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Why should we accept rich feral brats destroying the planet!?

[G.T @gingerrtom]

are they taking the piss?????

[Callum Lyon @CallumLyon]

How the fu*k is anyone earning minimum wage, or anything close to it, in the UK meant to afford living alone?

The numbers simply don't add up.

You can work 40 hours a week and bring home around £1,700 a month after tax, National Insurance and pension contributions.

Then you're looking at £800 for rent, £120 in council tax, £350 on household bills and another £300 just to feed yourself.

That's your entire monthly wage gone before you've even covered travel, your phone bill or an unexpected expense.

No savings. No financial security. No money left to actually enjoy your life.

Yet we're expected to celebrate every time minimum wage increases.

But what's the point of a pay rise when you're still struggling to afford the basics?

At what point are we going to admit that something has gone seriously wrong in this country?

[Abby Martin @AbbyMartin]

Russell Brand’s trial is devastating. Testimony describes him as a rabid animal, demanding sex every few hours from whoever happened to be around, and taking it regardless of consent

Brand’s defense is that women knew he was a degenerate maniac, so they should have expected it by being in a room with him (several allege he attacked them in public and tried to drag them into bathroom stalls)

This is separate from FIVE disturbing allegations in Channel 4 Dispatches. Brand has zero regard for women as human beings - I can’t even imagine how many victims there truly are

Blows my mind that so many people peddle his lunacy portraying him as a truth-telling martyr being smeared by the establishment - and buy his newfound religious hucksterism

Makes sense he’s leapt into the movement of sexual offenders and pedophiles, where he belongs (other than prison)

[Mélania @MelaniaFrance]

Et ils appellent cela SPORT. Quel putain de dégoût.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

This woman is the devil

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Green MSP Kate Nevens and SNP MP Lara Bird have been kidnapped by Israel for trying to enter Palestine.

The Prime Minister should be demanding their immediate release.

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

Halloween artificial cobweb material:
It may be a bit of fake fun for you, but it's a very real and terrifying death for them.
And it's not only birds.
Last year I had my first call of the season of a hedgehog trapped in this horrific fake 'cobweb', made especially for gullible halloweeners to spread over their greenery, trapping all unsuspecting birds, insects and mammals, including hedgehogs.
The fine synthetic fibers are difficult for animals to see and can quickly wrap around their legs, spines, and neck, leading to severe injuries.
When a hedgehog struggles to free herself the web tightens, cutting off circulation and causing deep wounds.
These constriction injuries often lead to permanent damage or death.
Unfortunately the call was from Manchester, so all I could do was talk them through getting the poor creature to a rescue.
Clearly she had been trapped there for at least one night, and her struggles had pulled the strong nylon strands so tightly that one of her toes had been amputated.
Can you imagine the pain and the sheer terror?
And then seeing dawn approach, while hanging there, tightly bound and helpless.
Aside from being stressed, dehydrated, starving and exhausted to the point of near death, she also had horrific bite/peck wounds to her face, where she had been held there, helpless, unable to curl and defend herself, while a predator tried to eat her alive.
If you have used this deadly cruel trap to 'decorate' your garden, please take it down now.
Please don't be conned by the greedy makers and sellers of this rubbish into hurting defenceless animals.

[Tangwa Abilu.🌿🌏🌾🍀🍃.SDG's. @AbiluTangwa]

No intelligent species destroys its own home in the name of “development.”
True economics ensures resources exist tomorrow.
If your business forces others to clean up the pollution, you are not a job creator.
You are a liability.

[PETA UK @PETAUK]

At the San Fermín festival in #Pamplona, Spain, a spectacle of torment known as the Running of the Bulls – where bulls are forced to run up steep hills before being stabbed to death in a bullring in the evening – takes place each July.

#BanBullFighting #SanFermin

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Here's Young Bob using the P-word and claiming it's acceptable because it's an abbreviation of Pakistan. It's not.

The slur was widely used by far-right groups during the 1960s–80s, when racist attacks on South Asians were known as "P*ki-bashing".

[Yorkshire Victor Meldrew+his dog @TheMeldrew]

What a legend this lady is

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

That story about Google killing hundreds of thousands of trees in Finland for its data center project is such a perfect microcosm of what capitalism is doing to our world.

Recent mass media headlines are saying the tech giant "illegally" cut down "250,000" trees, but both claims paint an inaccurate picture of what actually happened. Google killed 400,000 trees (250,000 near a town called Muhos and another 150,000 near the village of Otanmäki), and unless the company's executives actually wind up going to prison for this, their actions cannot properly be described as "illegal".

