Maria Shanks
@MariaShanks
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Art Historian. “The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently" - David Graeber 🚫NoDMs
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined April 2011
An urgent point. The 'lesser evil' argument always ends up shifting the entire political spectrum to the right, disarming the only movements capable of offering a real, popular alternative to fascism. It's a recipe for managed decline into barbarism, not a strategy for victory.
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Sometimes I feel like that bolder looking out over a desolate landscape. The bolder is old and weather worn. I'm at peace with myself. #GoodMorningEveryone Capitalism is out to get us #ThursdayThoughts
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An urgent point. The 'lesser evil' argument always ends up shifting the entire political spectrum to the right, disarming the only movements capable of offering a real, popular alternative to fascism. It's a recipe for managed decline into barbarism, not a strategy for victory.
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Bornean Crested Fireback 📸 subramanya.c (Instagram) ©️
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👉NEW -- The UK’s £1 billion Thank You to Uncle Sam by Richard @NortonTaylor The UK is set to buy a fleet of US fighter jets that can drop nuclear bombs. The purchase is purely political, say watchdogs https://t.co/U4eR7NFmEI
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The UK is set to buy a fleet of US fighter jets that can drop nuclear bombs. The purchase is purely political, say watchdogs
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Morning all. Have a good day.✌️✊
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While the NHS is at breaking point, Britain's biggest pharmaceutical companies are receiving BILLIONS in tax breaks - enough is enough, sign the petition calling for Rachel Reeves to end the tax breaks for Big pharma:
act.38degrees.org.uk
While the NHS is at breaking point, Britain's biggest pharmaceutical companies are receiving BILLIONS in tax breaks - enough is enough, sign the petition calling for Rachel Reeves to end the tax...
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Good morning everybody it’s a beautiful soft mild morning, no wind, light cloud. The gorgeous full moon peeps out from behind the clouds from time to time, opposite a fabulous coloured dawn sky. I heard the calls of a tawny owl and a barn owl and saw three ducks in flight. x
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Solitude begins the moment you stop letting fear control your steps and start embracing the messy, unpredictable process of becoming who you''re meant to be.
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@MariaShanks Our survival as a species depends on moving beyond exclusionary ideologies like capitalism and nationalism to recognize our shared humanity. Cooperation will be required for our next evolutionary phase.
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@MariaShanks Nothing is more unrealistic than the belief that we can afford to cling onto capitalism any longer!
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Humanity is ready to evolve beyond capitalism and nationalism.
I am a capitalist, but the writing is on the wall. Between robotics, AI, and young people trapped in the permanent underclass, the argument against socialism is going to collapse in the next decade. We're going to lose. The real enemy isn't socialism, it's internationalism.
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Mamdani isn’t a real socialist. He’s the decoy. The system needs a harmless “leftist” win to justify a crackdown on the real ones. The empire doesn’t lose control—it stage-manages dissent to smoke out the revolutionaries.
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Good night 😘😘
Beautiful ethereal and fabulous. IllustNationNakata (art) This sort of thing is what I and many more followers want to see. If you don’t then go to my next piece. ‘Dancing Waltz of Lights Under the Starry Night ‘Stained Glass Galaxy’ ETSY
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A Black Baza on the outskirts of Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary, Darjeeling. 📸 @souravmondalphotographs (Instagram) ©️ #WildLifeLovers #birds
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Even on a gloomy day like today, the beautiful Montaña de Oro State Park is gorgeous. One of the largest state parks in California with dunes and bluffs, 8 miles of coastline, coastal and inland trails to peaks.
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"Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away." - Frida Kahlo
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. ~Albert Camus
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