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Society does not need landlords in order to function.
People should either be able to own a home of their own or rent extremely cheaply from the state, local authorities or housing coops. Tenant’s money should go into housing rather than landlord’s pockets.
Abolish landlordism.
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Viewers waiting for the day @BBCNewsnight invite a minimum wage worker on instead of a buy to let landlord with 6 rentals, who inherited Daddys thriving pie shop, whinging his staff got a 49p PH pay rise.
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Want to cut the welfare bill? Pay wages people can actually live on so working people don’t need benefits to survive.
End the great rent rip-off. Build council homes instead of pouring taxpayers’ money into private landlords’ pockets.
Tackle poverty, not the poor.
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2026:
We hate people on benefits.
So the people on benefits get a minimum wage job,
But we still hate them because the minimum wage destroys businesses when it goes up.
So those minimum wage workers work really hard and become teachers, nurses or police officers
And we still hate them because those jobs are paid for by our taxes and sometimes they have the cheek to ask for more, of OUR money!!!!!
But they keep working that job anyway, until the day they retire and then we hate them because they get a pension and pensions increase at a higher rate than our wages.
Oh and if you have the absolute nerve to be chronically ill or disabled
We hate you too!!!
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When @Conservatives and @KemiBadenoch talk about cutting welfare. What they mean is divert funds from the less well off to the wealthiest.👇
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Imagine worshipping an economic system where corporations and billionaires use, exploit, and then discard workers to rake in billions of dollars for themselves. This is capitalism and it is the biggest scam on planet earth bar none!
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Great tips from Brazil on how they turned things around for Lula online and offline:
1. Don’t ever engage, block far-right accounts immediately.
2. Don't debunk, focus on making new content on your platform.
3. Use all the tools at your disposal.
4. Be equally online and offline.
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Portes "Theres a lot of nonsense talked, including on Sky, about the spiralling welfare bill.. as a proportion of our national income.. its lower than it was 15yrs ago & its pretty much back to what it was under Thatcher.. this idea its out of control is just wrong"
Spot on!
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Madeley: "Do you think welfare spendings out of control?"
Maguire: "I don't think its out of control if you look at the total figure.. its only 10.6% of the economy, which is low by European standards"
Singh: "And over half of the welfare budget is pensions, the state pension"
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There's always another option, which is bosses accepting less profits.
Reason why capitalism is a stupid system
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The fact that financial markets are reacting poorly to Lula’s victory is a sure sign that markets are not some amorphous intelligence but simply a bunch of right wing traders who follow the herd. We forget that at our peril.
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Hay que ser muy bruto para que los multimillonarios te hagan creer que la atención médica, la educación pública y un salario digno son comunismo.
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i don't think people realise how important Brazil’s presidential election is to not only Brazilians who could lose basic human rights. its also important to the entire planet as a whole, it’s basically lula vs hitler israel, trump, capitalism, elon, social media algorithms etc
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The repeated warnings to prepare for war in the UK aren't based on a serious assessment. It's a comms strategy. The govt know that shifting spending to arms during a collapse in living standards is unpopular. They justify it by creating a war fever. It's as simple as that.
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A reminder that welfare spending as a percentage of GDP is at 10.6 % currently and was at 13.5% when the Conservatives were in charge.
55% of claimants are pensioners, most of whom vote Conservative.
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The people of Albania have set their supreme court on fire. They understand their collective power and will burn it all down before they allow their land to be stolen and sold off to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. All power to the Albanian people!