I don't know who first coined the saying "If the penalty is a fine, then it's legal for rich people," but it certainly applies here. The Finnish Licensing and Supervision Authority has reportedly ordered Google to suspend all “measures that significantly change the environment," saying it will "consider enforcement proceedings and fines" if the megacorporation does not comply. Google's parent company Alphabet has a net worth of around four trillion dollars. Whatever paltry penalties Finland might impose for these ecocidal actions, it won't have any meaningful effect on Google.

Giant corporations do this shit all the time. They calculate that the fines incurred by their abusive actions will be dwarfed by the massive profits they generate, issue fake apologies as needed, and leave it to their armies of lawyers to minimize the damage. That's why the Sackler family is still worth billions despite all the fines Purdue Pharma was slapped with while creating the US opiate epidemic.

A 2017 Harvard study titled “The Opioid Epidemic: Fixing a Broken Pharmaceutical Market" contains the following paragraph:

"Although civil claims and criminal charges were brought against Purdue and its executives, the resulting penalties paled in comparison to extended-release oxycodone profits. In May 2007, the company and its president, chief counsel, and former chief medical officer pled guilty to falsely marketing extended-release oxycodone as 'less addictive, less subject to abuse and diversion, and less likely to cause tolerance and withdrawal than other pain medications.' As part of the plea bargain, Purdue agreed to pay the federal government $600 million and 27 states $20 million. The three executives agreed to $34.5 million in fines but avoided jailtime. By contrast, Purdue has earned an estimated $31 billion in total revenues from extended-release oxycodone since its launch. Rather than deterring fraudulent marketing, the penalties simply became a cost of doing business."

A cost of doing business.

That's how things work under capitalism. The law primarily exists not to protect people or the environment, but to protect the interests of capital. If you destroyed a Google data center you'd probably be charged as a terrorist and spend decades in prison, but Google can destroy the natural world around you and get off with a finger wag and a symbolic fine. If you stole millions of dollars from your employer you'd go to prison for grand larceny, but if your employer steals millions from its employees you need to win a class action lawsuit to get back what they stole from you.

Proponents of capitalism often pretend they support minimal government intervention in civilian affairs, but their entire model is at all times propped up by state power using force to protect the haves from the have-nots at every level of our society. Corporations are free to destroy the environment, destroy your health, rob you, exploit you, and manipulate your government to their advantage, and if you ever take action to stand up to this world-devouring onslaught, the state will lock you in a cage.

In school we are taught that that the law exists to protect ordinary people from bad people, but that's not true at all. Under capitalism, the law exists to protect the very worst among us from everyone else. That's why we are seeing our planet being turned into dust and ashes for no reason other than shareholder profit.

It's an insane system, and it needs to end. These freaks are feeding our entire biosphere into the woodchipper.

[KKS @The93Dr]

You were banned for your poppy ❌️

You were banned for being a performative racist moron ✅️

[PETA UK @PETAUK]

Every year, in the name of “tradition”, a bull is forced to endure burning flames attached
to his horns whilecrowds cheer.

Tradition is no excuse for cruelty. It’s time to end Toro Júbilo.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Congratulations to President Lula on a stunning, historic re-election.

A political comeback that will be remembered for generations to come.

This is a victory for the people, for the planet and for peace.

[Ted Smith 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 @TedUrchin]

Absolutely brilliant.
Farage is finished - fucked in any other words.
@reformparty_uk
@Nigel_Farage

[Tangwa Abilu.🌿🌏🌾🍀🍃.SDG's. @AbiluTangwa]

"Witnessing such a young elephant lose its life to trophy hunting is a painful reminder of why we cannot allow this to continue.Together, let's demand stricter regulations and an immediate ban on trophy hunting. Our wildlife deserves better. #BanTrophyHuntingNow"

[T. Bernadetti @MrsRoyKeaneo]

Nothing to see here. Just another woman with more balls than every single male politician, collectively!

📢"I cannot forgive, & there are so many others who will never forget just how long it has taken the UK Government to finally do the right thing📢
@larabirdsnp #israel

[PETA @peta]

Those heartbreaking screams 💔 This poor dog must have been terrified!

Former soccer player Héctor Alejandro Rosales Bonilla was apprehended by police and may face animal cruelty charges, thanks to the person who spoke out. If you witness animal abuse, SPEAK UP!

[The Rev. Anton Mittens 🌹👮🎓 @MittensOff]

Revel in the ridiculousness of the Kingstanding Nonce Bonnets as they take a cross for a walk in the countryside. 😂😂😂