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Elon Musk
I notice the question asked doesn't specify politician, but the title of the graph does and the rest of the people are.
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Spencer, who stood in the 2024 Greater Manchester mayoral election, said: "I work as a plumber, something I've done since leaving education at 16. I'm training to become a plasterer too.
"I've lived in the constituency and still work here. So, I know the issues and what people want to change."
She added: "This is a crucial by-election. The choice is clear – Green v Reform. Hope v hate."
Her party's leader Zack Polanski said: "The Houses of Parliament. Leaky roofs, crumbling walls. I think they need a plumber and a plasterer and we've got someone who can do both."
Great messaging! Stops the far right twats from using the "I'm not just a suit, like all the other parties" line of attack as well
Exactly my thoughts about that shitty
bribedocumentary that has just come out that everyone seems to be writing articles and memes about, mocking how much it flopped. Any publicity is good publicity though, so by talking about it they're just advertising it for them, increasing the likelihood people will go and see it.Yes I understand there's an irony in my comment, I've tried to mitigate that by not naming it.
This article can't spell "welding" and the black boxes haven't been opened yet. This is an ongoing investigation with no answers or conclusion yet. This article is just a political hit-piece with no real interest in the crash or victims but rather attacking the socialist government.
I sometimes fear thatpeople think that fascism arrives in fancy dressworn by grotesques and monstersas played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis.
Fascism arrives as your friend.It will restore your honour,make you feel proud,protect your house,give you a job,clean up the neighbourhood,remind you of how great you once were,clear out the venal and the corrupt,remove anything you feel is unlike you...
It doesn't walk in saying,"Our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution."
- Michael Rosen
https://michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/fascism-i-sometimes-fear.html?m=1
A trouble maker isn't just someone who assaults people. A trouble maker is someone who insults other patrons, makes hateful remarks about or to them, or who acts as a sleaze making unwanted sexual advances. All of these things are reasonable to ban people for, to make a welcoming and enjoyable atmosphere for everybody else.
You clearly view yourself as a victim, which is just fucking pathetic considering the right is the dominant political stance around the world.
Quit being an insipid hateful toad and people will start tolerating you, engaging with you, and treating you with respect. Continue being one, and you'll just have to continue crying to yourself that nobody wants to talk to you and we're all just a bunch of meanies.
As for your edit.
John Rawls, for instance, argued that a just society should generally tolerate the intolerant, reserving self-preservation actions for only when intolerance poses a concrete threat to liberty and stability.
Do the actions of the Republicans, ICE and CBP not constitute a concrete threat to liberty and stability? Does America look like a free and stable country to you? There are concentration camps, no due process, street executions without repercussion, mass protests, and threats of war upon neighbouring countries.
How to deal with the paradox of tolerance is therefore clear, no tolerance for the intolerant.
Defederating from known arseholes isn't the same as a closed system with no means of rebuttal.
If a pub bars known trouble makers but still allows the general public in, then it's still a pub, as opposed to a members club.
They might make a nice tasting drink but they also promote fascism and anti-science conspiracy theories.
Servus TV is a TV station based in Wals-Siezenheim in the Austrian state of Salzburg and owned by Red Bull Media House GmbH, a subsidiary of Red Bull GmbH, which also publishes the magazine Servus in Stadt und Land. The station is the successor to Salzburg TV, founded in 1995 and rebranded in 2009. It is politically aligned with the far right.
The TV station has been associated with the political far right and conspiracy theorising.[2][3] As part of the talk show “Talk im Hangar 7”, the leading figure of the neo-fascist identitarian movement IBÖ Martin Sellner was invited to a panel discussion on the topic "How dangerous are our Muslims?".[4]
In his weekly commentary series “Der Wegscheider”, the director of Servus TV Ferdinand Wegscheider [de] spread controversial and unsubstantiated information about the COVID-19 pandemic.[2] This frequently took the form of posing rhetorical questions. For example, he explained that the vaccination was “insufficiently tested” and contained “genetically modified substances”. He further claimed that the administration of the antiparasitic ivermectin would be an adequate therapy.[5] In 2021, the press club Concordia filed an official complaint against the broadcaster at the communications authority of Austria (Kommunikationsbehörde Austria).
Yes.
Servus TV is a TV station based in Wals-Siezenheim in the Austrian state of Salzburg and owned by Red Bull Media House GmbH, a subsidiary of Red Bull GmbH, which also publishes the magazine Servus in Stadt und Land. The station is the successor to Salzburg TV, founded in 1995 and rebranded in 2009. It is politically aligned with the far right.
