Sam_GDT @SamGuideDogTra1

You can tell how hard he tries to be liked, and ultimately it makes every move he makes magnified in its desperation. No amount of money can buy you a personality

Neb | 🏳️‍🌈 @NebsGoodTakes

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Zack Polanski, "When I studied history at school. Tudors, Romans, a bit of WWII. I don't remember talking about empire or colonisation" Historian William Dalrymple, "It is possible to do at A'Levels modules on the British empire, but very few people do them" "Which means most British people are entirely ignorant for what is for better or worse the most important thing Britain ever did" "Britain drew it's empire, completely changed the face of the world over the course of 300-400 years" "Not only did they change it within a local European context, but they completely upended flows of global trade and eco-systems which had existed for millinia" "For most of history, India and China dominated the world economy, and Europe was an add-on" "They were producing about 70% of the world's GDP, that's still the case in the 18th century" "When we're looking at the world today, China already the world's number two economy, and India about to be number three overtaking Japan and Germany" "What we're seeing is a reversal of the trading system to a pr colonial period - it's taken 80 years since the British left India" "We're seeing the world recover form this brief blip where Europe smashed its way around the globe moving populations and natural resources around, looting some places, bringing wealth to Europe" "If you look at the big National Trust country houses, if it's a big palladian house, the sort you'd see in a Jane Austin Sunday night drama" "If it's on the east coast of the country, quite probably it was built by the East India company money, in other words the looting of India" "If it's on the west coast, near Liverpool or Bristol, it's more likely to be slave money, from the Caribbean" "These two sources of wealth brought capital into Britain, and cotton into Britain, which was then milled in the industrial revolution, which gave the seed capital for Britain to accelerate massively through the industrial revolution" "Which catapulted England from an upper middle position in Europe" "It transforms Britain and the world" "But what gives us great prosperity often detracted from the prosperity of the looted countries, or countries that have been plundered for enslaved people" "And it remains a strange quirk of our history system that we learn more about the wives of Henry VIII, than we do about the entirely looting of India, or the Caribbean slave trade" "Two crucial moments in Britain's and the world's history" "The reason we don't learn it, is because when the British empire ended, it became something people stopped talking about" "By the time you get to Monty Python in the 1970s or late 60s, the Empire is a joke"

“Unluckiest” is a weird way to say deliberately targeted and mistreated by the host country with FIFA’s consent.

BBC News (UK) @BBCNews

3 days ago

Are Iran the unluckiest side in World Cup history? bbc.in/3SvlCs5

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Why did our ruling class not invest in decarbonising faster to avoid this acceleration in deadly heatwaves that scientists warned would come? Because of the capitalist law of value. Capital invests in what is most profitable to capital, rather than what is most necessary for humanity, so our ruling class keeps ploughing investment into fossil fuels and SUVs, while we get far too little in renewables and public transit, even while the world burns around us. We have more than enough capacity (labour, factories, technology) to address the climate crisis, but as long as capital controls investment and production we are prevented from doing it. We are trapped by the capitalist law of value, living in a miserable shadow of the world we could have.

If you want to help humanity take one simple step. Do everything in your power to undermine and disrupt Israel and the USA.

A US military plane used to transport soldiers landed at Shannon Airport on its way back from an Israeli airbase – in the same week a UN inquiry found Israel “deliberately carried out acts inflicting death on Palestinian children”. ontheditch.com/us-military-pl…

Capitalism is great because everyone can boil to death so we can have a trillionaire

Met4Cast - UK Weather @Met4CastUK

a week ago

The Met Office have released a theoretical forecast for 23rd June 2056. Based on current climate change trends these temperatures will be plausible during intense summer heatwaves in just a few decades.

