Ben Hanscom
@basiliskglance
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Ah mate @CF_Farrow - you got fucking owned.
I find this a very irritating genre of tweet, a heady mixture of nostalgia and cognitive dissonance. In terms of murders of women, which is what I research, the murder rate in London in the 2020's is closer to half of the 1990's. I'll go through a few areas she mentions. /1
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Paul is old and under-educated and therefore does not know the difference between gender and sex.
No-one - absolutely no-one - is ever "assigned a gender at birth". It's just nonsense.
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Wealth of world’s billionaires grew by $2tn in 2024, report finds - grew 3x faster than in 2023 - In contrast, 3.6 bn people (44% of the world population) live under the World Bank poverty line of $6.85/ day - barely a change since 1990 https://t.co/CCBCWZoQxD
theguardian.com
Rate of wealth growth last year was three times faster than 2023, Oxfam inequality research reveals
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Everything you need to know about the state of the people still active on X.
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Someone feels historical systems were a binary choice between socialism and capitalism. Obviously Scottish education system is on a par with American. Somebody send them books.
@basiliskglance @ChiariChris So are you telling me that Hitler operated a free market liberal economy with an independent means of production driven by choice and agency? Of course he didn’t he literally declared himself the embodiment of the German and seized everything with force
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