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[Clare @Clarebow15]

@UrbaneSlave I’d say there’s an argument for both these examples! But also we need to reframe such discussion as ‘understanding’ rather than ‘blame’, a lot of abusive systems continue through fear of blame/shame/accountability that stops discussion

[Clare @Clarebow15]

@UrbaneSlave Pop culture and politics are highly interconnected. I think the clip is broadly correct. Doesn’t mean blaming it on Thatcherism, but absolutely new right and new left politics have contributed to this.

[Clare @Clarebow15]

@Dr_Gavin_Brewis Idk if it’s still on Netflix but ‘the Cuba libre story’ I found very educational on Cuba’s history - about 5 hrs in total so will fill the day! Hope you feel better xx

[Clare @Clarebow15]

@UrbaneSlave Maybe, but what about public adoration and platforming of narcissistic, abusive celebrities? It’s a big conversation where we have to look at our culture/political economy, even British family systems and different forms of grooming that happen there.

[Vittoria @vitt2tsnoc]

Great that Russell Brand is in jail, great that David Walliams has been outed, hopefully to be jailed. But I think we're going to have to start asking some VERY uncomfortable questions about the culture of celebrity in this country. If not now, when?

[Truth Troll Official™️ @truthtroll_X]

British soldier reflects on WWII:

“The sacrifice wasn’t worth the result that it is now”

-World War II British Royal Navy Veteran Alec Penstone (born in 1925)

[Clare @Clarebow15]

@jozefandrewk I worked 2-3 jobs and managed a household while completing a PhD. Relaxing it was not. I think you are imagining a certain type of PhD student, the kind that goes to Harvard, probably through the legacy system and with a lot of family support

[Clare @Clarebow15]

@AlanJefferson24 @JossSheldon As someone with 4 male children who went through the British school system, it’s not. At primary school, every November, my kids would be getting excited over war through the romanticism of previous wars in school lessons. Obviously, I corrected this.

[Clare @Clarebow15]

@mrdanwalker Watched this in year 8 history class, probably the only time we were silent

[Kate 🕊 @affleckquine]

I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier
This song went to number 1 in the charts in the US in 1915.
Harry Truman, then a captain in the National Guard, hated the song. He suggested that the place for women who opposed the war was in a harem, not in the United States #RemembranceDay

[Joss Sheldon @JossSheldon]

On the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 19,000 British soldiers were sent to their deaths - forced to march into a flurry of machine gun fire, and shot by their own officers if they refused.

War reduces humans to cannon-fodder.

Remember that this #RemembranceDay.

[Mr. Keynes @TyKeynes]

Late stage capitalism:

A supermarket throws perfectly good food in the dumpster, pays its workers so little they can barely afford groceries, then asks customers to donate to the food bank at checkout.

And we're supposed to admire how fucking efficient this system is.

[Clare @Clarebow15]

@15Swiss @MzBelindaW @MinaLioness As a father is your given name? Or 15Swiss?

[Clare @Clarebow15]

@MzBelindaW @15Swiss @MinaLioness Firstly, promise is a comfort to a fool. Secondly, I think his explanation goes way beyond the original comment that used ‘the culture’ non specifically (I always interpret ‘the culture’ as Black culture) thirdly, another anonymous account so he’d have to give me his gov name!!

[Clare @Clarebow15]

@redrumlisa This campaign was what first made me hate him. Saw him on the news outside downing st with the E15 mothers I think. Dominated talking complete foolishness, calling ppl ‘snides’, the mums looked embarrassed - and at the end of the day they were the ones getting evicted, not him!

[Clare @Clarebow15]

@MinaLioness I’m confused what this has to do with what I actually said other than you don’t agree with ‘a bit’ being a synonym for ‘teeny tiny’ and I don’t think you are uneducated or that ‘my PhD’ hat makes me expert. At least I’m brave enough to put a picture of myself though.

[Clare @Clarebow15]

@15Swiss @MinaLioness Also another feature of gentrification is working class families, disproportionately Black single mothers, being moved out of cities to predominantly white areas, I know ppl this happens to & the racism in those schools was terrible, meaning some kids are experiencing both

[Clare @Clarebow15]

@Anansii_Lancey @15Swiss @MinaLioness I hate liberals as much as anyone else, as my disdain for gentrifiers would suggest. So if I am one, please do enlighten me as to why - or is it you who is throwing around ‘leftist’ buzzwords/phrases that don’t even make sense in the context of what was said