petemarchetto.bsky.social
Boomer postpatriot Englishman, freelance writer in expat recovery (from China), of the social-democratic centre now deemed 'far left', Green Party member. Free sample ebook of short stories at:
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I tried to get myself sacked as E. Musk, DOGE: Took too much Ketamine, waved a chainsaw around, attended workplace with my son on my shoulders exposing him to ridicule, wrote a billion tweets and wondered why, if I'm so rich, I'm so miserable.
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Where is the image from?
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These images are always annoying. I look for my homeland and it's always under a cloud. There are so many theories about why Britain had an empire, but none get near the truth. We just wanted to go somewhere that was a bit sunny, that's all.
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Keep him out of Europe at least.
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True. Now the straws are red, white and blue.
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'Billionaire Jews are the biggest enemy' seems a classic anti-Semitic trope, but I guess the world is so upside down now that will indeed play well to the powers that be in Israel.
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Absolutely. That's what ALL our homes are like in England.
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I should imagine for most Europeans right now, including most Germans, kicking back against Trump is a welcome move.
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I remember someone saying to me that, within the purely commercial motivation of the advertising industry, there are gems of creativity that may be deemed art, as worthy of inclusion in any gallery as any other form of art created purely for their own sake.
He was a prat, I never liked him.
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That's certainly true. The contortions they're now having to go through for fear of justifying the unjustifiable are a joy to watch, albeit a trivial byproduct of the crisis itself.
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Watch it here:
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLxv...
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That's one side of what he said. The other side was trying to keep in with Trump. The result was garbage even by the standards of Boris Johnson.
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'Silly willybrain.' Trust me, in British English that is absolutely THE MOST DISGUSTING slur we can level.
Indeed, having written it, I now need a little lie-down.
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In that case you didn't deserve it.
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I don't do sport. Is this an Australian hehehehe, or a British hehehehe? Don't bother telling me what sport or what championship, I won't understand, I just want to know if we won or not.
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Oops.
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To be fair, given the running down of mental health services over the decades, this may be a solution Trump has made possible.
Normalised insanity.
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I'm not ruling out the possibility of American democracy being undermined to that level, but I think it unlikely.
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That's illegal.
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I had one of these the other day on Bluesky, though bless him, having struggled a bit to back up his claims in the face of evidence they were straight out of the Kremlin disinformation factory, he did admit he'd been gulled.
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Well, gosh, that's unexpected and completely out-of-the-blue, isn't it?
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
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Yes, but we British have never been stupid enough to be swayed by Murdoch's propaganda.
Aside from Brexit.
And nearly every election since 1979.
But aside from that HE DOESN'T FOOL US!
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Bit sad Douglas Murray has come out of this a hero to some, mind, given all he's done is state the astoundingly bleedin' obvious which even extremist nutjobs are perfectly capable of doing from time to time.
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Reminiscent of 'French fries' being renamed 'freedom fries' back in the day.
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Oops.
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... was a football match.
The thinkers do nuance, analysis, may have negative commentary on representatives of their 'own side', may equally have an occasionally good thing to say for the other team.
Tribalists and thinkers tend to fine one another annoying, hence blocking.
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I get an average of two or three blocks each day. There is a divide in Bluesky, as far as I can tell between tribalists and thinkers. Tribalists want people to put in rara skirts, wave pompoms, shout 'Foul!' at everything the other tribe are doing and shout their way through politics like it...
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... wake of the referendum that led to Brexit, but sadly it could not be.
Hungary is Hungary. I pity its saner citizens and know they're not Orbán, but sadly it's Orbán we have to deal with in the international arena.
I wish it were otherwise.
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... going to impose sanctions to affect Putin, those sanctions have to be on Russia; if we're going to do BDS with a mind to Palestinians, that will target Israel.
I would love it if the EU had been able to cut 65,000,000 deals tailored to the wishes of each and every citizen of the UK in the...
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... I disagree with you. Indeed, I go out of my way to acknowledge it. For me talking about Ukraine, I try as far as possible to talk about 'Putin' and not 'Russia'. Likewise 'the Netanyahu regime' when I talk about Gaza. So I'm acutely aware of what you're saying.
But unfortunately if we're...
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... assistance and without my approval - is what we as a nation deserve. It's no good me standing up and saying 'But I'm a decent bloke, what about me?' Geopolitics doesn't work that way. It can't work that way. The nation state comes as a package deal good, bad or indifferent.
It's not that...
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... whom I also didn't vote.
But unfortunately, this is my country. And unfortunately for me and for the tens of millions like me, the EU doesn't get to negotiate re-entry with me, and I don't set immigration policy.
So I simply have to accept that what my country has earned - without my...
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To be fair my tongue was in my cheek, but let's parse that question anyway.
As a Brit, I never voted for Brexit. I never voted for the Tories. I didn't even vote for Labour. I'm 65 years old and have objected to the path my country has been on since 1979, the first election won by Thatcher for...
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Worse than that, though, is that they have all the power of vested interests lined up against them. The gravy train keeps running courtesy of status quo parties. The extreme right can be subverted. But the left is the enemy which must be stopped at all costs.
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... and bumper-sticker slogans.
Worse than that, though, is that they have all the power of vested interests lined up against them. The gravy train keeps running courtesy of status quo parties. The extreme right can be subverted. But the left is the enemy which must be stopped at all costs.
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... in hoc to the status quo and serve as guarantors for its maintenance. Forces on the left that have coherent policies for change find their nuanced messaging drowned out by rabble-rousers and attention seekers who can get their message across in soundbites, 10-second Tiktok messages...
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... without inequality in particular being a driving force behind widespread dissatisfaction with the status quo. Happy people aren't prone to being directed towards scapegoats and the destruction of the status quo has no appeal for them. Unfortunately, mainstream parties are themselves...
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danger is they form a tribe that can be coerced by vested interests. The fossil fuel industry is the prime example globally. Get the tribe on climate denialism. In the USA, the right has been hijacked by the tech bros for cyberpunk-society experimentation.
None of this would be possible...
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... can unite under a banner of opposition to the status quo, but have nothing coherent to put in its place. So the extreme right becomes a ragbag collection of mavericks with their hang-ups, conspiracy theories and bigotries while not being, in the final analysis, a force FOR anything much.
The...
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... maintenance. Forces on the left that have a coherent policy for replacement find their nuanced messaging drowned out by rabble-rousers and attention seekers who can get their message across in soundbites, 10-second Tiktok messages and bumper-sticker slogans.
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... behind widespread dissatisfaction with the status quo. Happy people aren't prone to being directed towards scapegoats and the destruction of the status quo has no appeal for them. Unfortunately, mainstream parties are themselves in hoc to the status quo and serve as guarantors for its...
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... interests. The fossil fuel industry is the prime example globally. Get the tribe on climate denialism. In the USA, the right has been hijacked by the tech bros for cyberpunk-society experimentation.
None of this would be possible without inequality in particular being a driving force...
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... nothing coherent to put in its place. So the extreme right becomes a ragbag collection of mavericks with their hang-ups, conspiracy theories and bigotries while not being, in the final analysis, a force FOR anything much.
The danger is they form a tribe that can be coerced by vested...