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Wed 15 Jul 2020 08:52

@thewordthatcuts @mbongeni7 @NombsNtshali2 @sade_without_h @mihlalii_n wow this sounds important! Yes, my mother was working in a garment factory in the late ’30s & actually heard about testing for this going on in a different factory 1/

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Wed 15 Jul 2020 08:40

@julie_neuhouser @aubergineaura Obviously. Forbidding the other kinds is what I was referring to.

Wed 15 Jul 2020 08:35

@drmattpalm I assume you know they’re using that as an excuse to create 5x as many and thus meant it as some kind of insider joke

Wed 15 Jul 2020 01:40

@JBujes It’s a 3-4 minute spiel for a mass audience intended to make a political impact. There are a very limited of number of points you can make in 3-4 minutes.

Wed 15 Jul 2020 01:38

@aubergineaura @julie_neuhouser yeah imagine trying to enforce that: same-sex orgies only. You’d have to go back to the equivalent of having boys and girls entrances to schools or somesuch.

Tue 14 Jul 2020 16:21

@EHConspiracy Thanx. I tend to think of every media intervention like that is a form of direct action: what is the message, to what audience, to what effect, and what’s the most effective way to get it through. Always tell the truth, but which truth told how depends on what you’re trying to do

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Tue 14 Jul 2020 16:17

@julie_neuhouser @aubergineaura I would like to see some statistical evidence that societies in which orgies were commonplace had higher birthrates than those in which they were not. It strikes me exactly the opposite is likely to be the case.

Tue 14 Jul 2020 16:14

@EHConspiracy yes, brilliant idea: let’s turn the “off” switch in half our listeners’ minds before they even get to consider our argument. That’s totally how to convince people.

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Tue 14 Jul 2020 16:12

@lestercarnaby any solution would have to involve the elimination of capitalism. But that’s just for starters.

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Tue 14 Jul 2020 16:11

@BigBoyBeefDip why? do you yourself personally contribute to planned obsolescence? Or you just meant it was effective?

Mon 13 Jul 2020 20:25

@operaisma @Annlawr76875381 @Itmechr3 I see, so they thought they were anti-capitalist, the capitalists thought they were anti-capitalist. But you know better.

Mon 13 Jul 2020 13:39

@SaltleyGates slight worry about getting it right, concern some of the ones in open bags might get damaged. No if I experienced strong emotions it would not have seemed so boring in retrospect. It was very business-like but engrossing, as paid work tends to be.

Mon 13 Jul 2020 13:08

@SaltleyGates the fish were entirely frozen, they were stacked inside a freezer in freezer bags, and each bag had both tuna and prawns, but not quite in equal proportions, and the prices were all slightly different. Some of the bags were unsealed & some frost had got on the prawns.

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Mon 13 Jul 2020 13:01

@EnBuenora got to be something like that… but then the question remains was I still dreaming when I started reflecting on that issue, or was that somehow “me” appearing to consider the matter?

Mon 13 Jul 2020 11:30

@AndreDeLaGlinka @AliceWasWearing the experience of violence & especially, devaluation, at a young age has permanent effects. It’s even more complex in the US where unlike the UK everyone is supposed to pretend as if class & class advantage doesn’t exist, so referring to its manifestations is impolite

Mon 13 Jul 2020 11:28

@AndreDeLaGlinka @AliceWasWearing this is a common feeling (not sure how this got on my timeline), I have a lot too. Yes I have all the trappings & most of the resources of a middle class – even upper MC – person but you don’t feel it & people can tell & don’t treat you as if you belong

Mon 13 Jul 2020 01:47

@Gegsull @Nick_Boro1 @RichardBurgon he’s paid to be one. I gave up instantly when I saw he was a media professional – he doesn’t believe a word he says, he’s just a paid state propagandist. It would be an insult to sex-workers to call him a whore.

Sun 12 Jul 2020 22:10

@Nick_Boro1 @RichardBurgon oh I see you’re a MSM guy. It doesn’t matter in the slightest what voters say, you’ll “hear” exactly what you want them to think and then scream at the top of your lungs that they think that. Total waste of time to talk to.