Erin Stephanie

Hate always has an expiry date. It never wins permanently. Because like anything that decomposes, the longer it’s left out, the more unbearable the stench, that action is needed. Compassion and empathy on the other hand, are eternal and timeless.

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Remember. Always make sure you got the time 🕰️ writted on a piece of paper 📄 .

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UK charts for week ending 12 February 1983

UK charts from this week in 1983

BREAKING: Morgan McSweeney resigns.
GOOD! 🙌

If god forbid Reform win the next election, and absorb Goodwin’s idea, it will cause poll tax style riots. And on a scale exceeding the events of 31st March 1990

Asking Kier to step down is the morally correct thing to do. If people wanted the electorally opportunistic option from the Greens, it would be say nothing and let Labour keep destroying their chances with business as usual. But that would make Greens look as cynical as the other parties.

generative AI has become widely available in the summer of 2022 and entered mainstream in 2023

people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip

That sketch also had Russell Brand as your cliched ‘oh the Daily Mail’ panellist. From the days of Brand’s so called ‘left’ phase. Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse, got his number pretty quickly.

Basically SV has always been a club of nerdy, mainly ⚪️, privileged incels. Who’ve now barged their way into the highest chambers of wealth, power, with unchecked egotism and sense of self importance and self entitlement. What could ever go wrong?

There’s no ‘may’ about it. Trans women athletes have no advantage whatsoever.

In the Yeltsin era, with post USSR economic structural adjustment. Falling life expectancy, malnutrition, alcoholism, crime, gangsterism. But it’s deliberate in the USA. Impoverish the masses and there at the mercy of an even worse authoritarian. Yes. Even worse than Trump.

Trump is more like Yeltsin, than Putin tbh. Russia in the 1990s was an economic and social dumpster fire, which Trump is overseeing in the late 2020s USA in a shorter time frame. It’s anarchic ‘creative’ destruction. It’s Vance who is lining himself to be the Putin equivalent.

Today is 4th February. Meaning if you define seasons by relation to the sun (solar seasons), then today in the northern hemisphere, is the first day of spring. Under solar definition, light rather than temperature is central. And equinoxes and solstices are the mid point of seasons not the start

Conservatives are showing to the world, they believe relationships serve the function of asserting patriarchal power, and arent based on connection and genuine love. Coercion not consent being the order of the day. And they have the bare faced cheek to call the left nihilistic.

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Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst

Directed by Thom Zimny
Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro
Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny

So basically Reform UK is now Rishi Sunak's Cabinet, just led by Nigel Farage.

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The guiding principle of ruling elites was--and still is: When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.

Parenti, 1996

It is somewhat ironic to credit capitalism with the genius of gradual reform when most reforms through history have been vehemently and sometimes violently resisted by the capitalist class and were won only after prolonged and bitter contest.

Parenti, 2007

These countries are not underdeveloped, they're overexploited! (4/4)

Michael Parenti, 1986 lecture

The capitalist European and North American powers have carved out and taken the timber, the flax, the hemp, the cocoa, the rum, the tin, the copper, the iron, the rubber, the bauxite, the slaves, and the cheap labour. They have taken out of these countries. 3/4

But there's billions to be made there, to be carved out, and to be taken. There's been billions for 400 years! 2/3

The Third World is not poor. You don't go to poor countries to make money. There are very few poor countries in this world. Most countries are rich! The Philippines are rich! Brazil is rich! Mexico is rich! Chile is rich! Only the people are poor.

Michael Parenti, 1986 lecture

One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society.

Parenti, Dirty Truths, 1996

I have followed every World Cup since Italia 90. I’ll not be following this one…except to check if the stadiums at the American venues are relatively empty.

Rest In Power

Michael Parenti obituary

Rest In Power