Greg Dickin - Stop Killing People

Hi all, what's happening?
I am interested in what the world has to say about most things.
Am a Rugby Union tragic.

[Greg Dickin - Stop Killing People @PluckaRM]

@lesstenny He is a RWNJ. Should have seen how he carried on during Covid in Vic.

[John @John58657352]

A lady asked an old street vendor, "How much do you charge for your eggs?" The old man replied, "0.50 cents per egg, ma'am." The lady replied, "I'll take 6 eggs for 2.00 dollars or I'll leave." The old vendor replied, "Buy them at the price you want, miss. This is a good start for me, because I haven't sold a single egg today and I need this to make a living."

She bought her eggs at a bargain and left feeling like she'd won. She got into her fancy car and went to a fancy restaurant with her friend. She and her friend ordered whatever they wanted. They ate some of what they ordered and left much of it behind. So they paid the bill of 150 dollars. The ladies gave 200 dollars and told the owner of the fancy restaurant to keep the change as a tip.

This story might seem very normal to the owner of the fancy restaurant, but very unfair to the egg seller. The question it raises is:
Why do we always have to show that we have power when we buy from people in need?
And why are we generous to those who don't even need our generosity?

We once read somewhere that a father bought goods from poor people at a high price, even though he didn't need these things. Sometimes he paid more. His children were amazed. One day they asked him, "Why do you do that, Dad?" The father replied, "It's charity, wrapped in dignity."

I know that most of you won't share this post, but if you're one of the people who took the time to read this far...
Then this message of an attempt at "humanity" has taken a step in the right direction.

Thanks for reading.

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[💧Michael West @MichaelWestBiz]

Pulitzer Prize winner gets no media coverage. Total coincidence he is a Palestinian?
#whatsthescam @kwingerei
#gaza

https://t.co/TaGxLNxlox

[Greg Dickin - Stop Killing People @PluckaRM]

@Fx1Jonny What's a Kiwi doing in the UK promoting Reform? She really shouldn't be wearing an Allblacks jersey either.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Today is World Donkey Day.

Donkey Nannies, Lombardy, Italy

Every spring, shepherds guide large flocks of sheep, mules, donkeys, and goats from the Pre-Alpine hills to the plains of Lombardy for grazing. Newborn lambs are carried in custom-made side saddles by donkeys, then reunited with their mothers during rest stops.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

A lesson on social democracy that is not from a lying billionaire.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

*BRITISH WRITER PENS THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF TRUMP*
Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:
A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump's limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever.
I don't say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it's a fact. He doesn't even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn't just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It's all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don't. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He's not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He's more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless or female – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy' is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and most are.
• You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it's impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

[Voice of Rabbis @voiceofrabbis]

If you're Jewish or non-Jewish, please, let the world know:

Video from last night in Monroe NY,

The message was unmistakable:

“We oppose and have no part in Zionism and State of israel”

Not fringe. Not small.

[Robert Barwick @RobbieBarwick]

Today Australia cancelled its Inland Rail project, saying it was "too expensive".

Yet we're spending $368 billion on AUKUS submarines because the US convinced us that China - which has paid us trillions $ for our iron ore to turn into steel to build these railways - is a threat.

[Greg Dickin - Stop Killing People @PluckaRM]

@IRanalyst I also call BS on these Nazi gestures & graffiti. We have heard, even from their privileged voice to Gov, that Aussie children have no historical understanding of the holocaust.

[Greg Dickin - Stop Killing People @PluckaRM]

@IRanalyst I am tired of hearing about their supposed suffering.

Do they not realise that their continuation of conflating antisemitism with our criticism & absolute horror of what Israel is doing to other ppl & countries in the name of Zionism will stir emotion in our society?

[Dr Sheep Person Podge @noplaceforsheep]

Two deranged ISIS enthusiasts slaughtered 13 Jews & 2 passers-by in Bondi.

The number of Australians who subscribe to ISIS ideology is absolutely minuscule.

Therefore, to describe the Bondi massacre as the natural progression of Australian antisemitism is utter bollocks & nobody should accept that narrative.

