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
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Humans don't have to be likable
I'll add: people don't have to be likable or nice to you or grateful, to deserve food, housing, kindness and care (including healthcare)
There is no such thing as "undeserving poor".
Every poor person deserves help and respect; if you have a mental file or image of people who are undeserving of either, you need to look at yourself.
Poverty ain't a moral failure.
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Quote from article: Once the Nazis took power they banned books, outlawed drag shows and homosexuality, changed school curricula to remove mention of their atrocities in WWI, and rewrote election laws so they’d never again lose an election.
My thoughts: A whole bunch of people, myself included, started pointing out parallels between the Trump-era GOP and the Nazis well before he was elected. We were accused of employing hyperbole, and told to "give him a chance."
Well, just call me Cassandra ... because here we are.
Just. Like. I. Said. We. Would. Be.
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Human rights are universal. It’s not for this Government to pick and choose who does and doesn’t deserve them
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/1aef6730-deef-11ed-a0a8-657f9e54fc6a?shareToken=43c2d6a9994fcb2d6d982c121c2d64e9
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This is Ralph Yarl’s official Go Fund Me page. Please donate. Thank you.
#JusticeForRalphYarl #RalphYarl #BlackMastodon #Mastodon #usa #AndrewLester
RT @Isobel_waby
congratulations to @SamGorst standing as an Independent Labour Councillor in Liverpool. NOT afraid to show he supports the many not the few, supporting+working for all regardless of race or colour, that is what REAL SOCIALIST do unlike Starmers Cult full of bitterness+ignorance.
RT @Kit_Yates_Maths
“the current Prime Minister, his predecessor Boris Johnson and his Deputy, Dominic Raab, are all now under simultaneous investigation for alleged parliamentary and ministerial rule-breaches.”
Latest from @AdamBienkov @BylineTimes
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/04/18/everything-to-declare-the-conflicts-of-interest-rishi-sunak-wont-talk-about/
RT @magmogz135
@ToryFibs Remember when @jeremycorbyn won the 'MP of the Year' award & they decided to drop it that year?! 😄
And yesterday, @loosewomen got 96% on a poll about protesting & deleted it 😉
Their getting more & more desperate as they know they've lost all the arguments🤷♀️
#CapitalismAndGreed
RT @AndyPeacock999
@CatHobbs @LabourList Why would anyone support the nation's food supply being in the hands of the likes of the
greedy and unscrupulous heirs of Shirley 'Tesco ' Porter?
Nationalisation of supermarkets seems pretty sensible whilst supporting a thriving and diverse farming industry.
The tragedy of the commons is what happens when you let market-driven ideologues fuck things up.
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A note on a key chapter of neoliberal theology:
'The Tragedy of the Commons thesis has been thoroughly debunked by Nobel prize winning development economist Elinor Ostrom and countless other researchers and practitioners; they have shown that, in fact, most commons like grazing lands and water supply are not open access regimes but managed very successfully through community institutions and local access rules.'
@pvonhellermannn
https://medium.com/@p.vonhellermann/the-tragedy-of-the-non-commons-4bfad884cdbe
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You no longer have to imagine what a 'free economy' looks like, general strikes, CoL, corruption, hatred of immigrants, denial of citizens FOM, unelected PM's, shows the UK that it's anti-governance tactics have eviscerated democracy and equality, the social contract in tatters.
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It’s very, very strange to be surrounded by people everywhere slowly signing up for fascism. Especially when they think of themselves as “normal”, liberal / progressive… the good people. And yet, they’ve fallen for propaganda. Slowly agreed to value tiny personal convenience over everyone else’s basic human rights. They’ve jettisoned reality. Rejected science and facts. Bought into extreme selfishness. They proudly post photos of themselves causing harm. And push others to do the same. W.T.F.
RT @Nurseborisbash
@darrengrimes_ You really don't know if you want a sh!t or a haircut, do you?
RT @Normanjam671
@mrbobodenkirk @Baddiel The last man I remember wearing blackface on British TV.
RT @EthicalRenewal
@Conservatives What do Conservatives stand for?
Corporate and Hedge Fund profits.
Greed.
Elitism.
The privileged 1%.
Unregulated markets.
Fewer protections for children, workers or the environment.
Corruption and cronyism.
Racism and sleaze.
That’s what.
A Conservative?
You should be ashamed.
RT @MarinaPurkiss
Does it get more incriminating than this?
Watch
…and remember that Sunak’s wife is a shareholder in one of those private childcare agencies.
RT @docrussjackson
@GBNEWS @Nigel_Farage These people will stop at absolutely nothing.
#WorldSnookerChampionship
#JustStopOil
RT @docrussjackson
That's funny, because I'm a hardworking British taxpayer and I'm sick to the back teeth of funding infantile pig-ignorant bootlicking cowardly anonymous far-right racist dickheads. 👍
RT @jasongorman
I mean, who *wouldn't* want an autonomous personal assistant who understands nothing, routinely makes basic factual errors, hallucinates, can't count and has to be retrained to learn anything new?
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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
