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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Since the Paper of Record is again publishing op-ed pieces about the Fierce Urgency of Doing Something About the #Debt without even once mentioning global #finance or the international monetary system - while also insisting that you must believe in MMT in order to disagree we’re facing an imminent crisis - here is my piece from two years ago explaining why this is a fundamental misunderstanding of the issue:
https://www.markcopelovitch.com/post/how-much-debt-is-too-much-next-question-please
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Always gratifying when someone gives a name to a process you can feel but not yet identify precisely
Well you like to talk about freedom
Freedom, freedom, freedom,
But you never say what it is,
Our master says “you’re free! You’re free!”
We are free to starve my friend, and that’s the only thing they’ve ever given us
Would you like to scream freedom, freedom, freedom
Call me sad, call me mad, but starving is not freedom
I wanna be free of this freedom.
RT @Teh_Snowflake
Inflation is down, but prices are still up.
Almost like inflation was just a pretext to drive profits?
I really hate GraphQL
It's a poor solution to an already more than adequately addressed "problem"
I can see that if you are a huge website and only want to send the exact pieces of data back and forth to keep data volume/traffic down it might be justified
But how many sites are actually like that outside of the big social media ones?
The rest of us spend all day typing names of columns that could be done automatically by simpler tools.
Well, that was interesting.
No milk in Iceland apart from Cravendale 4 pinters
Little milk in Tesco but I did get a couple of pints
Cows on strike?
Maybe it's the snow (which we don't have here, but I hear it's been bad elsewhere).
Know-nothing fool proves they're a know-nothing fool
In other news, water is wet
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RT @IsabelOakeshott
Jacinda Ardern smirked as she imprisoned an entire population, telling them: “don’t talk to your neighbours.” A deeply sinister authoritarian masquerading as a liberal progressive. Good riddance!
https://twitter.com/IsabelOakeshott/status/1616125255621263369
Why are they even bothering to interview that know-nothing fool?
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RT @reflextv
3.7 billion years of evolution and we’ve come to this… https://twitter.com/talktv/status/1603345566943121410
https://twitter.com/reflextv/status/1616199192908644352
RT @KernowDamo
@Keir_Starmer @RachelReevesMP You just lost your shirt to the tune of millions chasing the people who released the Labour Leaks report, rather than the people featured in it accused of bullying and harassment. People you quietly readmitted to the party. We know exactly why you need 'rich investors'.
Apart from this being a bit "wish in one hand and shit in the other, see which fills up first" fantasy.
"We" could try investing ourselves and not selling even more of our country to spivs, price fixers, and tax dodgers.
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RT @Keir_Starmer
The Labour Party will attract global investors to drive our economy forwards.
We will decarbonise the economy, create good jobs, boost energy security and make the UK a world leader in the clim…
https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1616099248281370624
RT @BThroughParty
800 public libraries have closed due to underfunding since 2010.
Lending libraries are essential for those who can't afford to buy books or don’t have room to store them.
We will bring libraries back into council or community not-for-profit ownership and fund them properly.
How the fk would they know?
Plus ... shows what a dirty war it was.
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RT @Independent
Two-thirds say Prince Harry damaged national security by revealing Taliban kills https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/prince-harry-taliban-spare-afghanistan-b2265401.html?utm_content=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Main&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1674196861
https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1616326271750873088
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Rishi Sunak talks of “union paymasters” - I dare him to look an NHS worker in the eye and repeat it. I’m sure he wouldn’t, because deep down he knows that those striking for fair pay are simply people seeking to make ends meet & trying to do the best for their families #PMQs
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1615684826501185536
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If EVERYONE had access to the same COVID protections used for billionaires at the Word Economic Forum—state-of-the-art ventilation systems and same day PCR testing prior to entry, we could significantly reduce the risks of COVID and Long COVID.
We are third class passengers on the Titanic. #COVID19
RT @Normanjam671
How have we ended up with the most expensive high speed rail line per mile in the world, is it because we're a corrupt country?
RT @FrancisPosts
If you have a sub for the @FT make sure you keep saying you want to cancel all through each of the 5 screens. The first screen asking you why, which then crashed on my app, does not mean you have cancelled. You need to go through another 3 screens of offers and crap. Very annoyed
RT @PlainLincoln
@Lavenderchina Not at all. Private medical insurance in UK right now is priced off broad assumption that emergency, chronic and most acute care will be covered by NHS, with PMI covering only lucrative bits. PMI WITHOUT comprehensive NHS, like USA? Multiply current UK quote by 5 or 10🤑😳
RT @TorstenBell
Sigh. No-one thinks there’s an epidemic of young single professionals going to food banks. There are these things called children which you probably don’t want to bring up in a single room. And obviously lots of people earning far less than £30k https://twitter.com/leeandersonmp_/status/1616005190036987906
It's always the poorest that pay under Neoliberalism
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RT @ColeStangler
Yes, France spends a lot of money on pensions, but the system delivers a decent standard of living for millions. Macron's proposed reforms will disproportionately hurt low-wage workers. My story @thenation #ReformeDesRetraites #Greve19janvier https://www.thenation.com/article/world/macron-france-retirement-pensions/
https://twitter.com/ColeStangler/status/1615654337803329546
It should be free anyway, what a dystopian way of thinking.
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RT @NRO
One answer to reducing abortions, @AUL argues, is to ensure that every woman knows that she can give birth with no money out-of-pocket.
The paper acknowledges that this would not be cheap. | @theWesleyJSmith
https://trib.al/QaXnfFD
https://twitter.com/NRO/status/1615999926378315776
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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
