Elon Musk buys and ruins Twitter

It's very complicated.

Objectively, we are all much better off than we were in the 1960s. Even basic rate pensioners and penniless farmers.

OTOH, real wages have barely increased in a decade and people feel squeezed, not least by obscene housing costs.

I can't complain personally as I am quite well-off. But I can understand how many feel they are struggling against impossible odds.
 
west didsblue said:
Not quite sure what point you’re making but you seem to be in agreement that Trump won because of lies and misinformation rather than the actual comparative performance of the economy over the last two presidential terms.
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The point I'm making is the yanks didn't just vote for Trump because of lies and misinformation, sure that probably paid a part but it's was more to do with economy along with other things such as Biden being seen by many as too old and incompetent and Harris not being competent plus an element of sexcism.
 
BrianW said:
I'm not naive enough to think any country is perfect. They all have their own unique issues.

Britain is in a particularly bad place, due largely to the follies of our politicians and the ignorance of our voters. I fear that if we are not careful, we shall end up in a far worse place. Because we have here a greedy capitalist clique with only one interest - self enrichment They do not give a flying one for the welfare of the general public, or the good of the country. They just want to increase what is already an obscene share of national wealth.

The only way forward - the only way that is good for 98% of us - is patience, persistence and a refusal to listen to magic bean salesmen who claim that we can sort everything by destroying public services and making the rich even richer. You may call that gloom. I call it realism.
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We are not that far apart, I want the best for our country and that involves inclusive middle of the road politicians at the helm. I am for appropriate taxation but, imo however that didn't happen in the last budget. Yet again a Chancellor taxed the SMEs the hardest while letting the biggest corporations get away without paying their fair share ans that includes the big US IT based companies like Twitter, Google Facebook, Ebay Apple etc.

I recall when we started our business 20 years ago the first few years were a struggle, I recall one year we were struggling to pay our corporation tax bill and balance all our other outgoings at the time our corp tax was about £7k , but we paid it as you do. Then a few weeks later I read that face book had just paid their UK corporation tax bill of £5k!! While at the same time opening a 250,000sqft office in central london!

I do differ somewhat in that I believe we as a country are not as you state fucked. Areas for improvement sure but we still have many positives to take as residents of the UK.
 
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I'd be in favour of the UK banning Twitter now. I came off of it during the election when he went full right wing loony.

He's using it for his own political propaganda and is now threatening our national security.

Personally hoping that big businesses in this country get together and fuck it off, that'd be a start. I know some have already.
 
MCFC1993 said:
I'd be in favour of the UK banning Twitter now. I came off of it during the election when he went full right wing loony.

He's using it for his own political propaganda and is now threatening our national security.

Personally hoping that big businesses in this country get together and fuck it off, that'd be a start. I know some have already.
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This would get my vote, I don't do twitter but I loathe the idea of him interfering with our political system.
 
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Spotted the new Grok (AI) button on X.
Not sure what I typed in , had anything to do with The Etihad…and that’s not anything like Opus or Bill!
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Churchlawtonblue said:
The point I'm making is the yanks didn't just vote for Trump because of lies and misinformation, sure that probably paid a part but it's was more to do with economy along with other things such as Biden being seen by many as too old and incompetent and Harris not being competent plus an element of sexcism.
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He won because a majority wanted a bullshitting criminal sex offending blowhard as president. They can’t pretend they don’t know what he’s like.
 
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