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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 3m

Whatever makes you happy.

Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 4h

I'm still on twitter because most of the non-political things I follow haven't moved here. 🤷‍♂️

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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 14h

Republicans are tourism repellant.

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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 17h

Apparently.

Sigh.

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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 17h

No, I think it is "garbage in, garbage out".
We heard a lot about these AI companies scraping the web to train their models.

That is hardly a curated data set of the sum of all human knowledge. Whilst there is a lot of knowledge on the web, there is also the sum of human mistakes, many times over.

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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 20h

Aside from: why would far-right anti-immigrant protesters want to leave the country that they are protesting in?

So Rs are now openly advocating what they claim Ds are doing - encourage immigration of any sort so that they will vote for them...

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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 1d

I think I see your mistake here: these aren't trained professionals who know the law, or what they are doing, they are overgrown bullies running around scaring & hurting people for their own enjoyment. Endorsed by criminals in power.

If they're changing plates it's because they think it's cool!

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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 1d

The BBC, in particular, seem to be treating Trump as a slightly eccentric but otherwise normal President.

That isn't the case, he's a threat to America - which he is trying to destroy for his own ends - and as a consequence he is a threat to the entire world.

There is nothing remotely normal here.

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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 1d

I appreciate that, I just don't think that I've ever felt that EVERY party has come up with a deal-breaker top-level policy that I definitely won't vote for, previously.

And I've held my nose a few times & voted for parties I'm not totally happy with.

We live in interesting times...

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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 1d

I vote anyway, I'm content that my vote is counted, even if it isn't decisive.

Although all parties seem to be working hard to come up with policies that I REALLY don't want to vote for...

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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, Ted, is the evidence in the Epstein files?

Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 2d

That seems fair enough if everyone was peaceful.

Deliberately silencing the Trump supporters is as much against the US Constitution as deliberately silencing those against him.

I like the ratio there, though.

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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 2d

It puzzles me the way the BBC reports on Trump - they treat him & his regime just like any other US President, when that is clearly not the case here.

At the very least they could be pointing out that it very much looks as if he is keen to become a dictator in charge of America.

Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 2d

I live in an area that elected blue, so my vote wasn't a decisive one.

Recently it changed colour by quite a wide margin, so again my vote didn't really count. 🤷‍♂️

But at least I don't feel that the ward was 'designed' to vote a certain way.

In the UK we seem more inclined to kick our politicians!

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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 2d

As far as I understand it, in the UK we (mostly) don't look at who we are putting in a ward.

I hadn't really appreciated until this year that we try to make each ward contain roughly the same number of people.

Boundaries are generally sensible geographic ones rather than picking who is in a ward.

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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 2d

Districts also need to be as square as possible to contain the required number of people.

If you look at US voting district maps, they are ridiculous shapes designed to put specific demographics in specific voting districts in a way that the designers believe will provide a desired outcome.

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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 2d

Not if he succeeds with the State redistricting to give Republicans more seats.

He’s no longer hiding the fact that Republicans cheat to gain ‘elected‘ authority.

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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 2d

Seems pretty apt really, the man's shitting all over America & her Constitution.

And he constantly shits his diaper...

Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting that the PDs are making these reports - as they don't fit the government narrative.

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Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 2d

Who is "you" here, matey?

Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 2d

BBC, actually.
I would have expected an ICE agent murdered doing his job to be international news in the current circumstances but all I can find after extensive searching is a guy mugged in Central Park - that your “murdered” ICE officer?

P.S. He’s not dead.

Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 2d

Sure, cover for the real pedophiles by calling everyone who commits a sex crime a "pedo".

If he was a pedophile, Epstein did a piss-poor job of catering to the tastes of his Royal friend.

Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 2d

What could go wrong...?

Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 3d

In the UK a 17 yr old is not a child with respect to the age of consent.

There is adequate evidence that his encounters with Guiffre amounted to rape, but no evidence of pedophilia by him.

Prove me wrong, but calling him a pedo just provides cover for real pedos like Epstein, which was the point.

Lisa @kprclc.bsky.social · 3d

Andrew is entitled & dim.
He was dubbed "Randy Andy" because from the age of 17 he made the most of similar-aged young women throwing themselves at him.
Most men mature in their taste for women as they themselves age, I doubt he's ever thought about it.

It does seem clear that he raped Guiffre tho.