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Book reader, gym goer, and beer drinker- occasionally! Live in Arico, Tenerife. BA(Hons) Eng Lit (Open). Interested in books & a keen layperson's interest in modern economics. Operated 8 colour press in England. Driver in Tenerife. Originally from Hull.

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In 1949, Superman told schoolchildren “our country is made up of Americans of MANY different races, religions and national origins. So…

“…if YOU hear anybody talk against anyone else because of his religion, race or national origin — don’t wait: tell him THAT KIND OF TALK IS UN-AMERICAN.”

10.08.2025 13:24 — 👍 8130    🔁 3017    💬 237    📌 148
HOW RICH PEOPLE GET RICH ACCORDING TO RICH PEOPLE):

CAN-DO ATTITUDE

HARD WORK

GUMPTION

How RICH PEOPLE GET RICH (FOR
REAL):

TAX CUTS
&
LOOPHOLES
&
SUBSIDiES
FOR
BiLLIONAIRE WELFARE QUEENS

DUMP COSTS ON SOCIETY

PRiVATiSE, HOARD, RENT BACK

WAGE THEFT

iNHERITANCE

PRiVILEGE

LIBERATE YOURSELF FROM PARASITES

# ANONYMOUS
# LIMITARIANISM

HOW RICH PEOPLE GET RICH ACCORDING TO RICH PEOPLE): CAN-DO ATTITUDE HARD WORK GUMPTION How RICH PEOPLE GET RICH (FOR REAL): TAX CUTS & LOOPHOLES & SUBSIDiES FOR BiLLIONAIRE WELFARE QUEENS DUMP COSTS ON SOCIETY PRiVATiSE, HOARD, RENT BACK WAGE THEFT iNHERITANCE PRiVILEGE LIBERATE YOURSELF FROM PARASITES # ANONYMOUS # LIMITARIANISM

Imagine: #WealthTax just enough from #ElonMusk (net worth $400B+) to leave him a billionaire.

One robber baron's $400B hoard = 400,000 NEW MILLIONAIRES!

An ultra-rich life split into a LEGION 😉 of fortunes.

The ripple effect? Earthshaking!

Private property isn’t sacred if it hoards possibility.

10.08.2025 10:57 — 👍 100    🔁 49    💬 2    📌 3
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The pedophile president knows if he loses the House in the midterm elections, the game is up: Beto O'Rourke, with ZERO fucks to give, brings the heat to Texas' corrupt attorney general Ken Paxton. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🙌💪👏👊👇

09.08.2025 16:15 — 👍 280    🔁 119    💬 11    📌 4

Same with Talk TV and GB "News", 24/7 it is a monsoon of emotionally appealling fear porn.

Spewed out on every transmission medium they can muster, The newspapers have always been a heap of shit tho. Routinely misogynistic, racist, macho-bully propaganda that shields facists.

10.08.2025 08:05 — 👍 18    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

The whole RW has became a basketcase, they're that grubby for some power and control that they first require the hysteria/hate combo, so ragebaiting the universe is how they do. I see poor ole' Harry is in the media crosshairs again.

Never catches a break that laddo. Jenrick is a nasty wretch.

10.08.2025 08:02 — 👍 21    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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FOX POLL…

(PSA: This is why he’s stealing the next election already)

10.08.2025 02:55 — 👍 4315    🔁 1452    💬 241    📌 69
The Real Reason the Economy Might Collapse | Robert Reich
Robert Reich The Real Reason the Economy Might Collapse | Robert Reich

The rich don’t spend the money they have, and the poor don’t have money to spend.

This is a problem when 70% of the economy relies on consumer spending.

Closing our nation's wealth gap isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s essential to save our economy. https://youtu.be/S6dCh48b4oI?feature=shared

09.08.2025 18:01 — 👍 10705    🔁 3820    💬 387    📌 176
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Nope, still not distracted. Release the Epstein files.

