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Me & Taylor
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Crusty old scouser socialist grandad. Retired Chartered Engineer. Still sailing & seeking another motorbike/scooter.

Be warned, I do not always follow back. It's not you, it's me. 🥰
Why are Americans afraid of safe parking techniques?
Extra many perverts backing into parking spaces tonight. Be careful out there
December 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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After Trump I don't want things to "go back to normal". I want there to be a political system where no one like Trump is ever allowed to rise to power again. There needs to be a complete socioeconomic political restructuring that prioritizes the working class and personal freedom

Abolish the state.
December 6, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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The owner of Reform UK ltd - Farage, has accepted £9m from Thailand resident Harborne.

Dubai Dick Tice in 2018 on George Soros donating to UK organisations:

"He doesn't live here. He doesn't pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?"

Vote Refuk - get crypto mafia
December 6, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Deregulation allows corporations to kill for profit
Whenever we end up with the American food discourse, it's important to remember that the rate of food poisoning in America is like ten times higher than in Britain because they have substandard laws around food safety.
December 5, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Terminal capitalism, it's what destroyed the Roman Empire.
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere.

It means more power for them and less freedom for you.
Netflix's $83 billion takeover of Warner Bros Discovery would mean more corporate consolidation.

Netflix, by far the #1 streamer, would take over HBO Max, the #3 streaming service.

This giant merger could violate antitrust law and hurt consumers.
December 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Respectfully I must disagree with the esteemed congress woman @crockett.house.gov who said Trump is an 'enemy of the United States'.

No. Trump is the enemy of the entire human race. He's a #PEDONAZI with 5,000 nukes that's already a proven #SerialKiller. Otherwise I'm with her 100% on all points.
December 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
An appropriately "handsy" trophy for the old groper.
Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment
December 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information.

Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?
December 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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A "FIFA Peace Prize" is tantamount to getting an "AutoZone Best Actor in a Dramatic Play" award.

And "I want to really save lives" is rich coming from the homicidal slob who is murdering people on fishing boats in the Caribbean.
December 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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There are now 7 pro-Palestine political prisoners in the British prison system who are on hunger strikes, some for 1 month+. Their health is deteriorating rapidly, but there has been no state response or major media coverage.

We have to ⬆️ the pressure now!!!

electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-wi...
British hunger strikers learn prison lessons from Palestine
"People out here have to be their voices," says sister.
electronicintifada.net
December 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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This is exactly what churches should be doing, calling out injustice.

📌 Lake Street Church Nativity: a bold social justice statement with ICE-like Roman soldiers, the Virgin Mary in a gas mask, baby Jesus zip-tied, Joseph on the ground, pushing viewers to think about immigration.
December 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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What did Karl Marx predict?

He predicted that under unrestricted Capitalism money would be concentrated into the hands of a handful of individuals, that Governments would become controlled by the richest, and that wages would be subsistence level.

He was right.
December 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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The GMB union's London Region has welcomed plans by MPs to bar parliamentary candidates from standing if they do not pass an enhanced DBS check.

GMB says "the status quo, which allows candidates who have been convicted of violent and sexual offences to stand for office, presents safeguarding risks"
December 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Israel currently bombing Southern Lebanon, last night it was the Palestinians in Gaza. Settlers throwing rocks at Palestinians near Hebron in the West Bank.

All framed as Israel defending itself. What a fυκιΝ disgrace.
December 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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"Bankole, 54, an engineer, said once his 'existence as a target was established', Farage 'would wait at the lower-school gate, where I was dropped off for school, so as to repeat the vulgarity'." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he was compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to dismiss hurt of alleged targets
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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“What have I done!” 🤡
December 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
FIFA Peace Prize to Trump 🤣🤣🤣🤣🙄😱
December 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Nigel Farage doesn't seem to mind foreigners when they're funding his fraudulent political parties...

Or buying him a house.
December 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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For 50 years, the median wage of hourly workers stagnated or declined while the stock market and CEO pay skyrocketed.

Is it any wonder so many feel abandoned by the system?

People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void. This is why we must fix the system.
December 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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“In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker who arrived on a boat. Today we have 46,000 a year and do you know why? It was because of the botched Brexit deal pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage should be here apologising”

Daisy Cooper
December 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years.

Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class.

The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
December 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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December 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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H/t James Sheridan on FB.
December 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM