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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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pvonhellermannn, (edited ) to random
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How to note Sunak’s election announcement here? Getting drenched in rain was symbolic & symptomatic; tragically a man died in a mudslide in Yorkshire the same day.

Will this election be decisive from a climate policy point of view? Labour will be better, but how much exactly I don’t know, given scrapped pledges. Of course i am hopeful for Green party gains. But actual positive excitement and energy, again rallying everyone to make this a etc? sadly, no.

Vonskinnback,
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@pvonhellermannn I honestly do not know how labor could even consider the position of turning this country around from its demonstrable position of weakness caused by the Tories and the destruction of our economy. The cost of repairing the damage is running into the trillions that is how badly the Tories have done and how unlikely labour will be able to turn this around especially while the Tories and the client media will be sniping from the sidelines from the get go...

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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Lets be absolutely clear - at the centre of the infected blood scandal, as so many other 'scandals' involving institutions riding rough-shod over the interests & well-being of ordinary people (see the posted list & additions in my timeline over the weekend) is one thing:

People in power lying to those whose lives have been ruined.

LYING... not making mistakes, not misunderstanding... LYING.

This is the culture that infects our political & social 'elites'; being (very) comfortable lying to us!

Vonskinnback,
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@ChrisMayLA6 these privileged smug lying arseholes in positions of power have done so much damage that I would actually support a life sentence for anybody caught doing it, their lies over the post office, Hillsborough, Brexit, immigration, Covid, the EU & everything else that has actually led to the pain, suffering & the deaths of innocent people should be met with the harshest & most aggressive punishment available, strip them of their wealth to pay for the damage they caused with their lies.

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.

Vonskinnback,
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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.

Vonskinnback,
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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...

Vonskinnback,
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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...

Vonskinnback,
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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...😬

br00t4c, to random
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Cardi B Won't Vote for Biden Again, Citing 'Layers and Layers of Disappointment' in His Administration

https://www.jezebel.com/cardi-b-wont-vote-for-biden-trump-rolling-stone-interview

Vonskinnback,
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@br00t4c I am honestly curious if they have made peace with Trump as president & I wonder what their calculation is as to what happens after Trump & if they feel that another Trump presidency will change things for the better by either being so bad that the democratic party are forced into a new direction or is there a hope to destroy all political parties in attempt to change politics forever & how that calculation will actually bring about the right kind of change?

drahardja, to TeslaMotors
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Matt Farrah of The Smoking Tire gave an honest and (therefore) devastatingly negative review of the #Cybertruck. Good on him. Every point he makes is spot-on (except maybe the chuckle-inducing post-Apocalypse truck argument).

#cars #carReview #tesla #ev

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC9a3GR1HJY

Vonskinnback,
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@drahardja it's just DeLorean 2.0...

br00t4c, to Florida
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New Florida Law Requires All Women To Produce 3 Healthy White Sons By 22nd Birthday

https://www.theonion.com/new-florida-law-requires-all-women-to-produce-3-healthy-1851482288

Vonskinnback,
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@br00t4c 🤣🤣🤣🤣

RustyBertrand, to random
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"Alpha man" talking point;

"Why is there birth care, free pills, and vitamins, and days off for women after pregnancy? Men don't get this freedom. This is a woman's problem, we shouldn't have to pay for all this extra womens health shit!"

I'm like;

"You already had your birth care, you weirdo. Do you think you sprang from your own anus?"

You were not born alone, you were born coated in the blood, sweat and MOIST vaginal juices of a woman.

She was there, and she probably screamed louder than you.

Vonskinnback,
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@RustyBertrand

br00t4c, to random
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England gets 27 new bathing sites - but no guarantee they'll be safe for swimming

#failure

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/13/england-gets-27-new-bathing-sites-but-no-guarantee-theyll-be-safe-for-swimming

Vonskinnback,
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@br00t4c in other news, councils get 27 new public toilets but no promise that they will flush...🤣

br00t4c, to random
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Jacob Rees-Mogg accuses Bank of England of 'miserable incompetence' over inflation

#bond #jacobreesmogg

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/13/jacob-rees-mogg-accuses-bank-of-england-of-miserable-incompetence-over-inflation

Vonskinnback,
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@br00t4c yes it definitely can't be anything to do with the brexit he brought in causing higher food prices, cos he promised that his special brexit would lower the price of everything including food and shoes...

Vonskinnback,
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@br00t4c 🤣🤣🤣🤣

br00t4c, to random
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Faith groups want more say in secular Britain. Labour should tell them to go to hell

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/12/faith-groups-schools-secular-britain

Vonskinnback,
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@br00t4c yep, unless they let all schizophrenics have a say on how the countries run, then that is fair, but until that happens the "imaginary friend" people can do whatever they want but they don't get to tell me what to do...

glynmoody, to random
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Judge scraps date for Trump Mar-a-Lago documents trial without rescheduling - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/07/donald-trump-florida-trial-postponed how blatant can you get in your bias?

