For there is always light. Thread #123 is belong to President Biden

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"For there is always light
If only we're brave enough to see it
If only we're brave enough to be it."

— Amanda Gorman, 20 Jan 2021, inauguration of President Joe R Biden

Moving on from the Trump threads, last one here:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4141056-Its-officially-time-to-say-ta-ta-to-Trump-its-inauguration-day-trump-122

I'm gobsmacked that the press/Republicans are picking up on Biden's Rolex watch. He bought it himself. His money. His choice.
Yet the taxpayer paid $61,000,000 for DOOFUS's golf trips. Not talked about by them.

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To be clear, people don’t wake up one morning & suddenly want to assassinate a random member of Congress from NY since 2018 who has no leadership role.

That hate has to be inculcated & incited, which it was by the GOP and Fox, both of which demonized @AOC & led us to this point.
twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1353088447108554753?s=21

Really enjoying this thread, apart from the trolling.
I'm intrigued by Biden's knack of making shrewd appointments and surrounding himself with an excellent team. He'll need it!

But, but "Hunter's laptop", "he took his mask off", "oh he's wearing a fancy watch". Some people need to wake up and smell the coffee.

I hope they lock those fuckers up for decades

@Shrillharridan

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Having fun being a bully? Think its good to mock someone in a nasty way?

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@Roussette

I'm gobsmacked that the press/Republicans are picking up on Biden's Rolex watch. He bought it himself. His money. His choice. Yet the taxpayer paid $61,000,000 for DOOFUS's golf trips. Not talked about by them.

They're rank hypocrites. I recall they also had a go about AOC's haircuts and clothes.

Still, Biden's just as bad. Isn't he?

Gosh.
Aren't some people sensitive these days??
I thought we were the snowflakes???
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What's nasty about cute pictures of squirrels?

And we are all sooooo mean
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Who knows!!??

@Shrillharridan

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Quite!

What about🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘 thundering through instead?

You'd think there's an impending election or something.
Maybe a trial.

@Roussette

Great post RedTB, exactly the way Twitter should be used. It is a valuable source and anyone who doesn't use it but comes on a longstanding thread saying we can't use it as a source from now on... well... obviously they don't know much.

Through the life of these threads for the last 5 years we have done our best to be as accurate as possible which is why we had a paper written on us entitled “Citizen Curation” in Online Discussions of Donald Trump’s Presidency" by two Professors.

^Having acknowledged the selective subjectivity of the curatorial process performed by our participants, and how far our
participants are willing to go to validate news stories shared in this way, we argue that our participants demonstrated a clear awareness of the veracity and potential subjectivity of their sources, worked collaboratively to verify news items, and were proud of their ability to “scoop”the mainstream news media on occasion^
Participants were encouraged not to take the word of other posters about a source but to read and research for themselves. Commenting on an ABC News interview with Trump, a poster provided a link to the transcript of the interview, encouraging others to“read it and judge for yourself”. Another participant encouraged others to read an article on a law blog with the words “Long article but worth reading”. Others followed up their original posts with links to further sources in order to verify what was claimed

We come out of it well. Just a small sample of what was said above. The paper talks extensively about Twitter and how far we go to verify, check and double check statements we make.
I have a copy if anyone wants it.

Thank you for this and the reminder to buy the Pedersen's book.

I've been close to elephants in a safari. A big male. Squirrels it is.

Yes indeed lion

And let's just spare a thought for those in Russia demonstrating against what's happened to Navalny, opposition to Putin and voice against corruption. The biggest protests ever against the Dictator Putin, and the most violent attacks on the demonstrators, with thousands attacked and thrown in prison for doing nothing except being there.

Here they are in protest in -51degrees cold. For those in their twenties, they have known no one else but Putin apart from a short spell with Medvedev, putin's right hand man. And Putin has now changed the rules so he can be President until 2036...

Navalny has been attacked with nerve agent, thrown in Prison, all because he wants to stand against Putin. Mobile coverage has been cut off to disable the protestors, 2,500 arrested after violent assaults by Police.

Let's be thankful for democracy. Especially in light of what happened on 6th January.

@Shrillharridan

And we are all sooooo mean ☺

Because those posters and you have been using them to mock me thats why, its not cute pictures for the sake of cute pictures. Don't act all innocent and deny it. If your going be a bully then own it, don't try and pass it off like its nothing.

Difference is if it was me doing the mocking and I was called out on it, I'd have no problems saying thats what I was doing. You lot, have no backbone to admit it.

Just like when I called you up on making shit up about me supporting the death penalty when that isn't even true. Have you even apologied for making up shit about me? No you haven't. Have I made up shit about you? No I haven't.

End of the day your just bullying over the internet. Carry on but I won't be bullying anyone because its not who I am.

Roussette
I'm gobsmacked that the press/Republicans are picking up on Biden's Rolex watch. He bought it himself. His money. His choice.

And given that an Oyster is said to be for life not for Christmas, his watch may have cost him rather less than it would now when he bought it several years ago, any time since 1977 or so.

Not to mention that they say "retails for more than $7,000" when the Rolex site has that watch at $6,300. Poor research.

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cycling you could help yourself by engaging constructively with the conversation, answering questions (as other posters have done), presenting evidence, debating openly. But you don't - you sneer, you go 'bahaha' and 'lol' in the most passive-aggressive way whilst not saying anything of substance, you use false equivalence, you refuse to take a political stance on anything.

As I said before - as you sow, so shall you reap. 'Squirrel' isn't a pejorative, by the way - it's a descriptive term used on Mumsnet to describe a poster who doesn't engage with the topic of a thread but instead attempts to derail it with whataboutery. That's you.