Yeah, totally. This is what progressive liberals believe. Blue Labour just in case you were wondering. - ThreadSky

anthonypainter.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Yeah, totally. This is what progressive liberals believe.

Blue Labour just in case you were wondering.

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chairmanmoet.bsky.social•23 hours ago

"you know darling, the liberals don't want me to enjoy what I'm about to do to you right now"

omaromalleykhan.bsky.social•23 hours ago

There's strawmanning and then there's this hallucinatory word salad

anthonypainter.bsky.social•23 hours ago

If your opponents are flesh eating vampires then you've got to go on Steve Bannon's podcast to ensure the world knows...

omaromalleykhan.bsky.social•23 hours ago

The thing is, the sex with wife claim is both very weird and very specific in a way that makes me feel he actually believes it, or at least has met 1 person who argued that point with him ? Still bizarre to relate it as a general belief

kennyf1283.bsky.social•12 hours ago

It's an interesting way of trying to build a media publication focused on... Progressive liberalism...

anthonypainter.bsky.social•1 day ago

The honest philosophical discussion to take a good faith interpretation that this is what Blue Labour wants is whether relationships should be grounded in tradition (conservatism) or volition (progressivism). And family and loving relationships are almost nothing to do with it. It's about society.

anthonypainter.bsky.social•1 day ago

Of course, that's the good faith interpretation. There's another one: this is a nasty attempt to other political adversaries and make them out to be inhuman.

Take your pick.

radiobeartime.com•1 day ago

My take is that he’s an idiot

anthonypainter.bsky.social•1 day ago

I don't think he's an idiot.....

brennick.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I’ll go with - he’s a cunt.

radiobeartime.com•23 hours ago

He’s either an idiot or very dangerous.

theangelofhistory.bsky.social•23 hours ago

I’m pretty sure he’s not as clever as he thinks he is!

But you’re right and the proof of the pudding is in the eating and Glasman is smart enough to understand that communitarian politics isn’t an alternative to state power; it relies on state power for it must be imposed on us against our will

radiobeartime.com•23 hours ago

Indeed

It’s hegemonic hence very dangerous. Every attempt to create a hegemonic “paradise” has ended in horrors.

juneussell.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Or gibberish

adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Having read that article I think there is a third alternative - that Comrade Glasman is a bit of a knob

anthonypainter.bsky.social•23 hours ago

With a hotline.... 🥱

adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social•23 hours ago

I wonder about that bit. The hyperbolic tone of the whole thing might be a pointer to the overall precision if such a claim.

adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social•23 hours ago

of such a claim

carolinejmolloy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hahhahahahahahaa who is that they sound batshit

anthonypainter.bsky.social•1 day ago

Maurice Glasman

carolinejmolloy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Arrrrrg what he said to Bannon, right?

Once a chancer always a chancer from what I hear

anthonypainter.bsky.social•23 hours ago

In the new Observer

https://observer.co.uk/news/politics/article/labours-trump-card

carolinejmolloy.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Cba to read that waffle but I remember him and Bannon were banging on about the need to defend “sex with your wife” from the evil progressives - what is this fixation - the Blue Labour crowd are so deeply, exclusively male, it’s embarassing.

carolinejmolloy.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Also

Christ they’ve turned it into a kind of (even) less cool UnHerd already

I have a high tolerance for reading excruciatingly waffly political nonsense in the interests of the cause

But this piece is just too boring and silly for words

judsawyer.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Do progressive liberals want people to enjoy sex with other people's wives?

anthonypainter.bsky.social•23 hours ago

They want it to be mandatory.

jonathanmoles.bsky.social•1 day ago

Who is this m, saying this?

anthonypainter.bsky.social•1 day ago

Glasman

carolinejmolloy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh I truly should have guessed

jonathanmoles.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Ah. Thanks. Quite scary that someone with such influence could write such unmitigated garbage.

centristmum.bsky.social•23 hours ago

athenepallas.bsky.social•1 day ago

The greatest freedom is what now?!

raymondinho.bsky.social•14 hours ago

I take it his wife didn't want to sleep with him

ptrtlrwrts.bsky.social•1 day ago

WTF?

anthonypainter.bsky.social•1 day ago

Quite

theangelofhistory.bsky.social•1 day ago

The extremism and extreme negativity about others that this kind of politics relies on (& it IS extreme for it is authoritarian) is painting enemies as monstrous, unnatural, in some way opposed to life itself.

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