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Christo

@Christo@mastodonapp.uk

I started on Mastodon when Twitter was bought by Musk.
I'm 75, married to Bill, who is 79 for 57 years this year, have a son and a deceased daughter. I'm anti-royalty and anti-celebrity, anti-capitalist and am a anarcho-syndicalist. I love live music from classical to opera to rock, R&B, pop, jazz, experimental, contemporary etc., reading, growing food and flowers, volunteer and seek a way to live sustainably. No God's, No Masters
I will vote Green.

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wdlindsy , to random
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As Esther Addley reports, Clacton in Essex, England, is 95.3% white. It has few immigrants.

Yet Nigel Farage's immigrant-baiting is having enormous influence on the aging, economically stagnant, almost entirely white population of Clacton, which is willing to believe that someone else — specifically, immigrants — is responsible for every problem imaginable.

Immigrant-bashing works. Lots of us want a scapegoat to blame our ills on.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jun/21/nigel-farage-populist-pitch-gains-traction-clacton

Christo ,
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@wdlindsy
The English are a mix of immigrants

rbreich , to random
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By withholding a ruling on Trump v. United States, the Supreme Court's far-right justices are effectively giving Trump the immunity he's seeking, making it all but impossible for him to face trial before the election for his efforts to overturn the election and his role in Jan 6.

Christo ,
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@rbreich
Can nothing be done about these corrupt justices

wdlindsy , to random
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"Donald Trump vowed at a rally Tuesday that if reelected, he’ll cut funding to every school with a vaccine mandate ― even though all 50 states have such laws on the books.

If he followed through on that, no school in the United States would receive federal funding."

~ Lydia O'Connor


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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-school-vaccine-mandates_n_6673088fe4b0a1f905bb0c4a

Christo ,
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@wdlindsy
I'm in the UK and have memories of when folk had polio, TB, measles and mumps etc

Strandjunker , to random
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Here’s the deal: We stop pretending there is any kind of separation of church and state here. Tax them. Tax them hard.

Christo ,
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@Strandjunker
I'd prefer an absolute break between church and state. They can pay the tax easily, they want power to impose their beliefs on the rest of us.

wdlindsy , to random
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"I’ll ... let the GOP publicly display their Ten Commandments, but on one condition: they have to follow them. That’s it. That’s all I ask. Since I’m so magnanimous today, I won’t even ask all of them to follow the holy directives - just Donald Trump, their fearless leader.

I’m feeling super tolerant, open-minded, and giving today. I don’t even need Trump to follow all Ten Commandments. Let him follow a majority of them."

~ Left Hook


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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/if-trump-can-follow-the-ten-commandments

Christo ,
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@wdlindsy
Why not the beatitudes, the Sermon on the Mount . Why is it always Old Testament

faab64 , to palestine group

Israeli cabinet discusses punitive measures against agencies

🔶️ Months of tensions boil over after UN chief adds Israeli military to for failing to protect in conflict

🔶️ Benjamin ’s government has discussed far-reaching measures against UN agencies operating in Israel and the Palestinian territories, including the possible expulsion of staff, according to five people familiar with the matter.

🔶️ The UN has slammed Israel for not doing enough to protect either the organisation’s own humanitarian personnel in Gaza or Palestinian civilians, with calling Gaza a “graveyard for children”.



@palestine @israel
archive.ph/y9Cvy

Christo ,
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@faab64
The mass murderer Netanyahu

wdlindsy , to random
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"There is, many critics insist, nothing 'far right' or 'racist' about wanting to restrict immigration or in raising concerns about radical Islamists. That is true."

~ Kenan Malik


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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/16/far-right-policies-dont-become-palatable-just-because-mainstream-politicians-adopt-them

Christo ,
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@wdlindsy
As a white Londoner who loves the City as it is. It amazes me that the English are a nation of immigrants going back ages and ages who seem to either hate themselves or fail to recognise who they really are.

GottaLaff , to random
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👍🏻In a sweeping change that could improve millions of Americans’ ability to own a home or buy a car, the administration will propose a rule Tuesday to ban medical debt from credit reports. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sweeping-change-biden-administration-ban-medical-debt-credit/story?cid=social_twitter_abcn&id=110997906

Christo ,
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@GottaLaff
How does that help ifmedical debt ends up bankrupting you?

DemocracyMattersALot , (edited ) to random
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CLARENCE THOMAS MUST GO!!!

Thomas has accepted $4M in gifts during career: Watchdog
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4708390-thomas-has-accepted-4m-in-gifts-during-career-watchdog/

Christo ,
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How is he still a judge ? That's corruption!

auschwitzmuseum , to random
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1 June 1926 | A Czech Jewish girl, Sonja Roubičková, was born in Prague.

She was deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt Ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.

Christo ,
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She looks so much like my cousin Carol.

MikeDunnAuthor , to random
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Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
--Bill Gates

Christo ,
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@MikeDunnAuthor
Jeez these billionaires are stupid

GottaLaff , to random
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Oh, what was that?

You’re asking if we GOT OUR OFFER ACCEPTED on the new townhouse?

…

…

YES!!!

Now if only I weren’t so miserable with this cold so I enjoy the moment.

Speaking of which, I will only post news alerts today again. I really do feel crummy.

Don’t expect replies. Apologies.

Christo ,
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@GottaLaff
Wishing you much better soon. I hope the townhouse goes smoothly.

EndIsraeliApartheid , to random
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"Israel's conditions for ending the war have not changed", said Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday (June 1).

"Netanyahu is saying that Israel would never agree to the permanent ceasefire until its conditions have been met", reports FRANCE 24's Chief Foreign Editor Rob Parsons.

"Its conditions are the total defeat of Hamas so that they could no longer function in a military sense or in a governmental sense", he added.

✡️ 🇵🇸 ☮️

video/mp4

Christo ,
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@EndIsraeliApartheid
And they class all Palestinians as Hamas

RadicalGraffiti , to random
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"1000 kids lost limbs to bombs in Gaza"
Graffiti written on a "pro life" billboard in Medford, Oregon

Christo ,
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Plus a heartbeat is nothing without a brain at any age

Natasha_Jay , to random
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The Independent (UK): First poll with fieldwork after the GE was announced, first Techne UK poll with the Tories under 20% ...

🔴 Lab 45% (+1)
🔵 Cons 19% (-2)
🟠 Lib Dems 12% (=)
⚪ Reform 14% (+2)
🟢 Greens 5% (-1)
🟡 SNP 2% (=)
⚫ Others 3% (=)

👥 1643 Surveyed
🔎 Field Work: 22 & 23 May 2024
🗓️ +/- 17th May 2024

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tories-poll-low-snap-general-election-b2550507.html

#UK #UKPol #GE2024 #UKPolitics #GeneralElection #Polling

Christo ,
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Why are the Green Party so low? Their policies would really change things for the better

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