We Have a New and Democratically-Elected Government That Won by a Very Wide Margin, We Don't Need Social Control Media to Bring "Arab Spring" to the United Kingdom
Still No Olympics

[Meme] Violenceware

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 05, 2024

Today: UK riots

Saudis ‘second largest investors’ in Twitter after Musk takeover

I'd be the last person to blame Social Control Media for all of society's ills, but this is the owner of Twitter/X talking. His own words.

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