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Feb 3, 2023 19 tweets 4 min read
1.Once upon a time, there were some men who made a lot of money from doing things that were wrecking the planet. They had known for ages that they were putting toxins in the air and water, causing global warming and damaging the health of their employees and the general public + 2.the environment, but they hid the knowledge and put the frighteners on anyone who wanted to speak about it and paid politicians to ignore evidence and make sure that the laws did not make it hard for them to keep doing what they were doing.
The things that really got them mad
Feb 3, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
1 "To a market fundamentalist, though, these people [the poor] are simply not worth what it costs to keep them alive. Their existence is not cost-effective, and being forced to sustain them is an unjustified burden.
Market forces, they say, are meritocratic – and the problem is 2 that these people have too little merit.
Ira Sohn, Professor of Economics at Montclair State University, has pointed out that with technological advances, many of these people (i.e. people who have to work for a living) will no longer be needed at all...
Jun 25, 2022 9 tweets 5 min read
Tory MPs: 1)#traindrivers are not on strike; 2)the voters created their own #TacticalVoting scheme + executed it because they wanted to spell out just how much they want anything but #ToryLiars; 3) we like our #HumanRights...leave them alone; 4) loyalty to a liar will end careers 5) smashing things up/ defunding, then claim to be fixing stuff is not a sustainable strategy and we see what you're doing.#SaveOurNHS
6) your Twitter bubble may love hideous policies like #RwandaDeportation..the country as a whole does not;7)#foodbanks are not a photo opp but a