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Pete Fraser@petefrasermusic.bsky.social |
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London-Born Saxophonist and Composer living in Stockholm
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Pete Fraser
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It’s a slippery one. ‘Can’t buy a house’ feels like a separate condition to me, that could apply to any or none of those, depending on where in the country they lived, whereas the others are fairly universal.
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Pete Fraser
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It’s hard not to sense a degree of privilege in Chaos Timeline people, sometimes. Like, almost all the ones I know will be Alright Jack in a far right future.
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Stephen Bush
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I can already feel that the Tory leadership race is gonna give me an ulcer, because of the number of people on the centre and left who have neither read a history book nor the news saying things like “hopefully the Tory party will move to the right”.
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Pete Fraser
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The old ‘how do you know someone doesn’t have a TV/is vegan/etc…’ joke works absolutely flawlessly for ‘how do you know someone’s a member of Mensa?’
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Turmut Hoer
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People have had enough of people who have had enough of experts.
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Pete Fraser
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How will britain possibly survive without super wealthy foreign nationals using dilapidated, empty properties as a reserve currency? This once green and pleasant land etc etc etc
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Pete Fraser
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Be fair now, Farage lost seven times and has been on TV basically constantly for my entire adult life.
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Janine Gibson
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no no no no miriam cates LOST! We don't need to hear her on the radio now, you see. Because she didn't get elected! I know it's a reflex, but she's just another citizen with bad fearmongering opinions! This is how democracy works.
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Pete Fraser
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(That said, there are plenty of political lifer weirdos in there too, and not a great deal to quell the left I don’t think.)
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Pete Fraser
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Also, with that many MPs, and a lot of new ones, there’s just a lot to choose from. Couple that with the fact that the type of person who stands for Labour is likely to have some kind of life experience, and I’m sure it’s a lot easier.
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Pete Fraser
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I’m so glad someone’s said it. It’s not a person alone in an office running a country single handedly. There is a *strong* argument that a fairly technocratic sack of potatoes would be a breath of fresh air
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Pete Fraser
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OMG, so much this.
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Pete Fraser
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I want to hear absolutely ZERO ‘how could this have happened in America’ shit from the press from now on. They are willing it to happen with, as I said, literally thousands of published articles which emphatically lobby to make sure it does.
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Pete Fraser
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Again, all this assumes being a Nazi is a legitimate political position - WHICH IT IS CERTAINLY FUCKING NOT - and even then, they lobby for trump by relentlessly attacking his opponent. All of them. Maybe the New Yorker balances their concerns vaguely equally, but that’s it. No one else.
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Pete Fraser
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How can it not be?
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Pete Fraser
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Obama and the Disrespectful Tan Suit. Clinton’s Emails. Can A Woman Have the Temperament To Lead a Nation (if one forgets that all other nations on earth exist)? The US political press work night and day, again literally, to ensure that the GOP path to power is as obstacle-free as possible.
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Pete Fraser
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There’s just such an enormous lack of curiosity about issues with trump - totally aside from the thing of going ‘let’s put fascism to the test at the ballot box’ - about issues that, for any given democrat, can create literally thousands of articles for months on end. Actually and literally.
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Pete Fraser
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Trump once had a never-explained incident that meant he posted a garbled tweet and then went dark for a PAINFULLY long period after, and rather than try to find out what happened, the press were like ‘LOL, Covfefe!!!?!’
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Pete Fraser
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It’s so hilarious that the US political press are sitting on the edge of their seats waiting for Biden to stumble over a word so they can prove their worth when the opponent is LITERALLY DONALD TRUMP.
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Brendel
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It’s really reached the point for me where they can kick Biden to the curb or have Biden remain in but whatever the fuck this discourse amounts to is getting increasingly gross and weird and I’m not exactly sure what it’s supposed to be doing for anyone
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Derek Powazek
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You’ll never guess which of the two candidates is a convicted rapist.
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Jamie McKelvie
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For those who don't know: this is James Timpson of Timpson key cutters/shoe repairs/dry cleaners. His company employs ex-convicts and even runs work training programmes in prisons. Genuinely inspired choice.
