omicronlyrae.bsky.social
ðŸ‡ðŸ‡° based, 🇿🇦🇬🇧. Frequent flyer, photographer, gamer. Black Lives Still Matter. Palestinian Lives Matter.
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"Oh bollocks, we're rumbled. Quick lads, pretend nothing's wrong! Some gullible fools will be taken in"
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The 70s called, they want their outfit back...
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This is incredible!
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Mega soft Man?
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"What do you want us to do about it?" 😂
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What. No. Absolutely not. I will stay here where it is warm thanks. 😂😂
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LOL NO
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Unbelievable. Absolutely insulting to those who did so much.
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This sounds a bit like mine, I dunno what the hell is going on.
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Definitely the Cornish Riviera Express...
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I have never seen this before but this is an absolute masterpiece of what feels like a different era. What a video to wake up to.
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Eventually, the rest of us are going to have to do something. I just hope it comes sooner than later, and does not require any bloodshed. History does not suggest this is a likely outcome.
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Additionally, in the US at least, politicians appear to have forgotten that they have a job, and are instead wringing their hands in limp accession to the New World Order without ever having done anything to oppose it.
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Unfortunately, what I see if people wanting the left to do different things, in different ways, and instead of compromising they all agree they should go their separate ways, leaving no defence against the fascists.
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What we need, the left leaning people of the world, is to unite. The anti-Apartheid campaign would never have worked if the ANC hadn’t been a hugely powerful unifying force. The N@zis would never have been defeated if not for unifying against them.
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There was no BlueSky, no Instragram, no video recordings or photos. And the fact is, despite the right wing fascists attempting to pull the ‘What you think you saw, you did not see’ now there is simply too much evidence.
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In 1962, when many Black citizens were massacred for daring to approach a police station in defiance of the Pass Laws, this was only known when and if media reported on it.
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The difference between then, and now, is the Internet. People can talk, unify, organise, and protest on a much larger scale, and now the weight of recent history is with them.
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One has only to read my favourite South African book 'Cry, The Beloved Country' to see that people still thought it would be ok. And it wasn’t immediate. It took years.
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After independence, when the NP were able to gain power in the election, and then change a tonne of things very quickly to solidify their power and prevent ever losing it again. Even then, there was hope.
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Many people have drawn parallels to Germany in the 1920s and 30s but I would also consider South Africa in the late 1940s. By that point, a number of laws were in place to restrict Black people from ownership and equal rights, but under the British this had gone to a certain point and no further.
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I think, therefore, one can draw a lot of parallels to the current climate in the UK – this fear of immigrants (specifically with different skin colours, we’ve not advanced that much) and return to fascist separation that we’re also seeing in the USA.
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When looking back at that time, it is easy to think – certainly in the 1980s – that South Africa was doomed. Boycotted by almost every country on the planet, isolated, and pressured to change, the country embraced the outsider status and tried to keep going. But it didn’t work.
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...because it’s easy to blame others for your own failings, I am reminded of this time when growing up. We have been here before, and while we are evidently doomed to repeat the Bad Cycle again and again, there is always hope.
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But I was instilled from birth with a fierce sense of Wrongness about Apartheid. The word literally means ‘Apartness’ and was a government-level separation of ‘us’ and ‘them’ built on colour of skin. As the world slides toward fascism, and ‘otherness’ again becomes a buzzword for everything bad...
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To return to my original point, I grew up in SA during Apartheid. I lived through the last years of that terrible time, as the cracks formed and then everything disintegrated. It was a nightmare. I will not detail what happened in Apartheid, please research it for yourself.
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...by trying to remind people of Apartheid so they can rekindle their falling support. They seek to remind people that the ANC did the thing that ended Apartheid in 1994, and that was 30 years ago but shut up, they’re doing more now! There’s a whole extra topic there I won’t get into…
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I should write an aside here – this policy is a terrible implementation and it is being put in place because the SA gov’t is trying to distract from all the other insanely acute problems – the rampant unchecked corruption, the constant electricity shortages, the lack of foreign investment, etc...
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I am a UK citizen, but more than that, I’m an immigrant. Specifically an African immigrant. I was born in South Africa, which has been in the news recently because of Elon complaining that White South Africans who stole land from the Black population are being asked to sell their land.
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I can’t really believe we’re back at this again. I wrote a similar thing 8 (!) years ago when Trump won that election. I wrote it because of Brexit. But we’re here again, so I guess I’m writing this one more time.
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I literally do not understand it. Everything that exists thus far has proven that AI is terrible and causes so many problems... And yet everyone has gone mad for it.
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Oh my god! Best news all week.
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I would much rather the endlessly put off Bakerloo line extension was actually constructed. It's only been planned for about 80 years...
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Jesus Christ some of these are phenomenal, in the worst possible way. Please for the love of god what is "sit on my face and call me Bernard". I am crying with laughter, this is incredible.
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Good advice for life, that.
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Fabulous, I love the challenge of shooting film! Great work =)