Society needs to stop worshipping the super-rich and demonising the poor, while meekly accepting that wages must be kept low and corporate profits should grow forever. Having more money than you can possibly spend is not a good thing.

Senior Republicans, including the President, blamed Kirk's shooting on "leftists" before the killer was even captured. Elon Musk posted "The Left is the party of murder", before the identity of the killer was known, let alone his motivations or political leanings. Jimmy Kimmel was correct.

Some song lyrics have been in my head for the last few days. Of course there is no us and them But them they do not think the same It's them who do not think - Illumination, by Gogol Bordello

Oh. The owner of "X" is now sharing videos of a young woman being murdered. Is that OK, now?

Meanwhile, over on the other place, the slide back to 1970s National Front-style racism continues. LoozaFox telling a brown man to "fuck off back to where you came from", seemingly unaware that the Hamza Yusaf was born in Scotland.

- Doctors asking for a pay rise are greedy and selfish. - Billionaires leaving the country to avoid paying a bit more tax are a tragic loss to the nation. - The right-wing press. And people fall for it 🙄

Lib Dems have 72 MPs to Reform's 5. They have thousands more councillors. But who do you see on TV all the time? It's just endless Tice and Farage.

The bluebells are out

Just had a test drive in an electric car (not a Tesla) for the first time. Blown away at just how good it was to drive. Why is anybody clinging on to peteol/diesel? (I've had my petrol Ford Focus for 15 years, and it has been great, but I'm definitely a convert)

Trump's tariff wars already hitting stocks and bonds. Currencies will come next. Extraordinary volatility and unpredictable changes will quite possibly break some of the hedges that Hedge Funds rely on to minimise risks. Might we some of them go under? Could this lead to another big crash?

Woke investors in the US are trying to make Trump look bad by selling all the stock they own and driving the DJIA down.

Musk.and hos DOGE goon have been making a big deal of the :million people over 100 years old receiving social security" I am pretty confident 99% will be down to input errors, and those 150 year-olds are actually 50 y-o, bo4n in 1975 but entered as 1875 mistakenly. Of course, they don't *check*.

All the people who complain all the time about there not being enough white people on TV now loudly complaining about too many white people in a TV drama🤷🏻‍♂️ #Adolescence

Thee USA seems pretty close to bread and circuses now...

The super rich aren't satisfied with what they already have. They will still put up prices for you, or keep your wages low, so that they can have even more. I say tax the f*ckers

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

Putin has been in power for 25 years, but Trump says Zelenskyy is the dictator?

If you are outraged that the government has cut winter fuel payments for pensioners, but not outraged that the energy companies have been making record profits, I have to question your judgement

Murmuration last night in Brighton

When a leader has a track record of invading neighbouring countries, I'm not sure he can be trusted to stick to any deals. I'm with Zelenskyy on that. Trumoand Vance are a pair of arse cheeks.

Does anybody believe that Trump will respect the 2 term limit?

Increasing your Water Bills 44% ABOVE inflation in the next 5 years isn't enough for the Water Companies, they have appealed to Ofwat to let them increase them up to 83% ABOVE inflation. Like if they can get stuffed. RT if we should nationalise the lot.

This doesn't sound good...

Cutting spending is not necessarily the same as saving money.

What's the point of eternal economic growth, if only the wealthiest few % actually benefit?

I check back on "X" occasionally...😶

Regarding yesterday's vote on the Children's Wellbeing and Schooling Act: If the majority of MPs had actually voted for the Tories' cynical amendment, what would have been the outcome?

So, it looks like Andrew Tate is launching a UK political party - BRUV 😶 I want to believe it is just a joke, but I actually think he is serious. The "Charter" is totally unhinged, and features classic AI images such as these Literacy and Entreprenulsoip, anyone? Refeemendum by phone? 🤪

"Questioning the science" does not make you a scientist, and it does not validate your shitty opinion, which is born from ignorance, prejudice and wishful thinking.

I am right in thinking everyone wants to Rejoin the EU aren't I? Like if you do RP if you really do

Genius 😂

Lol

Meanwhile, over on X, there is quality journalism like this..

Now we are all over here, there are mostly just the racists and idiots left on "X". They do vote, though. I worry that the bullshit they are fed will no longer be challenged (not that it made much difference)

It's clear that Donald Trump seeks to shift the U.S. toward fascism, and in fact is doing so in real-time in front of our eyes. Earlier this week, Jay Kuo analyzed Trump's proposed fascist policies through the lens of Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat's expert warnings of where we are headed.

Taking a quick peek back on "X". How long will it be before *every* post is from Musk?

For all the sh*t-stirrers having a go at the government, they are quietly getting on with doing grown-up things.

Parliament today passed the Government Bill to bring the British railways back in to public ownership This is a fantastic move to bring a once thriving network back in to public ownership after years of decreasing standards under private ownership Now... Do water.... 👍

One of many problems with X is that accounts like this are allowed to remain - presumably because of free speech". This one is a rabidly antisemitic holocaust-denyer posting around 1,000 times a month. It has 150K followers. WTF?

"If it wasn’t plain before, recent years have brought home that Britain is an inescapably European country." Terrific column by Janan Ganesh on a disastrous decade for UK foreign policy:

Utilities next?

Taking the rich, and taxing big corps may be OK for a little while, but it's not going to address the longer-term structural inequality in our society. They just raise prices/cut labour costs/move money offshore We need to challenge the expectation that some can be super-rich. Nobody needs it.

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Some farmers don't earn very much money. The Inheritance Tax e emotional doesn't really help them. If you want to support farmers wages, maybe start questioning why the big supermarkets don't pay them a fair price for produce. Corporate profits come before everything

I'm still trying to work out who to follow here, and I really don't care if people follow me. What matters is that there is interesting content and people interact respectfully. That is refreshing

When will we rejoin the EU?

Popped over to Ex to see what is going on there. Wow! It is so full of toxic shit😯 How did we put up with it for so long?

I've been here a week or so, and my timeline isn't filled with crypto ads, videos of violence, porn bots, and racists. 🙂

Is it possible that people chose to vote for a Fascist, not because he misled them, but because they actually quite like the Fascism?

Do hashtags work on this site? #Xodus