times that the UK regulator in such matters is about as useful as a chocolate fireguard. Apparently freedom of expression includes the freedom to lie, deceive and manipulate for your own ends in a manner that would make Sauron himself take notes.

Would hope for at least one medal in the curling and one or two elsewhere for Team GB.