PLAY FOR TODAY -- Willie's Last Stand ( 12th Season )

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Executive Decision

Жыл бұрын

starring Paul Freeman

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@highlightoftheday7058 Жыл бұрын

Play For Today. As a youngster in my early teens in the early 70's onwards, I use to watch this every Thursday evening (If I remember rightly) 9.25pm after the BBC1 news. There were some real gems in this drama series.

@mooseing22 11 ай бұрын

TOTPs & Tomorrow's world on the same night. After play for today the BBC would also air 'The Horse of the Year show'. A nice trip down memory lane.

@prestcoldandy910 10 ай бұрын

@@mooseing22 And nation wide

@hudson7354 10 ай бұрын

I used to come round your house to watch with you, remember?

@cliffheywood 10 ай бұрын

yes@@mooseing22

@jayaybe1 10 ай бұрын

@@hudson7354 Huh, I remember you, I was there too!

@bumble1612 10 ай бұрын

As young as I was, I loved Play for Today. Quality TV back then.

@racheldoesacrylic4089 Ай бұрын

love to see the world we lost back then, people were more outgoing friendlier ,would get a good morning ,now 2024 people are more disconnected physically ,morally and a host of other things we lost through AI TEC and progress ? yeah we can speak to the ends of the earth but at what cost to the planet animals humans etc does anyone else agree ? or is it just my age talking x Thanks so much for putting these gold dramas on ,their history now x

@seltaeb3302 Ай бұрын

Blame mobile phones, they changed everything in how we are socially.

@JackJColl 5 күн бұрын

@@seltaeb3302 "when i get you home i'll stiffen you" the good old days..

@ypure3859 8 ай бұрын

Excellent. what the Brits are known for. top notch cast

@6lr6ak6 10 ай бұрын

The best Play for today l see was Nuts in May that had Roger Sloman in also.

@stoolpigeon4285 3 ай бұрын

Pure class

@pv175 Жыл бұрын

My parents are both in their 80s. They have looked after me and my 4 other siblings for nearly 65 years. I can’t imagine life without either of them.

@thomasreed49 10 ай бұрын

I know you’ll make the most of them. When lose them you you’ll never be really happy again sorry to be so morbid I’m just warning you. 🤝

@jabbermocky4520 10 ай бұрын

My mum recently called me on my birthday. She's about to turn 87, herself. I reminded her that all of her 6 children are classified as "senior citizens" now and we both laughed like hell! I cannot imagine the world without her. Cheers.

@daveworthing2294 9 ай бұрын

Very true.

@dominewimbury2039 2 ай бұрын

You're lucky! Both my parents parents have passed away so they haven't got any of them

@andrewdaley5480 10 ай бұрын

Notice the lack of cars. Peace and quiet marvellous. 🇬🇧 👍

@RadicalRoots23 10 ай бұрын

yeah the world has far too many cars nowadays - and loads of people resisting the plans to reduce them!

@turokforever007 8 ай бұрын

I remember in the late 70s kids would play chicken laying in the road but the lack of cars made it boring lol@@RadicalRoots23

@MarkBak76 9 ай бұрын

Sitting in the pub smoking and drinking.....those were the days

@manfromnocky 6 ай бұрын

Come to Turkey 👍

@paulbrucker7512 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing post. Excellent play, inhabited by self-centered folks with not a lot of compassion for others. Willie copped the bird but couldn't stand perhaps because of the guilt of cheating, perhaps not. He did some genuine compassion for his friend who is scratching by. Intelligent play which has a lot of feeling and pain you may feel while watching it.

@user-he1kk4vv7z 8 ай бұрын

Glad i was young and lived then . The real world

@philipcurnow7990 4 ай бұрын

Just better television

@adrianhudson1116 8 ай бұрын

The memory is extraordinary. I am in my mid 50s now and watched this when I was around 14. Its just so strange how particular things can stick in your mind. Maybe it was because I was in my early teens and perhaps had a notion of 'naughtiness' in watching an adult themed play

@philfletcher3434 Жыл бұрын

These 'PLAY FOR TODAY dramas are helping me pass the time in a way I enjoy; I've always loved dramas and you're saving these from total oblivion in a BBC archive somewhere. And they're historical documents of what life in England used to be like before the publicly funded BBC went PC. It's now hated by the majority of UK citizens today with its outrageous 'licence fee' Where does all that money go that they rob off the British public, a lot of whom cannot arrord to pat it.

