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Yellow jacket freedom fighters spreading to London
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HPC_Ghuol_Hunter wrote: »Yellow jacket freedom fighters?!? What freedoms are they fighting for?
Freedom from bankers manipulationNothing has been fixed since 2008, it was just pushed into the future0 -
Sam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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Freedom from being disenfranchised, debt slave worker drones their entire lives... whilst the banks, the corporations and the wealthiest 10% of society enjoy ever increasing riches?0
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Freedom from being disenfranchised, debt slave worker drones their entire lives ... ?
disenfranchise (verb): deprive someone of a right or privilege.
That's the real issue; too many people think they have a right to party every weekend and have a new car on PCP and the latest iPhone and a year off work to go exploring the world and then come back and without having to make any sacrifices to their lifestyle be able to buy a nice three bed house in a nice area at the same price their parents did twenty-odd years ago.
Here's another definition for you:
entitled (adjective): believing oneself to be inherently deserving of privileges or special treatment.Every generation blames the one before...
Mike + The Mechanics - The Living Years0 -
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Freedom from being disenfranchised, debt slave worker drones their entire lives... whilst the banks, the corporations and the wealthiest 10% of society enjoy ever increasing riches?
Those wealthy 10% pay around 60% of total UK income tax, I don't begrudge them having a nice life that they have earned. If you don't like banks, use a credit union, those of us who are savvy with money enjoy the benefits of banks even if we don't earn 6 figure sums.
Too many people think groups like this would solve everything, as soon as the wealth creators are chased away, there are an awful lot of bills the minimum wage people are going to have to cover.Sam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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I can't believe it is happening again, the amount of people on here that believe we should build on every last bit of green land in this country.
We need green land and woods/forests to collect water, to farm, to provide oxygen for the populace. We need it for the mental wellbeing of the populace. How would it feel to wake up each morning and look out on a concrete jungle?
I bet the ones advocating building on all land are also the ones that want to protect wildlife? What do you think wildlife would do if we had no green land left?
Now, we could build on brownfield land, that is not a problem, but do not build on green land, land that is required to at least go some way towards stopping flooding, capturing carbon etc.
It could be argued that we need more green land as the population increases, after all we need more water when we have more people on this island, we need more plants to capture the carbon, we need more farming land.
One thing I would advocate would be building blocks of flats where football stadiums are. After all, they have less value than the wooded lands near them.What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare0 -
It’s difficult to have respect for a bunch of people who film themselves sitting in front of an ambulance.
https://twitter.com/leaveeuofficial/status/1073558833878962176?s=21
Yesterday they were letting off smoke bomb in their peaceful demonstration.0 -
It’s difficult to have respect for a bunch of people who film themselves sitting in front of an ambulance.
https://twitter.com/leaveeuofficial/status/1073558833878962176?s=21
Yesterday they were letting off smoke bomb in their peaceful demonstration.
And in Manchester...
A handful of dorks shouting EDL slogans.Police said around 40 protesters also rallied in Manchester, where some yellow vests were daubed with English Defence League (EDL) slogans and “No surrender”.
Brexit in a nutshell.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-protest-yellow-vests-uk-manchester-arrests-far-right-brexit-roads-bridges-a8713081.html0
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