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mel44
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The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
~Maya Angelou

SweetKittyCat5
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Enjoy your evening
🙏🏼

Josh
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Ahavati said:I was quite fond of Thatcher myself.

Up until 1980, there was the general belief that 'we all rise togther after the horrors and sacrifices of two world wars'.
Then Thatcher came along and smashed the social contract between the governed and those who govern - set man against man - spouting "there is no alternative" and quoting neo-liberal-plucked-from-obscurity-economists Friedrich Hayek & Milton Friedman to support her argument - and went against the warnings what would happen - and 40 years later we see the dismal results with nearly 3,000 food-banks (up from zero in 1990s), etc, etc.

Ahavati
Tams
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Josh said:

Up until 1980, there was the general belief that 'we all rise togther after the horrors and sacrifices of two world wars'.
Then Thatcher came along and smashed the social contract between the governed and those who govern - set man against man - spouting "there is no alternative" and quoting neo-liberal-plucked-from-obscurity-economists Friedrich Hayek & Milton Friedman to support her argument - and went against the warnings what would happen - and 40 years later we see the dismal results with nearly 3,000 food-banks (up from zero in 1990s), etc, etc.


Your point being. . .?

I agree with the above quote I posted in reference to the patriarchy.

*Reminder - this is a quote not a debate thread.

SweetKittyCat5
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First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

—Martin Niemöller


Is this what we are going to expect for the next four years.. wow

Josh
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Ahavati said:

Your point being. . .?

I agree with the above quote I posted in reference to the patriarchy.

*Reminder - this is a quote not a debate thread.


O.K; so it's not good form to respond to anything people post on this thread, then.

Ahavati
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Josh said:

O.K; so it's not good form to respond to anything people post on this thread, then.


I didn't say anything about responding, Josh. I said debating. Many do respond; however, they also post a quote. Without a quote from yourself, it looks like you are debating my statement in reference to the quote I posted.

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Katie Hopkins

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Josh
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ajay said:Katie Hopkins

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"squark" ... now that's a great word to us in a villanelle  

mel44
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Hope is about choosing to believe this one thing: That love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.
~Anne Lamott

Josh
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"Hope is another name for refusing to accept things as they are"
(Yahia Lababidi)

ajay
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Hope is a long leash
drawn in slowly



(Wendy Cope)



Ahavati
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mel44 said:Hope is about choosing to believe this one thing: That love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.
~Anne Lamott


AMEN, Sister!

“Hate is a choice. Love is not.”
― Lancali

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