The TV station has been associated with the political far right and conspiracy theorising.[2][3] As part of the talk show “Talk im Hangar 7”, the leading figure of the neo-fascist identitarian movement IBÖ Martin Sellner was invited to a panel discussion on the topic "How dangerous are our Muslims?".[4]
In his weekly commentary series “Der Wegscheider”, the director of Servus TV Ferdinand Wegscheider [de] spread controversial and unsubstantiated information about the COVID-19 pandemic.[2] This frequently took the form of posing rhetorical questions. For example, he explained that the vaccination was “insufficiently tested” and contained “genetically modified substances”. He further claimed that the administration of the antiparasitic ivermectin would be an adequate therapy.[5] In 2021, the press club Concordia filed an official complaint against the broadcaster at the communications authority of Austria (Kommunikationsbehörde Austria).
That's entirely dependant upon region and time period. The world is a big place with many forms of peasantry over the years. It's not a homogenous group with a singular definition. This is a demonstration of a common form to get across a particular point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kropotkin
Have a read of the author's life, he knows what he's talking about. Not some random schmuck.
Let us glance for a moment at the Middle Ages, when great fortunes began to spring up.
A feudal baron seizes on a fertile valley. But as long as the fertile valley is empty of folk our baron is not rich. His land brings him in nothing; he might as well possess a property in the moon.
What does our baron do to enrich himself? He looks out for peasants — for poor peasants!
If every peasant-farmer had a piece of land, free from rent and taxes, if he had in addition the tools and the stock necessary for farm labour, who would plough the lands of the baron? Everyone would look after his own. But there are thousands of destitute persons ruined by wars, or drought, or pestilence. They have neither horse nor plough. (Iron was costly in the Middle Ages, and a draughthorse still more so.)
All these destitute creatures are trying to better their condition. One day they see on the road at the confines of our baron’s estate a notice-board indicating by certain signs adapted to their comprehension that the labourer who is willing to settle on this estate will receive the tools and materials to build his cottage and sow his fields, and a portion of land rent free for a certain number of years. The number of years is represented by so many crosses on the sign-board, and the peasant understands the meaning of these crosses.
So the poor wretches swarm over the baron’s lands, making roads, draining marshes, building villages. In nine years he begins to tax them. Five years later he increases the rent. Then he doubles it. The peasant accepts these new conditions because he cannot find better ones elsewhere; and little by little, with the aid of laws made by the barons, the poverty of the peasant becomes the source of the landlord’s wealth. And it is not only the lord of the manor who preys upon him. A whole host of usurers swoop down upon the villages, multiplying as the wretchedness of the peasants increases. That is how things went in the Middle Ages. And to-day is it not still the same thing? If there were free lands which the peasant could cultivate if he pleased, would he pay £50 to some “shabble of a duke”[2] for condescending to sell him a scrap? Would he burden himself with a lease which absorbed a third of the produce? Would he — on the métayer system — consent to give the half of his harvest to the landowner?
But he has nothing. So he will accept any conditions, if only he can keep body and soul together, while he tills the soil and enriches the landlord.
So in the nineteenth century, just as in the Middle Ages, the poverty of the peasant is a source of wealth to the landed proprietor.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-the-conquest-of-bread
Inflation forces poverty upon those with the least wealth. They then become desperate and will be willing to do just about anything they're told by those with wealth, as long as they can get enough scraps to feed themselves.
the idea
The idea being that the longer they're part of the machine, the more they realise the atrocities it commits, and begin to oppose it.
For example:
You join the army, you're trained to kill, you're told the Afghani's are the enemy, you do a tour, fire a few rounds, come home, the idea of Afghani's being the enemy remains.
Versus, you do 8 tours, start to realise that they're people just like any other. Trying to live their lives, being outgunned at every turn and living in poverty while you storm over them with tanks and jets. While you yourself simultaneously are being treated like shit by COs and politicians.
I don't think that's a hard concept to grasp. It's not about virtue, it's about who opens their eyes to the reality of life and who doesn't. Being left wing doesn't automatically make you morally superior to a right wing person.
If one of us us chained, none of us are free.
I think this is how you pronounce it, if that's of any help to anyone
It's a gift from the PSOE, not God. I hope they recognise and remember that.