John, some context might be helpful: the exponential increase in cycling in London during those years (1.5 million journeys a year) will naturally lead to more incidents. However, implying a gigantic increase without context is misleading. Classic @Telegraph
@AX4sqhGS@GeboMpls Nothing of the sort. Read the OP. You brought death into the conversation as the relevant endpoint. Never mind that death is avoided with bacterial infections due to the same knowledge and pharmacology that you’re downplaying. Medieval peasant brain.
It’s the ancient carnival trick.The lies are the shiny object holding your attention while they rob you blind. It’s not even as sophisticated as “bread and circuses” but it seems to working on just enough people. “Step right up!”
The picture on the left is from 2012 when the filter was broken.
The picture on the right is AI generated.
That's the issue in this Presidency, everything is based on lies, even the most trivial of things.
It's not just the exploitation of a tragedy.
JD Vance's picture of Britain - where migrants have led to a crime surge - is the opposite of the truth.
https://t.co/y5El5FUj7v
Am having nasty flashbacks of the dumb "Harper Recesssion of 2015" rhetoric.
The only thing that's different is that Liberals and Conservatives are using the talking points the other side used in 2015.