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Niemöller 2.0 🏃‍♂️ @brentcrude.bsky.social · Aug 2

First they came for my son, and I did not speak out
Because I was not my son
Then they came for my daughter, and I did not speak out
Because I was not my daughter
Then they came for my husband
And there was no one left
To make my sammiches

Niemöller 2.0 🏃‍♂️ @brentcrude.bsky.social · 13h

Working people still work and many think their interests should be represented in parliament, i believe

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

Both sides of a conflict are calling each other evil and corrupt, rendering me, a humble journalist, helpless to discern the truth. Best I can do is let you know that both sides are in fact saying those things. Hope this helps

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Niemöller 2.0 🏃‍♂️ @brentcrude.bsky.social · 14h

Calling the people in masks crushing your skull fascists just shows the left wing bias in news reporting. Do better.

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Niemöller 2.0 🏃‍♂️ @brentcrude.bsky.social · 1d

Not going round yours for a Beef Wellington then

Niemöller 2.0 🏃‍♂️ @brentcrude.bsky.social · 1d

First English degrees are useless, then this. I do wish they'd make their minds up

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Niemöller 2.0 🏃‍♂️ @brentcrude.bsky.social · 1d

Its OK we will reverse-adopt you

Niemöller 2.0 🏃‍♂️ @brentcrude.bsky.social · 1d

Listening to whole albums and news bulletins on a tinny AM radio - it's all coming back

Niemöller 2.0 🏃‍♂️ @brentcrude.bsky.social · 1d

Very poor

C me

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lelac.bsky.social @lelac.bsky.social · 1d

A good article on this is Neil H Buchanan’s article - “Capitalists Kill Capitalism (Who Knew That Trump’s Superpower Would be DestroyingWealth)”. It can be found on www.dorfonlaw.org. Great article on how the rich try to close down innovation and competition to keep everything for themselves.

Dorf on Law

Opinionated Views on Law, Politics, Economics, and More from Michael Dorf, Neil Buchanan, Eric Segall, & (Occasionally) Others

www.dorfonlaw.org

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Niemöller 2.0 🏃‍♂️ @brentcrude.bsky.social · 1d

I should add that it has all been flushed down the shitter because of a handful of rich and powerful individuals displaying exactly the opposite qualities in their pursuit to pay less tax; cowardly, craven and economically illiterate

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Niemöller 2.0 🏃‍♂️ @brentcrude.bsky.social · 1d

Generous, perhaps. Certainly courageous, pragmatic and economically literate. The most mutually beneficial piece of foreign policy in the history of the world.

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Niemöller 2.0 🏃‍♂️ @brentcrude.bsky.social · 1d

*Alanis Morisette vocals*

"it's like raaaiaain
On your voting form
When your towns submerged
But you still vote for Reform"

Niemöller 2.0 🏃‍♂️ @brentcrude.bsky.social · 1d

The Spectator must secretly hate Gareth Roberts if they are using that hedcut*. He looks like a cross between Humpty Dumpty and Hannibal Lecter

*that's what those etching style portraits some newspapers use are called. I had to look it up.

Niemöller 2.0 🏃‍♂️ @brentcrude.bsky.social · 1d

Politicians have been deskilled. They are now essentially there to rubber stamp policy devised by special interest groups, and rely on media controlled by the same people to spin it and stay out of the firing line.

Niemöller 2.0 🏃‍♂️ @brentcrude.bsky.social · 1d

But what can we do as individuals? One of the main issues is how badly we are being failed by our politicians, who have essentially capitulated to the demands of capital, rather than acting as a democratic counterbalance to it. All decision making has been outsourced to shadily funded think tanks.

Niemöller 2.0 🏃‍♂️ @brentcrude.bsky.social · 1d

He's a Russian asset.

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Niemöller 2.0 🏃‍♂️ @brentcrude.bsky.social · 1d

So many of our problems boil down to extreme inequality, and in particular how it was turbocharged after the 2008 financial crisis. That is when the die was set IMO

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Niemöller 2.0 🏃‍♂️ @brentcrude.bsky.social · 1d

It finally took 28 iterations to get anything that remotely worked, and even then it needed manually adjusting

Niemöller 2.0 🏃‍♂️ @brentcrude.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe he could go on Russia Today to explain it?

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Niemöller 2.0 🏃‍♂️ @brentcrude.bsky.social · 1d

And also, extreme wealth in the elite circles they move in has literally driven them insane. To play at the big table requires access to the big bucks. This, I believe, is why Labour in 2025 has no resemblance to the original Labour Party.
Everything boils down to money and wealth inequality
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Niemöller 2.0 🏃‍♂️ @brentcrude.bsky.social · 1d

Yes this is true. The Tories thought they were being smart aligning behind Brexit, but their own lies killed them. Labour has sold its soul to appease the gods of neoliberalism.
But moreover, both parties have become deskilled because all policy is outsourced to think tanks. Political brain drain
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Niemöller 2.0 🏃‍♂️ @brentcrude.bsky.social · 2d

Up to 20 iterations and it still hasn't got it right

Niemöller 2.0 🏃‍♂️ @brentcrude.bsky.social · 2d

I am using ChatGPT to generate an uptake model, and it's getting to the stage where it would have been quicker to do it myself in excel. AI ain't there yet. Also, it gave me this message. Cheeky bugger, that's my job and exactly why im using it!

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Niemöller 2.0 🏃‍♂️ @brentcrude.bsky.social · 2d

I agree, but isnt MMT based on a similarly flawed set of assumptions? Economics is fundamentally flawed because at the extremes human nature is irrational

Niemöller 2.0 🏃‍♂️ @brentcrude.bsky.social · 3d

Tory polling numbers suggest it is