This is f’ing brilliant

It’s reassuring to hear you mention the part about de-industrialisation, removing meaning, resulting in people finding meaning in the nation, in race, in identity in general. I came to the same conclusion. Trump and Brexit and hatred of globalisation, where the right are taking a protectionist stance, which was the view of the left pre-neoliberalsim, are all different manifestations of the same issue. As an analogy, it’s like taking laws away and letting nature run it’s course.

Part of the issue is that once we have de-industrialised (under Pinochet, Thatcher, Reagan etc.) and opened our markets to foreign capital, selling off our public assets, then you can’t just reverse that. (Though bizarrely, Trump talked about trying to reopen coal mines on the rust belt. Even though it was the Republicans who sold it off 4 decades before) Thus, we see Blair, Clinton, Obama et al accepting neoliberalism as they have no alternative. The 2008 crisis should have been the death of it

Have genuinely never liked him nor believed he was a genius. He’s obviously fairly bright but nothing more.

A lot of these climate denier academics are used to being the smartest guy in most rooms and they REALLY don’t like being told they’re wrong, especially by anyone who doesn’t have a better degree or whatever. Pure ego.

Sad that we readily accept the mob’s phraseology and refer to it as ”The Peadophile’s House”

Brilliant. Absolutely fascinating. And so damning about the US bullying everyone else over this issue.

There’s a liberal bias in arts and academia because liberals are frankly not stupid enough to fall for all this religious & right wing rubbish

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Next you’ll be telling me that JFK wasn’t shot at all! Nice to know that you were conspiracy theorists but grew out of it. Smug Pratts.

Very good, looking forward to the next one!