Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social
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Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.
Joined Apr 2022
RT @blackintheempir
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We did what the US wanted, based on false info given to us by the known liars in our Intelligence Communities
Close to a million people were killed and nobody will demand we be charged with war crimes.
The "Rules Based Order" means we don't have to follow any rule https://twitter.com/ivan_8848/status/1620855132039806976
RT @Normanjam671
If you're working class and breaking into people's houses to fit prepayment meters you are a class traitor and a scab.
RT @WarmongerHodges
The only reason Labour's "antisemitism crisis" has miraculously disappeared is because Starmer has declared unconditional support to apartheid Israel.
Truth is, Starmer has expelled more Jews than any previous leader. That's not rooting out antisemitism. That *is* antisemitism.
RT @jewdas
Was it unacceptable and dangerous when your family sold South African steel to Pinochet's Chile? https://twitter.com/margarethodge/status/1620777440435122178
@rob_cornelius it used to be a place where the needs of the many were tolerated before it got too expensive.
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From Caitlin Johnstone (@Caitoz) --
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In competition-based systems, the most powerful governments will always be those who are willing to do whatever it takes to stay on top, the most powerful people will be those who are willing to do whatever it takes to get power, and everyone else gets crushed in the mad scramble.
The fact is we’ll always be ruled by corrupt assholes as long as we have competition-based systems, because the best competitors will always be the most ruthless individuals who will do anything to get to the top. Get rid the current assholes and our asshole systems will necessarily elevate new assholes to take their place.
It’s easy to imagine a future without corrupt assholes. But it’s almost impossible to imagine a future where human behavior is not driven by profit for its own sake, where we have moved from competition-based systems to collaboration-based ones where we all work together for the common good.
It’s easy to say “Those assholes at the top need to go.” It’s much harder to say “Everything I’m familiar with needs to go.” It’s a giant leap into the dark of the unknown. But that’s the only way we’ll ever move toward health, and it’s the only way our species will avoid being driven to its doom.
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I agree. If you hold on to the same system, it's "Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss." The only way to change this is to change the system.
FULL ARTICLE -- https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2023/02/02/were-ruled-by-assholes-because-we-have-asshole-systems-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix/
@aljazeera this has been going on for 30 or more years
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The claims say oil spills resulting from Shell's operations in the Niger Delta have endangered the lives of residents.
Nigerian communities file damages claim against Shell in UK court
Nigerian communities file damages claim against Shell in UK court
RT @docrussjackson
The failure of successive Tory Govts to recognise the impact of public spending cuts has meant Britain missed out on £400bn of growth since 2010 - roughly the same amount that Britain's richest 1,000 people increased their wealth by during the same period.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/02/britain-growth-doom-loop-2010-tuc?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
RT @jdpoc
#Sunak, Today : "In my speech last month, I said we would build a better future for our children and grandchildren."
Also, today :
Interesting fact (iirc correctly) from yesterday
20,000 people have joined the teaching union in the last couple of weeks.
RT @dib50511659
@BladeoftheS @VintiquesMark Here is an LBC host peacefully removing a one man pensioner protest on TV. The fact the presenter accepted a criminal conviction (by way of official police caution) rather than a public court is hearing.
RT @mitchelltorok
@fjfish Fishi's short selling in 2008 helped crash the market. He's the fire fighter who starts fires for the thrill of praise for putting them out.
And corruption, incompetence, selfishness, stupid complacency, self-serving blindness ....
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RT @AP_Europe
Rishi Sunak is marking 100 days as U.K. prime minister. While he calmed financial markets in the early days of his tenure after his predecessor's damaging economic policies, Sunak still faces a host of challenges including high inflation and strikes. http://apne.ws/n6UXqS6
https://twitter.com/AP_Europe/status/1621056598788415488
Tell me you don't know how capitalism works without saying you don't know how it works. For-profit behaviour and humanity/compassion are completely incompatible.
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RT @SteveChalke
Why does British Gas - who’s profits are up by 700% - go to the courts for warrants to break into the homes of the poorest (in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis) & then force-fit prepayment meters, which leave their customers cold & unable to cook? What…
https://twitter.com/SteveChalke/status/1621049449769480192
RT @mikewhoatv
Johnson is so desperate to find benefits to Brexit that he has to rely on barefaced bollox… https://twitter.com/peterstefanovi2/status/1620874364987273218
@tomflood missed “no cars”
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uk trans pol
the constant "we need to get more signatures for this gov petition" deal is a massive nonsense circus.
it doesnt do anything.
the only time they U-turned on doing more horrible things to trans people was when the PM's girlfriend told him to think again.
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Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.
Joined Apr 2022
