What I'm saying is that whatever use you may find in them is completely eclipsed by the catastrophic harm they have inflicted on whole governments, and broad swaths of society.  :-@

Ok. Great. When Justin rides in on his unicorn to clear up this mess, please do let him know he has the support of [at least some of] Teh.

Hey, if you want more trump, more brexit, knock yerself out.

I already feel like I've been knocked out several times and I don't like it, but your zeal seems more than a little katsungesque, albeit with inverted delusions.

And we are vaguely in agreement, (except perhaps over the feasibility (and government desire) to kill Facebook and have capitalism to fuck off).

Facebook was never benign but has taken a role that should be occupied by standards, protocols, and multiple solutions.

It probably could have been done 20 years ago, but we're now in a world where we're struggling with Net Neutrality, we have gazillions of unregulated unpatchable bug ridden wifi toasters, and very few people even try to think for themselves any more.

A miracle would be nice, but it's better not to rely on one.

"your zeal seems more than a little katsungesque"

Ouch!

Perhaps I have been reading too many alarmist articles penned recently by industry insiders you may have missed. But maybe they're all just jealous, disgruntled and, well, bitter (not me: always cynical, never bitter). Where can I buy some bitcoin? ("Justin"? Really? Bet you wish "Justin" was your PM ATM (dance) )

Absolutely. Who wouldn't? Can't we organise some sort of commonwealth PM swap?

Even just for a day or so, and at the end if you've accidentally lost Theresa somewhere in the Canadian wilderness then no biggie, you just have to provide a replacement of equal or greater value.

I kind of feel sorry for May on account of this TGF she is going to have to wear as her prime ministerial legacy. Still, she was responsible for sending around those immigrant-threatening vans. What goes around...

I have absolutely no sympathy, those vans were merely the tip of the iceberg. She's far from had what she deserves so far!

Exactly. Massively authoritarian. Running head first in to a hard Brexit when she supported remain.

OK, I'm detecting some bitterness here.

Definitely. But she's obviously a massive hypocrite who goes with the flow for power. To be fair, like many politicians.

I'd respect her more if she would just hit Boris between the eyes with a 2x4.

She's too much of a coward to do that. More likely to sell a bunch of grenades to someone and have them kill a crowd of innocent bystanders at the same time.

Yeah, her whole tenure has a walking-on-eggshells quality to it.

They're not eggshells, they're bones.

"On a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, I sat on a throne of blood! What was will be! What is will be no more! Now is the season of EVIL!"- '''Vigo Von Homburg Deutschendorf

There's even a passing resemblance to Theresa May...

Clearly I don't know enough of her backstory, and I'm not sure I want to.

I use a Chrome extension to get some control over FB

It puts things back in the order I want, and between it and AdblockPlus I don't see much spam

It's called - F.B.(FluffBusting)Purity - (used to be facebook purity, but FB wasn't happy about that)

 

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