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 @Gohahwei1
In Quebec (Canada), 11 deputies refused to take the oath to Charles III https://twitter.com/Info53917080/status/1582989508814852096
RT @Cmacf76
We’ll be joining our friends @ScottishTrans @LGBTIScotland @LGBTYS @LGBTHealthy outside Parliament for a rally of support on the day of the Stage One vote of the GRA reform Bill. Come and join us. Details below. 👇🏻👇🏻
#comeoutfortransequality https://twitter.com/scottishtrans/status/1582738872127336449
Looks like the pound will recover against the dollar, then. Same hedge fine rhymes with bankers.
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RT @davetroy
2/the US debt ceiling, early next year. Republicans are threatening not to raise it; causing the US to default on its debt, which will have catastrophic effects on the dollar and make it more expensive for the US to borrow. They threatened this... https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/18/gop-debt-ceiling-plan-financi…
https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1582821076425269249
The article is more coherent than the click bait title, but doesn’t offer anything other than stating the bleeding obvious. What to do, then? No idea.
Well, sweetheart, it didn’t fucking help, either.
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RT @TheAtlantic
“To believe that the country’s problems can be explained by a single act of stupidity, rather than by structural issues much harder to rectify,” writes @TomMcTague, “is, after all, comforting”: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/10/liz-truss-uk-britain-economy-brexit/671778/?taid=63502a4b0c97a30001e0b383&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=true…
https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1582944737287458816
RT @JamaalBowmanNY
As Egypt hosts the world at #COP27 next month, some 60,000 Egyptian activists will be suffering in prison. We cannot be silent about this. Fighting the climate crisis can never be separated from struggles for human rights, justice, and democracy. #FreeAlaa
https://theintercept.com/2022/10/07/egypt-cop27-climate-prisoners-alaa
RT @family_martyn
@orangesky_JC @LizWebsterLD @EdwardJDavey @Edwardbloke @peterjukes @Mandoline_Blue @JohnWest_JAWS @JessicaCheshi15 this
RT @zimpenfish
"Braverman says she quit after sending an official document from her personal email, a breach of ministerial rules"
Suddenly they're for following the ministerial rules? After the last few years of ripping them to shreds? What?
Later in the same article:
Today *unity* with the opportunists actually means subordinating the working class to their 'own' national bourgeoisie, and an alliance with the latter for the purpose of oppressing other nations and of fighting for dominant nation privileges; it means *splitting* the revolutionary proletariat of all countries.
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Nothing has changed, has it?
Lenin wrote this over 100 years ago. It sounds and feels really familiar.
Video: Starmer on hook in Commons for breaking all his leadership campaign promises https://skwawkbox.org/2022/10/17/video-starmer-on-hook-in-commons-for-breaking-all-his-leadership-campaign-promises/ via @skwawkbox
If our pensions are "triple locked" why are they so shite?
RT @TomLondon6
Our news come to us WITH NO CONTEXT
How, for EXAMPLE, are our problems now linked to
1 Thatcher's neoliberal revolution
2 Banking Crash of 2008
3 Austerity after 2010
AS WELL AS the "mini-budget"?
News is reduced to breathless soundbites, not least about individual politicians
RT @BThroughParty
The Public Order Bill has passed its first hurdle.
This includes banning protests, electronic tagging and increased powers of stop and search.
Tories want to ram through their agenda of austerity and deregulation with no opposition.
We must resist ✊
RT @D_Raval
This is why I don't share petitions. They had their day back in the 17th century, they have no value in the 21st century (other than data capture for mailing lists etc). People create and share them because it's what they've always done. Time to think of alternatives. https://twitter.com/ShoaibMKhan/status/1582491370719092736
RT @Andr0Tat0r
@nscscience @GeorgeMonbiot Already did, now they're trying to secure permanent minority rule. The worst bit is that even if we get a Labour government in at the next election, they're extremely unlikely to repeal any of this.
RT @JoeGrowling
@Keir_Starmer Never trust anyone who brakes pledges...
RT @JoeGrowling
@Ed_Miliband Is this a 'Pledge' of the kind that you actually follow up on, or the usual kind?
RT @Normanjam671
Are you sure it's a good idea starting a war with the country that produces all our consumer goods? 🤔
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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
