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Vonskinnback

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Twitter refuge who has settled into his new home & I am very much enjoying the relaxing atmosphere at Mastodon, looking to connect with people who talk about music, politics & current affairs.

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rameshgupta , to random
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is too stupid to realize that NOT voting for is a vote FOR , and that her boycott of could be her last — She might not get another opportunity to vote EVER.

Via @SteveThompson

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/cardi-b-wont-vote-joe-biden-or-donald-trump_uk_66477644e4b0cba40889b45b?utm_source=press.coop

Vonskinnback ,
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@benroyce @nicholas_saunders @rameshgupta I assume there is a moral argument to be made that the best thing for humanity the planet the environment & the future is to push us down a dark awful route that brings about a global collapse sooner rather than later as in the long run things will improve faster from the ashes of our old/archaic "civilisation". But this would very much wander into the "the ends justify the means" sociopathic worldview. But both seem like two cheeks of the same arse.

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@benroyce @nicholas_saunders @rameshgupta these people have always existed, in one form or another, it's just now they can be organised & managed on a global scale & paid for their troubles. They don't really concern me. What actually concerns me is apathy, that is the fastest path to either global collapse or global fascism (both paths look virtually the same) but we are bound by a universal structure that poisons everything, which is the bastardised version of capitalism we all participate in.

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@rameshgupta @benroyce @nicholas_saunders choosing to not vote is the same as choosing to not join in with capitalism, it makes you feel morally superior but actually does nothing to improve the situation whatsoever, working to improve those systems that have been forced on us is more likely to encourage more people to join you, well thought out changes are easy to get support for as long as they are promoted as a positive, not an "anti", people get put off by extreme people shouting at them...

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@rameshgupta @benroyce @nicholas_saunders there is a reason that "never let the perfect be the enemy of the good" is the truest way to live your life & the best way to bring people with you in real numbers...

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@nicholas_saunders @rameshgupta @benroyce the UK (just as the US) has heard the structure of their own democracy creek & groan under the pressures applied to it over the last 16/17 years & though it has sprung a few leaks (on both sides of the Atlantic) it has held pretty strong & there is only so long that people can deny reality before it kicks down your door & slaps you around the face with a gigantic haddock, as is the nature of observable reality...

Vonskinnback ,
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@philip_cardella @nicholas_saunders @rameshgupta @benroyce we had Oswald Mosley in the UK, plus some pretty prominent members of the royal family...😬

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@philip_cardella @nicholas_saunders @rameshgupta @benroyce the people that go willingly are nationalists who enjoy feeling empowered from their deliberately prescribed position of weakness. Just like football, cheering the success without the need to be involved beyond cheering them on from the sidelines, but still feeling the glory of the win, whilst living a life of hidden misunderstood loss that is beyond their control, imperceptible to everyone but still holding palpable power over them.

rbreich , to random
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Half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food and housing costs.

A third of the workers have had to rely on at least one government assistance program.

Amazon's stock hit an all time high in April. Jeff Bezos is now worth $203 billion.

This is what oligarchy looks like.

Vonskinnback ,
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@rbreich corporate welfare is out of control, the only reason Musk has as much monas he does is because the US government gave him billions of dollars to multiple companies that he owns & we got nothing in return...

rbreich , to random
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Apple shares lost 10% of their value.

Then Apple announced plans to buy back $110 billion of its own stock.

After that, Apple shares had their best day since 2022.

There's a reason stock buybacks used to be considered illegal stock manipulations.

They should still be banned.

Vonskinnback ,
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@rbreich this is why nobody should ever listen when they have those stories on the news saying that the stock market is rallying or in a bull run or having the greatest period of growth in decades because it doesn't mean shit for anybody else on the ground only people who earn their wealth off other people's hard work & poverty wages...

rbreich , to random
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Clarence Thomas hearing Trump's immunity case, when his wife Ginni was directly involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election, tells you everything you need to know about the Supreme Court's new code of "ethics."

It's a sham.

Vonskinnback ,
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@rbreich but if trump gets immunity then Biden gets immediate immunity to do as he pleases, no matter what it is..

Strandjunker , to random
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Everyone knew about Harvey Weinstein. Everyone knew about R. Kelly, Bill Cosby, and Jeffrey Epstein. Everyone knew about the Catholic priests. Everyone knew about Donald Trump. I’m so tired of people protecting rich perverts, keeping their dark secrets for decades. So damn tired.

Vonskinnback ,
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@Strandjunker I had to run a vile sex offender out of my friends group after pointing out what kind of person he was and a lot of the women in that group say he made them feel uncomfortable, but when he overstep the mark I had to make a threat on his life to scare him off for good, my friends never understood why I had to act in such a way, 12 months later he was divorced from my friend who was married to him for trying to assault her daughter, we don't talk about him anymore...

raymondpert , to random
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Unpopular Sunak in ‘doom loop’ as PM stares at election defeat

> He’s failed to meet key pledges, hit an opinion poll low, and even cramped the style of a popular Adidas shoe: Britain’s beleaguered Conservative leader appears destined to lose a looming general election.
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2492816/world

Vonskinnback ,
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@raymondpert I would like to say that the Tories have done enough damage to ensure that they never get into power again, but people said that in the 90's, but the moment people started feeling better off & more successful with the support & help our society deserves provided by the labour party they decided to get vile & greedy by voting Tory to protect their wealth, but just like in the 80's, all the Tories did was steal all of the money, destroy the country & blame it on the poor & immigration

Strandjunker , to random
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Here’s the deal: Women stop having sex with men until Congress protects Roe v. Wade.

