Its almost comic in its repetition and lack of self-awareness. But
Feb 27, 2024 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
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.
Jan 12, 2024 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
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.
Mar 14, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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.
Mar 14, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
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.
Mar 14, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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.
Mar 13, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
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.
Mar 13, 2023 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Why do we find it shocking that wealthy parents will burn down the whole world 'for their kids' rather than teach them how to live in it? That's what they do for themselves. They are teaching them to live in it like they do.
Their bullshitting about their concern with 'the children's' future and their insight into it through their parenthood is pure nonsense. They just extend the self-justification of their class to their kids as part of their inheritance.
Mar 12, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Politically, don't care WHO recognises the existence of established facts. I care more, much more, about those who don't.
The most significant political effect of the second set will have is to empower the irrational and emotive subset of the first.
This seems to please them.
They conjure up their Golems in the same act as they conjure up their Genies.
It's part of the magic show. Until it's not.
Mar 12, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I just watched My Mister on Netflix. It awesome. A corporate thriller come soapy melodrama. Tackling virtually everything of importance in living in austerity capitalism.
I'm gutted it's finished. Can't recommend it highly enough.
Mar 12, 2023 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Sanctimony is the inevitable final performance of centrists, I think. Having so thoroughly disqualified any and every position they become their own extreme. Only sanctimony can preserve the appearance of their good intentions.
I can't help but look at the hegemonic sanctimony of the middle class professionals with deep foreboding. They are at the end of any road they had. They have begun to dismantle themselves. But not before their defensiveness has made politics amenable to irrational faith.
Mar 12, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Therapeutic as it is chucking shit at my fellow primates I'm going to indulge in an embarrassing bit of optimistic realism.
The collapsing of SNP legitimacy and credibility was inevitable. The reason we NEED independence is because the UK they govern within is totally dysfunctional on an institutional level.
Mar 11, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Oh we are an exceptional wee colony
of the exceptionally British rUK
A quite exceptional anomaly
Still unsure of how to get away.
We could try the path of other peoples
That seemed to work so well in better climes
But exceptionally canny rogues have parcelled
And delivered us to London every time.
Mar 11, 2023 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
Know Your Orientation!
The Left believe that the material reproduction of capitalism is driven by a system of collective exploitation and that that is the problem.
The Right think that's either untrue or unimportant and that property rights are to be protected above all else.
The so-called centre don't know or like having to choose. They think a permanent stalemate is probably safer. So they align rhetorically left but politically right.
Mar 10, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
IMO the success of far right politics is as a defensive petty bourgeois reaction to their threatened mass demotion. They aren't working class socialists who were hiding their bigotry. They are liberals trying to avoid and deny the consequences of their failed politics.
They 'don't see it coming' because they are the ones who are doing it. And they are very quick to forget any lessons they don't want to learn.
Mar 10, 2023 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
What is obvious stops being obvious when it Is no longer spoken of. Taking their cues from advertising hyperbole has made obscurantism the default setting for our corporate institutions and their staff.
Opposing this is not conservatism, unless the thing being conserved is the notion of reasoned common interest.
Calling it such is part of the denial.
Mar 9, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
A dominant class that has no intention of bettering the material existence of those they manage in their interests CANNOT justify their position with universal reason. They have a vested interest in equivocation and nonsense. They ENJOY it.
They have always done this. Means testing. Meritocracy. Deserving and undeserving poor. It's written into liberalism of every persuasion from social democratic left-liberalism to market fundamentalists.
Mar 9, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
It's getting increasingly clear that the main driver of wokery is the scapegoating of the people the middle class manage into poverty.
DARVO is it's foundation and practised as a collective alibi and political exclusion.
What makes it so clear? The blanket complicity of the graduate class in turning their own privileged education into a smug mockery and denial of reason.
Dec 22, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I can think of more than one reason why the vulture capitalists drooling over the NHS might wish to part with some of their predatory funds to promote Gender Ideology.
Not just the fact that lifelong care is a form of rent, and they love that shit. But also the promotion of fictitious needs helps the narrative that the physical and mental health services are out of date. Which means they've got another wedge issue to feed churnalists.
Dec 22, 2022 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
If there's one thing that makes this working class nationalist's heart sink like a stone it's the cheering on of the Scottish Government by the complacent sanctimonious twats who destroyed themselves as a political alternative south of the border.
But even more disgusting to my proletarian palette is the basking in that adoration by the narcissistic fashion victims we call our movement for independence.
Dec 22, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I'm not sure 'peaking', except as a personal decision, is very well founded in reason, to be honest. I think it's perfectly feasible, from current and recent evidence, for adverse consequences to be denied indefinitely by the disciplined complacency of the middle class.
Look at their ferocious attacks on everyone from union leaders and ambulance drivers to duchesses, who dare to question their right to having things just as they wish, for the reasons they choose to believe.
