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If this were played on a stage now I would condemn it as an improbable fiction.

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@chinchat09 @elonmusk It will be nice for the Chinese to have some neighbours if and when you arrive.

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@honeymoon250 Difficult to say. But there's no doubt he's deeply corrupt, a massive liar, deranged, self obsessed, without any sense of taste or good design and an absolute cunt.

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Putin's corruption is legendary. He's estimated to be "worth" between $70 billion and $200 billion. I think this is why Trump admires Putin: his dream is to steal at least this much. That and his ability to murder enemies. Farage is also a fan, of course. https://t.co/ObRi65WH8W

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It struck me that the deeply corrupt populist regimes we see in the USA and Hungary probably learned a lot about corruption from the original populists, the Nazis. I put this to Google's AI. Here's my prompt and its response. https://t.co/uYEc5GDLLS

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Does anyone doubt that Farage, Tice and their cronies would line their own pockets on the industrial scale we've seen from their pals Trump, Orban and Putin if they took control of the UK's criminal justice system?

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@Mitdon2 @BriofO @Hepworthclare It's why centrists like me are so unpopular. I supported some of Margaret Thatcher's policies as well as those of other parties. People tell me I have to have an ideology. I reply that I'm a pragmatist/utilitarian: do whatever's 'best' in a given situation. Ideologues hate that!

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@Mitdon2 @BriofO @Hepworthclare It's not just social media. It doesn't take much to split people into opposing groups. A psychologist called Tadjfel would go into a classroom and tell kids they were either As or Bs. When he returned they were virtually at war with each other. https://t.co/h3w3Uk88cV

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I've just discovered that Kissinger said pretty much the same thing, talking about the maxims of guerilla warfare. "The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win."

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A quote from a previous American military disaster.

​"We knew we couldn't win, but we also knew we weren't going to lose."

Major Nguyen Quoc Hung, a Viet Cong commander, talking about the Viet Cong's reaction to the overwhelming military might they faced.

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@Mitdon2 His behaviour doesn't seem to have changed much - he's as obnoxious as ever - but I can never listen to him long enough to detect that or any aphasia. I realise that not all FTD involves behavioural changes. What have you spotted?

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@Mitdon2 @BriofO @Hepworthclare Insane. Doubly insane that the Tories kept building them. Particularly as the cost was nearly double the estimate. We can't afford to equip, maintain or screen them, particularly in an era of mass drone attacks. They should be sold or scrapped immediately. Google sunk costs.

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@BriofO @Mitdon2 @Hepworthclare But he's right that they were, er, "unnecessarily".

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@BriofO @Mitdon2 @Hepworthclare Quite. Started under Labour but mostly built under Tory PMs who could have cancelled the contracts at any point. https://t.co/ZVD2xfvWRv

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@Hepworthclare @gwcollinge @hzeffman Having said that, I'm sure Robertson has a point about our defence capability.

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@Hepworthclare @gwcollinge @hzeffman Perhaps he could also mention the number of defence industry related appointments and consultancies Robertson holds and has held and how much he has earned from them?

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@CliveWismayer One billion years exceeds the entire history of Homo Sapiens by a factor of up to 5,000. I think you may have a point.

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@TruthM20618 American reality

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@TruthM20618 @Maga4liberty I don't want Trump to be assassinated or to die. I just hope that, as his dementia deepens and he becomes even more obsessed with pens, shoes and curtains, he still has some awareness of the fact that most people think he's a corrupt, vile, pedofile piece of shit.

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@GuyLambertUK @jasondean100 @davidyelland To be fair to Jason, it's exactly the kind of bollocks you'd expect from someone who thinks "media" is an "industry" and that including "senior leader" in his profile makes him seem in any way impressive.

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@jasondean100 @davidyelland Anyone who includes the word "senior" in their bio is 100% full of shit. Particularly when it's preceded by "media" and, FFS, "industry".

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Another one bites the dust. #reformpartyuk https://t.co/25rcpDe056