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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Today's *homo stupidus* represents human history's apex of cognitive regression, defined by an aggressive repudiation of a ten-millennium civilisational inheritance. Offered the riches of science, art & reason, they reject the entirety of human progress for the base gratification of tribal hatred.

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The 'average person' today represents history’s apex of cognitive regression, a shameless entity actively repudiating a 10-millennium civilisational inheritance. Offered the riches of science, art, literature and reason, they choose to desecrate these gifts. They only want to hate. Somebody to hate.

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In the Rupert Lowe worldview how "British" you actually are is entirely dependent on your capacity to sustain a hyper-vigilant, 24/7 performative liturgy of pathological xenophobia and manufactured division. Citizenship as a perpetual anxiety attack, if you like.

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m beginning to realise that in the Rupert Lowe worldview how "British" you are is entirely dependent on your capacity to sustain a hyper-vigilant, 24/7 performative liturgy of pathological xenophobia and manufactured division. Citizenship as a perpetual anxiety attack, if you like.

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Musk operates within an accelerationist framework that views traditional Western liberal democracies as obsolete, decaying structures. By amplifying far-right grievances, he attempts to validate his self-styled persona as an unconstrained, transcendent historic actor. In his calculation, the ...

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

By replying to an account championing a far-right mob besieging the Basingstoke police station where “Danny Tommo” was detained, Musk is utilizing his position as an algorithmic gatekeeper to validate domestic militancy, weaponize white grievance & undermine the British state's judicial sovereignty.

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

By euphemistically designating an individual who sabotaged a humanitarian vessel with a blade while a responder was onboard as an "anti-migrant activist," the BBC engages in grotesque semantic laundering. This is not activism; it is the sanitisation of life-endangering thuggery.

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Reform Cllr George Madgwick's X post from yesterday commits a profound epistemic reductionism by conflating the absence of localised post-hoc criminal indictments with the absence of a pervasive culture of structural intimidation. By isolating the Portsmouth RNLI lifeboat station as a ...

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A politics of mass expulsion redraws the boundary of belonging — and once belonging becomes conditional upon ethnicity, the civic order enters a condition of social metastability whereby accumulated citizen antagonisms eventually precipitate widespread systemic fracture.

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Nobody launders pathological xenophobia through the counterfeit vocabulary of sociology better than the far right, right?

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Nice try Rupert-baby but there is something almost comically non sequiturial about the rhetoric: 52% → 7% is presented as though the arithmetic itself constitutes an indictment. But 7% white British does not mean 7% British, any more than ethnic heterogeneity entails cultural disintegration. It ...

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The government’s proposed £100,000 cap is explicitly retrospective to 25 March 2026 precisely because otherwise donors could front-run the legislation and render it nugatory. Thus the genuine democratic question is not whether the state may ever change the rules. It is whether a political ...

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Mandy Ward’s claim that the RNLI is a “taxi service” is an odious piece of moral contortion. It insidiously recodes humanitarian obligation as “complicity”, rescue as “facilitation”, and the volunteer who risks his own life as the moral delinquent. It is not merely a category error but a ...

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The far right’s attack on the #RNLI is a particularly grotesque moral inversion: the volunteer who risks his life to retrieve a drowning stranger is recast as the traitor, while the masked agitator attempting to intimidate him assumes the mantle of patriot. This is not patriotism but ...

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

In the mid-70s Kahil El'Zabar worked with Dizzy Gillespie who was himself one of the great architects of the African-diasporic expansion of bebop. El’Zabar took that principle much further back toward African rhythm, communal participation, chant and ritual ... 1/2

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The island of Gozo on the maltese archipelago throws up an architectural surprise on every corner. Odysseus was shipwrecked not too far from here before he ended up as the possibly unwilling sex slave of the allegedly beautiful Calypso for seven long years.

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Freddie Hubbard's 'Red Clay' (1970) captures the moment when hard bop evolved into sophisticated jazz funk without sacrificing improvisational depth. The personnel alone is extraordinary: Freddie Hubbard — trumpet Joe Henderson — tenor saxophone and flute 1/2

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Herbie Hancock — Fender Rhodes electric piano and organ Ron Carter — bass Lenny White — drums George Benson — guitar (on selected tracks) This wasn't a session bad assembled for convenience — it was a gathering of musicians who would each become a defining voice of 1970s jazz.

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

'Karma' is Pharoah Sanders' third recording as a leader. This spiritually themed album was released by the Impulse! record label in 1969. Some see the 32-minute-long "The Creator Has a Master Plan" as a kind of sequel to Sanders' mentor John Coltrane's legendary 1965 recording 'A Love Supreme'.

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