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Here is your new leader - we chose him just for you- the other guy is gonna die - and we've arranged a coup

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In the comments to MoA – And Then Biden Blew It … Again, ld posted a poem about US etiquette. Here’s what prompted the poem.

China’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning called Mr Biden’s remarks “extremely absurd and irresponsible”. Speaking at a regularly scheduled press conference on Wednesday, she said that the comments were “an open political provocation” that violated diplomatic etiquette.

The poem is amusing and worth a read:

US 'etiquette'

Here is your new leader
we chose him just for you
the other guy is gonna die
and we've arranged a coup

our good and faithful minions
share all of our opinions
so if you want to live
here's what yer gonna do

Arrest our competition
and buy our submarines
and force your population
to submit to our vaccines

just do as you are told
don't make us use the stick
for we can be quite ruthless
when we want to be a prick.

While it’s doggerel, it’s both funny and on the money.

ld documents basically the story of Australia, who have lost several prime ministers when the US disapproves and are now stuck with boondoggle of a submarine deal, where Australia pays but the submarines and their weapons remain under the control of the USA. Canada is not much different but we don’t have to buy submarines. All the rest applies. It’s astonishing that the word democracy manages to come out of these puppets’ mouths. It’s been a long time in Canada or Australia or the US or the UK that there’s been a truly free election. It’s worst in the Homeland of course (US), where only made men and women are allowed anywhere near the starting line.


Illustration: created in MidJourney based on the poem above.

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What is Facebook? https://uncoy.com/2021/02/what-is-facebook.html https://uncoy.com/2021/02/what-is-facebook.html#respond Mon, 22 Feb 2021 12:38:32 +0000 https://uncoy.com/?p=3355&preview=true&preview_id=3355 What is Facebook?

A democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state.

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Mentaliusthanything has an answer.

It is a tracking devise cloaked in social acceptability. It is Deep state and it showed itself in the past election as a tool for the evil filth that runs this Blue Orb, I will put it up again , one day it will get enough traction. “The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power… Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing. This concentration is seriously impairing the economic effectiveness of private enterprise as a way of providing employment for labor and capital and as a way of assuring a more equitable distribution of income and earnings among the people of the nation as a whole. That is to say, ”FANGS with Microsoft as the conductor of your demise.” Wake up!
Canada is apparently talking with France and Germany and following Australia down the regulate Facebook path. What the US executive will do to protect Facebook is a fascinating question. Facebook spent $400 million to support Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and other Democrat politicians in the last election. Arm-twisting ahead. Independently of its own CIA and NSA ties, Facebook itself has a great deal of information on many of the international politicians (and their families, both immediate and removed) who wish to regulate Facebook. Get out the popcorn. PS. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Don’t write anything into Facebook which you would not be comfortable having printed on the front page of your local (or high school, if you’re still in school) newspaper. Any messaging beyond cordialities should be done outside of Facebook or WhatsUp or Instagram in a more secure application like Telegram or Signal (and be careful with those two as well, they can be hacked – but all information is not recorded for all people for all time like any Facebook service).]]>
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