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Bob Jamieson (bobjmsn@mastodon.scot)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 05:23:13 JST Bob Jamieson

Harry's Last Stand
It was anger, solidarity and socialism that built the Welfare State and kept the West safe from authoritarianism until neoliberalism corrupted everything.
Humans are hardwired to keep hope alive and believe that tomorrow can be better than today. For the poor, it seldom is because when there is no social safety net; your poverty can't be outrun. It doesn't stop people from trying.
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  It was anger, solidarity and socialism that built the Welfare State and kept the West safe from authoritarianism until neoliberalism corrupted everything.
  
  from JM Smith
  
  Harry Leslie Smith February 25, 1923-November 28, 2018 “I am going out of this World Fighting.” From the unpublished Green & Pleasant Land-a memoir of life before the Welfare State. Chapter Five: Humans are hardwired to keep hope alive and believe that tomorrow can be better than today. For the poor, it seldom is because when there is no social safety net; your poverty can't be outrun. It doesn't stop people from trying. Many times, Mum attempted to slip her chains of poverty. She married my father because she wanted to believe he could provide a better life for her. Instead, their marriage put both of them on a quick road to penury. Then, in 1928, after my father lost his job in the mines because of injury; she upped sticks with him and my sister and me for Bradford. She wanted to believe new beginnings were possible for those without money or work. But it was the same old...
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  Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 05:23:12 JST Aral Balkan
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  @bobjmsn @Alexandrad1 I miss Harry.
  
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  @aral @bobjmsn @Alexandrad1 So do i. Has it really been five years since he passed.
  
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  @mutter01 @bobjmsn @Alexandrad1 Five years? Bloody hell.
  :(
  
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