I have an idea. Maybe parents should spend more time with their children and talk to them? But we all know it's not about the children. It's about criticising this failed government. That's the first step to an Orwellian nightmare.
The United Kingdom is going to announce additional restrictions in July on VPN usage. This is ON TOP OF the social media restrictions and mandated online identity verifications.
It's over, UK. You sold out your own society. Absolute tragedy. Very sad.
NEWS: Two years ago, an internal document from the Center for Countering Digital Hate listed "K*ll Musk's Twitter" and "Trigger EU & UK regulatory action" as annual priorities.
CCDH was co-founded by Morgan McSweeney, who later became UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Chief of Staff.
This week, Starmer threatened to remove X's right to self regulate.
UK regulator Ofcom opened a formal investigation into X over Grok.
Ofcom can fine X up to 10% of its worldwide revenue or block X in the UK entirely.
Starmer also announced this week a UK ban on under 16s using social media including X by spring 2027.
The 2024 documents were published by journalists Paul Thacker and Matt Taibbi.
No, you don't get it.
He does not have $1 trillion sitting in cash, it is 99% stock in his companies.
To make that wealth liquid would mean selling all that stock which would swiftly destroy *both* the companies (Tesla, SpaceX, others) and the wealth. If he sold it all, he'd end up with maybe $100b max, several hundred thousand people would be out of work, the companies ruined and many of their suppliers also ruined.
Okay, but now Elon has $100b in cash, and can "solve the world's problems".
$100b divided by the world's 8 billion people is $12
If you were in charge, several of the most innovative industrial companies in the world would be destroyed, hundreds of thousands out of work, and space would again close to human civilization for another generation.
But everyone on earth could have one nice meal and you could revel in your altruism.
EXCLUSIVE. @Nigel_Farage tells me that under a Reform UK goverment European citizens in the UK may LOSE rights and benefits, now protected under the UK-EU Brexit deal. But there is a “much bigger problem” 🇬🇧 🇪🇺
You said you want a very constructive approach with the European Union. But you want to strip indefinite leave to remain (ILR) from many migrants. Are you talking also about Europeans who are legally protected?
“ILR for the rest of the world, we're very clear where we stand. ILR with Europe, we have to have a negotiation, we have to have a negotiation with other European countries. That's true.”
Before deciding anything like that?
“Yeah, there has to be a conversation, of course. But look, the problem with ILR is it automatically gives you rights to the whole benefit system, including social housing, and you've got London boroughs now where over 50% of social housing is occupied by foreign-born people who, in some cases, have never spoken a word of English. And what's funny about this debate is, we could go to almost every country in the world, they wouldn't do this. They, I mean, they just wouldn't do this. Most countries in the world, if you arrive illegally, you're put in prison and deported, and yet we've all gone mad with European free movement and sort of fried our brains as to what common sense is. We've always been very generous in letting tens of thousands come and settle and humanise, whatever it may be, but this is just of a different magnitude. This defies logic, it defies common sense, and it actually crosses the old traditional left-right boundaries of politics. The patriotic old left feel just as strongly about this.”
That's why the old left is now voting for you?
“Exactly right.”
Just to be absolutely clear, European migrants living here legally, under legal protection by the Brexit deal, can they consider themselves safe?
“Safe but not guaranteed benefits.”
Unless they work?
“And that's fine. That's fine if they work.”
That's against the deal with the EU.
“Well, that has to be changed. As I said to you, that has to be negotiated, but it isn't the root of our problem. The root of our problem is, if one's being brutal about it, Pakistan. I mean, it's a disaster, literally a disaster, and that's not just economically, that's culturally as well. You know, if you look at these inner cities where radical Islam is taking hold, where welfare dependency is just off the charts, where first cousin marriage now perpetuates generation after generation after generation, with all the impacts, the health impacts of that. It's the Pakistani Kashmiris. It's a much bigger problem than Europeans being here.”
If the socialists had their way, Elon would have had his paypal profits taken and redistributed for the greater good.
The world would never have seen Tesla, nor SpaceX.
And the world wouldn't know it, because they were uncreated, and thus unseen.
Imagine the companies that don't exist, because Washington destroyed them before they were born.
Confiscate every cent from every US billionaire and you fund the government for ~13 months. Once.
Then the geese are gone and tax receipts crater.
12 European countries tried wealth taxes. Most repealed them after capital fled and revenue flopped.
France lost ~40k millionaire households before scrapping theirs in 2017.
Wealth taxes do not work. Period. The math has been run, on three continents, for decades. It loses every time.
For a country to prosper, to GENUINELY help the working class, you need to grow the pie, for everyone, not redistribute the crumbs of a shrinking one.
Envy is not an economic model.
@jeremycorbyn Anything to say about the poor lad who was mutilated on the streets of Belfast by a foreign national that should have never been here in the first place, Jeremy?
Anything at all?