09.08.2025 22:42 — 👍 21995    🔁 5459    💬 2176    📌 669
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It sounds about right

09.08.2025 10:45 — 👍 340    🔁 172    💬 10    📌 6
What Does One Billion Dollars Look Like? Wealth is also fairly abstract. What can one dollar buy? And how is a dollar earned? And what about one billion dollars…

Working min wage from 18-68 earns ~$725K. To make $1 BILLION? 1,379 LIFETIMES. 70,000 YEARS of work—back when humans were just leaving Africa.

If you know someone who still doesn’t get why #billionaires shouldn’t exist, tag them below. Then make them scroll 🔻 (No cheating.) #TaxTheRich #Oligarchy

05.08.2025 15:25 — 👍 48    🔁 33    💬 5    📌 2

Yep. Wealth extractors. They have to be. You can't earn a billion through your own efforts, physical or mental, alone. The use or exploitation of others is required.

08.08.2025 13:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'm not a fan of the book review that goes, "this book is well argued but it contradicts my vibes so instead I am going to talk about them."

08.08.2025 13:48 — 👍 93    🔁 6    💬 5    📌 0
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The News Trump Hopes You’ll Ignore This isn’t just journalism. It’s a battering ram against propaganda

Every Democrat needs to fight back like this.

08.08.2025 13:49 — 👍 378    🔁 120    💬 15    📌 6
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You just gotta LOVE MAD MAGAZINE!!!

08.08.2025 00:50 — 👍 25035    🔁 7413    💬 557    📌 381

An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris.

07.08.2025 19:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm sure Harriet Harman is suitably impressed. 😆

07.08.2025 16:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trump working so much harder on manipulating and cheating to stay in power than on anything benefitting the American people.

07.08.2025 13:24 — 👍 471    🔁 68    💬 15    📌 2
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The next part of the plan to steal the midterms and/or the 2028 election - an attempt to do a mid-decade census to take seats and electoral votes away from blue states. I knew this was coming.

07.08.2025 11:56 — 👍 16468    🔁 6537    💬 1965    📌 698
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Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

NEW: Police bodycam footage introduced at the trial of Jared Wise showed him berating police officers on Jan. 6, 2021, and yelling "kill 'em" as rioters attacked law enforcement. He’s now working as a senior adviser for the Department of Justice.

07.08.2025 13:22 — 👍 10853    🔁 6643    💬 773    📌 649

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good.

I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

06.08.2025 23:01 — 👍 27457    🔁 7159    💬 860    📌 290
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If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me.

#pediatriccancer #cancermom

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Fascism in action ….

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💯.

04.08.2025 17:20 — 👍 22777    🔁 6996    💬 339    📌 217

Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed.

Getting big money out of politics. 

Strengthening unions and fighting for higher wages.

Medicare for all, paid family leave, universal childcare...

This is the progressive populist agenda we need in America.

04.08.2025 19:01 — 👍 9686    🔁 2692    💬 379    📌 153
Knife robberies fall under dedicated new taskforce Communities hit hardest by knife crime see a drop in offences and more weapons removed from the streets.

The number of robberies involving a knife, or the threat of one, have dropped after months of targeted police action in 7 highest risk areas, in new data out today.

The average drop is 6% but is as high as 25% in the West Midlands.

Clearly, a lot more to do, but efforts are starting to work.

1/2

01.08.2025 07:13 — 👍 126    🔁 42    💬 7    📌 2

That has been the case for a long time now. To apply for work, to claim welfare payments and everything to stay involved in modern life they are now a necessity, not a luxury.

01.08.2025 09:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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US lawmaker says Nigel Farage is a 'giant manbaby' "This is why we had a revolution against you guys"

It will probably come as no surprise to anyone that Nigel Farage has been called “unhinged” and “like a giant manbaby” after a tense meeting with US politicians

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/us-...

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Biden calls out Republicans who heckled his State of the Union speech Republicans booed when Biden accused them of wanting to cut Social Security. But the president pointed out that several of them have vocally supported such cuts.

Biden calls out Republicans who heckled his State of the Union speech

www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

30.07.2025 17:11 — 👍 44    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 0

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