Sir Humphrey Appleby: You told a lie

Romani's in Denmark

Romani ite domum

> Being a Brit myself [...] As an example, cast systems such as lower middle upper class's, or male ownership of females, non acceptance of alternative sexualities etc. This in turn creates friction if people arriving want to keep they're existing ways [...]

If only Brits like you learned to use English properly. What does "people arriving want to keep they are existing ways" even mean?

> Does Zuck know how to do anything? I mean, anything other than monetizing the privacy of children?

Yes. Monetizing the privacy of adults.

> Kirk is a fictional character that never faces the real consequences of his actions.

Consequences schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich.
    -- Daffy Duck

> Is someone, or someones, inside the supply chain redirecting chips? Is this the same as the servers getting to China? Or is this merely a case of someone buying this stuff under a shell company and then passing it along?

Yes.

> [People] who just spent the last 50 years blowing off democracy for nonsense moral panics and their particular interpretation of some dumb book somehow think that when the screws start to tighten on them that all of that machinery of democracy that they have cheerfully allowed to be dismantled is going to save them.

'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

> This isn't the EU. He's going to win.

This is indeed not the EU. This is a former democratic country where the rule of law has been replaced by the rule of who can shout louder.

The government can shout much louder. He's going to lose.

> Customers can be reassured that the Facewatch system has a 99.98% accuracy rate,

I'm sure Matt Arnold is extremely reassured.

> Surely you have a backup plan?

I do have a backup plan. And don't call me Shirley.