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Just go to Cornwall. Nice beaches. No forrin people.
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Intriguing story about the 'fake news' industry. It's a long read.
Articles about Sweden and immigration are often popular among Trump supporters in the USA. Ivan noticed the trend when he shared a piece saying that ”many towns in Sweden banned the use of Christmas lights on the streets to avoid offending the millions of Muslim migrants that have flooded their country in the last two years.”
In reality the Swedish Transport Administration had decided not to use their lampposts for Christmas decorations in certain Swedish towns because the poles were not considered strong enough to carry the weight of the lanterns.
Ivan’s article, saying that Muslims were the reason for the ban in Sweden, became his first big success.
“It went totally crazy”, Ivan says. “I earned a month’s salary in one day. I had never made that much from a single article before.”
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Not a good first month
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/opinion/one-month-report-card.html?
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Interesting from John Curtice (as ever)
http://ukandeu.ac.uk/is-labours-brexit-dilemma-being-misunderstood/
(Labour may be backing the wrong horse)
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The disconnect between what people believe they voted for, and what they are most likely to get over the long term, continues to astound me. But then you see the vox pops on TV news and people are more insistent than ever that we must Brexify ourselves at all costs.
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I was thinking about that.
I still reckon Brexit is slow-burn, the changes will be hard to spot, and they will happen over the long term. And it will be easy to blame anything other than Brexit for the bad stuff (the economy, the nasty EU people and their terms of exit, anything and everything really).
Whereas Trump's action are having a more visible impact:
- Some Muslims will have been denied entry/re-entry (perhaps now in effect permanently)
- The two 'controversial' pipelines now look like they are going to be built
- Individual states are now re-assessing their public health care commitments
- The climate change agenda is now being incrementally subject to 'revisionism'
- Global leaders are progressively reacting to American protectionism
- All sorts of weird things are happening with Russia
All of those will arguably affect people more immediately than Brexit.
- Some Muslims will have been denied entry/re-entry (perhaps now in effect permanently)
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Yeah, that was that clip of the Fox fella last night getting stroppy about the 'lies'.
I'm still puzzled by the lack of strength and coordination of the "Brexit is a bad idea so let's see if we can come up with a better idea" movement. The Americans are putting us to shame. I suspect the situation may not be helped by the fact that Brexit is all a bit abstract, not much has really happened, and the impact will only become apparent over the longer term. (And our overly-dominant rabid right-wing press shouting down any dissent of course.)
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This is probably the most convincing argument I've read
https://extranewsfeed.com/why-liberals-are-wrong-about-trump-c865b12c72a7#.7uo4j93a6
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Wow. That can't be real. But it is?!
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Yeah, it came in the middle of this. Any idea what any of it means?
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Ha ha!
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Yes, that's going to be the epithet by which Trump is remembered.
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Ha ha! Apparently Trump stopped following her on Twitter a couple of days ago.
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Burt Reynolds. What a geezer.
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Fuck. Wrong link. Should have been this one.
https://twitter.com/RSWestmoreland/status/832033441659047936
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Entertaining infosec trolling
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Sadly, an all too common story.
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On that note this is quite a funny tweet (if you click through the various Farage claims)
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Can't work out how to link the 'gif' so you'll have to click go to the trouble of clicking on the link
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Also, he's royal, and presumably his hands are unaccustomed to any sort of physical activity such as holding something. I would guess that someone even steers his chopper for him (which you could of course interpret with two different meanings - and you would probably be right on both counts).
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Cornwall, on balance, voted for Brexit. A bit of a shame as they've had healthy EU support (helping to fund the university, airport, broadband, etc.). My sister lives there and had a bit of a panic after the referendum thinking that everything might suddenly implode.