Posts by IndyRichard@mastodon.scot
(DIR) Post #ASqRcfXk71IDCIldvk by IndyRichard@mastodon.scot
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I want to see an independent Scottish nation not because I think Scotland is superior to other nations, but because I refuse to accept that Scotland is inferior. 🏴💙 #ScottishIndependence
(DIR) Post #ASqRcfygUqqMXrN9vM by IndyRichard@mastodon.scot
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#Introduction. Been here on Mastodon since November. I suppose that still makes me a newbie.I studied physics at college then had career in IT. Currently a mature photography student studying from home which can be a lonely ride.Current project researches death, memory and grief.Passionate about childhood cancer and am desperate to see Scotland as a normal independent country. Preferably a socialist republic.#ChildhoodCancer #ScottishIndependence #Socialism #photography #research
(DIR) Post #B45dX2Qpo5gqho1AXY by IndyRichard@mastodon.scot
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A post that is tough to read in its brutal, honest depiction of what war is like for the people of Iran. The children being bombedAre the same childrenAs the ones in your homeThe parents losing themAre the same parentsAs the ones in your homeThe same joylaughtergigglesloveKissing mama goodbye for schoolThe same screamstearsanguishpainKissing mama goodbye forever#Iran
(DIR) Post #B4F7RD6vw4LB8UUBJA by IndyRichard@mastodon.scot
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An artwork from 2017 called "Western Flag" by John Gerrard. Hard to imagine a better image to represent the relationship between western governments, oil, and the attacks on Venezuela and Iran. #Art #Venezuela #iran
(DIR) Post #B4O6nbMk5McLCVdHwu by IndyRichard@mastodon.scot
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Fine words, which I can't help but agree with."So let me get this straight: Iran blocking the Strait of Hormuz is 'unfair’, but blocking oil shipments to Cuba in order to collapse their whole country is what? Fair?"#Iran #Cuba #US
(DIR) Post #B4SZX4SuJduNpapGNc by IndyRichard@mastodon.scot
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Sir Keir Starmer has ignored UK public opinion and is getting the UK ever more deeply involved in Israel and the US's illegal war on Iran. A poll just a few days ago revealed that 70% of voters oppose the UK joining the US's military offensive. Starmer follows Tony Blair's bloody footprints when he ignored millions of people who took to the streets to oppose his war in Iraq.Hey, Sir Keir, NOT. IN. MY. NAME. #Iran #Starmer #NotInMyName
(DIR) Post #B4vQulk8JMgiiCwivI by IndyRichard@mastodon.scot
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@ariadne Colonising Mars sounds like a great way to get rid of the super-rich, such as Elon Musk and his mates.
(DIR) Post #B51loxEfvuMybW3nWq by IndyRichard@mastodon.scot
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A reminder of just how sick the Israeli regime is. The IDF forced staff from a hospital, leaving premature and critically ill babies alone in intensive care. When staff were allowed to return, they found the decomposing bodies of the infants still in their hospital beds.I will never understand why this evil Israeli regime is not being hit with massive sanctions and is allowed to carry on its inhumanity to this day. #SanctionIsrael https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/08/middleeast/babies-al-nasr-gaza-hospital-what-we-know-intl
(DIR) Post #B59FbV4PhK1oDWTqiG by IndyRichard@mastodon.scot
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Many of us have all watched on in something close to despair as first Russia in Ukraine, then Israel in Gaza, in the West Bank, with their attacks on their neighbours, and theft of land for 'settlers, and the US kidnapping presidents and starting illegal wars. When will we see war crime trials? #Russia #Israel #US #WarCrimes
(DIR) Post #B59IQmK5VmY0P2OJMW by IndyRichard@mastodon.scot
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@MyricaGale I have come to the same conclusion. War crime trials at the end of the second world war were very one-sided. I suppose it is the same as the victors getting to write the history books and present films which show their perspective. That isn't to say that the actions of the Nazis were evil. It's just that only crimes on one side were looked at. Consider the firebombing of Dresden as just one example.
(DIR) Post #B5IInelXWY0630mPzs by IndyRichard@mastodon.scot
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After watching the Channel 4 Scottish election leaders' debate hosted by Krishnan Guru-Murthy, here are a couple of thoughts. Why does Anas Sarwar of Labour think he has the right to talk over everyone? He comes across as a deeply unpleasant man. Reform's Malcolm Offord is clearly a racist and offers nothing but bile and division.It is clear to me that neither has the gravitas to be First Minister.#Scotland
(DIR) Post #B5IInf18aYTepO4sJE by IndyRichard@mastodon.scot
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Amazingly, today it has been revealed that Reform and Labour are hoping to combine to defeat the SNP.How can any normal person in Scotland lend their vote to Labour after this admission? #Scotland https://www.thenational.scot/news/26021736.anas-sarwar-said-reform-labour-work-together-block-snp/
(DIR) Post #B69jFzu3QO6DtkoU3U by IndyRichard@mastodon.scot
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Scotland's First Minister, John Swinney, says Scotland needs independence before Nigel Farage becomes Prime Minister.Absolutely. #Scotland
(DIR) Post #B6OUwvphqgg5mmC1wG by IndyRichard@mastodon.scot
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Elon Musk claims that the problem with socialism is "after they 'eat the rich,' they will starve."Typical viewpoint from someone with more wealth than he knows what to do with. The very thought that we can not only manage but thrive without these people sends them into a panic. In truth, the rich don't grow food, they don't make things, you won't find them on assembly lines. They benefit from OUR labour. Would we starve without the rich? No.#Socialism #EatTheRich
(DIR) Post #B82uah5pvxSowMlh4q by IndyRichard@mastodon.scot
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Have you ever stopped to ask why the BBC is so English-facing and so relentlessly anti-Scottish? Or why there is no English devolved parliament? Or why only England has a right of veto over what other parts of this supposed union of equals enact? Or why, whenever difficult choices need to be made over saving an industry or trialling the poll tax, Scotland always seems to lose out? Or why one vote on our future in 319 years is deemed more than enough?Scotland is a colony. #Scotland
(DIR) Post #B8TORIzPv9era9tVj6 by IndyRichard@mastodon.scot
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Some graffiti aimed at Germans. Dear Germans,Don't wash your holocaustTrauma with Palestinian bloodFree Palestine#Gaza #Germany
(DIR) Post #B8U5GLTWdRJO8PzuWu by IndyRichard@mastodon.scot
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We must never kid ourselves that our desire to choose our own path in Scotland, one in which looking after those in society most in need of assistance features highly, and that is distinct from that set by powerful people in London, will ever get fair coverage in the billionaire-owned press. #Scotland #Socialism