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Thanks all.

 

[liz]

can remember the denomination they mentioned... ill have to put my hazmat suit back on and go back onto twitter.

Best just not to believe Twitter.

 

[The Sultan]

Best just not to believe Twitter.

its a toilet,

 

[Cookie]

Trump glorifies a weirdo like Kirk, and he slams Reiner.
Trump' glass jaw on display again.
Spineless slob.

 

[MC Bad Genius]

he was an orthodox Christian if you believe Twitter

Don't.

It was misinformation (he's Syrian Muslim). One piece of many in this tragic situation that social media (and mainstream news media) have amplified - https://www.theguardian.com/austral...nightmare-of-being-labelled-as-bondi-attacker. What a nightmare for this other man that shares his name with one of the attackers.

 

[Festerz]

its a toilet,

My view of twitter is that it's just a medium.

Blaming twitter for the comments of nobodies in the social media age is like blaming the paper that the reader comments are printed on in the days when newspapers carried the news. It's just that there's now zero scutiny or screening of what is real and what is fake, especially with AI bots on the rise.

Follow only trusted sources and media outlets who use X to link to their sources and you'll be able to keep up with what's happening in the world and have very little problem with accuracy.

And of course put your hand in your pocket to support proper professional journalists.

That is all.

 

[Saint]

Trump has declared Fentanyl a Weapon of Mass Destruction.

Australia has lots of Fentanyl.

Get ready for the USA to start bombing our pharmacies.

He's basically declared war on the whole world. Now we wait to see who his target is (Venezuela)

All this to distract us from the fact that he's an abuser and almost certainly a pedophile.

 

[The Sultan]

Don't.

It was misinformation (he's Syrian Muslim). One piece of many in this tragic situation that social media (and mainstream news media) have amplified - https://www.theguardian.com/austral...nightmare-of-being-labelled-as-bondi-attacker. What a nightmare for this other man that shares his name with one of the attackers.

i was being factious, but ill try frame my comment a bit clearer next time

 

[Festerz]

Hope nobody tells Johnny Howard. He'll be calling for us to join the war on terror and invade another middle east country to resume the hunt for WMDs

 

[Saint]

My view of twitter is that it's just a medium.

Blaming twitter for the comments of nobodies in the social media age is like blaming the paper that the reader comments are printed on in the days when newspapers carried the news. It's just that there's now zero scutiny or screening of what is real and what is fake, especially with AI bots on the rise.

Follow only trusted sources and media outlets who use X to link to their sources and you'll be able to keep up with what's happening in the world and have very little problem with accuracy.

And of course put your hand in your pocket to support proper professional journalists.

That is all.

It's not just a medium. It's a curated medium. The curation is continually being tweaked to suit the owners personal agenda.

This means stories and posters he doesn't like are relegated to practically invisible and stories and posters he wants to promote get boosted to millions of people.

The less time you spend on it, the more curation you're getting. Hence it became not worth going to anymore, unless you're looking for one specific thing. Scrolling it for information is no longer an even remotely sensible use of time, if it ever was.

 

[MC Bad Genius]

i was being factious, but ill try frame my comment a bit clearer next time

Yup, I can see the facetiousness on second read. My bad!

 

[Saint]

Hope nobody tells Johnny Howard. He'll be calling for us to join the war on terror and invade another middle east country.



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He's upset he can't be bombing the brown people.

 

[Cookie]

Hope nobody tells Johnny Howard. He'll be calling for us to join the war on terror and invade another middle east country to resume the hunt for WMDs

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Decrepit

 

[Royces Hart]

Hope nobody tells Johnny Howard. He'll be calling for us to join the war on terror and invade another middle east country to resume the hunt for WMDs

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Hope Albo declares Trump’s penis to be a Weapon of Minimal Penetration.

 

[MC Bad Genius]

Hope nobody tells Johnny Howard. He'll be calling for us to join the war on terror and invade another middle east country to resume the hunt for WMDs

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If you take all of this at face value (which obviously, you can't, but come with me here) and think of it as coming from a charismatic and rational leader of whatever your political persuasion is, you could perhaps see it as an inventive way to really make a positive impact for the American people.

According to Trump, fentanyl is responsible for 200-000 to 300,000 deaths, but this Axios summary shares a link to data that it's actually around 48,000 deaths for all synthetic opioids, not just fentanyl.


In Australia, the Pennington Institute research said there were only 776 unintentional deaths due to opiods in 2023.

So using 2025 population estimates (USA 372 million and Australia 27 million), that equates to the number of people in each country that die each year from opioids as:

USA - 1 in 7,146
Australia - 1 in 34,794

If we had the rates of American deaths, it would be roughly 3,770 deaths instead of 776, which is obviously a massive increase and would cause a national outcry.

The point I'm trying to make is that whatever America has tried in the past hasn't worked and at least the administration is trying to do SOMETHING, at least at face value (again, I know we can't take them at face value).

 

[Satan]

Epstein files are coming

 

[Kirby]

If you take all of this at face value (which obviously, you can't, but come with me here) and think of it as coming from a charismatic and rational leader of whatever your political persuasion is, you could perhaps see it as an inventive way to really make a positive impact for the American people.

