How do you usually get your news, commentary and analyses?

@Reason10 Lol. The fact that you believe that explains so much.


And again you lie. Fox is not "most of America".

Also they basically have no viewers below the age of 70.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Hey, aren’t we a little bit ageist today 😂?

@CedricH Not at all. That is based on their own data on their audience.

@CedricH This data is from 2016.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Oh my friend, I know. And it’s incontrovertible. But you made it sound as though that was a bad thing. Then it would amount to ageism, I think.

But perhaps you just meant to say that because of the age imbalance among viewers, the Fox News audience is not representative of America. In that case you‘d be spot on.

@CedricH It is a bad thing for right wing reactionaries. Conservatives in the US and the UK too btw are literally dying off from old age.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow I remember when people predicted in 2008 that the future belonged to the Democrats because they were seen as the party of the youth and the more diverse coalition in an increasingly diverse country. Well, that prediction turned out to have been just a bit exuberant.
You know, old people die, but they‘re replaced by old people.

@CedricH They are. And you are being deliberately dishonest. Zohran Mamdani and AOC would be the norm in the Democratic Party if it was actually a democratic party where the base of the party is actually relevant.

It is basic demographic reality. The only reason that didn't happen was because the party system is structured in such a was as to rig the results regardless of the will of the people.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow The preferred form of escapism for those on the losing side of history is to fall back on conspiracy theories, as they allow them to challenge and dispute their defeat. 😉

@CedricH Facts.

The preferred tactic of reactionaries like you is to gaslight people and pretend anything that doesn't conform with your narrative is a conspiracy theory.

Your entire position on this is deliberately dishonest.

@CedricH And pretending a challenge to results somehow proves anything is also dishonest.

Because it is based on the lie that a system cannot be rigged from the start without breaking rules that are already set to tip the scales towards a small minority of powerful people.

Then again you are likely one of the same people who argues structural racism is pretend too.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow You got me :) I am one of those people.

@CedricH Figures. You definitely fit the type that thinks keeping the ruling elite and establishment intact is all that matters and is ok as long as you can obfuscate it with bureaucracy and pretend it is "democratic".

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow You‘re ranting, my friend, it’s unbecoming. 😉

@CedricH Just calling out your very transparent agenda.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Hmm… if it makes you happy. Go for it. For all our disagreements, I do appreciate your passion, energy and conviction. I hope you‘re channeling it toward something worthwhile.

@CedricH Just old enough to know that you are just parroting Blairite nonsense that was discredited when you were literally in diapers and confused how someone as young as you thinks ideology discredited when you were a toddler is somehow relevant and insightful.

Ideology that is really nothing more than Tory light neo liberal nonsense.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Oh come now, no need to get ugly. You do seem to have quite the chip on your shoulder.

@CedricH Just facts. I have not seen anything you have posted that is not almost plaguarized from the Tony Blair think tank to his own narcissism.

You even use some of his own wording.

And Blair and company are the reason why Starmer and Sunak are interchangeable.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow While I do admire Blair‘s foreign policy, I never actually read anything that was published by his think thank. I recently posted a table filled with the different newspapers I read and the think tanks I frequently access.

@CedricH That is hard to believe because in terms of what you post I might as well be arguing with him right now.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Oh what an honor it must be to converse with a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
I‘ve only ever talked to Chancellor Friedrich Merz back in 2018 when he was a candidate for the CDU party leadership.

@CedricH Just commenting that you sound just like the man. This is taken from a statement by his Think Tank from 2017. If I attributed it to you I doubt even you would be able to tell the difference from your own posts.

The Tony Blair Institute believes that extremism, governance, the Middle East and the fight against populism are all interconnected. For example, they say that countries will not develop where extremism flourishes. Without peace in the Middle East, grievances will continue to fester, and conflict will spill-over to other countries. Those seeking refuge have also been used by populists to whip up anger in the West – and, crucially, they say that the centre-ground has to deal with these issues and renew a politics of hope and optimism, rejecting fear and pessimism.[7]

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Well, I certainly don’t find the statement objectionable.

@CedricH It is almost word for word what you post here on the regular.