@executivedecision6141 Жыл бұрын

I can't take credit for saving anything from oblivion! Someone else saved these old shows, and put them on DVD in some cases. Other people taped them off-air from the BBC on VHS tapes. I'm just sharing a limiting number of these episodes. There are many more I don't have access to. But I'm glad you enjoyed them. 🙂

@philfletcher3434 Жыл бұрын

@@executivedecision6141 I detest the BBC with a keen sense of loathing; it's now a millstone round poor people's necks. It makes itself out to be indispensible but it's a rickety old dinosaur that the UK government won't have put down out of a misplaced sense of national cohesion.. But it's not them who has to find the annual £159 to pay these robbers. I wonder what storylines could be gleaned for PLAY FOR TODAY in the 21st century? I'm living outside the UK now, I'm 75 so I wouldn't be required to pay for one if I was still stuck there. But the whole concept of this ruthless corporation that rakes in billions of pounds every year really grinds my gears.

@executivedecision6141 Жыл бұрын

@@philfletcher3434 Well, a lot of these feel like plays, being shot on videotape. I prefer the more polished episodes that were filmed and on 35 mm instead of 16mm, which was the standard back then. If so many of these episodes weren't feature-length, they would have better production values.. I think that's the reason why Play for Today isn't that well-known outside of Britain today. Even the original Twilight Zone only did a mere 6 episodes on videotape in the middle of Season 2 in 1960, and that was so Rod Serling and Buck Houghton could get the series back under budget to satisfy CBS executives.

@cmasseylynch Жыл бұрын

The BBC is NOT hated by the majority of uk citizens. Maybe you should also learn how to spell correctly-

@philfletcher3434 Жыл бұрын

An unfortunate typo: 'pay' the dirty stinking totally illegal bbc that gets it's ill gotten gains by stealing it off the British public? You must be in a minority of 1 if you think this bunch of thieves is still valid? Have you got a standing order to pay your annual £159 TV Tax?

@timothypoulter8285 9 ай бұрын

Can't beat the good old days.

@edwardmclaughlin7935 11 ай бұрын

His cat ladders are still there on that roof today!

@bobshark123 Жыл бұрын

my god, so true, so realistic.......great writing

@derekmillar318 Жыл бұрын

Sorry 1981 still wish i could go back.....rodger sloman...brilliant

@plumduff3303 Жыл бұрын

I don't they were tough times

@paultaylor7082 Жыл бұрын

Good actor Roger, a Cockney by birth but got the accent right. He was in Eastenders a bit back, and a few series of Begerac back in hte late 1980s/early 1990s, as Jim's boss, Inspector Deffand

@tonyt5919 5 ай бұрын

Yes they were tough times, poor times, a bit of hindsight would have been nice back then to realise that they weren't that tough or poor, I would go back in a flash,!

@lyndamcardle4123 Жыл бұрын

Nice to see the late Colette O'Neil as Lil, the landlady....very versatile actress, perhaps best known for Hannah in Radio 4s McLevy series.

@jamesclark1682 10 ай бұрын

I remember a very young Kenneth Brannah on pft in the early 80s as a Belfast youth during the troubles

@Villiago 10 ай бұрын

A temptation resisted is a true measure of character! Lol! Many thanks for the upload of this brilliant play. Best wishes Villiago

@turokforever007 8 ай бұрын

I did think that but at the end he got it up

@denisesaunders5473 Жыл бұрын

That lout in the pub was like my ex.drank all the time and spend all the money boozing. Long divorced.the drink killed him at 53

@mauriceosullivan6832 Жыл бұрын

Denise,, same as my bestmates father,, he died around 55, going back nearly 20 years now,,, great man in the pub, but a right bas d at home.

@hudson7354 10 ай бұрын

He left his ladders on the roof 😂

@alanrobinson1208 9 ай бұрын

I thought that lol

@kaythomas5884 Ай бұрын

The ladder was up there all the time on purpose.

@samsum3738 Жыл бұрын

I enjoyed it . A real kitchen sink drama , if ever there was . The characters were spot on .

@jacksugden8190 Жыл бұрын

First class

@albaproductions9602 Жыл бұрын

David Jackson, played the Irish painter/decorator in only fools and horses episode Who's a pretty boy, and also in Blakes 7.

