Came across this older Reddit comment this morning:
I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One
of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the
bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me
and he immediately says, “no. get out.”
And the dude next to me says, “hey i’m not doing anything, i’m a
paying customer.” and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat
or something and says, “out. now.” and the dude leaves, kind of yelling.
And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed
Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, “you
didn’t see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff.
You get to recognize them.”
And i was like, ohok and he continues.
“you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and
it’s always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don’t
want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile
they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.
And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they
stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now.
And it’s too late because they’re entrenched and if you try to kick them
out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.
And i was like, ‘oh damn.’ and he said “yeah, you have to ignore
their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible,
awful people.”
And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven’t forgotten that at all.
Here’s the reddit story op refers to. (Oh here’s the original from twitter originally posted 7/8/20)
(1) Hello everyone. I’m from Ukraine. Please help spread the information about African and Nigerian students in Ukraine. #AfricansinUkraine
I read from @ nzekiev on twitter that the day before yesterday it was very hard for Africans to get on any train in Kyiv, they were letting them in the last, many managed to get in only coz they started pushing African women into the train so they had to allow everyone in. Before that if they managed to get on the train they were sent back outside with the phrase “Ukrainians first”, but nobody was checking anyone’s passports.
Today, February 27, he says the Ukrainian soldiers at the Polish border were holding them at gunpoint if they crossed the border before Ukrainians. These are students, they can’t be fighting this war!!! Other people of color share on twitter that it’s harder for them to cross the border, a Nigerian medical student told @ stephheharty they were told Ukrainians go first and were sent to the back of the queue by Ukrainian soldiers on Polish border.
We must help. They can’t be denied shelter while every other white Ukrainian gets to cross the border right before their eyes. @ chylady and @ Damilare_arah share all the important information for Africans and Nigerians on where to find help and also donations.
@ korrinesky is actively sharing all the information. This thread increases to this day and time:
They also have a Telegram chat for African and Caribbean students who are in Lviv but I can’t seem to be able to copy the link directly so I’m sending the link to the tweet:
Use the hashtag #AfricansinUkraine and mentions @UN @RedCross @UNESCO @wateraid @amnesty @gatesfoundation @FordFoundation @ActionAid @Oxfam on twitter.
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. […] The thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes “Boots” theory of socioeconomic unfairness.
Terry Pratchett, Men At Arms
The UK based food poverty campaigner Jack Monroe recently tweeted a thread highlighting how official inflation figures didn’t account for the astronomical price rises in the cheapest products.
Off the back of that, they had the idea to do an index of their own based on their own experiences of the cheapest products that many people rely on having increases way above inflation or being removed altogether.
This isn’t just a feeling, Jack literally kept the receipts. They have over 10 years of shopping receipts kept for their food blog.
The twitter thread took off and has now had over 22 million views.
The idea of a separate UK index of everyday products people on lower incomes rley on, that reflects the actual affect of price changes on ordinary people’s finances, has completely taken off and is now being covered in all the major news outlets. It is also being supported by a whole range of organisations, camapaigners, retail industry professionals, data analysts and others.
Jack has put out a call for people in the UK to send their old shopping receipts to add to the exissting data for tracking historic price changes.
Today Jack tweeted that they had permission from the Pratchett estate for the use of the preferred name for the new project:
When programmers invented rubber duck debugging they were right but what they don’t tell you is that this also works for like 90% of other complex intellectual tasks. Nothing solves a problem faster than just trying to explain it to somebody.
here’s the story. i know expressvpn has been recommended in some 🏴☠️ how-to posts but it is not trustworthy. the parent company, kape technologies, not only used to distribute malate but has ties to multiple state surveillance agencies. and be careful where you look for info about good vpns, because kape technologies owns a bunch of “vpn review” sites too
In case anyone can’t read the article for whatever reasons, the VPNs acquired are:
ExpressVPN
Private Internet Access
Zenmate
CyberGhost
And the VPN review sites they purchased are:
vpnMentor
Wizcase
So if you use any of those, time to look for other options.
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Michael, in response to Karl-Heinz: Why are you so negative? I prefer to park properly and don’t want to get a parking ticket. I don’t understand how you can attack someone for wanting to save costs.
After the revolution we have to park somewhere too after all. I can’t get towed after every demonstration, I don’t have the money for that.
In addition I didn’t ask where I could park, but explained that I won’t make it this time cause I’ll go back home. I can’t park anywhere else, cause I can’t take the subway. I don’t have a mask with me, usually you don’t wear one at the demonstrations after all. When you take over the government today I’ll come back and help, if I get a parking permit.
Do we really have to do the revolution today? Couldn’t we first discuss the parking rules for after the revolution? Then more people would attend.
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