Yeah but it's wound you up and given Trump's supporters a laugh so all's good.Plus obviously most of the good people getting their city trashed will be happy about it.

Someone accused me of being a conspiracy theorist earlier....

To make it a bit simpler for you ...they gloried in their violence. What the fuck does stealing a tv have to do with the cops killing someone.

Trust me, there's nothing confusing about you, I can read you like a very simple child's book.

Do you literally believe everything the establishment tells you? Fucking hell, no wonder we're fucked lol.

If it could be done safely, without increased risk of fraud, no one would be against it ...but I'm afraid that it is obviously open to fraud...more chance of intimidation etc...anyone with eyes can see that.

Just as an aside, I remember hearing students boasting of how they had voted twice by post in the referendum...but hey -ho.

Did you accidentally put that comma there or are you saying those scumbags that smashed up the Target shop were acting with violence? Most leftists on this site couldn't give a fuck about that shop as long as its destruction helps stir up trouble for Trump....

There is widespread abuse of postal votes. In one case, private data held by a third party for legitimate purposes was used to apply for postal votes, and then intercepted before electors had a chance to complete them. The victims would not make a formal complaint as they feared retribution.

Are you talking about my phone idea? If so ,have you heard of speaker phones where you are broadcasting to more than one person? Or when someone phones into a radio station?

I'm 53 lol.

I don't trust postal voting at all ...in Britain most people are aware that such a system gets abused, so I don't blame Trump for being wary of it.

Imagine if you were on the phone and the phone company had the right to just intercede now and then to fact check you....

See , that kind of stuff gets written by teenagers.

"fact checking" is a slur on what's been written to be fact checked ...and it's also a slur on the reader who can make his own mind up without guidance from Twitter. Seriously, do you feel that you need guidance from Twitter?

"Means you don't understand. Learning the difference between fact and opinion is basic like learning abc and basic arithmetic. It is not a choice what you want to believe what a fact is and what an opinion is."

How do I know who is telling the truth about existence when there is no way anyone can know such a thing without some degree of faith. Faith and opinion are bound together.

Ask yourself this...have they ever done it to a mainstream left-leaning politician...if not does that mean all such politicians are utterly truthful ? I think we know the answer, don't you.

Mark disagrees with you...


Mark Zuckerberg says social networks should not be fact-checking political speech

Have you noticed Zuckerberg is not taking Twitter's side, he can see what's coming.

When a company loses its way other companies fill the void...

Twitter have got away with not enforcing rules in the past by saying it is too much to police the system, so a 1980's law let them carry on...now they are policing those they disagree with that law should be repealed. Twitter would be fucked were that to happen , they would get sued for every falsehood that made it to their platform.

I see the Governor is a little bit left-wing lol...wouldn't be trying to point score would he ?

What's fascinating here is that you appear to be utterly blind to the carnage around that scene...like that arrest happened in a vacuum.

It's kind of funny that left-wingers put their faith in big government and the privately owned msm...really strange that leftists now back the establishment on virtually every subject.

Some of the big social media companies are the very definition of fascism ...a tie up between big privately owned business and powerful political lobby groups. Some of you leftists seem not to have a clue what fascism is...

Even the co-founder of Wikipedia is stating that it has become clearly politically biased...

https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/

I know it's a bit uncomfortable for leftists but Twitter's attack on trump will backfire on it. Social media either treats everyone the same or it has become political and therefore must be controlled.

Neither ideology believes in the individual, whereas in Christianity (for instance) the individual is primary.To both the communist and fascist individual wrongs are not wrongs if they serve the cause...that's why both ideologies gravitate toward evil.

I agree that fascists and communists share much in common.

So my lack of faith in political institutions means I'm a conspiracy theorist ?

Whereas you completely trust authorities like the CCP to give you the facts. Also I've read this morning that Professor Karol Sikora is stating that cancer deaths are being recorded as Covid deaths in England. The numbers can not be trusted...only the gullible are buying in to them.

You leftists can't handle facts can you...and it's you lot that normally bleat on about "nuance" lol.

Sweden has done no worse than most western European countries and has still kept a semblance of normality...I'd call that a win, but ho-hum.

9th worse obviously depends on other countries being honest with their numbers...the CCP aren't , no one is counting in India and there are even questions over Germany (I haven't looked into it but apparently there has been a spike in deaths there miraculously not caused by Covid).Also you have to accept that it's harder locking down a free and open society than a controlled one...so in that sense higher death rates can be a good sign .

So you think the leftist government of Sweden have been completely wrong then? Death rates have to be counted in deaths per million and balanced against things like population density. Once you count properly the US is doing no worse than most Western countries.

Any blame for this virus lies completely with the CCP.

Yeah, but you are clearly treating this virus as a political football...which is pretty disgusting.

Deaths per million in the UK is lower than Belgium, Spain and Italy...blanket statements like the UK being the country with the second highest number of deaths can be misleading...and it also shows you are completely willing to believe the CCP, guess that shows your politics.

Did you squeal so much when 80,000 Americans died of flu in 2017-18...thought not.

Did Twitter get people to fact check when the WHO implied that Covid 19 was not transmittable between people?

I think when a social media company gets as powerful as Facebook or Twitter it is only right that they are regulated. Such companies have enormous political power and foreign/national powers may well seek to control them and the narrative that runs through them.

As things stand it is clear that the big western social media companies have a left-liberal bias that needs regulating.

There's an even easier argument than the OP regarding the soul and free will.

A physical , interlocked, universe of causation does not exist.

The Universe exists as an Idea in a greater mind than our own, a Universe of correlation that builds reality rather than causation building reality.

We are a sub-set of the greater mind given a degree of autonomy from it , by it. Its thoughts are the boundary of our lives so it can give us autonomy if it so wills.

I agree. We will always need to import goods, but we will have to start becoming less reliant on those countries that do not have our best interests at heart. At the moment those countries are China, and to a lesser degree, the semi-independent nations of the EU. We can trade freely with the rest of the world apart from those two entities in my opinion...but always making sure not to be too dependent on any one country.

I also feel that as the CCP are responsible for allowing this crisis to escalate that we should apply tariffs to their goods even if that does us short term economic harm...it's not like we'd notice much at the moment lol.

Just as an aside , a chap calling from China on the radio this morning says that he thinks unrest is brewing there, and I believe him...an economic tsunami is going to hit China on the back of this crisis, things could deteriorate rapidly both in terms of internal Chinese friction (revolution?) and China resorting to external force (war with Taiwan/Philippines/Japan ?) to divert attention .

I think you're probably right too...