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GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 8h

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Innit tho.

Christopher Hitchens on George Orwell

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 11h

Russia is the club-house and HQ for the international uber-wealthy who think they're the masters of the universe.

Hence the chumminess with people like Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage etc.

But if treason doth prosper, none dare call it treason, especially if it's the posh-boys that are the traitors.

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GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 11h

That was when Russia was communist.

Now it's a fascist war-mongering state full of obscenely rich oligarchs. So it's OK to be pals with them now if you're someone from the UK establishment.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 21h

Zack Polanski, "Reform UK's Zia Yusuf was full of b*llocks and I think it was important to call that out on #BBCQT"

"What has become clear about Reform UK, they're a bunch of cowards"

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GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 18h

Turing himself was victim to the class-based British "education" malarkey. His head teacher was ultra snobbish about Turing aiming to be "merely a maths specialist" rather than getting a "proper education".

Snotty British education is all about understanding social codes.

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GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 1d

The Reform barrel contains only bad apples.

GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 1d

If treason doth prosper, none dare call it treason.

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GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 1d

Get enough snowflakes together and you can start an avalanche.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 2d

As Toby Young points out, Black people are over-represented in advertising. He somehow forgot to mention they are over-represented in poverty, unemployment and homelessness statistics too.

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GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 3d

The Labour party are such a crop of headmasters, methodists and petty authoritarians. Always looking to help the landowner classes manage the peasants.

The punchline to the classic joke about Labour is the 'labour spokesman' saying "don't be silly, comrade, the bosses will never agree to that."

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GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 4d

Go Greens.

The mainstream parties often boast of having to make "difficult choices" when what they mean is choices that make life harder for us all.

Wrest the land back from the 1% and share its bounty among the people of the country.

That's a real hard choice. Hard to achieve, but just.

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GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 4d

You'd think the richest man in the world would be more smiley, huh?

Maybe money and power just aren't the route to happiness.

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GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 4d

Treason doth never prosper.

What's the reason?

Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

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GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 4d

Yep.

The whole Tory philosophy is the pursuit of the idea of obedient workers and a solution to the servant problem.

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GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 4d

The Tory perspective of the world is so impoverished by spite, hate, greed and ignorance, you could be forgiven for thinking it was invented by a bunch of graceless, arrogant, dissolute toffs...

which of course it was.

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GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 5d

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Just a quick reminder of what a toxic bunch of poison-mongers the Tories are.

All that's changed is they've forgotten to decorate it all with public school accents.

A British Ice and more stop and search: Badenoch’s Tories set out new policies

Shadow ministers have announced far-reaching and often radical proposals – here is a roundup of some of them

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GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 5d

It should be law that the corections occupy the same provenance and space as the original sleazy lie.

Otherwise they're just getting away with "the conservative game".

GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 5d

If anything's "destroying this country" it's the toxic desperation of the right to find new things to hate and keep their f-wit base angry about.

GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 5d

The Tories' racism is all they have left of their identity.

And let's face it, all their other "values" were derived from the same toxic source of snotty delusion that informed their racism in the first place.

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah, Ive had this previously when I was doing so much extra stuff to support researchers and then when I left they just stopped doing it and ... no-one really cared.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 7d

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

Work really hard and one day this can be you (followed by graffiti of a headstone that says “RIP worked really hard” on it

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GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 6d

It's a head-scratcher, isn't it?

GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 6d

Being a disinformation spreader is a prerequisite of being a right wing politician now. It's easier if you're a moron, because it helps if you seem to completely believe the BS you're fire-hosing into the public sphere.

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Politics of lies

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