augustustrout.bsky.social
I am both dyslexic and sarcastic … which means problems.
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What’s their percentage of world gdp
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It’s not so much couldn’t as wouldn’t.
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I disagree, it could but it couldn’t be so reliant on an international environment where the major powers were so conflicted as to ensure there wasn’t immediate material problems or have leaders so motivated to act now. There will still be problems in the future.
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Ah sorry I’d made a presumption there. But honestly a lot of peoples takes on the blogosphere of the early naughties is shaped by personal experience, personally I found erudite > factual as much then as now and indeed before.
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Maybe you remember it like that because you had a better filter due to academia, but I seem to remember a sea of “what the Middle East needs is a Gandhi” takes, and Greenwald.
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Bernal has entered the chat.
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I understand Alfred the great had flawless OPSEC which would explain why such a group went undiscovered.
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I’d argue with usable, that 2nd world was always a bad definition and makes less sense now (what’s the qualification totalitarian gov) , and the 3rd doesn’t make too much sense either esp if you’re grouping India in with Liberia, just feels counter productive from an understanding point of view.
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I regret to inform you no one seriously uses 1st 2nd or 3rd anymore except perhaps the Chinese use of three world theory. And Mao came up with that theory in 1974? Anyway this is somewhat veering off piste.
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Also the original Chinese third world model very clearly specifies that China is 3rd world (which was a surprise).
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The original three worlds model is political not economic.
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This isn’t actually new, Britain did similar in Japan at the end of the C19th when it exported cotton and silk textile manufacturing equipment to aid cheaper imports. The company Platt Bros in Manchester was so integral to UK Japan trade they helped create Toyota.
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In China those companies went new domestic companies who utilised the skills they’d been trained up in. E.G.
www.npr.org/sections/pla...
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Or maybe trying to play Bannon🤷
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Glasman exists in the weird contrarian circles that destroyed Corbyn and Starmer was seen as the antidote to, if McSweeney is genuinely talking to him he’s disappearing up his own fundament in desperation.
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Glasman some how convinced David Miliband to create Movement for change in 2010 (he’s a family friend of the miliband’s), when that turned out to be recreating Militant his card was marked by Prescott and he got sent to the Lords to placate and shut him up.
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They don’t even have an aspidistra to their name.
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When “He doesn’t care what we do” goes from exclamation point to ellipses.
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Very different, but he still had to look at the rules and work towards the numbers, whether he can do it over the next four years is another thing entirely.
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“If only we could get around, in front” is one I’ve never quite understood.
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Barroso
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Farage can play with others if he feels he can get to place where it will let him stick the knife in. I thought Barros was an example.
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See Ukraine
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It’s a pivot to geopolitical blackmail in Asia, not a pivot to defence in Asia.
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I think the big fuck off gun makes it serious
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I mean the whole point of Musk’s capture of Twitter was never to exert influence over the likes of me, it was to exert influence over the media and those that work in it.
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From memory the Benefits Cost Ratio of almost all transport infrastructure projects are greater than 1. All the current infrastructure projects underway in London almost certainly are.
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Absolute fucking genius
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Sort of come from this from a different angle, but (2) Asterix and Obelix, it’s entertaining for children and adults it uses advanced words, and because it’s a comic the illustrations do much of the explanation for you, however you might have to explain why a Druid is called Getafix.
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Hey I’m just pointing to the regional identifier is actually a wild eyed scandy screaming, “an end to tyrants and monarchs, mixed economy or death”. Not that Casey Jones was a Scab.
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Has anyone told them that the early Scandie and German settlers were, checks notes, Liberals and revolutionaries.
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Snatch landrover 2.0
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I think though the conflicting views of Japanese actions were definitely more mainstream in the 80’s I remember the alternative views of the outcome of operation Rimau in Australia, depicted in ‘The Heroes’ and ‘The Highest Honour’.
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You know what you need… a medieval bookshelf.
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I think these guys don’t actually read anything other than what allows them to type ‘AcShully IRaQ’
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You do realise he referenced Abu Ghraib.
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The “instability for oil” argument is dumb af, but the instability caused by various factions for potential economic gains, with one of these factions being the US and what we term the west being one of them isn’t.
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The counter point is that political ideology is often adopted as a solution to market failures and business leaders are rarely apolitical.
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Hi Luca
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You know if you’d cut out the words between and including “because… narrative.” That would have maybe been a decent joke.
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Yeh cool, it remains true that punk has been a fertile ground for entry points to fascism.
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Let us not think too deeply about that aesthetic, and all that.
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As it always is
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I regret to inform you punk was in political theory terms… shit.
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1990 I was hooked, and that was even with a rolemaster as a gateway drug.
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Went the day well?
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What was that sign
BEST PUB IN MANCHESTER
… runner up 2002
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I know this because I’ve both been a traffic and transport guy and a white van driver so I’ve literally shouted at myself… alot