Mark Kelly

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

"At least I'm not them" is the most important sentence in American political life, and almost nobody says it out loud.

At least I'm not on welfare.

At least I'm not undocumented.

At least I have insurance, even if it's bad.

At least my kids go to a real school, even if it's underfunded.

At least I'm a citizen.

At least I'm not in that neighborhood.

Every one of these sentences requires a "them."

A category of person positioned just below you, whose existence makes your own precarious situation feel like success by comparison.

The empire does not need to lift you up.

It only needs to keep someone visibly below you.

And it has spent two hundred and fifty years making absolutely sure there is always, always, a "them": by race, by status, by citizenship, by neighborhood.

So that the people being squeezed from above spend their energy looking down instead of up.

[Mark Kelly @MarkKelly_UK]

@MikeTappTweets @ZackPolanski Do you support Israel's genocides in Gaza & Lebanon?

[Mark Kelly @MarkKelly_UK]

@DineshDSouza Wrong.

Socialists want ALL excessive wealth heavily taxed, and that most definitely includes Soros.

This is evidently an alien concept for someone willing to excuse anyone of anything for a price, but political affiliation doesn't exempt anyone.

[Mark Kelly @MarkKelly_UK]

@TRobinsonNewEra 1) You were released without charge.

2) Why give you money for a 'defense' when you immediately plead guilty in court anyway? You do it every time you grifting piece of shit.

You must fucking love being arrested by now. Easy money from the idiots believing your bullshit.

[Carole Hawkins @hawkins_carole]

The corrupt establishment has allowed Employers to Expect taxpayers to keep their businesses afloat, to top up the low wages they pay through Universal Credit, and to cover the costs of security and IT failures that companies refuse to fund themselves. Taxpayers are also forced to subsidise employers’ electricity bills and to replenish pension pots that have been embezzled, while those same employers retain all their profits—having siphoned them offshore through shell companies to avoid paying any tax.
Yet, astonishingly, this same corrupt establishment then turns around and blames ordinary people for claiming the very allowances they have been forced to rely on.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Jobs for young adults is a pressing issue of our times.

One possibility is that a freeze or reversal of the state pension age could release jobs for younger adults.

It could also give a respite to senior citizens being worked to death.

What do you make of the Minister's reply?

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

You have infinitely more in common with the average person in Cuba, Iran, Lebanon or Palestine than you have with the world’s first trillionaire.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

This is difficult to watch, it's embarrassing, it's enraging, it's shameful.

Emma Reynolds the Secretary of State for the Environment and David Hill the head of water at Defra appeared before MPs on Tuesday where they repeated the same old lie, that water company shareholders invest their money in the companies and we, the bill payers, pay them back over 10, 15, 20, 30 years.

Even Ofwat have owned up, that's a lie the £104 billion "private sector investment" is coming directly out of your pockets, your bank account. For God sake just tell the truth.

Barry Gardiner, you're a star. 👏👏👏

[Mark Kelly @MarkKelly_UK]

@Nigel_Farage Oh do fuck off.

You just don't want to answer questions about the £6,000,000 in undeclared bungs you got. One of which was to chuck an election.

Then there's your role in inciting riots, again.

Yeah, you hide the fuck away, coward.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

The problem isn’t welfare @AndyBurnhamGM

It’s extraction.

The welfare state is magic self perpetuating.

The problem isn’t welfare.

The welfare state was one of the greatest engines of prosperity ever created: healthier children, educated workers, security that allowed people to innovate and take risks.

The problem is extraction, an economy where wealth flows upwards and away from the communities that create it.

A society cannot cut its way to prosperity if its productive foundations are being hollowed out.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.

[Mark Kelly @MarkKelly_UK]

@thecarolemalone It's funny to see a Farage fluffer complain about anyone else being self interested.

Pot, kettle, black immediately springs to mind.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

The government says nationalising water would cost £100 billion. @Feargal_Sharkey dug into where that number came from and found it came from a think tank report that was paid for by the water companies themselves, including @AnglianWater, @stwater, @SouthWestWater , and @unitedutilities .

So the water industry essentially funded a report to inflate the cost of taking them back into public ownership, and the government then used that number to argue against nationalisation. Sharkey is saying the number is nonsense because the source is the industry that benefits from staying private.

He also points out that these same companies have racked up £64 billion in debt and paid out £78 billion in dividends to shareholders since privatisation in 1989, while bills went up 40% and rivers filled with sewage.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Feargal Sharkey brands '£100billion' cost of nationalising water 'nonsense'."

And that is because it is nonsense, pure unadulterated, made up nonsense.

https://t.co/ReGvCOqqOm

[Mark Kelly @MarkKelly_UK]

@justdavenow89 I'd be more in favour of some basic politics being taught at school.

We have a huge amount of morons that have no fucking idea what left wing or socialism even means FFS.

[Mark Kelly @MarkKelly_UK]

@LondonEconomic Tbh, "roundly disliked" is rather understating our view of that cunt.

[Mark Kelly @MarkKelly_UK]

@PolitlcsUK Lol. We haven't got a left wing government now.

We've not had one in 50 fucking years.

[Mark Kelly @MarkKelly_UK]

@justdavenow89 Keep filming...

[Paul @LeftySeparatist]

Just in case you’re wondering what kind of place the UK is, a few jewish ambulances being set on fire will bring about more COBRA meetings and hysterical mass media coverage than actual people being burned out of their homes by masked gangs rampaging through the streets.

[Mark Kelly @MarkKelly_UK]

@PippaCrerar Anything Labour says is usually accompanied by a snide remark from you.

Anything Farage says is parroted without comment.

You could say 'Farage dismissively attempts to refuse criticism of his candidates offensive behaviour'.

Not so hard, is it?