"They had a lot less influence over the sitting President a year ago"

Brilliant insight!

Of course you are correct! It wasn't that they had more control over the president. Instead the authorities exercised control over them in a blatant, criminal violation of the First Amendment. The useful idiots (upper middle class westerners; the elite) had no problem with that, since it was their deranged propaganda. My goodness, for a decade Tweeter was running the entire West. Every gaslighting propaganda BS from the mainstream was "backed" by twitter posts and twitter storms. The deranged determined the Holy Truths.

And now, all of a sudden it is such a big problem that power listens to money? 150 billionaires declared their support during the last elections. 80 for Harris, 50 for Trump. Harris outspend Trump 5 times over; first presidential campaign to exceed 1 billion US dollars. Academia, "journalists", wall street, all the tech bros sans Elon, all of these were behind Harris. The rich and powerful white men were overwhelmingly behind Harris.

But none of that was a problem, eh comrade? When people said "do not give extra powers to the president because tomorrow another one will come that is not from your party and then you are screwed" did you listen? No. Cheerfully and with gleeful malice you were perfectly happy to be in the hands of evil corporations and totalitarian minded politicians as long as they sang " your tune".

And then , you people have the gall to claim that you support democracy and choice. Pretend that you are for the little people, for the environment! What a sham!

"Look at how FB and Cambridge Analytica made Brexit a reality. "

That statement is completely false.

I see the contrary; the article is more honest reporting than everything in the last decade or so. You see, every difference is a result of an evil social construct run by (white) men. I am not trolling; this is the official position about everything in our society. At every level.

Any other explanation, particularity one that is rooted in (evolutionary) biology is cancelled. Often with violence. Anywhere in the western academia including the biology departments.

In fact, I fully expected the article to claim that the evil men were guilty for it. So I was pleasantly surprised. But the well meaning public, like yourself, is somewhat baffled that any difference between people are not the result of evil white men. Because you have been told lies for so long...

You see, when you have, for example, the Norwegian institute of fertility totally baffled and unable to explain the disastrous birth rates in Norway, this is the height of ridiculousness! A fertility institute that does not consider biology in their explanatory model?! And when the scholars point it out, they are cancelled and called names. Everything that happens there with fertility is perfectly explainable and expected in light of evolutionary biology. But if you model says the only reason is "society", " the patriarchy" and so on, your model will not predict the future correctly and when that future manifests itself you are caught "baffled and confused".

See this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

First, we are not clones. If the ants weren't they'd behave differently.

Sci-Fi reference: You see, dear bugger (ala OSC), we are all a hive with a single member. Every death of a human is a cessation of an unique genetic line, whereas in your case only killing the queen matters. This fundamental difference informs the behavioral differences between your hive and ours.

Secondly, we people are the ultimate champions of cooperating in large groups. No other animal comes even close. All of us are descendants of people who DID NOT act selfishly during an emergency. If they did, they'd be dead.

Articles like this are another thinly veiled attempt to promote the most murderous and disastrous political ideology of all time. And specifically ask for the ad-nauseam "humans bad, muh" crowd.

You mean Happy Vertical People Transporters, right? Equipped with Genuine People's Personality, correct?

It is clear why the maintenance failed - it did not include a psychologist!

It is under our feet, in NL, for example. But we will keep on buying way more expensive, lower quality LNG from US because we can't produce evil emission! And four houses in Groningen experienced tremors! Think of the earthquakes!!

Never mind that the whole province screams to high heaven for reopening of the fields.
Never mind the stupidity of Germany and their "green transition".
Never mind the fact that US was looking at every opportunity to stop the trade between Russia and EU. Or at least replace the gas with Ukrainian "democratic" gas. And blow the pipeline, just in case.
Never mind the enforced destruction of western economies in combination with quasi-planned economy, ever more directed by Brussels. Hint: look at the ecological impact of East and West Germany. East Germany was 3.5 times higher in CO2, 10 times higher in SO2 and about 6 times higher in NOx per unit of produce compared to West Germany.

You know, in 2016 I attended a conference of LNG producers and transporters. The plan was (and still is) that natural gas usage globally, in any form, will rapidly increase at least until 2070. The greens were so happy! Why, gas is so much better than coal and oil! And then the tune changed to "all fossil fuels evil, shut down everything". Which of course it did, since all of this is a cult. Cultist never stop. Ever. And eventually they run against reality and are destroyed. The issue of course is that often they take the whole of civilization with them.

Here, the most depressing interview I have ever heard on the subject of freedom of information, censorship and propaganda:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Summary: US and the west redefined democracy to mean the will of (ideologically captured) institutions rather than the will of the people. The entire, century old, apparatus that America developed to influence politics, organize coups and revolutions, kill whomever it deemed a problem all over the world was turned against US citizens in 2014 after the Crimea fiasco. 50 billion budget every year, hundred plus censorship laboratories in US universities, social platforms where the censorship and social engineering is built in, is the primary function of the platform (e.g. old Twitter).