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Pete Fraser
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Yes. It’s become like a meta service in that regard - impossible to know what others are seeing.
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Pete Fraser
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On the occasions I log in to check DMs, the most hysterical stuff is right at the top of the feed.
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Pete Fraser
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I think a lot of it isn’t real people. But yeah, it’s really horrible.
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Pete Fraser
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Much of it probably isn’t people, but still. Absolutely wretched. Day ONE.
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Pete Fraser
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My "cannot have contact with members of the public if my Church Sex and Molestation Insurance Policy is inactive" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
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Pete Fraser
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Sure seems like a non-suspicious, totally normal policy for a church to take out. I will definitely turn to these people for moral guidance in how best to conduct myself.
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Pete Fraser
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Checked Twitter (god knows why) and yes, there are a torrent of antisemitic conspiracy theories directed at Starmer’s wife. Just in case you were wondering whether anything had changed.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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i refuse to believe that americans who watched the debate think that biden’s first 15 minutes are somehow stronger evidence of old age decline than falling asleep, *in public*, DURING YOUR OWN FUCKING CRIMINAL TRIAL, *IN COURT IN FRONT OF THE JUDGE AND JURY*, but, you know, i’m not a columnist.
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Dr Sarah Brand
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It’s Kenny Steamer.
#KennySteamer
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Amy A
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A Second Trump Term Will Usher In Deadly White Supremacist Christofascism According to Explicit Manifesto vs. No It Won’t
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Pete Fraser
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Yes, their future isn’t an easy calculation, and is a fairly long term project I think.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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really great that prominent political journalists won’t just say that trump is lying and here’s why
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Pete Fraser
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Right wing parties are so terrified that people might find out about their… erm… clearly and comprehensively stated plans for government.
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Pete Fraser
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Listen, I think we’re all being very hasty. There’s still time for Sunak to pull this back.
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Pete Fraser
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This is true, but it’s also the same the world over - the US liberal press obsession with angry MAGA supporters. The European fixation on immigration hostility from white people.
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Pete Fraser
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Ah I didn’t realise this. Consider me corrected. But yeah, it makes sense for them and is their biggest chance at government.
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Pete Fraser
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I think More Tories is what he wanted - Widdecombe being their main surrogate to wheel out on telly as a way of projecting ‘far right but not like the BNP’ whilst doing a ground game that’s basically straight up indulging conspiracy theories in pub function rooms.
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Pete Fraser
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Great, thank you!
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Pete Fraser
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I should look that up. I find him fascinating - he’s clearly very likeable, and I think quite sincere, but he is both a politician and someone who seems broadly uninterested in stories at which he personally isn’t in the dead centre.
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Pete Fraser
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Yes I did. Laid out it’s staggering. But then I look at Portillo and Osborne and Stewart, and yeah, if you aren’t actually outwardly a Lizard Person, you can basically lead the most absurdly charmed life post politics.
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Pete Fraser
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Ah I didn’t realise there were new boundaries at that end.
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Pete Fraser
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It’s who’ll bring stuff like that in that I’m not sure about. I know Labour make noises about HoL reform, but I’ll only believe it when I see it.
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Pete Fraser
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Hard to imagine isn’t it? Peerages, huge jobs with lobbyists and cuddly punditry jobs await. And that’s the ‘rejection’.
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Pete Fraser
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Also worth remembering that, through seven general election losses where it would’ve benefitted him enormously, Farage has never once called for PR. He doesn’t believe in it.
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Pete Fraser
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Definitely a silver lining, but Farage overpromised as usual. He can’t not do it.
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Pete Fraser
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He did very well at not having a proper scandal, basically.
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Pete Fraser
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That was the strategy though right? The Ming Vase thing, cliched as it is, was bang on the money.
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Pete Fraser
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I’ll stay well away from any leadership predictions. There always seems to be a bunch of people I’ve never heard of who crawl out of the woodwork who change things.
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