BJ
Middle-aged veteran fighting demagoguery, fascism, plutocracy & disinformation in whatever ways possible. Now is not the time to be passive.
Opinions, no matter how vehemently-held, are no substitute for facts.
#Resist 🇬🇱🇨🇦🇵🇦
#FBPE 🇪🇺
#SlavaUkraini 💪🏻🇺🇦💪🏻
- In the last week I've seen social media posts claiming: - nuclear weapons don't exist - the Holocaust didn't happen - the moon landings were faked - COVID was a hoax - Putin would be better for the UK than Labour - Trump won in 2020 - Melania is a great movie SoMe is destroying society. Ban it now
- I don't understand how to get engagement on posts on BlueSky. With 3.3K followers and only posting carefully considered content, the most "likes" I've had is about 7. Yet I've just seen somebody with 400 followers get 250 likes for expressing how much they enjoy canned ravioli. What's the secret?! 🤷🏻
- The push for AI, self-driving cars and robotics isn't done for the advancement of humankind. It's to reduce companies' payroll costs and to put you out of a job...
- Reposted by BJIn solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
- The President of the (once) greatest country on earth wrote overnight to the leaders of Norway and Finland, openly stating the failure to award him the Nobel Peace Prize is grounds for him eschewing peace and invading a staunch NATO ally. The western world is about to collapse. He's beyond insane.
- ...and the moronic, mouth-breathing cretins still can't get enough...
- The Trump "Board of Peace" is a ruse. It will not stop at Gaza. How long before its remit extends to Ukraine, Venezuela and other conflicts? He wants to usurp and consign the UN to history. He wants to rule the world... www.nbcnews.com/world/gaza/t...
- Europe needs to get past the Denial Phase of grief and face facts - the USA is now, in many ways, an enemy. The once synergistic marriage is nearing its end. The relationship has become coercively abusive. Terrifying as it is, no amount of fawning or placation will mend it. It's time to get away...
- Nadim Zahawi - former Conservative Party chair, Chancellor of the Exchequer and tax avoider - today complains that nothing in the UK works any more, and that his new party should be entrusted to put things right. The shameless lack of self-awareness and hypocrisy are mindboggling!
- Perhaps Iran needs to intervene in the US to stop violent repression of peaceful protest by its theocratic dictator...?
- When it comes to Iran and the USA, on one side you have a theocratic autocracy that sponsors international terror, violently suppresses dissent, oppresses and humiliates women and murders peaceful protestors on the streets using a kind of Praetorian guard. Iran isn't much different...
- A handy reminder for Donald...
- "Build The (Lego) Wall!" #Greenland
- The Second Coming (Extract) W B Yeats, 1919 "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity."
- If you wonder why productivity is lagging, then compare it against wage growth. Then wonder where the money's gone. For 50yrs, workers have labored ever-harder for decreasing returns, while corporations (and hence shareholders) have got richer. Neo-Liberalism failed. Capitalism is on its deathbed.
- Patriotism does not mean believing we're better than anyone else. It's a belief that we can be better versions of ourselves. It is NOT a zero sum game... #WeCanDoBetter
- Reagan & Thatcher were wrong. Private enterprises don't make the public sector more efficient. They take every opportunity to suck money from the public purse to enrich shareholders. Over time, those enterprises will be rationalized until there's very few left. We're now all poorer as a result.
- Neo-Liberalism promoted the idea that private enterprise was more efficient than governments at managing services. We're now inundated with evidence that those companies have fleeced the public purse to an obscene extent, while service levels have plummeted. Privatisation failed. Thatcher was wrong.
- Yet again, the USA is demonstrating that it's not a reliable ally. Only this time, it's showing how the president can be bought-off by historic enemies, sacrificing freedom, justice and sovereignty in pursuit of vanity. May he rot in eternal damnation for his treachery. apnews.com/article/russ...
- The British Conservative Party is now crowing that police will get powers to stop & search anyone, without needing any grounds. Never forget it was they who in 2014 introduced such Draconian restrictions that its use fell by 66%. They are buffoons of the highest order. www.gov.uk/government/n...
- Magalomania - new condition for inclusion in DSM6, characterized by delusional thinking, hatred of minorities, defense of child abusers and a pathological inability to differentiate fact from fiction.
- Trump may be the thunder, but Stephen Miller is the lightning... Don't lose sight of the source of the danger.
- If the Israeli government believes hosting a violent, racist, serial criminal will advance their cause, they could not possibly be more wrong... www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...
- Anybody with even the most rudimentary knowledge of Marxist theory would recognize that we're approaching the end stage of capitalism. And the 0.1% are bringing it entirely upon themselves...
- Here Comes The Raper... youtu.be/E-Tus_ch_aA?...
- Here Comes The Raper... www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DE-Tus_ch_aA&ved=2ahUKEwjdlY2KlomQAxXOTEEAHfn8Ku4QtwJ6BAgOEAE&usg=AOvVaw0qDRac6UE0a72GCy6dzWlo
- TOP TIP: If you don't want to be called a fascist, stop being a fascist...
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- If you don't already follow @garyseconomics.bsky.social, please put that right! Wealth inequality is the greatest problem facing us all, as its tendrils permeate every facet of our existence.
- Agreed. Let's start by overturning Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593 (2024), giving him absolute immunity from crimes committed as president...
- When shareholder value is prized above democracy, it's time to rethink capitalism...
- 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟵 Russia denies plan to invade Chechna. ⏱️Russia invades. 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟴 Russia denies plan to invade Georgian. ⏱️Russia invades. 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟰 Russia denies plan to annex Crimea. ⏱️Russia annexes. 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟳 Russia denies plan to annex Donbas. ⏱️Russia annexes. 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮 Russia denies plan to invade Ukraine. ⏱️Russia invades.