Vonskinnback ,
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@Strandjunker republicans would just legalised rape...

randahl , to random
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Instead of saying all Palestinians are Hamas, or all Israelis are Likud, listen to the people on both sides who want peace.

These days, the streets of Tel Aviv are filled with protests calling for Benjamin Netanyahu's resignation.

I applaud them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCZAQovM89U

Vonskinnback ,
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@randahl unfortunately the global population seems to elevate psychopaths to positions of power, sometimes unwillingly & sometimes willingly, but they always seem to reach positions of power, the real issue is not all of them are natural psychopaths, quite a few of them are built in a system designed to create psychopaths, because it is a desired outcome within powerful bloodlines & they spend a lot of money turning their children into psychopaths...

flexghost , to random
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Let me get this straight

A global conspiracy, involving every country on earth for 40+ years in order to spread mind-control chemicals from planes is real

Yet climate change is false

Hey Republicans from The South: ever wonder why no one takes y’all seriously?

🏆

Vonskinnback ,
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@flexghost you would think they would at least ask themselves why it's not working, because quite frankly I don't know many people whose minds are being controlled by chemtrails, but fox news, the Murdoch media empire and all of those billionaire media owners seem to be doing a better job than those fucking bullshit chemtrails...

rbreich , (edited ) to random
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Vonskinnback ,
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@rbreich he does it on a global scale, he extracts wealth from every country in the world, he pays very little tax in the countries he operates in, but he removes jobs, destroys local businesses & well paid careers, he replaces them with minimum wage zero hours contracts. He is a global parasite destroying communities and societies...

RememberUsAlways , to palestine group
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I find it odd that the never discuss the .

Nothing will change as long as is holding

@palestine
@israel

https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-envoys-leave-cairo-with-deadlocked-hostage-deal-talks-to-resume-next-week/

Vonskinnback ,
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@faab64 @RememberUsAlways @palestine @israel that's not the same, because reasons & whatnot...🤔

Vonskinnback ,
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@faab64 @RememberUsAlways @palestine @israel unfortunately you might have not noticed the sarcasm in my response...🤣

Vonskinnback ,
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@faab64 @RememberUsAlways @palestine @israel honestly the whole situation is fucked, everyone is telling lies, journalists are blocked from entering Gaza to report the facts, the ones who are in Gaza are being killed at the fastest rate of any conflict in modern history. It's all really grim...

lowqualityfacts , to random
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He must have bought the Lion King game.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

Vonskinnback ,
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@lowqualityfacts I was raging against the Sega master system, miracle warriors was my white whale...

breadandcircuses , to random
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You know what drives me crazy?

Every time someone has a good idea to perhaps reduce humanity's negative impact on the biosphere, the clowns who run our economies and our governments will take that good idea and twist it into the worst possible implementation.

Case in point: If we could get large numbers of people to switch from driving gas/petrol cars to small EVs — or even better to electric scooters or bikes — that could make a real difference in reducing overall emissions.

So what do our "leaders" do instead? They focus on building and selling huge, bulky, monstrously heavy, status-symbol EVs that not only are more damaging to the environment than a lighter gas/petrol car, but also far more dangerous to children, pedestrians, bike riders, and other cars because of their titanic weight and their reduced sight lines.

It drives me crazy!! 😡

SEE -- https://www.climateandcommunity.org/more-mobility-less-mining

Vonskinnback ,
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@breadandcircuses not to mention turning them into data scrapers & privacy risks...

micchiato , to random
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Dear :

Read the fucking room.

Vonskinnback ,
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@Mlep @micchiato the police should have refused to arrest them, the judiciary should have refused to prosecute, the judge should have refused to sit. There were lots of opportunities to stand up to the breaches of these people's human rights, but it looks like the jury will have to do.

parismarx , to random
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the metaverse is dead — onto the next tech fad!

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/18/24042354/mark-zuckerberg-meta-agi-reorg-interview

Vonskinnback ,
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@parismarx anything he does will likely fail because he is the king of stealing people's data & breaking democracy around the world...

CelloMomOnCars , to random
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We really need to stop buying into the argument that are "radical" or "destructive". The opposite is true: the nature of the protests have been peaceful and, on the whole, pretty tame.

The idea that, say, sitting on a road is "radical", "extreme" and "criminal" came from a bunch of aligned think tanks, parroted by the media.
Reject them.

The framing needs to be: Fossil fuel companies are radical, extreme, criminal.


https://newrepublic.com/article/175488/meet-shadowy-global-network-vilifying-climate-protesters

Vonskinnback ,
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@CelloMomOnCars yep, met my fair share of people who believe sitting in the road is a terror attack on our civil liberties, can't wait to find out what they think about the local river running through their front room...

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