It’s possible I made a mistake sitting down in the last chair tonight, in the empty house in which I was in the process of being raised in 2007 through 2010, to watch The Deal alone with the family cat and a takeaway
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My favorite tried-and-true resistance tactic: Being Extremely Fucking Annoying.
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So just to entertain a hypothesis, is it possible her tone here seems inconsistent because it isn’t, entirely, in earnest?
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You would think that person had transcended such concerns!
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Find something very interesting in a person who can sign off “not even death will stop us”, texts about psychedelic experiences with the nazi occult, and also has a major problem with trans people’s bodies
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False premise: culture war is bourgeois class war
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It doesn’t apply to Brits either, this is a moron
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pretac huh eht
Pretac Huh Eht
PRETAC HUH EHT
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The only thing I know about these highly speculative counterfactuals which are carted around as fact is that Starmer would have lost a 2019 campaign against Johnson. It was Johnson’s time. Corbyn won 202 seats. Everything else is just fantasy.
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Like a boardgame, you mean?
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Please don’t tempt fate
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This cost money?
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But then again, I don’t regret leaving twitter as an excuse to ignore Americans
There’s a common denominator here, but I can’t put my finger on it
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I regret using Bluesky as an opportunity to follow other people who live in Britain
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I don’t even know what to do with this. Forget the smug self-satisfaction, and the bizarre familial political economy. How do you do anything when the POST is this bad?
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Gotta say, it worked. I was surprised to find out Ed Davey was leader
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That’s how I reasoned it out. I can’t really picture Charles Kennedy bungee-jumping either.
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I know they do silly things, but the last few elections have been extremely weird, so can somebody jog my memory as to whether the Lib Dems used to do this “Ed Davey jumps off a pier to show we’re still winning here” shit quite so much?
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I feel justified in carrying this on by pointing out that he’s the perfect writer for the Blair era. There’s a fist in that velvet glove. His grand assumption being that the solution to unease is crass self-cultivation, but to do that you have to make increasingly stern demands on everyone else
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lol archive.is/1QxBB
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He’s a grifter. So he has a double-first from Cambridge and a Harvard almost-PhD…so does everybody. He came up in a time when the market for writers was shifting from fiction to self-help, and he dug himself a niche doing post-Pomo classicism.
Just another unhappy man telling you how to live
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I honestly feel this way about the Hegel revival in anglophone philosophy
“Quick, they’ve got a grand Late Modernist theory of the indissoluble plurality of reality! We need to find something that’s just as grand and weird but gratifies our innate sense of self-importance!”
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I need to use the example of Alain de Botton more often, who responded to the at least creative Pomo self-help of the 90s by reminding everybody how important it was to wallow in romantic misery
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All of the “folly of postmodernism” was prompted by the repeated 20th century discovery that reality is plural and indissolubly complex, and at least every *outraged* riposte has been prompted by ever more concentrated solipsistic self-interest
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Decades now & I remain convinced til proven otherwise that this is the weirdest thing to ever happen in major pop culture. I used to show this video in class during a lecture on intertextuality and 90's "culture jamming."
"I'm not sure what some of the lyrics mean."
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can’t hug, don’t trust them
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To catch scabies…
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Is it Biblical to Pray with Egg?
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Well this was the belief at the time within the British state, so it can hardly be dismissed
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*relaxing!
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It is strangely and intensely reacting to imagine all of this (*gesturing grandly in a circle*) as written in Ballard’s dry, detached prose, rather than how it usually feels
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