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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

They warned us, “If you tax private schools it’ll mean more students entering the state system, costing the taxpayers more!” The ‘they’ in this scenario are wealthy people. Be wary of negative reactions to policies that hurt the wealthy. Especially around tax, climate change, and regulation.

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No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils

Most say they have seen no impact on applications for year 7 places, despite warnings from those against policy

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Just ensuring the government actually collected the taxes that are owed would bank enough money to close the poverty gap. Just shutting down tax evasion would bank the US a trillion dollars. Sociology professor, Matthew Desmond, on economic justice…

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Matthew Desmond - “Poverty, by America” & What It Takes to Close the Poverty Gap | The Daily Show

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Let’s face it, I’m not sure many of us would have blamed #Zelensky to be honest…

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

“Instead of fixing the problem, they’re blaming migrants and benefits claimants when the real issue is inequality and corrupted politicians“ - @graceblakeley.bsky.social This 1000 times. This is the real problem with our stagnant economy.

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The former left definitely lack exactly the kind of empathetic friendliness that you’re proposing to spread more of, so may your upturn prove popular.

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

It is perhaps worth considering that Robin’s attitude is shared by plenty of voters across the world, but unfortunately many of them find their vote turning to the populist right as the answer to it all. …Enter Farage from stage right. 😩

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Thank you @nickmckim.bsky.social. Perfectly put. There are many millions of us (rational people) thinking exactly the same way. Trump is capitalism in human form. He’s overseeing a plutocracy and is a disaster for humanity.

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I can be as critical as anyone of the government's occasionally muddled message on growth but Look! At! This! Chart!! Anything they've done pales next to this GIGANTIC UNFORCED ERROR COMMITTED IN 2016! (fagpacket maths follows) on.ft.com/4hzyvbJ

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Hit home today that Elon’s zooming in to a rally of the German hard right to tell them to stop feeling bad about the past and embrace German glory was right before Holocaust Remembrance day.

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

What is hypernormalisation? What is Corporatism? The billionaires are controlling the information we take in. America has become a plutocracy and the billionaires are positioning themselves to keep it that way. Building a community is the only way out of this. Found out more here 👇🏻

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

The billionaires are winning. They have us punching downwards rather than upwards. Towards dinghy’s not yachts. Our political debate should centre around economic inequality, but instead it is being deliberately centred (by Musk, Trump, Farage and the Populists around the world) around immigration.

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'Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg are laughing at you' | James O'Brien on LBC

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

There are various types of Oligarchy (as we can see from @jesscraven101.bsky.social great explanation👇🏻) As America swore in their new billionaire president, surrounded by the world’s richest billionaires, declaring to “drill baby drill” for big oil firms, the US has descended into full Plutocracy 🥲

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We’re living in a plutocracy. Here’s why it matters. 💰 #politics #news

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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

These people, who have stolen an extra $2,000,000,000,000 last year, have convinced you that you have less money because of other poor people. It's time to wake up. This is class warfare. Your enemy is not coming by a small boat, they're coming by private jet. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...

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Wealth of world’s billionaires grew by $2tn in 2024, report finds

Rate of wealth growth last year was three times faster than 2023, Oxfam inequality research reveals

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

So should he be locked up at night in a cage in order to keep the public safe, (uh, I’m pretty sure that’s ‘prison’ in a nutshell), or should he be allowed to become the most powerful person in the entire world? Which is it? He surely cannot be both of these things.

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I’ll forgive buying players that don’t quite work out - every addition is an educated gamble, but even so, I’d expect more hits than misses due to competent transfer staff - but inactivity is fairly unforgivable. I know Jan is hard, but it’s not impossible. Judge at the window’s close I guess.

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

This is it folks. Prepare for the next generation of social media, deliberately designed to be kept out of the hands of billionaire megalomaniacs. You need this. I need this. We need this.

