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30 Apr, 3 tweets, 3 min read
I'm torn.

Is Britain a Kleptocracy, Corporatocracy, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, or a Pathocracy?

Today I am mostly thinking #Pathocracy.

What do YOU think?
#Pathocracy only flourishes because we don’t take sufficient measures to protect ourselves from pathological leaders. We must strengthen our democratic institutions to ensure people are protected from a damaged minority with an insatiable lust for power.

psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/out-th…
Maybe we're a #Kakistocracy? A system of Government that is run by the worst, least qualified, and/or most unscrupulous citizens.

Today it generally describes the wicked disorder that can result when expertise & ethical judgment are aggressively & systematically pushed aside.

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A headteacher suggests “good morning everyone” should be used instead of “boys & girls”, because it's more inclusive & doesn't create a gender divide, & all the usual unhinged divisive opportunist anti-woke culture war morons are now actually trying to cancel her!
#CancelCulture
The headteacher made it crystal clear that despite misleading press lies & online reports, the words 'boys' & 'girls' ARE NOT BANNED.

Predictably, Nana Akua - the latest addition to Andrew Neil's polarizing "anti-woke" TV channel - still objected.

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And now, thanks to the unhinged partisan crap emanating from the shit-stirring gaslighters at the 'anti-woke anti-cancel culture' Daily Mail, we now have outraged "anti-woke" warriors who decry the "cancel culture mob" ACTUALLY TRYING TO CANCEL the headteacher.

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Shit-stirring liar Andrew Pierce works for the Daily Mail.

The headteacher actually said the phrase “good morning everyone” should be used instead of “boys & girls”, because it's more inclusive & doesn't create a gender divide, adding “Of course we use the words boys & girls".
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inews.co.uk/news/education…
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#Lickspittles try to please people in authority, to gain advantage.

National newspapers exist primarily to create conditions conducive to protecting or enhancing the interests of their funders/owners.

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And what word might we use to describe people cosying up to the despicable far-right Orbán regime? #Lickspittles?

And what word might we use for those people who amplified the misleading view that the Cambridge Analytica scandal, about obtaining personal data of millions of people without their consent to be used for political advertising, was a 'conspiracy theory'?

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*HOW MANY ROLLS OF DOWNING ST WALLPAPER?*

UK's richest 1,000 wealth increase since 2009:

571 MILLION💰💰💰

Crony contracts given to Tory donors:

2.4 MILLION 💰💰

Investment in Andrew Neil's #GBeebies:

71,428💰

Average additional annual income from nurse pay rise:

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The wallpaper cost £840 a roll.

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#Thread

#Everyone concerned about the capture of institutions, news media, & political parties by Libertarian billionaires has a moral duty to research the collection of extraordinarily powerful free market think tanks grouped under the 'Atlas Network'.

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It's worse than you think.
The Atlas Network's methods include providing grants for new think tanks, courses on political management & PR, sponsorship of networking events around the world, & encouraging libertarians to influence public opinion through social media & online #videos suspiciously like these:
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