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Oh boy. The Great Rocketeer has just come out with the old saw that Hitler was a socialist. Will it never end?
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William Large
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William Large
@LargeWlarge63
I teach philosophy. 'To believe nothing without a reason . . . is as stupid a prejudice... as to believe everything without examination.'
Katılım Ağustos 2011
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@benedictcooney Hmm Benedict. Have the last years left you by. I mean the Labour right has been actively boasting in books that they did everything in their power to make sure Labour lost in both 2017 and 2019. Including your friend Blair.
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Elon continues to falsely call Hitler a “socialist”, and Grok continues to correct him, explaining that Hitler was a fascist who rejected Marxist socialism and class struggle.
Never deleting this app!
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@keiranpedley Why is this curious. Do you know who funds him?
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One of the striking things about Blair’s analysis is how ambivalent he seems to be about rejoining the EU.
Then there’s this. Very curious by what that means in practice. Leave the ECHR?
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How the feck can the ceo of @nextofficial stand up and say they are struggling to pay 16-24 yr olds MINIMUM wage whilst the group makes profits of nearly £1.25 billion. Corporate greed at its absolute worst. The world is going to hell in a handcart
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He seems to be trying hit Thatcher levels of national celebration at his death.
BBC News (UK)@BBCNews
Labour has 'no coherent plan' for country, says Blair bbc.in/3PNTMGl
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ANALYSIS: Even Tony Blair's harshest critics must concede that, when the JP Morgan, Palantir, PetroSaudi and Qatar advisor suggests grinding the bones of the economically inactive into sludge to fuel automated fracking rigs, he does so out of a deep love for his country
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I am once again thinking of William Shatner going through a profound existential crisis after being in space, trying to explain the terrifying emptiness he felt whilst Jeff Bezos sprayed champagne in his face and interrupted him to say 'WAZZUUP' whilst dabbing to Barenaked Ladies
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You have to give Blair credit: not only is he a hated war criminal, stooge for most of the worst petro-regimes on the planet and ID card-obsessed mark for technofascism, but his political instincts are utter dogshit as well. Yet he still thinks he should show his face in public?
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In a rare intervention, Boris Johnson said he wholeheartedly agreed with Tony Blair’s rare intervention and called on David Cameron and Liz Truss to issue similarly rare interventions with a view to ensuring an entirely uninhabitable planet Earth by 2050
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@SohrabAhmari Ah yes the war criminal, con man and grifter has spoken, and even though he has said the same thing for decades, let's treat what he has to say as though it were words of wisdom and eternal truth.
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I’ve spent much of the past decade critiquing the sort of politics that Blair (and Clinton and Maggie and Schroeder and etc.) represented.
But there are bits of great wisdom in that Blair essay (mixed in with obviously “Blairite” obsessions like Iran).
I see too many smug, easy we-know-neoliberalism-failed dismissals that fail to reckon with what he’s saying about energy, grand strategy, Europe, and more generally HOW to do politics in a fractured age.
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The last thing you see before opening ChatGPT
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Another benefit to replacing Labour with the Greens is that whenever Bomber Blair swoops in to lash out when his investments are in jeopardy, you can just tell him to fuck off and call him a psychopathic mass-murderer without half your party looking to skin you alive.
BBC Newsnight@BBCNewsnight
“This... feels very much like the Tony Blair of his 3rd term when he pursued what allies used to call was his flying F strategy... he didn’t give a flying F for what his party thought as he delivered home truths” @nicholaswatt on Sir Tony Blair's Labour intervention #Newsnight
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The Labour right will always look at Keir Starmer as too left wing.
Even when they've squeezed 95% of it out of him already.
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Look, Count Dracula might have made errors in the past - the odd miscalculation here and there. Maybe a crime or two against humanity.
But we should all give serious consideration to his refreshingly well-written essay entitled 'Just walk around with your necks uncovered'.
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@truemagic68 That is because you are both right wing and love billionaires, and war.
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I never thought I would live to see the day that I largely agree with Sir Anthony Blair's assessment of the parless situation the UK finds itself in. Well today has arrived, if its only temporary.
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Here’s Tony Blair sweating like a pig during a record-breaking May heatwave… while calling to scrap Net Zero policies.
Couldn’t make it up really.
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Neoliberalism isn’t a “buzzword”. It’s the near 50-year political, economic and ideological project that has brought so many communities to their knees.
It smashed workers’ rights, imposed austerity, deregulated the banks that then crashed the economy, privatised public utilities like water and energy, sold off council houses, handed tax cuts to the wealthy and corporations, turned universities into an unaffordable market, transformed public services into sources of private profit through outsourcing and PFI, and much more.
It's the root cause of so much of what has gone wrong in our country. And it was all done to enrich the tiny elite that Tony Blair now so clearly represents.
Tim Shipman@ShippersUnbound
Neoliberalism. Wars. Nothing to offer. Your buzzword bingo card full. Ah that feels better, doesn’t it. Unburdened by experience of govt and set to remain so. Complete again. Phew
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Tony Blair on @BBCr4today making Thatcher sound like an old-fashioned leftie. He is a truly evil man who is part of what appears to be a fascist takeover by the Israel/US alliance combined with tech companies such as Palantir. Naturally the Today programme loves him.
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@LargeWlarge63 @JakeKeuhlen talk to an 80 IQ person and get back to me
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"Von Neumann would carry on a conversation with my 3-year-old son, and the two of them would talk as equals, and I sometimes wondered if he used the same principle when he talked to the rest of us."
- Edward Teller
Jøhnathan@Heavenly_Race_
Once you hit about a 20-point IQ gap, communication starts to completely break down. It's not that the lower IQ person is "stupid" (although that can often be the case) or the higher one is arrogant, it's that you're literally operating on different systems. A 20 point difference (roughly 1.3 standard deviations) means: Vocabulary and abstraction levels diverge sharply. What feels like crystal clear logic to one side sounds like vague, pretentious word salad to the other. Jokes land flat. Metaphors get taken literally. Complex cause and effect chains get simplified into "this good, that bad." Different time horizons and pattern recognition. One person thinks in months or years and sees systems, the other is locked into days or immediate rewards. Trying to explain second order effects feels like speaking another language. Also, processing speed and working memory gaps. The higher IQ person is already three steps ahead, getting impatient. The lower IQ person feels talked down to or overwhelmed. Both walk away frustrated. Both have wasted each others time.
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