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#trickledowneconomics
Wealth doesn't #trickledown naturally, it stays where it is or it floats upwards. Wealth gives market advantage. The reality is that unless it is well regulated, Wealth gets sucked upwards.

That's why the workers and the middle classes are losing wealth just as the billionaires are amassing it in proportions of world GDP that haven't been seen since Julius Caesar and his friends/enemies looted the entirety of Europe and the middle East 2000 years ago.

@robriley
“We need key workers?” Was the immediate answer with a roll of the eyes
- totally missing the point that “help for key workers” in reality is a subsidy for middle class communities to keep nurses & firemen etc
Basically “room for the servants in the attic”

I was warning then (during the height of Blairite power) that growing support for the hard right was inevitable if we didn’t improve things for ordinary people.

It’s harsh but If you don’t understand it you need to think harder

@robriley “it's one thing to be disillusioned with the main parties but to opt for those liars, those obvious self serving cretins is beyond me.”

Absolutely
But let’s be honest , most of the mainstream parties are so full of careerists , it’s hard to see the wood for the trees .

I never forgot an incident when I was in the Labour Party and was arguing against helping key workers get mortgage help to live in rich areas
I asked “what’s so special about key workers compared to ordinary workers?

@robriley I probably understand the appeal of Reform better because I work with a number of people who tend to support them (including black & Asian workers which surprises me)
It’s largely desperation.
We are reasonably well paid in comparison to other working class people but we’ve experienced a squeeze. Wages are down due to casualisation of our industry.
Labour, Plaid etc don’t offer a realistic hope of change; so
They decided to “play the hand they’re dealt” not “build a better world”

Brilliant!

Dim ond dweud
jus sayin
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@mekkaokereke
Rudyard Kipling said it all over a hundred years ago about how the British Empire treated our soldiers
https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_tommy.htm

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

Still not talking about Black History. Still talking about white US History.

The US *loves* soldiers and veterans! Virtuous! Service! 🇺🇲🦅

The US *hates* homeless people. Lazy! Dirty! Want a handout!

But... ~1 in every 20 US homeless folk is a Black or hispanic veteran. 🤷🏿‍♂️

In the USA, the phrase "support our troops!" is a euphemism that does mean military jingoism, but doesn't mean supporting all of our troops.

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#BlackMastodon

#DyddMiswigCymru
ymddengys taw heddiw yw e.

#cymraeg #cerddoriaeth
https://youtube.com/watch?v=RR9RbP2ac4o&si=VLV-LczZyeHAPRpt

Pam mae diffyg rifoedd o bobl yn gwylio pethau diddorol fel hyn ar YouTube ac ati?
mae'r "view count" ar stwff Cymraeg o safon dda yn wir siomedig i fi.
#cymraeg #cerddoriaeth #dysgu

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jx8i7Y8v1Qw&si=N8Y_FO3W2X3cLyHR

Mae'r "cyngherddau'r ddesg bychain" yn wych.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=E6-z-Gqd30Q&si=VGhYIEogPOJIls6N

Begging some hero in the Department of Ed to rename the student loan record file folder "DEI training materials" before unlocking the door for the DOGE bros

Discuss! :
People who eat cheap chicken nuggets & even cheaper pork sausages but refuse to consider lab grown meat as an option?

https://tuiter.rocks/@selbor/113955673418920286 Mae gwneud llun o dy wyneb ar y traeth yn hawdd iawn. Cwympo'n wastad ar y tywod yw'r unig peth bo ti angen gwneud.
Y tric go iawn yw gwneud yr un peth ar asffalt.
ond wir yr nawr - paid ‼️

Banx #Tariffs #Trump #China

@robriley
"what's wrong with the electorate?" you ask
Surely it's more a question of :

"what is wrong with standard model of politics,"

especially as it is deployed by the mainstream parties,

What makes the self serving insular far right appeal to apolitical but aspirational working class and lower middle class people; who've lost hope that "business as usual" or "unrealistic pipe dream manifestos" of the left can protect them from an increasingly complex and scary modern world.

The Liberal Elite can often be a corrupt shit show that fucks you over.
But what's happening in America right now is proof that you'll miss them when they're gone, because the "patriotic" iliberal elite you listened to will always fuck you over even more and wont even wear a condom or use lube.

I made dis..

#TheGulfOfAmerica