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Just another oil & gas guy...

[Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne]

The number everyone's throwing around about UK's speech arrests per year - 12,000 - is just for the Communications Act 2003.

UK police recorded at least 600,000 offences under statutes that would be unconstitutional in the United States.

[S Metcalfe @saml163]

@elonmusk Nothing new in this. I was shocked at the outcome in OJ's trial, but my expectations now are that this won't ever be fixed. Social Justice in action...

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@ShabanaMahmood If we comment or speculate what might happen to us??

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@SpeechUnion The most pernicious thing about NCHIs is that anyone ever thought that they should exist. What kind of a Delores Umbridge comes up with this and who in the hell agreed???

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@DailyMirror Did you get this image from Netflix?

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@TobyTurner In your bull's balls

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@ryangrim I don't agree with you, but assuming you're right can you please let me know why you think that 'Queer Studies' is a legitimate subject that should be taught in schools that receive public funds? Surely we should be cancelling all these leftist indoctrination departments...

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@TonyClimate Get the criminals off the streets and don't turn them loose time and again.

A small number of people are doing a large percentage of the crime.

Surely that's the end game in DC...

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@Brick_Suit Woody

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@BorisJohnson Net zero and covid lockdown guy says something.

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@leicesterliz @Ed_Miliband Please report back with the math on this, and show your workings.

The nation with the highest energy cost in the world cannot be competitive, and that's where we are. And for what?

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@bagsfan75_Tony Zero

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@LambertNolen @ConorLambPA We have about $2T per year annual deficit spend, it has to stop and our vastly bloated and inefficient govt needs to be trimmed. So there's going to be a LOT of cutting. Sorry for everybody affected but that's what happens when continuing is not sustainable.

[S Metcalfe @saml163]

@ratlpolicy That's the point

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@LeilaniDowding Had the surgery over 20 years ago and the results have been fantastic. I suffered for 5 years waiting for the op!

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

I've had a change of heart on federal income tax. On the surface, it's just a way for the government to generate revenue—it has to get its funding from somewhere. But I now see that the method of taxation itself fundamentally alters the relationship between the government and its people.

When the government relies on taxing individual income, it shifts from serving its citizens to exploiting them as a revenue source. This dynamic creates an inherent friction, where the government no longer answers to the people but to the system that extracts from them. And if you look around, it's clear—whatever our tax dollars are funding, it’s not serving us.

This is what modern economists fail to grasp when they dismiss tariffs, sales taxes, or luxury taxes as harmful. The structure of taxation matters, not just the amount collected. The income tax distorts governance itself—and it needs to go.

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@elonmusk 100% agree, I would go further and deduct govt spending from national GDP since it's pure overhead.

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@nasw How about you change the name to NAASW? National Association of Anti-Social Workers? Seems more appropriate.

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@RepDonBacon Any interest at all in balancing the budget and reducing the size of our bloated government? Please do something for us.