Online Identity Needed

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Who's kidding who? The media is how nearly all people get the information they base their political views on. While discerning Americans carefully scrutinise the integrity of their news sources, the other trust Elon Musk.

When the media competes for audience by exploiting the tribal weakness in human instincts rather than the ideals that created our wealth and happiness, then authoritarians threaten the democracy that was at the heart of that flourishing.

Trump is exacerbating every anti-USA bias that the 95.6% of the world that isn't American is likely influenced by.

How did Netanyahu manage to con Trump into joining him in attacking Iran? Anyone know?

If your system of gov't doesn't matter to you then it's likely you don't appreciate how concerned the democratic world, & discriminating Americans are about the senseless chaos the Trump Administration is causing. Anonymity in social media is social cancer. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Who thinks a clown car of Trump sycophants has any hope of eliciting a realistic deal from Putin? The EU Coalition of the willing should'do the talking. It isn't in thrall of America's clown-in-chief & is both willing & able, so it'd have Putin's full attention. www.bbc.com/news/live/cz...

18-29 year olds are a pivotal political demographic, they create the buzz (or deathly silence) when things like the right-wing Trumpian chaos abruptly manifest in National Party leadership. Country voters created the Trump presidencies & it's time for Australia to help isolated voters to be wiser.

The essence of the evil logic that maximises the effect of social media & assists the sane-washing of the Trump Administration while America sinks from Free-world leader to the greatest threat facing the globe.

Do what's needed to keep Bluesky effective. Stay active & preserve US ideals. Bluesky isn't like X and the world needs idealism to flourish. The following link shows that the Trump administration world view is locked in the pre-WWII ethos of colonial enforcement. edition.cnn.com/2026/01/05/p...

No one can say they were not warned about the wrecking ball that was about to be inflicted on the global order by Donald Trump There is no linear Trump foreign policy, just a catherine wheel of disconnected explosions thrown out across the night sky. www.theguardian.com/law/ng-inter...

Merry Xmas from Israel

www.bbc.com/news/article... If GOP Congress members can suspend their faith that MAGA support is immutable, then they might twig to the fact that populist blather from all sides is aimed at weak and inherently fickle minds.

Trump isn't yet all-powerful in USA, but Putin is in Russia. Understanding positive & negative conceptions of liberty is key to defending the democracy that made people in the Western world free & prosperous. I hope this helps.

Anything that depends upon Trump is at risk. He's fickle, narcissistic a compulsive liar and addicted to delf-aggrandizement. America is deeply divided and the US Congress is sitting on its hands. The u US has gone from leading the free world against authoritarians to electing one.

www.bbc.com/news/article... If, as seems likely, Hegseth is found to have committed a war crime what will Congress do? Knowing that Trump pardons anyone he likes might they encourage their respective Congressional party colleagues to deal with the biggest crisis in confidence in America ever.

58,220 American service personnel lost their lives fighting the evils of communism. The Putin regime is the epitome of the evils Americans died fighting against, yet President Trump's support of Putin and betrayal of Ukraine is tolerated by Congress. WHY?

It's bad enough that Witkoff is exposed as a fool, but this from Rupert Murdoch's Times Radio will surely convince Congress that Putin's patsy is a threat to the nation so significant that they must find consensus to address it. Or is the US Congress moribund?

I say Musk & Trump seek dominance & are ruthless in how they distort & manipulate. Such people in tacit control of the most powerful nation on earth means that the rest of the world takes care not to provoke retaliation. BUT, the US is in decline & eventually the boot will be on the other foot.

A mega-wealthy self-professed sociopath with a mass communications facility that fosters social division is a threat to a state that's too dangerous to ignore. Social media does nothing for a nation's wealth, so the remedy is as simple as throwing a switch. Give Musk fair warning then act.

BBC to Trump: FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT.

www.bbc.com/news/article... Chaos engendered by the Trump administration in US is spread to the world by social media that feeds on tumult. It's energising dangerous forces of thuggery & corruption. Political instability brings nothing but more chaos & pain. UK needs put caution before emotion

edition.cnn.com/2025/11/07/m... It behoves America's best and brightest to confront culpability for providing for overwhelmingly dominant military kit to an invading force in Palestine to placate a relentless domestic lobby and call 'enough' in the name of humanity and their nation's dignity.

For Americans worried by new NYC Mayor, this printed by Australian Financial Review 2019: Bob Hawke was a social democrat whose greatest achievement was to use economic reforms to set up Australia for a long period of rising employment and incomes with low inflation. Believe results, not Murdoch.

A nation that fails to maintain its commitment to ideals is condemned to have them trumped.

Indeed, Ukraine is an inspiration to the democratic world as we face destabilising rhetoric from political opportunists. Resolve in the face of Putin's bombs takes courage, for opportunists all we need is scorn.

www.bbc.com/news/article... Netanyahu used US weapons to blow up the buildings that created the rubble that covers the bodies of hostages (& likely killed them) but demands the defeated Hamas terrorists dig them out without heavy lifting equipment... Or else. Stable genius peace plan.

This article is evidence of how AI can be used to engage emotionally with humans and thus influence their decisions. If political outcomes are not protected from this influence then the social media barons who can afford mass access AI will have dominating influence. www.bbc.com/news/article...

UK's Digital ID has the potential to do more than just remove the employment attraction to illegal migrants, it could also make social media accountable for its social harm. The persuasive power of AI in social media is certain to be devastating to democracy without that accountability. Pls think.