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The Age Of AI is currently on BBC Radio 4 this morning. It’s very compelling. Of course the doomageddon isn’t helped with the fact that the ‘Godfather of AI’, Geoffrey Hinton, sounds exactly like Adam Curtis. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

They’re not even in office yet and Trump is already invading Greenland, Musk is polling his followers about taking over the UK, Trump fancies Panama, wants to send troops into Mexico, whilst inexplicably renaming the Mexican Gulf as ‘the American Gulf’, and is considering merging Canada into the US.

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Inequality Media @inequalitymedia.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Politicians are ‘idea salesmen’ or ‘narrative retailers’. The left needs a powerful orator, an energetic, charismatic salesman, with a grip on language and a concise and clear pitch. The right has that in Farage, or Trump. It’s time for a new story (ideally about inequality and climate change)

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James Jenks @jenksy.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Once you have a billion dollars, what on earth would the next billion possibly add to your life?

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

We seem to have declined so rapidly in a year that the “could we?” meme has shifted its meaning from suggesting there’s a slim chance of us winning the league to there’s a slim chance of us being relegated. 😩

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Any idea of the date/time?

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

“British politics is asleep” Britain is not immune to the rise in Populism. Farage is coming. For inequality, for the environment, for all the big issues facing society, we all need to be concerned by this damaging prospect.

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Seems to me that, in line with with the rest of society, the music industry is a good example of an economy only really benefiting those at the very top. And, rather weirdly, those at the top are lauded for it. We are fascinated by excessive success, but ignore the real cost.

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

And an inequality crises. 😩

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Yeah they were fantastic. Had such a blast. The venue was new to me too. Was a good size for them.

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Every body knows that in reality Vertonghen’s assist made that goal.

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

The ‘Overton window’ has shifted so much in the last few years I honestly cannot tell you where each politician sits upon the spectrum anymore. 😩

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

It’s one thing to watch an ill-informed, cynical old mate disappear down a YouTube rabbit hole, or for a teenager to melt their attention via TikTok. Shit’s so warped now, from Bolsanaro, to Trump, to South Korea’s Yoon, we’re watching world leaders govern whilst suffering social media brain rot.

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I’m not suggesting they’ve been distracting you from the real problems in society, by loudly pointing at refugees and indulging in conspiracy, while empowering billionaires and funnelling our generated wealth up to them and their corporations. But if they were to do that, what would that look like?

Trump and Farage smiling having held a private meeting.

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Sums it up pretty well…

It’s an eloquent warning to Trump voters that they need to accept what they voted for.

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Perhaps Ed’s brother, David Milliband? He’s always had a fairly positive outlook from the British public. Good orator. Works in charity these days so way out of politics.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not opposed to big rewards for entrepreneurs. But should billionaires exist?

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How Much Wealth Is Too Much? | Robert Reich

Should billionaires go the way of the dodo?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Why do so many feel like they've fallen behind? It's not because of immigrants, trans people, the “deep state,” or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP. It's because big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.

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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 09/12/2024

It’s important to explore what capitalism actually involves and the arguments for and against it, so you can make your own decisions about the world you’d like to live in. ⤵️

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Everything You Need to Know About Capitalism

What it is, how it works, and who is for and against it.

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

😂😂 ikr. That’s the perfect way to describe that charlatan. I saw the latest quote from Twitter’s football churnalism accounts…”I imagine Potter might probably be on the shortlist to replace Ange”. Sets Twitter ablaze with his random conjecture every time. He’s balls deep in supposition that guy.

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

If you’re sick and tired of the billionaires winning help complete this quick survey. The billionaires already own the channels from which we get our information. They own the lobby groups that secretly obtain the ears of our politicians. Their money is funding our MPs. Time to fight back.

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Inequality is the biggest issue of today. I’m gonna die on this hill. It bleeds into everything else. Inequality is ruining everything. We need a new economic model and a total shake up of capitalism. This is unsustainable.

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Just popped back onto my Twitter timeline…

Zombies walking through a post apocalyptic city, much like revisiting Twitter

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Reco @hireco.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

“France have said children should not be allowed to use smartphones until they are 13 and should be banned from accessing conventional social media such as TikTok and Instagram until they are 18”. We have all seen the addiction in kids, just look, it’s all around us. Something needs to be done.

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