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Adam 🇺🇦@PlinthBotherer5·
Nottinghamshire Police seem genuinely pissed off at Valdo Calocane's victims having come into contact with him. If only everyone had kept out of the way of this violent and volatile man forever, he wouldn't have been a risk to the public and the police won't have looked so stupid
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Robert Chapman
Robert Chapman@RobertC55351945·
@RegHumber @si_rubinstein They're nowhere of course. But there have been many serious ('book-writing') leftwing intellectuals in Britain in last 50 yrs, from Skinner & Berger to Marquand, Eagleton & Anderson. The right have basically had Oakeshott (born 1901), Scruton, N. Malcolm and at a pinch N Ferguson
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Robert Chapman@RobertC55351945·
@si_rubinstein What a desperate list of supposedly serious writers. Is that really the best you can come up with? Perhaps it is, I can do no better. The British right can boast of precisely two intellectuals in the last 50 years, it is congenitally anti-intellectual. Hence this list
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Simen@pronouncedsimon·
@OfSymbols @si_rubinstein >he’s not a serious thinker >have you read him? >no but I heard someone else say something and am drawing my conclusions from that Richly ironic
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@BenDover1815 @si_rubinstein It’s literally that. “What about this, John?” “But I disagree with that so it’s bad.”
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Ben Dover@BenDover1815·
@si_rubinstein Every Merrick/Merrickite convo on his tweet and subsequent quotes is: Reply: Have you read (renowned rw author) Merrick: No, I have not read him. But he’s not very clever. I am very clever. Right-wingers are stupid. Because you’d be stupid to believe those things!
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Reg@RegHumber·
@breadandposes @LemanWalters Nonsense. The empire’s contribution fluctuated and was never more than about 5-6% of the British economy. It cost vast amounts to run as well, which is why lots of rich (and poor) people didn’t like it that much and were often complaining about the support given to planters etc.
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Reg@RegHumber·
@breadandposes @LemanWalters Haha no they didn’t. A large number of the kind of top-hatted plutocrats and landed gentry you presumably dislike often complained about it and the resources it was allocated.
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bread and poses@breadandposes·
@LemanWalters (The overwhelming majority of people in UK had some interest in colonialism or imperialism for most of the modern period)
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Mary Harrington
Mary Harrington@moveincircles·
@obsessivehermit >Culture is the service economy, we should add more people from diverse cultures so we get a wider range of music and cuisine >Why are our norms on bribery, sexual behaviour, and in-group preference suddenly being ignored, I don't understand
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Calgie
Calgie@christiancalgie·
Is David Lammy aware there are quotes extolling the ancient rights of Britons to trial by jury *on the windows of his actual office*?
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Sam H-N
Sam H-N@SRHNarborough·
@SecondInternat1 @moveincircles While the Sunday Trading Act was 30 years ago, I don't think you can argue the Yookay isn't still a Christian country. Christmas Day is still a proper national holiday. I suppose Ireland isn't Catholic now, either?
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Mary Harrington
Mary Harrington@moveincircles·
Assuming "culture" is coextensive with consumer entertainment is core to the deculturation problem Entertainment isn't culture. Culture is (for eg) how people organise public space, treat the weak, or respond to gifts; less what than how and where they eat; sexual mores; etc etc
Frank Sobotka@cymrurouge

the people who constantly bang on about how british culture is being eroded and minority by 2040 etc are all plastic yanks. yank politics, yank ostentaiousness over flags and crosses, eating their silly little smash burgers with buffalo sauce and that. silly cunts.

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Reg@RegHumber·
It’s almost too obvious to be worth pointing out, but Kneecap are an entertainment product popularised largely through their association with HackedOff/Max Mosley’s old company. They’re in Cuba for the same reason they do anything - to make money.
KNEECAP@KNEECAPCEOL

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Reg@RegHumber·
@PYeerk “My jeans have got more holes than a racist argument”
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Yeerk.P 🦆
Yeerk.P 🦆@PYeerk·
Going to the pub and enjoying pints is thought of as a sort of populist pastime that a normal bloke might enjoy so you'd think it would be rightwing- but what if (and hear me out) a leftist was also a normal bloke who enjoyed the pub and pints? and he used his pub-and-pint-derived common sense for good rather than evil?
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Reg@RegHumber·
@CliveWismayer I hope you didn’t cross the picket line.
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Clive Wismayer 🇪🇺🥪@CliveWismayer·
I did 3 months as a locum in Sunbury-on-Thames in 1987. A picturesque, very white area, all-white staff. When the partners proposed to employ an asian secretary, the existing secretaries threatened to go on strike.
NPRG@CptHastings1916

On the "rural England is racist" charge: it shows the limits of "racism" as an explanatory concept. What ppl mean is that rural England is overwhelmingly white, culturally conservative, & that old implicit norms hold more sway, such that it *feels* more difficult for newcomers.

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Yeerk.P 🦆@PYeerk·
it's me a normal british leftist i hate yanks bangers and mash i drinka da pint
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