@douglasfreeman3229 Жыл бұрын

Yep, sadly not in Blake's Seven for very long. He also played a police constable in the film "10 Rillington Place", when he was but a fresh-faced young swain.

@stevenwilson1816 Жыл бұрын

Also in a couple of Minder episodes

@JC-hu1wd Жыл бұрын

@@douglasfreeman3229 Gan

@GEricG Жыл бұрын

@@stevenwilson1816 I think that he might have been in 3 even.

@ianmart2569 11 ай бұрын

He played a mate to Scotch Harry in one Minder episode

@jacksugden8190 Жыл бұрын

Real lives, real people as played by the players, enjoyed this episode very much.

@shadowbannedbyyoutube415 9 ай бұрын

The Good old days.

@vanessahawarden9028 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so very much for your uploads❤

@sallydear3757 4 ай бұрын

Anything Paul Freeman's in is good.

@MrTang-qo9wm Жыл бұрын

Paul Freeman had the uncanny ability to look old when young and look young when old.

@johno4521 10 ай бұрын

He's only 38 here! He appeared in 3 Plays For Today in 1980 - 2

@tonynapoli5549 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing All smoke and no roast the end that is, lol good acting

@stepchicken3238 9 ай бұрын

I'd look round the door of pubs like that, and go straight out again. Now, most pubs are either restaurants, houses or demolished.

@shirley8155 8 ай бұрын

Brilliant! Enjoyed that so much. I plan to explore your channel for more treasure:) Thanks

@clownjaneymacandalioopsjan4731 Жыл бұрын

Good show and good actors --

@hank1519 Жыл бұрын

Very well done! Thank you!

@jacksugden8190 Жыл бұрын

Great script

@meisterlymanu5214 Жыл бұрын

"once again, Dr Jones, there is nothing you can possess that i can not take away."

@TheStefmcd 10 ай бұрын

Thanks, this was a wee gem. Great acting.

@EM-lz9kg Жыл бұрын

Real people , real lives rather than boring empty programs like love island ( which iv never watched . Play 4 today was so popular because it reflected real issues , poverty, housing . In the 70’s as a kid I didn’t care what I wore I loved to play with friends , then the 80’s came & my neighbour was bullied about her house . Yet this one a bit sexist for me

@jennawalden8547 Жыл бұрын

I only got 15 minutes in. Couldn’t stand the misogyny tbh. It wasn’t “ the good old days “ if you were female. I was born in 1966 ,so remember it from a child’s view.

@ianhawdon3680 Жыл бұрын

Some good acting here they went on to a family at war,emmerdale and some mike leigh films

@paultaylor7082 Жыл бұрын

Carolyn Pickles, of Sister Boniface fame at the beginning, nice to see a dark blue Mk 3 XL Cortina, also Austin/Morris 1100/1300 and Roger Sloman, of Bergerac fame. Jim Allen was a great screenwriter, Play for Today a great series, the sort of one off, one part drama they very rarely make nowadays. Not a pint of girly lager in evidence at the pub, either. Accents are more Yorkshire than Lancashire, but hard to tell. Most blokes then didn't know the meaning of the word misogyny, let alone how to spell it...

@johnmills1816 9 ай бұрын

Roger Sloman= Nuts in may.

@lyndamcardle4123 Жыл бұрын

With the piano and waiter service this is so redolent of the time in pubs in the mid to late 1960s ..... I know .....my mam and dad told me !

@eatmywords Жыл бұрын

yeah, including the male hegemony

@martinworld7214 Жыл бұрын

this was alright I guess , watchable without setting the world alight ! thanks again for the upload

@christopherdaly9384 10 ай бұрын

Jim Allen,great working class Mancunian writer,remember seeing him visit his parents who lived on the next row to me when I was growing up in the 60s/70s!!🙂

@jayaybe1 10 ай бұрын

Where was that Christopher?

@christopherdaly9384 10 ай бұрын

@@jayaybe1 To be exact,1960s/70s-Brantwood Terrace,Moston,Manchester,UK. Just 2 minutes round the corner from at the time Manchester United and England football player Brian Kidd ! 10 minutes down the Road to Harpurhey where Anthony Burgess,author of 'A Clockwork Orange' spent his younger days!!🤔🙂👍

@jayaybe1 10 ай бұрын

@@christopherdaly9384 Huh, I knew Kidd was from round there but didn't know about Anthony Burgess 🙂.

