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George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social |
#IDThought 7: Nigel Farage and his ilk are human smoke bombs, generating a camouflaging cloud of xenophobia and culture wars. What are they hiding? The economic warfare waged against us by the predatory capital which funds their campaigns.🧵
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Laura GreenBird
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My first thought when I heard he was running was 'oh he's found a new funder. I wonder who it is?'
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@alectorious.bsky.social
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but are the poor people in neglected and underfunded parts of the UK also waging economic warfare on behalf of predatory capital? Whose interests do they represent and how can they be better acknowledged and responded to?
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George Monbiot
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The persistent trick of modern politics is to disguise economic and political conflicts as cultural conflicts. The media faithfully reports the diversion, not the manoeuvres; the noise, not the signal.
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