• knee@lemmy.ml
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    6 hours ago

    Late 70’s, just after I started working. My then Union rep. ( Remember them?) was a good teacher and saw Thatcher for exactly what she was.

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    8 hours ago

    2008 was when the conclusion was unavoidable

    The Iraq invasion and all the Halliburton bullshit was when I began to realize that the justice system truly has two separate tracks.

  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml
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    6 hours ago

    Few years ago. Right before this face of the genocide in Palestine. I had an idea of it before that but I wouldn’t have called it a conscious thought until then.

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    11 hours ago

    I guess I haven’t yet. Maybe you can help me: How do laws against, for example, rape, only benefit the rich while oppressing the rest of us?

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      Social cohesion is important for a smoothly running business. Unpunished rape creates problems on the shop room floor. Or to put it another way, rape gets punished extrajudicially in ways that are not good for business or social cohesion in general.

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    9 hours ago

    I understand why someone might think that, but it’s not true, except perhaps in the most corrupt of countries.