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Wed 24 Jun 2020 11:34

@HonHonHonHon @MediaevalWorld it’s funny, my people are the generation that were in college in 2010 as I linked up with UK social movements through the student movement. So they’re all 30 now. They were a very hopeful generation who were betrayed by the crushing of Corbynism

Wed 24 Jun 2020 11:32

@HonHonHonHon @MediaevalWorld but that was rather a different issue than I was trying to raise. i’ve written about it though. Blair destroyed rock in the UK, at least as something anyone could live off, while thinking he was doing the opposite. It’s one of his many atrocities.

Wed 24 Jun 2020 11:30

@HonHonHonHon @MediaevalWorld I’ve frequently said that whoever would have been the next John Lennon, Paul Weller, or even Anton Newcombe is probably stacking boxes in a Tesco now because of dole reform. It’s not like they don’t exist! they’re crushed. Brian Eno btw is also passionate about this issue.

Wed 24 Jun 2020 11:28

@HonHonHonHon @MediaevalWorld I know there’s good stuff. Actually my point had nothing to do with that, it was about the lack of corporate interest in catchy pop or jingles nowadays, which was a matter of purely sociological interest.

Wed 24 Jun 2020 11:25

@HonHonHonHon @MediaevalWorld you mean Mark Fisher? In that case, my apologies. Well, MF did get out, but I think he had a clinical condition. It’s all very tragic I agree. I’m more an optimist, myself, and most of my friends are about half my age, since i find chic despair or resignation infuriating.

Wed 24 Jun 2020 10:29

@ScaleSilver49 @SamuraiElf @reibisch I have a bag of runes in my magic cabinet somewhere I got on the advice of a former Indian spy who was into that sort of thing, but I’ve been ashamed to ever learn to use them. Nazis. I hate those guys! They ruin everything.

Tue 23 Jun 2020 23:23

@HonHonHonHon @MediaevalWorld is this supposed to be addressed to me? Are you a total fucking idiot?

Tue 23 Jun 2020 23:22

@LouisProyect1 @RioftheLevites this is especially true if there’s no way for the reader to know you’re being civil, for all I knew you were attacking me for talking about sex when people are starving, etc etc. It’d’ve been consistent with previous behaviour. To that my response would have been pretty mild.

Tue 23 Jun 2020 23:18

@LouisProyect1 @RioftheLevites what you think you can turn it on and off at will? – “I usually punch that guy in the face when I meet him for no particular reason but this time I decided to be civil AND HE WASN’T GRATEFUL!!! Waaah waaaah waaah!”

Tue 23 Jun 2020 23:17

@LouisProyect1 @RioftheLevites what is up your ass, Louis? The first time I encountered you, you were calling me a “horses’ ass” for saying “transgress” instead of “break” in an article – if you’re going to make “contentious prick” into your default persona, don’t get all huffy over such things, ok?

Tue 23 Jun 2020 23:05

@LouisProyect1 @RioftheLevites No I just used to live in Madagascar and reacted the way I knew a Malagasy would react.

Tue 23 Jun 2020 22:46

@patriciacameron @JeffSharlet the only people I remember predicting the Soviet collapse publicly and getting the dates about right were sociologists Emmanuel Todd and Randall Collins

Tue 23 Jun 2020 22:25

@JeffSharlet Yeah if that’s what they thought they kept it an awfully good secret considering their public statements wildly overestimated the strength of the Soviet military, economy, etc, to justify high spending to meet the “threat”

Tue 23 Jun 2020 21:24

@inside_lemon @silkyjohnson403 @RioftheLevites I tend to agree with myself on most issues but there are exceptions.

Tue 23 Jun 2020 20:36

@LouisProyect1 @RioftheLevites otoh, you might want to examine your reaction. Madagascar is a poor country. The US is racist. How would you like it if any time you mentioned that Americans say, like barbecue, or baseball, the only response was “America? They’re all racists!”

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Tue 23 Jun 2020 20:27

@LouisProyect1 @RioftheLevites yes it’s very poor. But where I was at that time (1989-91) people had nice houses and lots of food, just very little else. Things have gotten worse. Hardly surprising 97% make less than a dollar a day, since about 97% of the economic activity is in the informal sector.

Tue 23 Jun 2020 19:55

@BlckCatBlckSky @RioftheLevites @davidwengrow I’m still working on the conclusion of the DW book

Tue 23 Jun 2020 19:47

@RioftheLevites Actually it wasn’t about my friends at all (most of whom there wouldn’t be much to gossip about)- it was a running gag about what people would really do if they had a lot of free time on their hands based on my own experience in a village in rural Madagascar

Mon 22 Jun 2020 16:01

@James_J_Marlow actually there were four founders of Momentum. Three were Jewish and the fourth was married to one of the other three.

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Sun 21 Jun 2020 18:24

@flardaman @SamuraiElf @WFMU I don’t really want to learn more about what was happening at that time. I prefer new, good fun music that doesn’t make me think of lost times, places and people.