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Sun 28 Jun 2020 10:57

@scottfitzpatr13 @dwx64 well there’s the whole PMC issue, agreed – I’ve written about it a lot elsewhere.

Sun 28 Jun 2020 10:55

@hapoelorient I wrote an essay once alluding to it, was very cathartic. Though difficult and depressing to write. https://t.co/11pxB89ZMr

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Sun 28 Jun 2020 10:52

@Bohaimed_77 back in the 1780s the fundamentalists were the radical left, for debt abolition, universal vote, etc. It’s a fascinating story how they gradually completely switched sides.

Sun 28 Jun 2020 10:17

@Phil_O_Keefe @violetreess I’ve always had positive feelings towards it as a language, though I don’t speak a word myself.

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Sat 27 Jun 2020 18:03

@leftyjew I don’t understand this whole “scandal.” Is someone claiming Israeli security forces _aren’t_ training security forces in other countries, including American cities? Or just not New York? What does this have to do with antisemitism?

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Sat 27 Jun 2020 16:38

@MaryTracy @Itmechr3 But remember if you turned on the radio in the ’60s mostly you got “fly me to the moon” cheesy pop shit that was their version of the Backstreet Boys. We just remember the good stuff.

Sat 27 Jun 2020 09:59

@Mic1402 @Itmechr3 I remember the bad stuff from the ’70s since I was really young & couldn’t avoid it, but the good stuff from the ’80s because I was in my ’20s and creating an environment where you hear only the good stuff was half of what life was about

Sat 27 Jun 2020 09:58

@Mic1402 @Itmechr3 well in some periods like the ’70s you can’t help but remember all the crap because they keep playing it all the time in the background in bars and restaurants and cafes

Sat 27 Jun 2020 09:52

@Itmechr3 think about the idea of the band as collectively producing music. It’s like Proletkult or something. An affinity group rather than an individual “genius” collectively making an artwork of (often) eternal value. Now this has been pushed to the margins.

Sat 27 Jun 2020 09:51

@Itmechr3 (at least in England, you can’t understand the Beatles & Stones without understanding William Morris, even, for that matter, the Paris Commune. The boy bands are part of an attempt to destroy the legacy of the Paris Commune

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Sat 27 Jun 2020 09:49

@Itmechr3 someone pointed out it used to be every 1/3 of all working class kids could play a musical instrument; this was in part a direct result of guild socialism & intentional efforts by people like William Morris to create a counter-hegemonic culture

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Sat 27 Jun 2020 09:48

@Itmechr3 to be honest, my own feeling is that kids these days know too much about music, and it kind of stifles. Also, well, there’s been an assault on working class community & culture that has had effects, especially on the white working class

Sat 27 Jun 2020 09:47

@Itmechr3 I think pop music has declined; it was always corporate but now it’s reached the point of comedy, like, it’s all written by 2 guys now. The good music, and there’s plenty, is very genre-oriented so if you don’t encounter it so much by accident, you have to look

Sat 27 Jun 2020 09:45

@Itmechr3 well part of the reason is, oddly, that kids now still listen to pop songs written when I was 15 & 59-year-olds like me find that weird as when we were 15 we utterly rejected our parents’ and grandparents’ music.

Sat 27 Jun 2020 09:19

@actpsy @KonMChittka vote for Starmer and there might be some softening of Tory policies! Yay! Now I’m inspired.

Sat 27 Jun 2020 01:43

@KonMChittka @actpsy oh great idea Sir Keir, we have the hottest summer in history, no rain all April, there are literal locust plagues in Africa and India, & this idiot decides to STOP pledging to do anything about it.

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Fri 26 Jun 2020 19:32

@ro11otomasi2 no it’s on the terrace in front of LSE’s Shaw library I just don’t remember the occasion

Fri 26 Jun 2020 19:21

@failedanarchist yup they were “rioting” on my street last night. Basically people were partying on the road & someone got out a sound machine, cops tried to steal it, and bottles were thrown. Overkill response was deafening