James105

Elon Musk is worth $262bn. That's an impossible amount of money to be able to spend in a hundred lifetimes. Why are you so concerned about what he spends money on? Maybe his goal is one of altruism rather than profit after witnessing a woke, censorious mob with their itchy fingers on the ban buttons going to town on what has become a de-facto method of sharing news/opinions, so much so they were even influencing elections. Bankruptcy of Twitter will affect Musk no more than myself losing a single baht would, but as far as I can tell it is not about to go bankrupt anytime soon. Twitter has been losing money for the best part of a decade (1.14 billion in 2019, 214 million in 2021). How long do you think it would take you to turn around that kind of deficit to be profitable? Would you have kept on all the staff that were not making any meaningful contribution or would you maybe trim off some of the fat? Would you continue to spend $400m a year on food in the office that no-one turned up to? Any other tips you can share with Musk to make it turn a profit more quickly?

I find it quite amazing that those who have no idea how to run a business of the scale that Elon Musk has done are chipping in with advice for arguably the most successful businessman on the planet. Yet these very same people did not feel the need to offer these pearls of wisdom to the previous CEOs who were losing money every year with their shambolic running of Twitter.

You could at least try to be grammatically correct before having the temerity to criticise others for spelling mistakes.

Catelonia?

1. The Empire was British, not English. 2. Out of the 3,987,112 people in Scotland who were eligible to vote in the EU ref, only 1,661,191 voted to remain in the EU. The reason Scotland is no longer in the EU is because not enough Scots wanted to vote to remain in the EU. 3. You had your chance to leave the UK. Your fellow Scots wanted to stay. Don't be like Trump, take the loss like a grown up.

Yes, and the Scottish participated in the vote as part of the UK to make that change. If all the Scots had all voted to Remain, or at least of those who did not vote at all voted to remain then the UK would still be in the EU. I don't see any good reason at all why such an expensive and divisive exercise should be repeated so soon after the last one. Besides, it's Englands turn to have a vote on whether England wants to be part of a union with such miserable and complaining neighbours next anyway, so how about you try again after we have had our turn?

Where exactly do you think the refugees from Scotland would head if it became a failed state? I'd say the English have plenty to be concerned about here. But anyway, since they have already had a referendum and sensibly chose to remain in the union this is not even a debate anymore. The only reason the anti-English zealots in the SNP keep this going is to distract from their failures running Scotland's education system, ferries and all the drugs issues.

1. The NHS is enjoying significantly more than the promised £350m per week, they are just too wasteful to make it count. 2. If everyone in Scotland who was eligible to vote actually did vote in the EU ref, and those who did not vote voted to remain, that would have been enough for the UK vote to be Remain. Blame your fellow Scots for the outcome, not the English. It's Scotland's fault they are being dragged out of the EU supported explicitly by those who voted to leave in Scotland, and implicitly by those who did not vote at all.

Yes fantasy indeed. This of course will never come to pass as Scotland will not have another referendum for quite some time, and if in 30-40 years time they did try again then they would vote against independence... again. The majority of Scottish people do not want to become significantly poorer just to fulfil someones ridiculous and misguided fantasy so would of course vote against it.

I think the UK leaving the EU is a better template. You take your share of the burdens and have no claim on any assets, the same kind of arrangement the UK had with the EU. Why would you think you would get a better deal than that? If we are as nasty as you say we are then surely you must be expecting a terrible deal from leaving the UK? Your Nicola should really be honest with you and set expectations accordingly and tell you how much this is going to cost you. She won't of course because apart from the extremists no-one would ever consider this if she was honest about this.

So you want Scotland to renege on it's share of the national debt that Scotland played it's part in accumulating (free universities, free prescriptions etc), and you want the UK to grant another referendum so the rest of the UK can take on your burden? Yet at the same time wonder why another referendum isn't forthcoming? Fascinating. Wonder how you would feel if England was to secede and started pointing at UN Conventions stating that Englands share of the national debt now belongs to rest of UK? Since it's Englands turn next to vote for independence this could be quite the selling point I think if England were able to remove such a large debt burden form the English and put it on the shoulders of the Scots, Welsh and N.Irish.

Brace yourselves lefties... 'they' are coming back: This is your friendly reminder that: 1. You do not have to use Twitter if the thought of other people having different opinions to you and being allowed to voice them offends you. 2. Twitter is a private company and can set its own rules. You can start your own platform if you want an echo chamber. 3. You do not have to follow any of the returning accounts and are free to block them if that makes you feel better. 4. Offence is taken, not given.

Sure, and thats no different to 2014 is it when they had a chance to do something about it. Now they need to move on and accept the result from 8 years ago. People on here that complain when the likes of Trump lose badly should take a good hard look in the mirror I think.