@christopherdaly9384 10 ай бұрын

@@jayaybe1 Yeah,Carissbrook St Harpurhey. There's a post on You Tube from a number of years ago with a guy--- 'In Search of Anthony Burgess' !!🙂👍

@johnmccormack4498 10 ай бұрын

Pity its not still on telly. Really good drama.

@Roscoe.P.Coldchain Жыл бұрын

Arrrr the 70s when cars had leaking roofs and no heaters lol

@christinedowie2859 Жыл бұрын

Very good😂😅😊

@brianhaskard1042 Жыл бұрын

"Cop for a bird" = Grab a granny night

@davebest5624 Жыл бұрын

One of the classic PFT that I’ve looked for now and again starred Queenie Watts and also had Robbie Coltrane, think it was called Waterloo Sunset like the Kinks song. Not sure if anyone has come across it or has a link. Thanks.

@tangerinebreeze6474 Жыл бұрын

Play for Today - Waterloo Sunset (1979), starring Queenie Watts..... Available on YT Channel.....Play For Forever 😢

@jaimz33 10 ай бұрын

Lord Vestey, I remember that weirdo sneaking round Liverpool Alexander Dock wearing a disguise making sure Blue Star shore gang were working. He never knew everyone knew who he was.

@user-wb7lv7qj2t 6 ай бұрын

Yeh and as ex merchant navy we all know how much those blue star twats were company men,you needed to be a grass to get on a bluesy

@tufty7663 Жыл бұрын

Working class people played by middle class actors,..

@numerouno.5445 10 ай бұрын

The background music sounds like something from a spaghetti western.

@newforestpixie5297 Жыл бұрын

“ prove yourself ? You’ve got three kids haven’t yer ? “ my old dad Dennis played piano in pubs & clubs up until the early 90s & he was in his mid 70s although as time went on he’d have to play on those hideous sounding electronic organs . ☹️

@beaufighter245 Жыл бұрын

What was probably hideous was a pianist playing an organ. No disrespect to your dad but, too many people who "played" the piano thought that they could also play an organ. What resulted was a bloody awful noise. No fault of the organ, unless is was a cheap, tacky brand, but the fault of who was playing it. The piano and organ share nothing in common other than both have notes arranged conventionally on a keyboard.

@cousinsister69 Жыл бұрын

"Blue rinse set" plus "Hammond organ" were part of a long ago beloved friend's witty repertoire. All in our early 20's. He was a big fan of a then young Barry Humphries. He was the witty & amusing one in my group of friends in the early 80's. He was a miser but we always chipped in for him because we adored having his handsome & charming company. I like the fact that I now have a Hammond St address.

@BillyJango Жыл бұрын

I love the sound of the organ, especially the Vox what The Doors and The Animals and a lot of ska bands use. A lot better than piano.

@beaufighter245 Жыл бұрын

@@BillyJango tou are clearly a guy with an appreciative musical ear. Yes, the Vox Continental had a raw sound, not as refined as a Hammond, even with overdrive. It had a sound of it's own. Piano, ok but in my opinion, very few pianists who could make it sound good. Too many vampers and three chord onlys producing little more than a cacophony.

@BillyJango Жыл бұрын

@@beaufighter245 You know a lot more about instruments than I do but I just love the sound of a good organ. Harry J Allstars - Liquidator is my favourite tune ever. Instrumental and simple but sounds so good.

@eveningstar3230 10 ай бұрын

trouble at mill mr arkwright?

@TonyHumphrys-le4on 9 ай бұрын

Them pubs would usually do after time drinking people never left so easily

@khiggins8733 10 ай бұрын

I am so embarrassed I thought this was an adult movie 😮

@harleythebrit6386 5 ай бұрын

😅😂

@khiggins7231 10 ай бұрын

I feel so embarrassed. I thought Willies Last Stand was an adult movie. Oooops 🤭

@Jade_holloway Жыл бұрын

Why do so many of these productions feature a character called Billy or Willy. That's depressing enough in itself quite honestly.

@damianohanlon4115 10 ай бұрын

Where was this filmed - near Oldham?

@derekmillar318 Жыл бұрын

70s wish i could go back....is that beloc ? Is he still digging in the wrong place indy?....

@kimdawkins7074 Жыл бұрын

Goodness me.