Two hours forty three minutes and Joe had like five minutes input. That guest is a bloody encyclopedia on the subject!

In Europe, the situation is much, much worse than US. Here we have no free speech laws and our authorities are openly bragging that they work closely with all channels of information to suppress misinformation" ....only the misinformation and lies are coming 100% from the same authorities, their lackey media dogs and brain dead academics.

So, another bunch of leftists scumbags increasing censorship and clamping down on speech? In Europe? Quelle surprise!

Nothing of the sort, my dear chap!

Sauron is a misunderstood tragic character, fighting for diversity by introducing new species to Middle Earth! For example orcs, who only want to take care of their families! And somehow these evil elves and people do not understand! The orcs are simply neurodivergent!!!

Source: Rings of Power
 

" Dude not everything is about politics and woke get over yourself."

That is exactly what it is about, hombre. The whole industry has accepted the "checkbox approach". Nothing, I repeat, nothing, I will say it again, NOTHING gets made or released if it does not conform to the DEI shitshow and has all the check boxes ticked in. Ergo, everything that is released is crap. No exceptions.

That is the industry's doing, their choice and no one else's. Now, reap the consequences.

  Listen, all of ya wannabe western commies - I was born and raised in such society. Every play, every TV program, every movie, every article, every book, every poem, everything....had the check boxes by the Party ticked in. You have a play about Socrates and whadda know, he was a communist! And Plato too! I can write a dissertation on the subject. At least during those days some artists rebelled and risked (and received) severe punishment for standing against the party line. The Hollywood perverts are happy to comply; they have the balls to molest kids and each other, but not to stand to totalitarians.

"Basic biology research is incredibly valuable in terms of reducing misery, enriching humanity, extending lives, and creating happiness."

Spot on. Now, can we stop with the 100+ year old (by now) social constructive ideologies that completely neglect biology? The ones that claim humans are born identical and any difference is socially constructed therefore can be "fixed" by social engineering? By timeline these are: grandad ideology - communism. Bastard child - fascism. Hybrid grandchild - woke.

Practical example from Scandinavia follows.

Supposition.biology does not exist. Every human decision is informed by social construct only.
Aim. To improve participation of women in " male dominated professions".
Strategy - flatten the society, remove any social obstacle.
Expectation. The participation will approach parity.
Result. Exactly the opposite. The sexes ran away from each other even more.
Conclusion. We have not done enough social engineering.

Supposition. Human behavior is a result of innate biological traits modified further by social interaction and personal history.
Aim. To improve participation of women in " male dominated professions".
Strategy - flatten the society, remove any social obstacle.
Expectation. Once the social factor is removed the biological preference will maximize. We will see further division on the working place between men and women.
Result. Exactly as expected.

"Birth rates should begin to recover within the next ten or twenty years"

That assumes that he economy has anything to do with birth rates. It hardly does. See Norway - 1.4 children per woman and they transfer wealth from men to women constantly. 1.2 million per woman per lifetime, that is only the tax returns. There's never been a society that supports women and children to this degree...yet they do not procreate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Here, listen to this researcher who is on the brink of cancellation because he assumes biology is real!
BTW, his book on dating and mating strategies through the ages is excellent!

Totalitarian control comes in all kinds of forms. Left totalitarianism killed 10 times more people than right wing totalitarianism in the 20th century (let's not bogged down in how right wing is the national socialist workers party ;)

When you have top Dem figures calling the First Amendment " an obstacle in the fight against misinformation". When you have lackey media who are worst than what we had under Communism (I too was born and raised in a Communist state), perpetuating hoaxes that take 15 seconds to disprove (e.g. " There are fine people on both sides"). When you have massive censorship, revolving doors between Government and the (absolute monopolist before Elon got Twitter) tech bros who controlled 100% of the information flow, defacing the First Amendment. When you have Dems who repeatedly circumvent the democratic process in their own party. When you have lifelong democrats who call the DNC "evil".

And so much more....everything that Trump is blamed for was done by the Democrats, including the weaponizing of the secret services (Russian puppet, H. Biden laptop) and DoJ. Apparently to save democracy! From the guy who was only the second president in 78 years not to start a war. Who destroyed ISIS, heeled Iran and convinced the Saudis to talk to Israel. He was the president. And both the US and the world were a much better place with him in charge.

Here, listen to this 20 minute talk "Are we the Soviets" :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If your opinion about Trump is coming from any mainstream source, that is why you might be surprise. There has been zero truth in any reporting on him since summer of 2016. Zero. Nada. Zip.