According to Trump, fentanyl is responsible for 200-000 to 300,000 deaths, but this Axios summary shares a link to data that it's actually around 48,000 deaths for all synthetic opioids, not just fentanyl.


In Australia, the Pennington Institute research said there were only 776 unintentional deaths due to opiods in 2023.

So using 2025 population estimates (USA 372 million and Australia 27 million), that equates to the number of people in each country that die each year from opioids as:

USA - 1 in 7,146
Australia - 1 in 34,794

If we had the rates of American deaths, it would be roughly 3,770 deaths instead of 776, which is obviously a massive increase and would cause a national outcry.

The point I'm trying to make is that whatever America has tried in the past hasn't worked and at least the administration is trying to do SOMETHING, at least at face value (again, I know we can't take them at face value).

We all know it can't be taken at face value though and that it's just an excuse to bomb, maim and kill whoever he wants.

 

[Satan]

Sticky for Trump

Naaah

 

[swingdog]

If you take all of this at face value (which obviously, you can't, but come with me here) and think of it as coming from a charismatic and rational leader of whatever your political persuasion is, you could perhaps see it as an inventive way to really make a positive impact for the American people.

According to Trump, fentanyl is responsible for 200-000 to 300,000 deaths, but this Axios summary shares a link to data that it's actually around 48,000 deaths for all synthetic opioids, not just fentanyl.


In Australia, the Pennington Institute research said there were only 776 unintentional deaths due to opiods in 2023.

So using 2025 population estimates (USA 372 million and Australia 27 million), that equates to the number of people in each country that die each year from opioids as:

USA - 1 in 7,146
Australia - 1 in 34,794

If we had the rates of American deaths, it would be roughly 3,770 deaths instead of 776, which is obviously a massive increase and would cause a national outcry.

The point I'm trying to make is that whatever America has tried in the past hasn't worked and at least the administration is trying to do SOMETHING, at least at face value (again, I know we can't take them at face value).

The thing I never see from the right regarding fentanyl is why aren't the victims taking personal responsibility for their addiction?

It's their go to for every other social ill. Not sure why opioids misses out.

 

[MC Bad Genius]

We all know it can't be taken at face value though and that it's just an excuse to bomb, maim and kill whoever he wants.

And of course I agree with that. Especially since the ulterior motive is regime change in Venezuela and that has nothing to do with fentanyl (they don't produce any meaningful quantities of it).

The thing I never see from the right regarding fentanyl is why aren't the victims taking personal responsibility for their addiction?

It's their go to for every other social ill. Not sure why opioids misses out.

True. But is that a reason not to applaud efforts that don't just rely on long-espoused rhetoric?

 

[Mick F]

If you take all of this at face value (which obviously, you can't, but come with me here) and think of it as coming from a charismatic and rational leader of whatever your political persuasion is, you could perhaps see it as an inventive way to really make a positive impact for the American people.

According to Trump, fentanyl is responsible for 200-000 to 300,000 deaths, but this Axios summary shares a link to data that it's actually around 48,000 deaths for all synthetic opioids, not just fentanyl.


In Australia, the Pennington Institute research said there were only 776 unintentional deaths due to opiods in 2023.

So using 2025 population estimates (USA 372 million and Australia 27 million), that equates to the number of people in each country that die each year from opioids as:

USA - 1 in 7,146
Australia - 1 in 34,794

If we had the rates of American deaths, it would be roughly 3,770 deaths instead of 776, which is obviously a massive increase and would cause a national outcry.

The point I'm trying to make is that whatever America has tried in the past hasn't worked and at least the administration is trying to do SOMETHING, at least at face value (again, I know we can't take them at face value).

Feel free to share the link to the accompanying White Paper* - that indicates it’s not just a bored old man ‘mouthing off’, but the leader of ‘an administration doing something’.

* White papers outline policy goals, invite public discussion, provide a framework for policy development and propose future legislation.

 

[rumply]

 

[rumply]

Prophetic?

 

[Gavin Excell]

And of course I agree with that. Especially since the ulterior motive is regime change in Venezuela and that has nothing to do with fentanyl (they don't produce any meaningful quantities of it).


True. But is that a reason not to applaud efforts that don't just rely on long-espoused rhetoric?

Just on the obsession with Venezuela- is it possible that its because they were linked with providing dodgy vote counting machines and now must be punished even if it was all BS?

 

[MC Bad Genius]

Feel free to share the link to the accompanying White Paper* - that indicates it’s not just a bored old man ‘mouthing off’, but the leader of ‘an administration doing something’.

* White papers outline policy goals, invite public discussion, provide a framework for policy development and propose future legislation.

Let's go with the old man mouthing off line, then. Why the hell would Trump be mouthing off about either fentanyl OR Venezuela (which he of course has incorrectly linked together)? He's pathologically incurious, so there would have to be something (or perhaps someone) that has got him to at least be consistent on wanting to address this.

 

[schneebly111]

Sticky for Trump

Naaah

Rob Reiner is responsible (alongside Aaron Sorkin) for one of my favourite movies, the American President.

If only the fictional President played by Michael Douglas could be the real life one today :