Rick Jones

Retired computer techie, Morris dancer, Twitter lurker. Appalled at junk economics.
“Anything we can actually do we can afford.”
- John Maynard Keynes.

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@RhonddaBryant The whole of govt should stop using it & switch to, say, BSky, and loudly announce the fact. X is NOT the "town square*, it's a private system devoted to public manipulation. No self-respecting govt should be anywhere near it.

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@advancesarah Wonder if you'd have posted that drivel if they had white faces?

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@Jindo_1307979 Don't need to be a genius, just be able to count in binary. 🙂 (1, 11, 111, 1111, etc.)

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@SJosephBurns Except that's exactly NOT how government spending works (hint: governments don't spend taxes). Friedman was an idiot pushing a destructive agenda.

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@BladeoftheS Exactly, which is why there is no need for the massive complexity of taxing assessed wealth, just equalise tax on all income, regardless of how it is obtained

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@w1llthemarshal @archer_rs It would be more help if the politicians funded the police adequately so they have the resources to actually do proper policing.

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@CanadaRenegade @TheAliceSmith So where did this money they're stealing come from? Oh yes, the government created it in the first place. If they didn't there wouldn't be any to fill the pockets of the rich. The wealthy don't "make money", that's illegal. All private sector profit originates with government.

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@McardleTrevor And exactly how many of Trump's cabal of enablers, advisors and negotiators are elected, such as e.g. Musk? The EU has an elected parliament who have the final say on appointments. What a mendacious load of twaddle.

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@SarahForRuncorn Sub-text: we won't stand up for anyone non-Christian, and maybe not even Christian of they're not white. In case it hadn't occurred to you, Jesus of Nazareth was a brown skinned Jew, of similar ethnicity to the people we today call Palestinians.

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@CzechArtGirl @MichelBarnier I take it you're referring to the USA here? A country where dissenting from the billionaire class (who control what is permissible to call "news") gets you cancelled, and most likely ICE'd.

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@disclosure2x @RasmusJarlov @SecRubio @StateDept The EU is an association of independent nations, with an elected parliament, just like the USA is a federation of self governing states, with an elected Congress. EU nations have more autonomy than US states. Explain where Orwell fits in?

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@Jenny_1884 Who cares? Having both gives you a choice. I use self service for a few items, but a trolley full is usually quicker with a cashier, cos their tills scan faster. Hand scanner is best, pack as you go and see the total as you shop!

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@BladeoftheS @TiceRichard Please name one country running an unregulated, privatised capitalist system where there is no poverty and everyone is happy.

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@ThePholosopherX Who pays you to spew this drivel?

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@nmlinguaphile Because this "debt" isn't what most people think it is. Govt creates all the money in the first place by spending, so why does it need to borrow back its own money? It doesn't, it's actually a savings scheme for people & banks with spare money. Govt can never go bankrupt.

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@yaronbrook And since when did the opinions of Rand, a novelist, count for anything? The only people who quote her as an authority are those whose own opinions happen to coincide with hers.

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@MiltonFriedmanW Delusional. The wealth gap in all the western countries that have aggressively pursued capitalism is at its highest ever, and getting worse. He staked his reputation on claiming free markets are the solution to everything, and couldn't bear to admit he might have be wrong.

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@BasedMikeLee Around half a million people world-wide are bankrupted every year due to medical debt. Every single one of those people lives in the USA - a country that spends more per head on healthcare yet has worse outcomes, and the only one where healthcare is fully privatised.

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@KennethJolivet @totalguff @doctor_oxford @Nigel_Farage The prime purpose of a mask is to prevent you from infecting others. You exhale water droplets, not isolated virus particles. The mask stops most of those droplets, and the ones that get through don't travel as far. Surgeons wear masks to protect the patient, same reason.