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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · Dec 11

If you are a socialist, or a communist, or an anarchist, or a climate activist, or covid cautious, I want to follow you. Are you there?

Click on this 🧵post to scroll through MY THREADS🧵👇☝️

Failed state: bsky.app/profile/shak...
Don’t die of ignorance: bsky.app/profile/shak...

Further threads: ☝️&👇

The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · Nov 22

We are a police state, with poverty as deliberate policy, we defend apartheid & arm genocidal regimes, we ignore international law, we break treaties, we host global corruption, our covid-19 response failed, we promote racist hostility: we are a failed state.

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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 9h

Nothing he is doing is by accident.
He was chosen carefully.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Government could crack down on pro-Palestinian protest chants, PM says

The government needs to

www.bbc.co.uk

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justiceseer.bsky.social @justiceseer.bsky.social · 14h

* #Starmer increased PRIVATE provision of #NHS-Services in South East London by 71%
* In Dorset at 51%
* In Cambridgeshire at 41%
* Peterborough at 41%
* Suffolk at 41%
* NE Essex at 41%!

#Taxpayers funding #PrivateHealthVultures!🤑

#Get the #RedToriesOUT - #ASAP!🤮
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14h

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

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Simon @socialistsimon.bsky.social · 12h

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

The press seem to have speed-ran this mantra right to the fighting part… which is fine by me. Bring on the winning.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13h

My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.

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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 13h

Zionist genocide bot.

The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 13h

Genocide bot

The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 17h

I've done some research, others have done much more:
electronicintifada.net/content/how-...

How Israel killed hundreds of its own people on 7 October

One year on, the evidence is overwhelming.

electronicintifada.net

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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 17h

In 2017, Hamas created a 42-article document of principles making it clear that their struggle was against Zionism, not the Jewish people, that antisemitism was rooted in Europe, not Arabic or Muslim history.

You can read it here: www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-2...

Hamas in 2017: The document in full

Hamas explains general principles and objectives in 42-article document

www.middleeasteye.net

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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 17h

And the root of all evil:
bsky.app/profile/shak...

The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · Apr 29

The Western Hegemony gas-lights the globe with fear of terrorist states. We are the Terror States!

The Real Axis of Evil – a trilogy of terror threads:
• 🧵 Colonial Carnage: bsky.app/profile/shak...
• 🧵 The American Nightmare: bsky.app/profile/shak...
• 🧵 Murderous Mossad: bsky.app/profile/shak...

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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 17h

And this:
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · Jan 12

January 2025: Los Angeles or Gaza?

A devastated city scape of rubble and collapse.

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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 17h

And this: bsky.app/profile/shak...

The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 21d

Gaza 2022...

A landscape portrait of Gaza City from 2022 showing how green and pleasant it was despite being so built up, next to a beautiful blue sea, beneath glorious skies.

The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 17h

And this one:
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · Jul 25

You know how the Bible and the Torah say that the 'Land of Israel' was given to the Jews by (g)od?

They don't... 🧵

The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 17h

I have further relevant threads, which should be linked here: bsky.app/profile/shak...

The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · Jan 5

It's hard to imagine why Sir Keir Starmer and 'changed' Labour cannot condemn Israel's genocidal regime. What can they possible gain from failing to do so? 🇵🇸

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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 17h

A further word on opposition.

In 2017, Hamas created a 42-article document of principles making it clear that their struggle was against Zionism, not the Jewish people, that antisemitism was rooted in Europe, not Arabic or Muslim history.

You can read it here: www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-2...

Hamas in 2017: The document in full

Hamas explains general principles and objectives in 42-article document

www.middleeasteye.net

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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 1d

What are they based on then?

The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 1d

Yetzer hara for starters. As for ignorance - that’s about the sky goblin.

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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 1d

Today is the second anniversary of the start of Israeli genocide. Any mention of Hamas is an attempt to justify genocide.

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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 1d

The three Abrahamic faiths are based on ignorance and self-loathing.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 1d

Israel's heinous behaviour towards Palestinians did indeed start decades earlier, but systematic, deliberate genocide is different, and more recent. I think claiming that genocide was underway previously diminishes the horror of what is now being allowed by the international community.

The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 1d

Today is the second anniversary of the start of Israeli genocide. Any mention of Hamas is an attempt to justify genocide.

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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 1d

Mainstream media and politicians blanket-bombing the airwaves to demand sympathy for the perpetrators two years after they started their genocide is deeply offensive.

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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 1d

Dead Labour

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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 1d

Last week he said it was important to stop sowing division, then he said he was more British than Farage, now he's telling us that protesting against genocide is 'un-British' - division is all this man is about. #PalestineProtest 🇵🇸
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Keir Starmer asks students not to join protests on 7 October

The prime minister says it is

www.bbc.co.uk

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Amy K @amyklassen.bsky.social · 2d

It's true! When I studied economics, I was stunned by the ROI of social programs. Every dollar spent on childcare returns about $2.80 to the economy, and healthcare delivers even greater returns with broader social impact.

A universal basic income is simply smart fiscal policy. Why the reluctance?

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2d

For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent.

Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income.

We can’t afford to NOT do it.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

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