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So many incredible storylines at the World Cup but the stoicism and dignity of this man’s tribute to a national leader assassinated with the connivance of the CIA is maybe my favorite

Sports on Predict @predictdotsport

7 days ago

🚨 HE'S FINALLY HERE. After missing DR Congo's opener because of visa issues, Lumumba has taken his place for Colombia vs DR Congo. 🔥

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i hope the americans who find this so adorable look up the real lumumba and what happened to him

LUMUMBA VEA 🇨🇩🐆 @JumbaDrc

a week ago

WE ARE READY 🇨🇩🐆🐆🐆 🙋🏾‍♂️

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@MsFurore I'm in Bilbao, and we walked past a sign in the city that said it was 48°C a couple of hours ago. I'm not made for this 😬

The coldest summer of the rest of our lives

The Global Warmer🔥 @TheGlobalWarmer

a week ago

This is not a forecast. These are actual observations from after 6 PM in France—well past the day’s peak heating—and the map is still lit up with widespread 40°C+ / 104°F+ readings. Several more days of this are on the table. A major, dangerous June heat episode is unfolding in

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Starmer cried when he was forced to resign, but didn’t shed a tear for the thousands of children who were killed in the genocide in Gaza which he backed. That’s who he is.

I truly believe there’s some psychological effect going on where for many the real, frightening existential threat to our society & ultimately our survival that we face from climate change has been displaced onto false fears of a threat posed by human migration.

Is that country Israel?

Politics UK @PolitlcsUK

a week ago

🚨 WATCH: Keir Starmer announces he's resigning Prime Minister "Every decision I have taken is about putting the country I love first. That is why I will resign"

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@its_bethc Go on, Beth. Keep going, and I hope you get back to fulfilling all those dreams 🖤🤍

I came on here to say I hope the next place he ends up in is The Hague, glad to see Zarah has said it already

Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana

a week ago

The most emotion Keir Starmer has shown is over losing his job, not enabling the genocide of the Palestinian people. Good riddance. His next stop should be The Hague.

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Keir Starmer was not merely a disappointment. He is a mendacious figure of ethical decrepitude, a man who won the Labour Party leadership based on promises that he jettisoned five seconds after winning - a Labour leader who dared banish from the Labour Party not only his predecessor but also remarkable human beings like director Ken Loach - the gentleman who has taken the historic Labour Party and transformed it into a vessel for the very oligarchy it was elected to restrain. Consider the litany of Starmer’s moral and logical failures. He promised a 'different Britain', yet his actions were a masterclass in Tory-lite politics—using the same maxed-out credit card analogies that once served the austerity brigades to justify his own failure of vision. He promised a human rights lawyer’s approach but he embraced a racist-lite version of Farage. On Europe, Starmer promised Brexiteers that Brexit is Brexit yet stood before those who yearn to rejoin the European Union, winked at them to make them feel that Britain would gradually reconnect, even rejoin, with the EU while offering nothing of substance. This is not leadership; it is a fraud. And then there's the manner in which Starmer and his government rushed to offer Israel unequivocal support in pursuing its genocide in Gaza, sacrificing precious political and civil liberties in the UK by imprisoning grandmothers, priests and peaceful activists who dared support Palestine Action, an organisation that Starmer and his minions proscribed as terrorists for practising the usual activist tactics of trespassing to spray paint military planes that had demonstrably aided in the genocide. To add insult to injury, Starmer performed the diplomatic pantomime of recognising a Palestinian state, in a manner that ensured it would never happen. But above all else, this is a government that has learned nothing from the post-2008 era. Starmer and his Chancellor are playing the same tired austerity game while enabling and empowering the Finance Curse perpetrated by the City of London, throwing in forgood measure cuts in international aid to fund a military spending trickle under the guise of a "Strategic Defence Review" . It is the same old doctrine: austerity for the masses, socialism for the financiers and the arms dealers. History will remember Mr Starmer as a man without conviction, a Prime Minister who offers not a shred of honesty, but merely the cruel illusion of change. He is ethically decrepit because he had chosen, consciously, to abandon principle for power. And for that, history will indict him. Good riddance, I say. theguardian.com/politics/live/…

Goodbye Keir Starmer. You will always be remembered for your genocide enabling xxx

Attlee’s Labour, elected with a 146 seat majority, created the NHS and built the welfare state. Starmer’s Labour, elected with a 173 seat majority, have been complicit in the Palestinian genocide, have implemented anti-trans policies, and cut welfare for the most vulnerable.

Please, as someone who is disabled, don’t sit in my replies telling me Keir Starmer wasn’t all that bad when one of the first things he actioned as PM was an attack on disabled people and our benefits. He also perpetuated a campaign of hatred towards the disabled.