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Fri 15 May 2020 20:27

@LovellPropguru @silenceindustry @Colectivisthipo @michaellondonsf @LDNRentersUnion there are few things less convincing than some guy droning on about how he claims he doesn’t care about something. Also few things less boring. If you really don’t care, you go away. That’s what I’m doing. Mute!

Fri 15 May 2020 18:52

@Colectivisthipo @LovellPropguru @silenceindustry @michaellondonsf @LDNRentersUnion The difference between this and earlier ages isn’t the existence of so many people who think “I’ve got mine why should I care about anyone else’s problems” but that so many of them feel the need to go out in public & drone on and on about it

Fri 15 May 2020 18:08

@Colectivisthipo @LovellPropguru @silenceindustry @michaellondonsf @LDNRentersUnion he represents the perspective off the apes that wanted to stay up in the trees

Fri 15 May 2020 18:07

@silenceindustry @LovellPropguru @Colectivisthipo @michaellondonsf @LDNRentersUnion the thing that annoys me about guys like that is… well, there’s a whole list, but for starters, 1. the self-satisfied complacency, masking 2. complete cluelessness about how history actually works, combined with 3. unending self-importance

Fri 15 May 2020 17:57

@LovellPropguru @Colectivisthipo @silenceindustry @michaellondonsf @LDNRentersUnion oh this is about your interest. In that case never mind. What do I care what you’re interested. The mystery is why you show up and announce what those interests are, as if everyone naturally would find *that* interesting.

Fri 15 May 2020 17:56

@LovellPropguru @Colectivisthipo @silenceindustry @michaellondonsf @LDNRentersUnion here’s that same guy in ancient Rome saying that an economy based on slave plantations must have been better for everyone (including the slaves) than whatever came before or it never would have happened.

Fri 15 May 2020 17:54

@LovellPropguru @Colectivisthipo @silenceindustry @michaellondonsf @LDNRentersUnion This is like some guy in ancient Rome saying “it’s pointless to say ‘slavery is wrong’ unless you can show me 1. exactly how the system of economic relations you propose to replace it will work, and 2. how we will convert the current empire to this alternative system.

Fri 15 May 2020 17:49

@watermelonpunch @chickamora exactly, my last landlord was a landlord. He had a company, even if it just owned two buildings. He had employees. (Who he did not provide with protective gear except to the degree the gov’t mandated….)

Fri 15 May 2020 15:11

@lightacandleOTM In Malagasy there’s a very concise phrase, “izay foy” which literally means “that which you are willing to give up”

Fri 15 May 2020 14:57

@lightacandleOTM It says there are 9 patrons and when you add up all their contributions it totals that

Fri 15 May 2020 14:56

@marekfuller @YouTube You know I saw that film when I was 14 or so and thought the peasants were hilariously annoying. I saw the film again 7 years later & thought “wait! What they’re saying is totally reasonable & King Arthur is beating them up for no reason. How did I manage not to notice that?”

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Fri 15 May 2020 14:24

@NouriPen @inside_lemon @nikadubrovsky hey that was supposed to be “muster”. Damn that autocorrect

Fri 15 May 2020 14:12

@tropicalontour @nikadubrovsky we’re going to have to make a special page for people to point those out! thanks

Fri 15 May 2020 13:53

@Timjag72 they most certainly do, it was Thatcher’s plan to turn us all into petty bourgeoisie and fear socialism

Fri 15 May 2020 13:41

@james_e_baldwin not myself. actually I think there’s a number of such projects. Amazon is basically killing conventional small publishing in the same way as Sage and Elsevier did academic publishing so people increasingly have to improvise

Fri 15 May 2020 13:20

@inside_lemon @nikadubrovsky @NouriPen oh that’s interesting. I didn’t know that. Well, there’s an Anthropology for Kids webpage already but it won’t have the same week-to-week material https://t.co/LJB9Zepi00

Fri 15 May 2020 13:19

@humpsmith @nikadubrovsky yeah I know that’s why I said “almost final” draft – part of the problem is we keep passing it back & forth to a designer who doesn’t actually speak English, part of the problem is just me

Fri 15 May 2020 12:43

@james_e_baldwin a very good point! I mean it’s true that as an 9-year-old boy my favourite section of the Metropolitan Museum of Art was always arms & armour which I used to elaborately sketch… but still!