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@jonny_castles @unherd @James7Holland @Docstockk Mate. Watch the endless number of young teenage fans scream and run up to the people who are subject of this documentary. If there's one take away we can all take. Young men are influenced.

@unherd @James7Holland @Docstockk ‘The manosphere’ doesnt actually exist tho does it. Its where the likes of Theroux get it so wrong. Just like the 4chan anons etc of previous gens. Its enjoyed by the audience ONLY at a meta level. The audience knows they are clowns. Its gen x meta irony

HOW LOUIS THEROUX OUTMANNED THE MANOSPHERE, by Kathleen Stock (@DocStockk) For people who talk endlessly about escaping ‘the matrix’ — meaning the 9-5 grind, labouring away fruitlessly for the benefit of shadowy elites — manosphere influencers, ironically, are almost entirely made up of other people’s projections. They pine desperately for public attention, and are constantly conjuring up ways of getting more. In Louis Theroux’s latest documentary, everyone is trapped in degrading roles, passive in the face of their own limbic systems — the streamers themselves; the half-naked OnlyFans girls straddling them for the camera; the liberal feminists and fat-positive influencers wheeled on to be horribly insulted; the viewers doing the slack-jawed scroll in their bedrooms, dreaming of having big channels one day too. This urge to be famous starts young. For every massive streamer account, there are thousands of unknown ones made by children, where pre-pubescent wannabes film themselves gaming or reacting to videos. In a parallel universe, boys like this grow up to have happily ordinary lives, unnoticed by the all-devouring algorithm. In this one, though, they get caught up in a freak show, dutifully becoming pitiful monsters. Read more below ⬇️ buff.ly/M4mpqgJ

@grok @RiderLDA @BernieSanders @grok what is the take home pay after taxes for the average person on an average salary for both countries.

Denmark's top personal income tax rate is ~56% (up to 60.5% incl. labor market tax), with local taxes averaging 25%. Overall tax-to-GDP is 45.7%. VAT is 25%. US federal income tax tops at 37%, plus state taxes (0-13.3%), effective combined up to ~50% in high-tax states. Tax-to-GDP is ~25%. No federal VAT; state sales tax averages ~7%. Denmark funds extensive social services with higher taxes.

If Trump seizes Greenland from Denmark, does that mean that all Americans will be entitled to: Free healthcare with no deductibles? A free college education? 52 weeks of paid parental leave? 5 weeks of paid vacation? Because that’s what everyone in Denmark and Greenland has.

48 hours on, and still no action from Nigel Farage. What has he got to hide?

@SexyandAngry @IainDale Iain we fucking love you mate. Come to bedminster

@IainDale Great story 🙄

31 Aug. Book room on Hilton website for the Doubletree on the M5 in Bristol for tonight. 12.10am today. Phone call from them telling me they have no rooms available, while I am driving down the M5 from Birmingham 12.11am I explode. 12.40am I arrive. They have found a room.

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@FootballTalkHQ Get him to united so we can ruin his career too

🇮🇹 Carlo Ancelotti poses with all the trophies he's won with Real Madrid. 🏆

What just happened in the oval office was a planned ambush, designed to help a brutal Russian dictator and hurt America's security. Trump has become Putin's lapdog, and America's global power is hemorrhaging as America sides with dictators over democracy. What an embarrassment.

@AJEnglish People who perceived this as disgusting need to get in the bin. Starmer, a former critic of trump. Pulling out the old kings invitation card to the orange toddler like a surprise extra Christmas present. We live in a parody reality. I bet it works tho.

UK PM Keir Starmer presented US President Donald Trump with a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a “really special” and “unprecedented” second state visit.

@DanielC90407601 @RestIsPolitics @RoryStewartUK @campbellclaret I agree. The American right taking for granted their place in the world. But It's petty, jealous and perhaps an act of jelousy for the UK and EU to gaupe at the behaviour and scream for divorce. All to China/Russia benefit too.

@riksargent6 @RestIsPolitics @RoryStewartUK @campbellclaret International politics is a very delicate balancing act. Thundering around like a bull in a china shop making statements and decisions without very careful thought as to the long term consequences is a recipe for disaster. The USA is fast losing credibility abroad.

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@didnt_overthink @RestIsPolitics @RoryStewartUK @campbellclaret I agree he believes he's doing the right thing . And enjoy his lack of care towards hurting the right wings definition of "woke culture". To a degree. But he's an ignoramus. And that says more about the American people and the lack of a good alternative at the ballot than me

@riksargent6 @RestIsPolitics @RoryStewartUK @campbellclaret Trump is undoubtedly an excellent retail politician. He has identified what Americans want, and he is delivering with urgency and pace. You can call him a moron but this insult really says more about you that it does about him.

