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Arthur Assendune

@arthurassendune.bsky.social

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Retired. Ex Tutor, Engineer, Regulations, Standards, Environment, left leaning. Capitalism is incompatible with a healthy, survivable planet. DMs ignored. Reposts not necessarily endorsement. Only my opinions. Born at 312 ppm. 🇪🇺

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Arthur Assendune @arthurassendune.bsky.social · 10h

And the downside is...?

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5d

As if they keep writing all these headlines - and our membership numbers and polling just keeps shooting up. 🚀

Now at 110,000. Over 55% increase in just one month!

Lower bills. Fund NHS. Tax the super rich.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

Greens who want to save the world by destroying britain

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Arthur Assendune @arthurassendune.bsky.social · 7d

Farage drowning in hypocrisy...

WHAT a surprise!

Yet the cultists will still vote for him.

But don't call them stupid!

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 7d

The FT has asked whether the global economy can survive another shock. That’s the question of our time. In this video, I explain why that’s a dangerous illusion, how neoliberal policy has made us fragile, and why only courageous governments can prevent systemic collapse. youtu.be/a8qtW9by3Wk?...

What Happens If The Economy Crashes Again?

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

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Arthur Assendune @arthurassendune.bsky.social · 7d

'We were only following orders' is not a defence.

Arthur Assendune @arthurassendune.bsky.social · 9d

Performance cruelty.

1. In proportionate terms the numbers are small.
2. Asylum seekers are allowed to use non standard means.
3. Our democratic crisis means we need them.
4. Most asylum seekers are due to past Ill-advised UK military adventures or arm sales.

Arthur Assendune @arthurassendune.bsky.social · 12d

Reform are a malignant cancer on politics.

Arthur Assendune @arthurassendune.bsky.social · 13d

If your claim for Brexit success is using (questionably) slightly cheaper bananas as a benchmark, then that claim has desperation written all over it.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 14d

One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.

Text card: Listen for dangerous words.
Be alert to the use of the words extremism and terrorism. Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary.
#OnTyranny

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Arthur Assendune @arthurassendune.bsky.social · 14d

a large screen shows a man 's face in front of signs that say ingsoc and king

Alt: a large screen shows a man 's face in front of signs that say ingsoc and king

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Arthur Assendune @arthurassendune.bsky.social · 16d

How many just quietly cough the money and we don't hear anymore about it?

Arthur Assendune @arthurassendune.bsky.social · 16d

George Carlin does a neat summary. Grasp this and everything falls into place...

youtu.be/Nyvxt1svxso?...

George Carlin - It's A BIG Club & You Ain't In It!

YouTube video by SkyEcho7

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Arthur Assendune @arthurassendune.bsky.social · 16d

It seems even Leavers baulk at being pumped full of sub-standard food.

Arthur Assendune @arthurassendune.bsky.social · 16d

Brexit was deliberate 'lie-creep'. The objective was always clear, complete disconnect from the EU so the rape of the UK by the billionaires could proceed unhindered. Of course if they came straight out with it they would have failed, so the intention was to subtly shift the 'acceptable' framing.

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Arthur Assendune @arthurassendune.bsky.social · 18d

No surprise!

Amazing how these scammers can avoid the consequences of their duplicity

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Arthur Assendune @arthurassendune.bsky.social · 18d

Jail then!

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Arthur Assendune @arthurassendune.bsky.social · 19d

Thank you Tanja.

You are right of course.

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Arthur Assendune @arthurassendune.bsky.social · Sep 19

Well done Kahn.

No surprise that the Orange Felon would try and spin it as a win though. Johnson levels of misrepresentation and lying.

Arthur Assendune @arthurassendune.bsky.social · Sep 19

We all know the objective is 'ethnic cleansing'. Israel wants to steal Palestinian land. (No change there then.)

Arthur Assendune @arthurassendune.bsky.social · Sep 18

The question is why was he accepted in the first place.

Arthur Assendune @arthurassendune.bsky.social · Sep 15

The master race...🙄

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Arthur Assendune @arthurassendune.bsky.social · Sep 14

Well yes, I agree, so why are the #BBC giving unwarranted airtime to the fruitcakes and loonies and not fulfilling their obligation to educate and inform on the dangers of said fruitcakes and loonies?

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Arthur Assendune @arthurassendune.bsky.social · Sep 14

Brian probably bitterly regrets that J. A. Topf & Söhne went bankrupt in 1963.

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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · Sep 14

Prime example of exceptionalism which is hampering a realistic examination of Brexit.

It seems the UK haulage industry has been dependent on illegal working in our jurisdiction to keep going.

With EES and Etias, that will end.

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H/t @orynski.eu

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