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 @nazirafzal
Woke is not an insult
Woke people ended slavery & child labour, fought for women to get the vote & equality for races, LGBT+ & disabled
Woke people created the NHS & stood up to the Nazis
Being woke is simply wanting OTHERS to be treated as YOU yourself would want to be treated
RT @Jackiew80333500
my horrible Labour Council https://twitter.com/paulapeters2/status/1582959992763650054
RT @getprdone
“When a regime has been in power too long “
👉🏽 The #FPTP voting system makes it difficult to remove them from power.
#GetPRDone
#MakeDemocracyWork #PR
#ProportionalRepresentation
RT @OCSDispute
@unisontheunion Thank you to everyone at UNISON who supported us all the way to victory. To @cmcanea who stood with us on the picket lines in chilly Blackpool. Our win is life changing for us all.
“My visceral objection is to unaccountable power.”
Says man whose party only got 42% of the vote and forced the festival of lack of accountability on us all.
Not even a tiny bit of regret.
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RT @docrussjackson
"God is a libertarian as well as an absolute monarchist".
"We’re not supposed to be living under a democratic system, we’re supposed to be living a free life".
- "Christian Libertarian" Steve Baker, who is against dem…
https://twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1577231544892395520
RT @RedCollectiveUK
Let's be clear. Braverman either did not send that email, or fully intended to, from a personal email account. As abhorrent as she and her racist beliefs are, she is not stupid. Her own resignation letter shows this is a calculated resignation, designed to bring down Truss.
RT @LiamStarsong
If you really, really mean it when you say "Tories out", it means we tear out their capitalist ideology by the roots.
Today's two party system is a mechanism to protect power from change.
Changing the actors is easy enough, but we have to change the play.
RT @JolyonMaugham
I regret I must tell you we will now endure weeks of 'however did it come to this' from a commentariat that urged and cheered each step.
RT @Lesism
Any lingering flicker of doubt that the #BritishEmpire is well and truly gone must surely have come, this month, in the shadow of even darker times to come, when the people of the #UnitedKingdom cried out for a hero, and Tory consensus replied 'How about Grant Shapps?'
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
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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
