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  • in reply to: Japan #254487
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    Workers harrassed.

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #254482
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    Point taken.

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #254478
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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c625p2wy3q7o.amp
    This could drag in more countries.

    in reply to: Japan #254469
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    in reply to: The coming world war. #254458
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    Some comrades? It’s just me, isn’t it?
    Who else thinks this is the big one coming? Because you have all (which has comforted me and permitted me to function from day to day) said world war is not round the corner at all.

    in reply to: Wage-slave self-deception. #254454
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    It wasn’t Woolworth’s.
    I won’t name it.

    I did have a Xmas job in Woolworth’s in 1993.

    I was on the till, age 33, and the 21 yr old manager was supervising me, when a little old lady spoke to him and pointed at me:

    “It’s good to see the young ‘uns getting a proper start in life.”

    Woolworth’s had the habit of frisking all staff about to clock off early, in front of customers.

    An amusing true story. I worked in Debenhams in the 1980s, where a Mr. Mackay-like security guard gave us all the once-over at the end of the day.
    Years later I bumped into him (he was a customer, like me), in a CD shop. He shouted, with everyone turning to look at me: “STILL ON THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW?”
    As I was leaving the shop, he boomed again, with everyone turning: “KEEP YOUR NOSE CLEAN!”

    in reply to: Wage-slave self-deception. #254448
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    As part of the induction process to working in a department store a few years ago, I sat with young wage-slave hopefuls at a large table facing the managers. When it came time for a trade union rep to talk to us, we were told in advance that we don’t have to listen to him. While the young people (all avid fans of Love Island etc.) sat with heads bowed in silence and stayed silent when he asked for questions, I engaged with him, while the managers glared at me.
    Back at the jobcentre I was summoned to a private office and told “You’re a troublemaker, aren’t you?”

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #254446
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    A superb and accurate analysis.

    Plus, I don’t think the US could stomach Putin’s forestalling and quashing Obama’s planned and readied invasion of Syria, aimed at dethroning Assad, whom Putin saved.

    in reply to: Wage-slave self-deception. #254445
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    No I didn’t. Google banker. It is now the term also for a bank clerk, and they all call themselves bankers.

    In the days of Chaplin workers knew they were workers. They may have sheepishly followed warmongers and idolised monarchs, but they knew they were working class.
    The workers were the good guys in movies. The underdog was championed.
    Now, the underdog is a criminal whom the heroic cops deal with, and the regular fare for workers are “reality” shows and idolisation of the parasitic super-rich.
    Now, if you tell someone they are working class, or tell a bank clerk he isn’t a banker, you’ll be shunned.
    Just like telling someone the biological fact that they are an animal!

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #254439
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    So you go along with the Western media’s narrative that it was “unprovoked” and that it is “Putin’s war”, the personal choice of an evil ruler of an evil empire (and so presumably you can’t blame the US, NATO and Britain)?

    You know better than to make this crass assumption, ALB.
    This is like the dinosaur-denying conspiraloons who retort to evolutionists: “So you believe Jurassic Park, do you?”

    in reply to: Stepping back from the digital. #254435
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    Yes. Thank you. The main point is made in The Shallows.

    I think ALB should view it.

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #254434
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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3vkqwe9wwdo

    Appears Pyongyang is sending troops after all.

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #254431
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    So will Russia accept a truncated Ukraine joining NATO, if Russia keeps Crimea and the Donbas?

    in reply to: The coming world war. #254423
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    in reply to: The coming world war. #254415
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    There’s no shame in being scared to death.
    The shame is theirs who make us so.

    And maybe you have too much faith in capitalism’s rationality.

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