Post #2458760
2026-05-11 16:34 UTC
@hllizi@hespere.de @Landa@graz.social @futurebird@sauropods.win @cabel@social.panic.com
I remember reading Tom Paine's Rights of Man during Brexit, & chuckling despairingly when he claimed that (paraphrased badly), just as all city dwellers pitch in to help with the harvest, so no person will vote against their own interests.
I read that at a time when British crops were rotting in the fields because no bugger wanted to pick them, a year or so after a vote to prevent the poor sods who did want to pick them from being welcomed into the country.
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@eswag@dju.social 2026-05-11 16:39
@hllizi@hespere.de @Landa@graz.social @futurebird@sauropods.win @cabel@social.panic.com A note of encouragement is that reality continues to be real. It's taken a lot to drag the masses out of their cocoons of wealth, but it's happening. People in the US are seeing each other get shot in the face by government thugs, Brits working 2 jobs are sleeping rough. It's difficult to believe the bullshit on your phone when the rest of your body tells you you're cold, hungry and unsafe.