[Kate Emerson 🇵🇸 🔻 @KateEmersonBri]

Watching this Royal Commission into Antisemitism is at once making my blood boil and also depressing me. Mostly the former.
We have all watched the Israeli genocide of Palestine for over 2 1/2 years. Seen the murdered babies, their bodies shredded. Heard the phone call that Hind made, a tiny girl in a car full of dead relatives, desperate for help and a Palestinian ambulance rushing towards her, and those people too would be murdered.
We've seen the t-shirts sold by Zionist orgs with a photo of a pregnant Muslim woman on one side and a gun on the other and the words TwoForOne on it.
We've seen old people who survived the Nakba of 1948 driven crying from their homes - again.
We've seen the young man with Down syndrome patting the dog that killed him and calling it Habibi.
All of this and so, so much more.
Now we have to listen to a pack of entitled people, mostly Jews and mostly Zionists, crying over someone shouting at them for wearing a kippah or a Star of David. Desolate because they passed a shop window with the words Stop The Genocide on it.
Bleating about Jews in this country requiring, nay, demanding more money to be spent on THEIR security.
These are NOT my people. They are not God's Chosen People. These are Zionists. These people are the faces of Zionism and we must all stand against this.
The Jewish Zionist lobbies may own the government, the opposition, and the MSM, but they DO NOT own us.
Call your elected representatives and tell them: there are First Nations and Muslims and homeless people and people who can't afford to get their teeth fixed, and when will they get their Royal Commission, eh?
DO NOT put up with this. And #FREEPALESTİNE

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

"The moment I realised Israeli society was fully fascist"

Journalist and filmmaker @AbbyMartin shares her experience speaking to everyday Israeli citizens in 2017, and explains how genocidal rhetoric has now gone mainstream in the country.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Basically every Israel-Palestine debate goes like this:

"Israel did X."

"Yeah, because the Palestinians did Y."

"Yeah, because Israel did Z."

"Yeah but only because the Arabs did A."

But if you bring the debate back far enough in time, eventually you get to the part where the western world forcibly dropped a brand new ethnostate on top of a pre-existing civilization without the permission of — and to the extreme detriment of — the people who were already living there.

Sure you can go further back and say "Oh yeah well the Jews lived there thousands of years ago," but that's just silly. There's no valid reason to believe some Jewish guy in New York City even has any meaningful lineage connecting him to that land more strongly than any random Muslim in Turkey or wherever, and even if there was, it would still be absurd to cite ancient history as the basis for a territorial claim. I'm only a few generations removed from my ancestry in Ireland and Scotland, but it would be ridiculous for me to show up demanding the home of someone who lives there.

So the original source for the grievance is clearly the artificial creation of an ethnonationalist state in the mid-20th century, and the push by Zionists and western imperialists to make it happen.

And how has that decision worked out? You see the results before you. Generations of nonstop violence and abuse, culminating in the slaughter and chaos throughout the middle east today.

This means that creating Israel was a mistake. A mistake that needs to be corrected.

Zionists will collapse into a shrieking pile of vitriol and hyperbole when you say this, claiming you're calling for the extermination of Jews, but this is false. Certainly ending a national order premised on putting the interests of Jews before Palestinians and righting the wrongs of the past would inconvenience a lot of the Jewish people who've been living there, but there's no basis for the claim that it would entail their deaths. Apartheid South Africa was dismantled without the extermination of millions of white people, and there's no reason to believe the dismantling of apartheid Israel would entail the extermination of Jews.

The Israel experiment has been tried, and it has failed. It is time to try something else.

[Mykhailo Rohoza @MykhailoRohoza]

During the Nuremberg Trials, Hermann Göring gave an interview to psychologist Gustave Gilbert and said:
“Of course the people don’t want war. Why would some poor farmer want to risk his life in a war when the best he can hope for is to come back to his farm in one piece?
Naturally, people don’t want war. No one wants war in Russia, England, America — not even in Germany. That’s obvious.
But in the end, it’s the leaders of a country who determine policy. And it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it’s a democracy, a communist state, a parliament, or a fascist dictatorship.”
Gilbert objected:
“But there is one difference in a democracy — the people have a voice through their elected representatives.”
To which Göring replied:
“That’s all well and good, but whether the people have a voice or not, they can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
— Nuremberg Diary, April 18, 1946
Doesn’t it sound familiar?

[Kayakestable @kayakestable]

¿Sabías que esas pequeñas abejas que ves al atardecer posadas en las flores son abejas viejas?

Las abejas viejas y enfermas no regresan a la colmena al final de su día.

Pasan la noche en las flores, y si tienen la oportunidad de ver otro amanecer, reanudan su actividad trayendo polen o néctar a la colonia.

Hacen esto sintiendo que el final está cerca.

Ninguna abeja espera morir en la colmena para no ser una carga para las demás.

Así que, la próxima vez que veas una pequeña abeja vieja posada en una flor mientras la noche se acerca...

...dale las gracias a la pequeña abeja por su servicio de toda la vida.

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

I ran for the Senate because I wanted to help make politics about people again - not multinationals, vested interests or party donors.

And that's why our campaign to get a 25% gas tax matters.

Public pressure has made politicians pay attention and we have to keep it up because it can help make sure in one of the wealthiest counties on earth (and biggest gas exporters in the world), more Australians actually feel the benefit of our gas exports.

Head to https://t.co/dcjuwV2f9S to make your voice heard.
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