djangoroo.bsky.social
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NB: fortunately outside the US. I certainly would never work with that system
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Don't even get me started on the use of solitary confinement (classified by the UN as torture)more extensively and longer than any other developed democracy by a very long way.Research is unequivocal and has been for the decades I've worked in the area about the iniquities of the US penal system.
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Many Americans seem not to understand the duty of care the State has to those in their custody. Nor that deprivation of liberty IS the punishment, and a significant one too. From afar it seems the majority of Americans are perfectly fine with that.
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You are part of the problem. The complete abject cowardice of the US media is really something
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People won't have food.
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TL/DR: Everyone hates him. No one can understand why yanks did this to themselves and us.
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The absence of follow up from US media is so weird.
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The actual article is even more egregious. It says Israel has repeatedly attacked people seeking aid. It further says Israel says Hamas has been stealing aid though there is no evidence of this. There is video of it.
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What a dystopian hellhole the US has become
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The most humongous arse.
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This account is definitely part off the problem
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As a sidebar, as an Aussie it never fails to amaze me how the US has such an enormous permanent under class in a country whose foundational principles were to prevent that. And the reverence and special treatment the over class enjoy. Horrendously undemocratic in every sense.
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So it's not the upper class as British caricature as you seemed to assert. Aristocrats as a species by and large are comparatively impoverished. Very very few have generational wealth any more
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You need to update your knowledge. Power is held by money not social class.
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The average Brit on the Clapham omnibus could tell you that.
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British social class power has shifted significantly. The power no longer resides with aristocrats. Monetary class outweighs birth by a significant margin. Money is power now not birth. Most aristocrats have lost their generational wealth at least one generation ago if not more. Taxation works.
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Dude I've lived in the UK for a quarter of a century. I suspect you haven't
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It's interesting that you view the UK "elites" by birth. Here's an interesting statistics: 63% of the current UK government were educated in state run schools. Things have clearly shifted. And of course Aussies have held to their egalitarian roots unlike yanks.
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Easy to graph the trajectory.
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In America there is deliberate diseducation. I do not see that in the UK or Australia. Neither UK or Australia have anything near the wealth and social inequity of the US. It's noteworthy too that both have higher social mobility than the US. Although to be fair so does Lithuania and Estonia.
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I mean that's legitimately hilarious
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Soul is an irrelevant concept when you worship Mammon
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And every country has a version and they're all great
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We also know the actual meaning of words like socialism and communism. We are not powerless serfs at the mercy of our masters in the way that the American working class is. It's no accident the US is in the deep deep shit it is
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We also know the actual meaning of words like socialism and communism. We are not powerless serfs at the mercy of our masters in the way that the American working class is. It's no accident the US is in the deep deep shit it is
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That Labour very recently won solid majorities. We also have strong social safety nets and a firm belief in the dignity of work ie a decent day's pay for a decent day's work. All of which the US lacks
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One thing is very clear. Both the Australian and the to public education system is far superior to the American system. Nor are people so overtly selfish as yanks. Or callous God botherers. I'd also remind you that I'm both Oz and the UK(the two countries I live)..../2
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It's such a thin veneer makes you wonder why they bother. My working hypothesis is they don't have the balls. Would be much less exhausting if they had the guts rather than all these ridiculous euphemisms.
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So insulting how you infantilise and deny Palestinians agency. Shameful of you to not be proud of your shaheeds
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Comedy gold
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No one should go to the parade. He can enjoy it by himself
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How many were combatants? That seems important. Any reporting as to why the tragic figures reported by the Hamas Government have gone down from previous months?
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Remember the rage when Michelle Obama suggested children should eat healthily?
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Every protest there are Palestinian flags and keffirs. It's pretty funny that these islamofascist fanboys think they are on the same side
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You missed the bit where all the US allies are moving on without America as they respond to relentless bullying. And that the US are now more aligned with their erstwhile enemies. Your DNI just circulated straight up Russian propaganda. No one trusts you anymore
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Short list of modern asymmetrical wars:
WWI
WWII
Vietnam
Cold War
Kosovo
Sri Lanka
Iraq
Syria
Ukraine
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It's almost like they declared war in the most barbaric manner possible against a better armed and better organised opponent. Yes you will be because was doesn't have to be symmetrical to be a war. I'm guessing you think you said something clever.
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Newsom is in a battle of wits with an unarmed man. Hardly a level playing field
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Los Angeles, CA -
You heard it here first folks. Protesters ran into an apartment building were initially detained, but were let in by residents of the apartment building and then were sheltered by residents in the building. LAPD has given up on the detainments and are gone now.