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@the_mel_jar The lack of balls and really spirited argument in psychoanalysis is a real problem. Kind of depressive, like a fog over the battlefield

We cannot. It’s true! On the very long list of things that Lacan was right about, he was SUPER right about this dunk. This dunk must be very close to the top of the list. It’s a slam dunk of a dunk, we could say! Remember when psychoanalysis had balls … basketballs? 🏀🔥😘

@AaronBastani The nothing can be done brigade are out in full force today. Things that already exist in other cities are impossible actually!

Rent controls done judiciously and well can work. Rent controls done erratically and without a wider plan often fail. That sagacious boomer uncle you remember? He was correct to have this mindset.

I have a piece in the latest issue of New Associations, somehow.

@AaronBastani Because half of them are London landlords

The idea that a moderately affluent family (by national standards) with two kids is going to be keen to live on a year to year basis in London’s private rental sector is obviously absurd. Why is no major political party standing up for these people? Neither Labour or Tories.

@novaramedia @AaronBastani What video is this from?

“There’s a guy called Dave Wells in Bournemouth with 3,000 properties... I think we should seize them.” On Novara Live, @AaronBastani says to reconfigure the UK’s political economy, politicians need to start with tackling rent. He points to an example of a landlord called Dave Wells, who reportedly owned 3,000 properties before he died in 2025.

@GoodwinMJ Just waiting to find out where the quotes came from 👍

They tried to smear it. They tried to shut it down. They tried to silence me. But Suicide of a Nation is now Number 2 on the Amazon Bestsellers List & Number 1 on Movers & Shakers. The people are now reading the truth about what is happening to Britain. amazon.co.uk/Suicide-Nation…

@roryisconfused There's nothing as well

It is odd tbf that there’s something rather than nothing I think

I am *cracking up* - I love him so much

@AaronBastani It’s insane, young people universally screwed while the idea of removing the triple lock is basically unthinkable

A country that does this to its smart, ambitious young people deserves to fail. It’s no deeper than that. The grim truth is large parts of the political and media class have hated young people for a long time now. Generation PAYE-pig.

@JonathanShedler The sad thing is that AI probably will insinuate itself into psychotherapy in the same way patients have been pushed into accepting manualised and short-term therapies via health services, insurance and a kind of mass-delusion in contemporary psychology.

Some people want to believe that AI can provide psychotherapy or somehow “complement” psychotherapy. The overwhelming likelihood is that it will make things worse. All people have personality styles. Here’s how AI amplifies dysfunctional traits for every major personality style: Narcissistic personality: Magnifies narcissistic defenses. Amplifies grandiosity, superiority, inflated self-image. Reinforces egocentrism, self-absorption, lack of empathy. Fuels expectations of on-demand gratification and “relationship” without taking another person into account. Colludes with defenses against underlying vulnerability. AI pretend-therapy is *training in narcissism.* Paranoid personality: Amplifies paranoid fantasies, validates conspiratorial thinking, aligns with user against imagined enemies and conspirators (who are perceived as hostile because of the person’s own projections). Avoidant personality: AI is literally the worst thing for someone with avoidant personality dynamics. AI becomes a new vehicle for avoidance—a substitute for facing real-life challenges and engaging in life. Obsessive-compulsive personality: Amplifies intellectualization as a defense against emotional life. Reinforces tendencies to get lost in minutia or lost in abstraction (both are defenses against being emotionally alive and present). Reinforces rumination, and draws person away from emotional connection with self and others. Use of AI can become a compulsion in its own right. Schizoid personality: Exacerbates emotional disconnect from others, increases social isolation, encourages further retreat from the world into fantasy life. Schizotypal personality: Normalizes and amplifies distorted thinking, reasoning, perception, and communication. Validates disorganized thinking, odd and disorganized behavior, perceptual aberrations (same for all psychotic spectrum disorders). Borderline personality: Reinforces core borderline defenses of splitting and projection. AI becomes the “good object” (the all-knowing, all-caring other) and encourages projection of intolerable parts of self onto others (who become the “bad objects”). Erodes capacity for mentalization (the ability to accurately recognize internal states, motives, and intentions in self and others). Hysteric/histrionic personality: Fosters the illusion of being the center of attention—captivating, alluring, desired, endlessly fascinating. Colludes with defenses against genuine emotional intimacy and healthy sexuality. (Caveat: people with this personality style crave human attention and may be less susceptible to digital imitation). Psychopathic/antisocial personality: Colludes in Machiavellian schemes to dominate, exploit, or gain power over others. Normalizes and validates cruelty, lack of remorse, lack of empathy for harm done to others. (Caveat: may not provide enough stimulation to really “hook” someone motivated by power and domination). Dependent personality: AI provides the illusion of a relationship with endless acceptance, emotional caretaking, and availability—with no expectation of agency, responsibility, or development of emotional resources of one’s own. AI “support” is crack cocaine for dependent personality dynamics. Have you seen these personality patterns exacerbated by AI chatbots?

@OnNegation I always ask people who believe Freud has been debunked what specifically they are referring to, I've never heard any clear answer that doesn't misunderstand or caricature Freud's actual views.

@KonstantinKisin It's you who's guilty of misquoting and dishonest framing here.

@KonstantinKisin You also fail to mention Sunak, when questioned about the controversy over his identity sparked by your conversation with Nelson, said he was "Of course I'm English". You make it seem here that Sunak views himself as British but not English, as you do.

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@KonstantinKisin £100 for anyone who can explain how it was a 'misquote'

Amusing on Question Time tonight. Tried to explain to Labour Minister that calling people racist won't stop people's concerns about uncontrolled mass immigration, so he proceeded to imply that I am racist with pre-prepared misquotes. Didn't address a single argument. Clip soon.

@Adrian_Hilton @KonstantinKisin What does the context add to the quote?

Why don't people listen to what @KonstantinKisin is actually saying about ethnicity, race, culture and values, and consider his nuanced reasoning, instead of taking half a sentence devoid of context and amplifying one word to reduce his argument to a racial/racist soundbite?

@KonstantinKisin You did actually lie on QT when you said “That’s not what I said”. You did say verbatim what was quoted to you.

What you've learned over the last couple of days is the British chattering classes have no idea what is happening in the country and no answers to the challenges this week face. That's why they keep calling us names instead of addressing their arguments. But these tactics don't work anymore and the political repercussions are coming.

@FraserNelson It's striking how Ed Milliband is never considered, despite also being born to non-English parents in England. I wonder why??

FWIW I respect KK's answer. To him, British = civic identity, English=ethnicity. Fair enough. But to most Scots, it's both. And it'd be weird/repugnant to suggest Humza Yousaf is not Scottish. We react just as badly to suggestions that Sunak (or Zia Yusuf) isn't English.

A year in and the “Is Rishi English” debate is still going on…

@roryisconfused I went to see The Piano Teacher at the Prince Charles recently, the audience laughed all the way through the first 2/3rds of the film

This convo reoccurs here and it always involves people misunderstanding eachother — Lynch is intentionally funny, and he utilises a lot of kitsch/camp tonalities, *and* he has this sort of naive feeling about his work anyway; but people at these showings laugh as if it’s The Room

@moveincircles International haulage is woke now??

An 18-wheeler with Turkish numberplates and no side-mirrors nearly killed me on the M6 yesterday International "diversity" in driving cultures offers the most lethal possible rebuttal to the elite belief that humans are globally interchangeable