Paul Brownjohn @Paulos_the_fog@qoto.org
Retired software engineer & woodworker.
Anglo-francophone.
Detest tories. Subscribe to green, leftish radical politics but not to any particular political party!.
Love the EU and all it stands for, moreover, I spent the last 10 years of my career working at an EU agency.
Enthusiastic photographer, especially wildlife and most especially butterflies.
Slightly knowledgeable gardener.
Atheist; loathe almost all religions and pity the people deluded enough to follow them. I make exceptions for Buddhism as it isn't really a religion in the strictest sense of the word as it doesn't postulate the existence of any god, and Jainism which is the epitome of peace.
For anyone who is interested, my header photo is of the most stupendous sunset I have ever seen. On the right is the waterfront of Vientiane, the capital of Laos, on the left is Thailand and in the middle, acting as the border between the two countries is the mighty Mekong river.
Joined Nov 2022
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I was a jailer for two years. Not proud of it, I needed the money.
One of the repeat offenders we had was an old man who was HIV positive. He went to jail several times while I was working there and always for the same thing. He would shoplift items from a store while in full view of a cop. This old man had a cane and could barely walk. There was no way he expected to get away with it.
After he was arrested we had to process him and the medical questions always led back to his HIV diagnosis. The state provided him with his HIV medication while he was awaiting trial where he always pleaded guilty. He was always released after serving less than 60 days pretrial. Upon release, he was given six months worth of his HIV medications (which he needed to survive) and he would shoplift again when he ran out of medication.
It would have been cheaper for the state to just give him the medications without him needing to be part of the criminal justice system first.
He was shoplifting so he could stay alive.
#Healthcare #luigimangione #denydefenddepose #Anticapitalism #EatTheRich
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This week is another reminder that:
We don't have an energy shortage
We don't have an insulin shortage
We don't have a housing shortage
We don't have a teacher shortage
We don't have a labor shortage
We don't have a food shortage
We have a billionaire excess who buy politicians to deny us access to basic human rights.
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Just a reminder - THIS 👇🏼 is what it's like when government is working for the people...
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Trump would be so upset if this image and hashtag went viral. Please do not boost. 😉
#TrumpIsASub
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Noteworthy how Legislators instinctively meddle downwards.
It really isn't local government that the British Electorate wants to see fixed, UK Labour, but central government.
They want reform of the bloated House of Lords. A proper Code of Ministerial Conduct, with enforcement taken away from the Prime Minister. A ban on second jobs, honours for cronies, & corrupt donations.
Yes, indeed - it bears comparison with what the Nazi regime did to the jews.
This is genocide!
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if you took all the money private insurers spend to deny/delay claims, and threw it towards a universal health system, the US would literally have one of the best free health systems in the world, with money left over for other nice things like child care
but somehow no one can convince the population that $2000 in taxes for free and comprehensive, is better than $8000, where you still have huge co-pays and fight every single step
I will never understand humans
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I’m having difficulty seeing a distinction that is a difference between what RFK Jr. has been doing/plans to do and what a bioterrorist does.
Harm and generating mass death in the service of a destructive ideology is at the center of both.
Look on the bright side - anti-vax politics could result in millions of Americans being killed and maimed but it will be the fantasically stupid, Trumpist-MAGA imbeciles who will mainly suffer. That may be of immense benefit to the USA in the long term!
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I offer an anecdote on the RFJ Jr antivax #polio BS to put all in context.
My mom is 88, born in 1936. She knew classmates who were maimed and died from polio in the 1940s.
These events happened within living memory and these anti-science idiots would take us back to that time. Fck them all.
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Something that Trump will undoubtedly undo the moment he gets the keys to the white house.
I'm deeply ashamed to have a chancellor and a government who are so fuckin stupid or bigoted that they can't or won't see that rejoining the CU and SM is the only way forward - whatever the political cost!
Given that most football supporters tend to like a bevvie or two before/after the match, I don't think many will want to go!
Retired software engineer & woodworker.
Anglo-francophone.
Detest tories. Subscribe to green, leftish radical politics but not to any particular political party!.
Love the EU and all it stands for, moreover, I spent the last 10 years of my career working at an EU agency.
Enthusiastic photographer, especially wildlife and most especially butterflies.
Slightly knowledgeable gardener.
Atheist; loathe almost all religions and pity the people deluded enough to follow them. I make exceptions for Buddhism as it isn't really a religion in the strictest sense of the word as it doesn't postulate the existence of any god, and Jainism which is the epitome of peace.
For anyone who is interested, my header photo is of the most stupendous sunset I have ever seen. On the right is the waterfront of Vientiane, the capital of Laos, on the left is Thailand and in the middle, acting as the border between the two countries is the mighty Mekong river.
Joined Nov 2022
