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RT @jasonhickel
No, the British Empire did not "bring democracy" to their colonies in the global South. British rule was literally dictatorship. The colonized struggled and bled for the right to vote *in their own countries*.

RT @jdpoc
If one had to sum up in 2021, in one image ...

Masterful.

Apologies, artist unknown, but of course based on 'Nighthawks'.

I have read a few articles on the World Socialist Website and thought they were ok, but wow. Think I won't bother again.

wsws.org/en/articles/2022/06/0

RT @joshuaackerman
i have thought about this hacker news comment nearly every day since november ninth twenty seventeen

RT @RickyDHale
@PhilipProudfoot You're not a true leftist unless Paul Mason has called you an Assadist, Stalinist or Putin sympathiser

RT @PhilipProudfoot
Thought I'd made it on the left, but I'm not even in the Mason files 😢

RT @RMTunion
£58,000 a week!!
We are either incredibly good negotiators or you are an incredibly poor journalist. twitter.com/toryboypierce/stat

Imagine if YouTube was shut down.

It would be a literal tragedy for the human race. Billions of hours worth of creativity would disappear in an instant.

"That would never happen!" some believe.

But it already has.

Remember Google+? All of it's gone forever.

Or remember all that media stored on MySpace? It's vanished.

We must stop depending on Big Tech to archive our data. Their mandate is to profit off our data, not preserve it.

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RT @GNDRising
Get ready for our BIGGEST action yet.

This September, hundreds of young people will swarm Rishi Sunak's constituency to demand a fairer future & expose his negligence.

Want to be kept in the loop with our Sunak Summer Showdown plans? Sign up now: act.gndrising.org/sunak-summer

@oldbooksmell Honestly I could make an argument about how similar those are. :) Because language snobbery is used to propagate so many other bigotries. Landlords and cops protect the interests of people at the top of the hierarchy and so does prescriptivism because of all the racism, classism, ableism, sexism, etc. that is inherent in it.

RT @GraemePearce3
Working peoples living standards have had to be fought for

Each generational improvement has been down to standing on the shoulders of past generation heroes like these

We need to provide strong shoulders for the generation to come

Let’s end the gender pay gap for a start twitter.com/danielkebedeneu/st

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