Vonskinnback,
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@glynmoody he's going to do everything he can to move all of his criminal convictions into a hopeful presidential win and then quash the lot of them...

krys, to random
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If your profile boasts this flag 🇵🇸 without this 🇮🇱 next to it - as an anarchist I use neither - you are not advocating for “peace”.

You are advocating for the eradication of a democratic state that - like all democracies - is under constant and recently rather successful attacks by extremist fucks, but still has a lot of good going for going for it, and replacing it by yet another caliphate state run by a barbaric terror cult.

Am Yisrael chai.
Free Gaza from Hamas.

Vonskinnback,
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@krys to be fair if I see any flag in somebody's profile my spidey senses start tingling, symbols are for the symbol minded, flags are generally a warning sign for a lot of people...

Wen, to random
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Queen or Queen Consort? Inside the debate over Camilla’s title

http://archive.today/2024.05.03-185806/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/camilla-queen-consort-royal-role-title-xl9gc2zjh
We have a poverty and health crisis, we are going to be stuffed on the environment (having stuffed it), by this is the ‘news' being offered to placate the plebs. And we bloody pay for this charade.

It beggars belief. If people wish to be courtiers, then fine - on your own money and in your own time - that goes for the ‘Royal’ Family.
ps. Caption: Does my Arse look big in this

Vonskinnback,
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@Shivviness @Wen I have recently been rewatching have I got news for you from the beginning & the one thing that was surprising was how little time they had for the royals in any way shape or form, including going in really hard on Fergie & Di as well as Andrew & Charles, that seemed to stop after she died, the whole tone changed after that...

Haste, to random
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It must be wild to be a student right now.

School shootings? You’re on your own. Thoughts and prayers.

Peaceful protest? That’s going too far. Send in the riot gear.

That America feels empowered to intervene in one but not the other tells you everything you need to know.

Vonskinnback,
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@Haste police won't enter an active shooter situation, they might get their lovely fascist costume all dirty or worse get shot by one of their own far right head banging incel gun nuts, that just won't do, they just wait outside until they either run out of bullets or children to murder, then they can go in, pat them on the back & then gently arrest them. But protesters aren't generally armed or violent, plus their bosses don't like freedom of speech or assembly so they have to stamp it out...

sjvn, to business
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The #FTC ruled last week that companies can no longer use non-compete agreements to stop workers from moving from one job to another — and businesses are having fits. https://computerworld.com/article/2095092/the-end-of-non-compete-agreements-is-a-tech-job-earthquake.html by @sjvn

#business

Vonskinnback,
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@sjvn good, they might not be so happy to improve their profitability through mass layoffs that serve zero purpose other than to diminish their own service for profit, now that diminished service will also be impacted by those same tech staff moving to competitors allowing their service to improve at the same time therefore taking market share and it now becoming a much much more important business this is to slash staff just to improve their shareholder dividends.

nixCraft, to random
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I think about this every time someone tries to get me into online arguments 😂 https://x.com/anammostarac/status/1709029600297414699

Vonskinnback,
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@nixCraft this is fine right up to the point when there are no flowers anymore because everything is shit now...🤣

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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Before you give too much credit to Dan Poulter (MP & doctor) for abandoning the Tories to join Labour, don't forget he's been an MP for 14 years & been working as a doctor all that time.... so one might have expected him to notice the Tory engineered crisis in the NHS quite some time before now.

No, he's defecting because he can see the Tory electoral meltdown coming & wants to preserve his happy position of having two well-paying jobs.

Vonskinnback,
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@ChrisMayLA6 he just wants to keep his job, he sat by & voted this country into the ground, fuck him, I hope he loses his seat, job & gets kicked out of the NHS with extreme prejudice, fuck him & everything he stands for...

realTuckFrumper, to random
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Judge upholds $83m E Jean Carroll defamation verdict against Trump https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/25/e-jean-carroll-trump-defamation?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Vonskinnback,
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@realTuckFrumper time to pay up, it's time to take the stinky sex offender trumps goods at 25c on the dollar, assat strip that criminal fucker...

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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Remember the moral panic when the ceasefire march was thought to be going near the Cenotaph last year (which it wasn't)? Seems it's ok if you've got a St George's flag and a can of Stella 🤬

#UKPolitics #Flagshaggers

Vonskinnback,
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@fkamiah17 well the telegraph looks to have covered it...🤣

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