What a circus. I regret watching the U.S. President’s address to Congress.
But three lessons remain.
First, the only thing you need to be President of the United States is the ability to lie — and you don’t even need to be good at it. The bigger the lie, the louder the applause.
Second, to control the masses, you create an enemy. Every bad thing that happens in America is blamed on Biden, Democrats, illegal immigrants, or other countries. Every time Trump blamed someone, MAGA loyalists applauded wildly, jumping from their seats like madmen to deliver standing ovations. Such an intense display of loyalty is something we usually associate with North Korea.
Third, people have little problem compromising their morals and values as long as you throw them a bone. It has always been a mystery to me why the majority of Christians supported Hitler and helped him become a dictator. It is not a mystery anymore.
Pushy software. A cartoon parody of something we keep finding in real life. Rather than be helpful, they try to sell you something.
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‘You don’t teach your children in schools a line of colonial history’ Shashi Tharoor destroys British🇬🇧 media over Britain’s colonial history
Real wages in India🇮🇳 declined by 23.3% during the 350 years of British rule
Under British rule, India's share of the world economy declined from 24.4% in 1700 to 4.2% in 1950
Britain stole $45 trillion in wealth from India during colonial rule
Based on England's 16th and 17th century mortality rate, the British Empire caused 165 million excess deaths in India between 1881 and 1920.
Extreme poverty increased from 23% in 1810 to more than 50% by the mid-20th century.
According to historian Mike Davis, during 120 years of the British Raj, there were 31 famines. Before British rule, there had been 17 famines in the last 2000 years.
The last famine caused by the British Empire, the Bengal famine, killed 4 million people.
@ShashiTharoor
Fujitsu is responsible for the wrongful prosecution - and sometimes imprisonment - of hundreds of subpostmasters. The Tories gave it a £20m phone alert contract, which it promptly subcontracted to Rishi Sunak's father in law.
Remembering the Wikileaks cables on Palestine - part of our campaign to release Julian Assange.
One cable reveals that the Palestinian Authority had requested assistance from Israel in defeating Hamas. In another cable, we learn that Israel determined that Hamas’ rise in Gaza would benefit them as it would allow the IDF to “deal with Gaza as a hostile state”
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🎧"My grandson's doing his Nativity play. They've made Jesus's mum a pregnant migrant woman crossing a border with her husband WHO ISN'T EVEN THE DAD. The school's gone woke!😡"
🎙️"You said this last year, Colin."
🎧"Which is proof that Sunak's migration policy is failing!"
Too much gas for grass to handle, study shows
You either stop eating meat to stop society from collapsing; or you stop eating meat because society has collapsed: either way your days of eating meat are coming to an end.
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The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism.
- 412 yes
- 1 no (R-KY Thomas Massie)
- 1 present (D-MI Rashida Tlaib)
Zionist extremism is alive in both political parties.
Quit being a Dr in the US when I discovered that the hospital favored low-priority rich people for organ transplants over high-priority very sick poor kids who were at death's door. I moved to UK & now work in the NHS. You guys have no idea how fucking lucky you are to have them.
🇮🇱🇵🇸 THIS WAR IS ONLY CREATING HATE
"Our children, these children, in a period of 10-15 years, will make a nuclear bomb in his house and will wipe out Israel.
Do you know why?
He saw his father dying. He saw his uncle martyred. he saw his stolen house, he's living in tent in 10 years. He won't be finding food or water
This young child how can we remove hatred from the hearts of these children? How can we remove it? Just answer me: how can we remove it? How can we make this child smile?"
Nelson Mandela was declared a terrorist because of a 3 day strike that he called in 1962.
The strike was legal at the time and only became illegal during the strike.
He was subsequently called a terrorist and jailed for 27 years.
Terrorist is never applied to the oppressor.
🚨BREAKING: We're blocking the doors of @TotalEnergies to demand they #StopEacop.
At the same time, @money_rebellion, @XRebellionUK & @CClimateAction are occupying the offices of three insurance companies who haven't ruled out insuring of the giant oil pipeline.
#oilymoneyout