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Sun 21 Jun 2020 10:43

@chunkymark I was thinking of reading a book. Haven’t done so in what feels like generations. Yourself?

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Sat 20 Jun 2020 23:37

@SamuraiElf @TewksburyIan Unless they shoot the I F Stone version – which would be kind of neat.

Sat 20 Jun 2020 20:51

@ztarasj it’s a very interesting question, no? Americans sort of saw themselves as Romans in the ’40s-70s. Maybe the sort of people who identify with Greeks don’t make movies?

Fri 19 Jun 2020 13:57

@scottfitzpatr13 @girlziplocked The point Holly was trying to make was that it’s not a material resource like iron or petroleum, and they want us to think it is, that there’s an objective limit on its quantity, etc. Perhaps you know a better but equally catchy way to convey this?

Fri 19 Jun 2020 13:54

@scottfitzpatr13 @girlziplocked It is important to understand both the degree to which it is real and to which it is not. Some of this apparent near-universality arises from insanely broad definitions

Fri 19 Jun 2020 13:14

@scottfitzpatr13 @girlziplocked yes I chose things that every adult will agree aren’t real. If I’d chose the idea that humans are divided into “races” or the inherent selfishness of human nature, etc, it would have meant endless argument

Fri 19 Jun 2020 10:34

@Pinkers79 @str_apx @Curious_Chak @mdbuckley In 2017, Corbyn did better than any other Labour leader since early Blair. Brexit was a unique distraction. The idea that some guy who look and acts like a corporate lawyer is going to do better because the media like fellow professionals is kind of insane

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Fri 19 Jun 2020 10:17

@Pinkers79 @Curious_Chak @mdbuckley all analyses of elections won by Blair, Clinton, etc, indicate the left party would have won those elections anyway, whoever was in charge. So those leaders compromised principles for nothing. Are there any exceptions?

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Fri 19 Jun 2020 10:16

@Pinkers79 @Curious_Chak @mdbuckley has any candidate of a left party actually succeeded in this project of winning power by luring former right wing voters away by compromising left principles and then claiming they’ll run the system more competently and somewhat less viciously?

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Fri 19 Jun 2020 02:04

@realitymerchant @MattCrossin @aPebbleInTheSky @korach2001 I usually say “anarchistic” or such to avoid ambiguity; some object even to that but to me this seems odd, since the same critique could be used for any word you use, “egalitarian”, “stateless”, etc. are all “Western” concepts

Fri 19 Jun 2020 02:01

@realitymerchant @MattCrossin @aPebbleInTheSky @korach2001 there’s an ambiguity because it’s both a descriptive word, and has been adopted by some as an explicit ideology. Like saying a group are democratically organised, versus saying they’re Democrats in the US party sense.

Fri 19 Jun 2020 00:05

@Annamagnani365 you should really catch up with Julia, you know. I saw her about a year ago when she and Stuart were in London.

Fri 19 Jun 2020 00:04

@Annamagnani365 Oh yes of course I remember you – from back in the days we all used to go to blues clubs on the West side, etc etc. Nice that you ran into Nhu…

Wed 17 Jun 2020 15:30

@TheRevengerists this is true – when I first came to London, I used to ask myself “where’s all the loot? After 500 years this city must have the most amazing attics & basements on the planet, so… where’s the flea markets for when people sell it off?” Finally I found them.

Wed 17 Jun 2020 15:28

@LitAnscombe almost all the stationary stores are still closed. Also a majority of the clothing shops, used and new.

Wed 17 Jun 2020 14:39

@LitAnscombe yeah I was looking over their wares and thinking “well, someone might possibly want a hat, they don’t all say London on them…”

Wed 17 Jun 2020 14:28

@dominichills5 The reason it might not seem that way is colonial wars always broke the rules. They were pure barbarism

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