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25 Oct, 3 tweets, 1 min read
“She can afford hair dye so shouldn’t be allowed children” pretty much sums up the attitude people have towards the poor in this country. Heaven forbid a struggling mother buy or do ANYTHING for herself to boost her confidence, even something that costs £4.99
Where did we get this idea from that if you’re poor you deserve nothing. Literally nothing at all. Bare minimum scraps. Food isn’t allowed to be enjoyed, you can only have gruel. Life isn’t to be enjoyed, you must constantly suffer as punishment for being poor.
Nasty miserable bitter island with an obsession of asserting their status over others and policing what those with less than them are allowed to spend their money on

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One of the greatest speeches ever on war from Tony Benn - “aren’t Arabs terrified? Do they not weep when their children die? What fools we are, when war is just a computer game for our children”. And note who is behind him.
People in Afghanistan are people. They’re not video game characters that you bomb at will for whatever reason you think is the greater good just because they’re not white. They also cry when their children are killed.
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A relationship with a love-bomber will go from the best you’ve ever had to the worst. If someone you’ve just met is putting in effort/attention to unusually extreme amounts, chances are it’s a trap and they are trying to get you committed to them fast so the controlling can begin
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Better social care and benefit system rehaul. It’s actually very wild that the Universal Credit amount wasn’t increased during covid even though it isn’t enough to live off and there were actually no jobs
Like many others, I had to apply for UC last year because I lost all my work and had no income whatsoever. It didn’t cover my bills let alone food so I had to eat through my life savings and get into traumatising debt by taking payment holidays
I know that their reasoning for benefits being so shit is so that it motivates people to get off them and find work but there was no work. So what were we supposed to do except starve
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My least favourite by-product of capitalism is that people (especially in the UK) think that if you’re poor you don’t deserve literally anything. Like if you work a low wage job or are on benefits you’ll be shamed for owning a phone or ordering a takeaway and this makes NO sense
I don’t understand how we got to the assumption that poor people don’t deserve things. I remember there being outrage because people were donating biscuits and sweets to a food bank and others thought the people who used them shouldn’t be allowed treats
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The Tories invest so little into education because they genuinely rely on a large amount of the population being uneducated to vote for them
Politics should really be a mandatory subject at school, at least at a basic level of learning who the main parties are and what ethics and policies they represent. We mainly get our information from headlines written by Tory-owned papers
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