There are 5m people in Scotland. There are 55m in England. It's ridiculous to suggest that those 5m in Scotland should have equal weight with the 55m in England on matters that affect the UK as a whole. England does not even have a say on matters that purely affect England. Scottish MPs in Westminster have the ability to vote against bills passed that only affect England, whereas English MPs cannot vote against measures decided in Scottish parliament. There is an imbalance of democracy for sure here, but is not in England's favour. Independence is just a distraction to tell Scots to look over there at the nasty English and ignore the mess she is making of the NHS, Education and the drugs issues in Scotland. Perhaps if she focused on the stuff within her control and not on the stuff outside of her control Scotland would be doing better and the Scots would complain less.

I don't recall England getting a vote on whether or not we actually want to be part of a union with Scotland. Did I miss it? Surely it's Englands turn to have a say before Scotland gets another go. The amount of complaining the Scots have been doing since (I think) Braveheart was released is starting to grate a bit so you would probably get your wish if we were allowed a vote on this. At least the Scots had a chance to have their say on this - that's one more go than the English have had.

Breaking news: The tail finds out that it cannot wag the dog.

Defence from what exactly? Murder? I'm pretty sure that a right-wing self identifying nazi will be subject to the exact same punishment for this as someone who identifies as "non-binary", which I believe in that state is an entire life sentence behind bars with no parole. The left are in denial as they wanted to portray this as right-wing homophobic bigotry but once again (just like the incident with that french guy Jessie Smollet) they have been left disappointed that this is not the case and will try and brush this unfortunate incident under the carpet and focus on Jan 6 or something.

CNN have also been doing some misgendering. Just another fine example of the hypocrisy of the left I think. https://nypost.com/2022/11/23/cnns-alisyn-camerota-stunned-by-anderson-aldrichs-nonbinary-revelation/ Kind of ruins the narrative a bit doesn't it?

I can see 3 examples of misgendering in what you said there. The murderer has made it perfectly clear their pronouns are they/their as they identify as non-binary. A fine example of right-wing transphobic bigotry right here.

No. Any evidence of this spurious claim?

Sigh. The left spread lies all the time, it's just that you happen to agree with them as you agree with the agenda/narrative. The "assault on the capital" makes it sound like it was something quite major (something akin to the BLM riots and violence that was incited by the left), but all I can recall was seeing some chap with a viking hat meandering around a building.

No. Ukraine and Russia were the 2 most corrupt regimes in Europe prior to this war and I suspect only a small percentage of that money will end up where it's needed, just like all the other foreign aid provided to corrupt countries around the world. Call me a cynic if you will, but with the constant injection of cash from UK/USA etc to Ukraine, Russia making bank from oil/gas being sold in rubles, I'm not seeing much of an incentive for either side to get around the negotiating table as they are making lots of money from this, and let's not pretend that either of their leaders really "care" about their people. Ukraine have also joined Spain/Portugal to host the 2030 world cup even though they are thousands of miles away from Spain/Portugal which makes me wonder where their priorities are at, or if they are just being opportunistic with the sympathy they have garnered by the propaganda painting them as the "good guys", when the reality, as always, will be somewhat greyer. I have sympathy for the Russian and Ukrainian people of course who didn't ask for this nor will see any of this money (they are just pawns after all), but I feel the West is, once again, being played.

Yes, no good deed should go unpunished.. right? Shame that the UK didn't make put the burden of repayment of this loan on the shoulders of Germany as a condition of their surrender and then this headline may well have read "why is Germany struggling more than other countries".

It's not just the population size, it's also a country without any culture of football so the stadiums built at huge cost, built by migrant labour in unbearably hot conditions are literally going to be used for just this 4 weeks. Qatar initially promised they would build "12 air conditioned stadiums" so that the competition could be held in summer as normal (another obvious and predictable lie). Since Qatar will be unceremoniously dumped out of the World Cup in the group stage (as even though they are hosting they shouldn't really be entering a team for this due to their incredibly low standard of football) and then the Qatari people will go back to not caring about football after the first week. Greta also seems unusually quiet about the carbon cost of needing to build all this stuff that every other country (and there are lots of them) with a culture of football already has and could have been used. The decision to host it in Qatar 12 years ago seems as ridiculous today as it did back then (obviously based on bribe money) and everything that was predicted came to pass. I'm always baffled as to why they are so reluctant to let England host it again, a country with a football culture that would not need to build a single new stadium to accommodate it. I remember England was one of the bidders for this one, but Blatter said that USA was second choice even though they had hosted it as recently as 1994. The next joke is that for the 2030 world cup that Spain/Portugal have bid for (which makes sense as those countries are literally next door to each other) is now a Spain/Portugal/Ukraine(!) bid, for all the obvious virtue signalling reasons you can imagine.

Both sides used bots. The left think that only their bots should be valid. I'm sure once the bots were taken away the result would be the same if not higher for reinstatement of Trump as the majority of people still believe in the concept of freedom of speech. It's only the reinstatement of a Twitter account that Musk could easily enable with or without a poll. Quite why people work themselves up into a frothing mess about this is beyond comprehension.