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Liz Truss to launch ‘uncensored’ social network to counter mainstream media
(www.theguardian.com)
Will it last longer than a lettuce?
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Doubtful. It will either immediately go back on its promise of no censorship, or will become a cess pit of hate and illegal activity.
Either way it's doomed from the outset by virtue of being associated with Liz Truss
Ah, another free speech enthusiast about to launch another "uncensored" social media site that will be as uncensored as lemmy.ml
never-trusst-a-tory.com
She really thinks she is the UK Trump, but she has the charisma of a wet paper towel
Wet paper towels can be helpful though.
I do remember her subpar performance as PM, but I don't remember her being so redpilled and Trumpian. Did the lettuce experience do this to her, make her so full of grievances?
She just wants attention, she's the same as Piers Morgan and that Katie something from a few years ago
People often (but not always) slide into conspiracies after a trauma or public humiliation. It's a weird sort of comfort for many of them.
"... a new free speech network... to actually talk about the issues people don’t want to talk about.”
Fucking hell, Liz, you absolute lettuce!
Nice catch. I missed that impossible sentence in my first reading. Makes about as much sense as she normally does.
Is it called Cabbage Patch
Lettuce Connect, so I’m told 🙂
Truss thinks she can be a Trump or a Farage-style populist that can easily get people to jump in on any stupid scheme, but she just doesn't have the charisma to pull it off. Such delusions of grandeur.
Who is she even surrounding herself with who has convinced her this is a good idea?
It feels like she's the victim of a long running practical joke at this point.
Calling her a former PM is stretching it, she basically killed the queen, crashed the economy and then fucked off.
It might be fun to sign up and then just post unhinged stuff and see what it takes to get banned.
Only lettuce. I wonder what would last longer
Dew it! The lettuce thing really triggers her, doesn't it!
Phil Moorhouse predicted it might just be a Discord channel, which would be hilarious if it turns out to be true.
Who would actually sign up for a Truss social media site? Apart from people joining just to spam her with lettuce memes. Do it, Liz. We need you to make this site! The future is in the balance and only YOU can save it, Liz, by making a social media site that we definitely won't spam with lettuce memes.
(Until it starts to foment opinions different from her own...)
Post anything about lettuce and get instabanned!
Oh sod off Liz you knob
She saw Xitter and Truth Social and wants in on the grift and propaganda.
I'm almost entirely convinced this is it.
Also:
Zero self awareness
It'll be a dating site for rich married people like Ashley Madison but the only person they can match with will be her.
So basically Pork Markets?
pork-markets.co.uk
That. Is. A. Disgrace!
lol sure thing.
Irrelevancy, thy name is Truss.
Is she the MTG of the UK?
I'm American, so I'm not entirely certain, but she was the Prime Minister of GB a few years ago for something like 11 days? I don't remember, but she famously was outlasted by a head of lettuce not withering before her term in office did. The Queen met her and dropped dead. I have the impression she wanted to be another Maggie Thatcher.
Was she voted in or was she handed the position due to someone quitting.
That's what happened in Canada with Kim Campbell and she was voted out at the first election, and same now with Mark Carney, he is the PM now but was not voted in, so we will vote on the 28th to see.
But it does seem like Thatcher and Regan types are back in style.
I'm not sure she cheated on her husband and then got divorced. But I could be wrong. Apart from that, she seems to be only one post away from going on about space lasers.
MTG is smarter...
That doesn't seem to be saying much though. lol