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Oct 27 • 10 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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You could probably find a document such as this about every colony the English saw as unviable as a nation because they were robbing it blind.
Its almost comic in its repetition and lack of self-awareness. But
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Feb 27, 2024
I don't want my political representative to act out moral superiority by seeking out humilliation and displaying their hurt. That is not representing my interests. That is being a character in a "edgy" sado-masochistic soap opera.
It is tiresome, neurotic, middle class am-dram. It stirs nothing in me but passing irritation
I don't need the theatrics, thanks, my interests are hurt by the so-called union every day in tangible ways, every electricity bill, for a start.
If my representatives are unable to respond to or represent that then I am entitled to ask myself if they are really on my side at all. Or just a competitive aspirant to protagonism in the professional management sector. Standing for nothing but that.
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Jan 12, 2024
The contemporary Scottish progressive doesn't know anything as default setting. Doesn't know what a woman is, or a man. Or a Scot. Doesn't know what any nationality is, or what constitutes a colony. Doesn't know that slavery functioned as an economic system. Or who it served.
They all are absolutely certain though, that this complete lack of knowledge and the lack of criteria it devolved from makes them the best people to run the country and institutions.
And we wonder why our pretending to believe their pretending to know nothing is a moral virtue. And why it leads to the political dysfunction of empty promises, empty threats and oops-a--daisy collateral damage.

We 're as daft as they pretend to be.
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Mar 14, 2023
It's a middle class ideology, the result of their dominance over the last 4 decades, and is why the middle class SNP will never deliver independence. Citizen sovereignty is outside their sphere of referenc and a bit embarrassing to them.
Of course they can't admit this. Even to themselves. It's like democracy generally, it's done its job in guaranteeing their rights and so is no longer of much interest to them. So we proles get disqualified for "phobic" resistance to identity politics.
When the real target is us as a class. The class that voted Yes. The class that still demands citizen sovereignty. Because it hasn't guaranteed Our Rights, to security, to housing, to anything much anymore.
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Mar 14, 2023
Sometime during my lifetime we moved from a social democratic politics to a patron/client one. It's called identity politics. It's the politics of consumer groups, not sovereign citizens.
It's not a politics that can be tacked onto the end of democratic progress as 'the next big thing'. It's a definite break. Made by the ruling class and applauded and managed by their clients. Its not in the interests of the majority whose successful project democracy was.
Historic attempts to halt or leap out of that process, which tied economic growth and working class political power together through our economic agency, took opportunistic advantage of breakdowns in that relation to impose patron/client systems. We call them fascisms.
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Mar 14, 2023
Woke liberals are so pathetic and used to impunity. They really cannot see the difference between treating irrational people with common humanity and making them the arbiters of policy.
This is primary school shit.
They can't see it for the simple reason that it will not, as far as they can see, affect them. Except to smooth their career paths in the short term.
As far as they can see is that far. This month, tops. Just in time delivery in the knowledge economy.
Liberals. Fucking hell.
So disciplined by the demands of their bullshit jobs they've turned uselessness into a political manifesto.
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Mar 13, 2023
Contemporary fascism is not and will not be pursued by a mass party modelled on the vertically integrated factory. It will be a corporate party that outsources many functions, small, disciplined and agile, like contemporary businesses.
The world of the shrinking parties in liberal democracies will not be threatened by mass parties of the right. It will import fascistic policy into the mainstream. Inside the party that is easier if its small and disciplined through cliques and careerism rather than policy.
And in the wider context through client relationships with its ouutsourced organs in media, charities quangos and thinktanks. etc. Just like an other governing party in neo-liberalism generally.
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