@RestIsPolitics @RoryStewartUK @campbellclaret Are we all just witneses to the most under qualified unintelligent man to make office (2nd time) and wht does this say about the political establishment who have lost to him agin. And with populist farage on the horizn what can starmer actually do to stop the UK from doing same

@RestIsPolitics @RoryStewartUK @campbellclaret Is trump really a political strong man. I feel he's a moron who has pulled the wool over the American people. Shooting from the hip, stirring outrage then retracting without actually retracting, all the while his political sycophants scream "genius" and "outside the box thinker".

@SkyNews I cannot believe what I just watched. Saying this while the man entirely responsible is sat next to him beaming like a toddler. This is beyond parody

'I hope we could do something with Gaza where they wouldn't want to go back.' Donald Trump calls for a "beautiful area" where Palestinians can "resettle permanently" as he meets Netanyahu at the White House. trib.al/9McpFhA 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YT

What's happening Syria is probably the most incoherent geopolitical event I've come across, and the more you look into it, the more confusing it gets. I mean, just look at this list: - First of all, the speed of Assad's collapse still makes very little sense: after successfully holding out against multiple enemies for 13 years with Russian and Iranian backing in a brutal civil war, his regime suddenly crumbled in just 11 days with almost no bloodshed. - The "liberators" of Syria being celebrated by the West are Islamist groups on their own official terrorist lists. The country's new leader, Al-Julani, still has a $10 million bounty on his head as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist" for founding the Syrian branch of Al Qaeda. - Biden called this "a historic opportunity for the long-suffering people of Syria to build a better future" while his administration continues to occupy a third of Syria, control its oil fields, maintain crippling sanctions, and bomb its territory... thereby obviously very much compromising this better future. - Assad's Prime Minister immediately agreed to work with the rebels and they accepted him - despite being mortal enemies in a brutal 13-year civil war. - Al-Julani, after years of orchestrating suicide bombings and sectarian massacres against civilians, is now suddenly positioning himself as "diversity friendly". - Russia, despite being in an alliance with Syria dating back to the Soviet era, billions invested in protecting Assad, and their only Mediterranean naval base in Tartus, essentially shrugged it all and let their ally fall. - Syria's new leaders remain bizarrely silent about Israel invading their territory and the U.S. bombing and occupying their country. They've said nothing about their strategic assets - including the entire navy and air force - being destroyed in U.S. and Israeli air raids. - The U.S. maintains its occupation of a third of Syria (including most oil fields), claiming it's necessary to "ensure the enduring defeat of ISIS" - despite Trump declaring in 2019 (and the U.S. repeatedly confirming since) that "we have defeated ISIS in Syria". Western media largely ignore this ongoing occupation while celebrating Syria's "liberation". - Hamas, while in the middle of a war with Israel, took time to congratulate the Syrian rebels - even though Assad was their (and Iran's) longtime ally and Syria's fall significantly weakens their own strategic position. - The U.S. celebrates the liberation of Syrian prisoners while operating its own concentration camps in the country (newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…) holding tens of thousands indefinitely without trial - half of them children - but that apparently doesn't count as oppression. - Türkiye is fighting against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) with apparent U.S. approval, while the SDF was fighting Assad (which the U.S. wanted) - meaning U.S.-backed forces are effectively fighting other U.S.-backed forces. - Iran, normally eager to defend its regional interests, suddenly abandoned billions in investments and a crucial strategic ally in their "Axis of Resistance", evacuating their personnel and citizens within hours. Truly one of the strangest chapters in modern geopolitical history. Every possible explanation contains its own contradictions, and most players are acting against their own stated principles and interests. At this stage it looks like the simplest explanation might go something like this: the U.S. welcomes the fall of a longtime opponent; neighboring powers like Israel and Türkiye see an opportunity for territorial gain; rebel leaders seem willing to accept loss of sovereignty and territory in exchange for domestic control over a diminished Syria; Russia and Iran chose to cut their losses given other regional priorities; and smaller players like Hamas are scrambling to adapt. Still, the unprecedented speed and coordination of these events suggests we're missing some crucial pieces of this very strange puzzle.

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We just dropped in on Liz Truss’s pro-Trump speaking tour with a remote-controlled lettuce banner. She didn’t find it funny. 🥬

Q: You have pushed false claims about people like President Barack Obama, saying he was not born in the United States, which is not true. You have told four congresswomen, women of color who were American citizens, to go back to where they came from. You have used words like ‘animal’ to describe Black district attorneys. You've attacked Black journalists, calling them a loser, saying the questions that they ask are quote, ‘stupid and racist.’ You've had dinner with a white supremacist at Mar-a-Lago. So my question, sir, now that you are asking Black supporters to vote for you, why should Black voters trust you after you have used language like that? Trump: Well, first of all, I don't think I've ever been asked a question in such a horrible manner

"I didn't know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black and now she wants to be known as Black." This is just unhinged stuff from Trump.