@jeremypearson6852 Жыл бұрын

Those men in the pub were a disgrace.

@Roscoe.P.Coldchain Жыл бұрын

😂🤣

@Roscoe.P.Coldchain Жыл бұрын

Your wife says jump and you say how high..?

@beaufighter245 Жыл бұрын

@@Roscoe.P.Coldchain no, some men respect their wives. Not about "jumping" it's about respect.

@louiseanderson1505 Жыл бұрын

I agree.

@garyfautley9843 Жыл бұрын

Candice Marie lol

@vivienneandersson6019 Жыл бұрын

Keith

@JohnAnderson-ss9vn 4 ай бұрын

anyway why do pubs have car parks

@lb2505 5 ай бұрын

WHEN THERE WERE PUBS MEN WENT TO IE 50 YRS AGO

@terryyakamoto3488 Жыл бұрын

10:02 It's a good job he doesn't drink stella

@paultaylor7082 Жыл бұрын

In them days, Stella was a tart's drink, not for Real Men...

@balwinderdosanjh1360 8 ай бұрын

😢 I still dunno , Y they called it the Wife Beater ! I drank it all the time 😇 . Cud do wid a pint now 🍻

@grouchr2 Жыл бұрын

Not bad for 42??

@beavisbonce Жыл бұрын

Keith Pratt from nuts in May

@MrNewtonian Жыл бұрын

What do you sing, Madrigals?

@beavisbonce Жыл бұрын

@@MrNewtonian candice Marie you’re standing on sedimentary limestone I CANT HEAR YOU KEITH

@vivienneandersson6019 Жыл бұрын

@@beavisbonce Cigarette smoke makes me choke, litter makes me shiver.

@beavisbonce Жыл бұрын

@@vivienneandersson6019 do you like this stone I’m thinking of setting it on a wring

@kadiummusic Жыл бұрын

Always in the north, always bleak and always a flipping brass band playing! 😬

@fuzzilu Жыл бұрын

Or a cello 😢

@mjclark641 Жыл бұрын

'appen.

@dropship123 Жыл бұрын

It's grim up north

@michaelroberts7374 10 ай бұрын

No pigeons though!

@terrycurzon1318 10 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@diptastik5651 11 ай бұрын

In England we call it the 12th series. Calling it season is american. Do you want to be american? Are you ashamed of being British?

@executivedecision6141 11 ай бұрын

I'm an American, dude..... 😎

@raybarrett7955 10 ай бұрын

@@executivedecision6141hahana

@williammohan9784 Жыл бұрын

This was made the same year that Paul Freeman played the villain Dr. Belloq in Raiders of the Lost Arc.

@elizabeths4371 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for pointing that out.😙 I knew I recognized his face although I couldn't say from where so it would have bugged me all night.

@shaun5944 Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@marchayes3616 Жыл бұрын

Wiily was in the long good friday got killed at bath s trying it on with pierce brosnan

@keithawhosoever5384 10 ай бұрын

I grew up with these 'gritty , kitchen sink dramas' like Play For Today . Acting was first rate , but the story lines and dialogue was too often , grim and depressing . No wonder as a young boy/man , I felt deflated and cynical after watching such programmes. Art imitationing life . Maybe 🤔 After a while though , life starts immitating art , cos there seems little else to guage one's sense of purpose , afterv the TV has done It's job ..... 'programming' the viewer❗ 😳

@JohnHudson-ep1oc Жыл бұрын

Funny ' All the men have no gray hair in them days 🤣 .

@Guccit865 Жыл бұрын

And no fatties ! What the hell do people eat now compared to that time.

@BillyJango Жыл бұрын

I am 49 and I haven't got one grey hair yet. I am not bragging, I would love some grey hair. It looks stupid being all brown at my age.

@BillyJango Жыл бұрын

@Stanly Stud I wouldn't dare.

@hudson7354 Жыл бұрын

@@BillyJango I hated going grey. When it all went everybody says how good it looks 😂 FFS I was dreading it happening

@BillyJango Жыл бұрын

@@hudson7354 I would love some grey hair. My face is too wrinkley for brown hair. It would look better grey. I am dreading going bald though.

@rontrivett8596 10 ай бұрын

REFRESHINGLY UNWOKE!!!

