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
Someone has forgotten the farming deal with Australia that will shaft British farmers. Funny, that.
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RT @johnredwood
Now we are short of imported salad food will the government do more to support UK farmers growing the food we need? Stop subsidies to leave land wild and spend the money on new food growing.
https://twitter.com/johnredwood/status/1628272679298953217
@Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social and in the US that person fiction was built using legislation that came from the civil rights struggle.
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How do you explain our crises to someone in a parallel universe?
#war: when two people have a difference of opinion and send millions of people to die while some companies profit immensely.
#ClimateCrisis: when politicians do the wrong thing instead of saving humanity while some companies profit immensely.
housing crisis: when there are empty houses and people without homes while some companies profit immensely.
#capitalism: when everything goes to shit while some companies profit immensely.
The hypocrisy of the imperial machine is boundless.
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People like to say that "You can't change people's minds with data!" That's kind of true, but not really. You can definitely get some folk to change their position on topics with data. You can't get other folk to stop being racist/sexist, etc with data, because racism/sexism etc are lies, and the person got themselves into that situation specifically by rejecting the truth.
But good news, not everyone is racist/sexist because they reject the truth. Some people have had the truth kept from them.
Biden visits country he spent $5bn toppling the government of while blethering about democracy. Fixed that headline for you.
RT @D_Raval
The debate about #WindfallTax shouldn’t be limited to energy companies. All industries who lucked out on the Ukraine invasion should be subject to it. Banks who hit the lottery with rising interest rates are obvious candidates. https://twitter.com/FisherAndrew79/status/1627927468689563648
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‘Here it is better not to be born’: Cobalt mining for Big Tech is driving child labor, deaths in the Congo
Child labor, sexual assault, birth defects, abject poverty, workers buried alive: A new exposé on artisanal cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo lifts the curtain on a nightmarish world in which billions of people are unwittingly complicit
#pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe
#ClimateChange #Climate #Congo #Africa
RT @Normanjam671
Voting Labour for things they aren't offering is magical thinking.
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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
I still haven't made it to Black history yet. I'm still on white US history.
Q: Why is it OK for Black folk to like the Black Panthers, but white folk can't like the klan? Black supremacy is just as bad as white supremacy! Why the double standard?
A: Black folk know white US history, so they know that the Black Panthers were not Black supremacists.
(At this point, half of the Black folk reading this just involuntary said "COINTELPRO!" out loud).
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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
I still haven't made it to Black history. Still on white US history.
Q: Why does it seem like so much of the anti-Asian hate that I see on TV and in newspapers is done by Black people? It seems like Asian folk should be legitimately afraid of Black people! Why does it seem that way?
A: Racism. Most Asian hate attacks are done by white folk. Asian folk are significantly safer from Asian hate, when they are around Black folk.🙂🙃
Newspapers lied on us.
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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
I will get to Black history. For now, I'm still on white US history.
Q: Why is so much Black music about violence and misogyny? I'm not racist, but I think Black culture is just more violent. Why does it seem that way?
A: Racism. Rap, trap, and drill, are only the most popular genres of Black music listened to *by white people.* The most popular among Black folk is R&B, almost 2X as popular. Violent rap is mostly for y'all.🤷🏿♂️
https://www.statista.com/statistics/945163/leading-music-genres-african-american/
RT @simonmaginn
Sonia Sodha's disgraceful Observer hate-screed made serious factual errors and must be corrected by Observer immediately.
It is simply not acceptable for a major UK newspaper to publish lying trash like this.
Observer, your reputation is in the gutter.
Do something.
RT @guyverhofstadt
Johnson will always put his career first.
His hard Brexit created the mess everyone is trying to fix.
The best advice: do the opposite of what he proposes!
RT @JujuliaGrace
Flashback to our projections around London when we took the government to court. Never forget what Matt Hancock did. This government failed to prepare, failed to protect workers+then entered into dodgy PPE deals. @EveryDoctorUK + Good Law Project proved the VIP PPE lane existed🚨
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The New York Times is institutionally transphobic:
RT @jon_trickett
Yet again the Tory Government is asking privatised water companies to stop spewing sewage into our beautiful rivers.
Asking nicely doesn't work.
The water companies should be taken into public ownership. With shareholder dividends removed we can invest in sewage infrastructure.
RT @AllyFogg
This is so revealing of Peterson's fundamental mindset. He's basically saying "If I don't know your gender how can I know which prejudices I should apply to you?" https://twitter.com/AdamRutherford/status/1627612936188399622
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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
