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Tell you what, is combating Musk's politics helped or hindered by us joining in the game of litigating who is and is not a true man of the West?

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I wish people would get over this irresistible need to bring up Musk's nationality (or Farage's wife, or Trump's grandfather, etc etc). I know you try to rationalise it as a critique of hypocrisy but it always just feels like gleefully pointing out the stain of foreignness.

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A European settler who made his fortune in US industry is not from the West? (the last post isn't important, I just included it so you know you don't have to reply telling me the same thing).

Screenshot of an Elon Musk tweet calling someone a traitor to the west. Reply from an account I've anonymised "Weird how am Afrikaaner thinks he's from the West". Then a reply clarifying that Musk is not Afrikaaner.

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Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Why are all the replies saying "I did know that actually!" and not "What are you talking about, that is not how money works, you are a charlatan who has no business selling financial advice"?

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That miniseries was quite good. It had all sorts of stuff about the brutality of the industrial revolution.

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Though the wording in that Smith quote is profoundly insulting to working class intellect, Braverman's point is that the division of labour, automation, and deskilling mean that the people who do the work are not required (are actively prevented!) from understanding how essential processes function.

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Braverman also quotes Adam Smith from 1776, just to emphasise that this dynamic isn't historically new

In the progress of the division of labour, the employment of the far greater part
of those who live by labour, that is, of the great body of the people, comes to
be confined to a few very simple operations, frequently to one or two. But the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their
ordinary employments. The man whose whole life is spent performing a few
simple operations, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same, or
very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.

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Harry Braverman: "[capitalist society dictates] that the ignorance of the great masses of the workers and the concentration of all engineering knowledge in a few specialists are desirable and, in fact, essential conditions rather than, as it would seem from a human point of view, an abomination."

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Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I was wrong about this, I quite enjoyed it.

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I was always baffled by people who thought Trump getting elected was the worst thing that could ever happen and couldn't possibly imagine that him being in power would actually be worse.

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I'm looking forward to Argentina scraping their second consecutive victory on penalties.

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Appreciate these two historic footballing nations putting on a very boring final to discourage Americans from taking too much interest in the sport after this.

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Daily Cannon @dailycannon.com · 19/07/2026

One reason to be sad that England didn't make it to the World Cup final is that we don't get to see England fans booing the half time show, scandalising American broadcasters by calling Justin Bieber a cunt.

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"I was glad when it was over. I'll tell you the truth, I like a lot of those artists. That was crap" Wayne Rooney.

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I'm just learning that this is what Justin Bieber sounds like now.

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The BBC does call Hamas a terrorist group. So, if that's what the right is attacking it over, it's not based in reality. And we don't have to take it seriously as a counter balance criticism from the left.

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Cutting from Will Ferrell to Pharrell Williams was a nice visual pun.

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Accusations of bias actually have specific content that can be assessed. The left attack the BBC for justifying a genocide, the right attack it for having too many black people on screen. These aren't equivalent extremes that cancel each other out leaving only the enlightened centre.

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Getting closer and closer to Roy Keane saying something that gets him put on a no fly list.

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I challenge you to find anyone I *wouldn't* lecture for being insufficiently leftist.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

See also: "why couldn't you just leave us alone to play our video games in peace"

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I applaud the French player’s work life balance. If they make you come in on a weekend you half-ass it, that’s right

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Some former supporters of Keir Starmer are demonstrating maturity by doing threads explaining what positive expectations they had and how they were disappointed. I am demonstrating maturity by not quote-tweeting each one pointing out how patently naive they were. Together, we are growing.

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Can you imagine England supporters being like "good first half, now to sit respectfully through a twenty minute Coldplay concert" before we get back to it"?

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

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I think that if you said to Pesto that the country and British democracy are in this parlous state *because of* people like Howe, Lawson, Brown and Osborne, rather than despite them, it simply would not compute for him. It’d sound like the way adults talk in a Charlie Brown cartoon.

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Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Got a ticket to see The Odyssey next week and I can pretty much guarantee that the criticism I'm going to come away with will be that it is too tediously deferential to the source material and needed more irreverence, camp, and adaptation.

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(for context, this was carefully cut out of a post-game rant saying that England hadn't played well enough despite winning, that mentality was a meaningless metric compared to quality of football, and that the interviewer was a fucking idiot for asking him about it)

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lmao at the BBC selectively editing Tuchel's "this is pure mentality, you can bottle it up and sell it" into the England exit montage.

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Couldn't find a third friend.

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Watch England get to the final, have good momentum in the first half and then have it absolutely kneecapped by having to sit through a half hour Coldplay gig.

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Late equaliser, uneventful extra time, Pickford embarrassed in penalties.

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The final is going to have a half time show. 🫩

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I feel they really captured the spirit of the Hulk's distinctive dialogue with this one.

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Actually, they're very committed to "fixing defence procurement".

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