@executivedecision6141 10 ай бұрын

Better to be "WOKE" , which means WIDE AWAKE. 😎

@rontrivett8596 10 ай бұрын

@@executivedecision6141 WIDE AWAKE DELUDED SNOWFLAKE NONSENSE!!!

@turokforever007 8 ай бұрын

Sort of feel sorry for younger people watching this, as they are not going to enjoy it for what it is. But just pick faults in it.@@executivedecision6141

@JC-hu1wd Жыл бұрын

Yorkshire nah, Lancashire maybe

@muk8804 10 ай бұрын

Those accents are trying to be Yorkshire regardless of where it's meant to be set.

@JC-hu1wd 10 ай бұрын

@muk8804 get a life.

@tridbant 10 ай бұрын

I can’t believe no one is mentioning anything about the DV the bloke in the pub is threatening to give his wife. Even in 1982, when this was released, society looked down on it. Some people here seem to be more tunnel eyed on the lack of cars rather than the implicit violence in marriage.

@turokforever007 8 ай бұрын

Life is life some women left then went back to the beating.

@kathyflorcruz552 6 ай бұрын

That's nothing new. What makes you think it was a phenomenon then? Or that it's not an accepted norm in other cultures imported into the West? Furthermore that women aren't violent too?

@melmo5218 9 ай бұрын

I don't know if this is misogyny or misandry.

@turokforever007 8 ай бұрын

It was not real

@callithowiseeit5806 Жыл бұрын

More deliberately overblown depictions fooling generations that weren't there that this was reflective of the times, TV's done a real job on us through the decades, the more I look back the clearer the agenda

@interestedlen8823 Жыл бұрын

Pretty much how things were, depending on where you were. Just because it wasn't your experience doesn't mean it isn't realistic.

@EM-lz9kg Жыл бұрын

What are you talking about ? Play for today reflected reality for loads of people

@simoncampbell3144 Жыл бұрын

Er what .?

@adamhughes4442 Жыл бұрын

Stop talking shit!!!

@junelawson5100 Жыл бұрын

Sorry, but your talking bollox on this particular one. This is very reflective of the times then. If you weren’t around to experience it then you wouldn’t know.

@antonchristian873 Жыл бұрын

Couldn't watch beyond a couple of minutes because of the irritating brass band music. why anything set in the north has got to have brass band music is beyond me, it sucks.

@douglasfreeman3229 Жыл бұрын

Is that all it took for you stop watching?

@antonchristian873 Жыл бұрын

@@douglasfreeman3229 Yep ! Cliche alert !

@Ken_oh545 10 ай бұрын

Equally annoying is the solitary trumpet note in every US war flick, a cliché done to death, exhumed and done to death all over again (though I didn't notice brass bands in this)

@rosemaryallen2128 Жыл бұрын

Some dramas are infinitely depressing, but this one made me think of cutting my throat! Was the misogyny really that bad? I almost prefer the current WOKE garbage...

@executivedecision6141 Жыл бұрын

"Woke" is a modern way of saying. "Wide Awake". 😎

@rosemaryallen2128 Жыл бұрын

@@executivedecision6141 WOKE as the dictatorship of fake compassion it has become, is no better than a progress to fascism.

@executivedecision6141 Жыл бұрын

@@rosemaryallen2128 Up until a couple of years ago the term "woke" in that context didn't even exist. In many cases it is better than facism. How is it worse ? Calling a trans person "they" instead of "he" or "she" ? I think that's silly but I can respect which pronoun they want, if I'm talking to that person face to face.

@rosemaryallen2128 Жыл бұрын

@@executivedecision6141 Being polite enough to call a person by their chosen pronoun is fine. Bringing in laws to govern speech, or sacking people who disagree with the WOKE agenda, is fascism, and is a dangerous undermining of civil liberties.

@executivedecision6141 Жыл бұрын

@@rosemaryallen2128 There is no "WOKE" agenda. There is right and wrong, and if you're referring to Twitter, before Elon Musk came on board they were enforcing their right as a private ( non-governmental ) platform to oust people who were promoting hate speech, calling COVID vaccines dangerous, and inciting violence among MAGA-freaks ( such as the U.S. Capitol attack on January 6, 2021 ). When Musk bought Twitter, he let the troublemakers back on so the "inmates" took over the asylum. Glad I rarely use Twitter anyway, and not to debate, discuss, or argue politics ... just to get download links to a satellite radio show.