Tag: politics
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We don’t have any real friends: Money vs Art
I’ve been trying for the last decade to explain the problem of money vs art, or audience vs product and that bastard Aaron Funk as well as creating some amazing music during that time nails it in ONE interview:. Fuck that whole game of what music is supposed to be right now. It’s so fucked…
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The Long Peace?
Interesting video/infographic detailing how many people died in World War 2 – very important to revisit this from time to time, lest we forget. I think people feel scared of ISIS, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc – but it is comforting to think these are tiny battles compared to what has gone before. I don’t think we…
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Westminster Product Recall
Yes they are very dangerous, and ironically get really shirty about ‘old views’ (read: 4 years ago) being dug up. I mean what’s a death penalty between friends? :-/ Also funny in the Question Time clip Priti Patel says “A lot of politicians run away from this debate…” – like you’re doing here? And as…
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Don’t vote for Tory or UKIP lies
There’s an election coming up on Thursday in the UK, and it’s disturbing how short people’s memories are. Scare stories about SNP-Labour coalitions when I seem to remember both the Lib-Dems and Tories denied they would go into a coalition in the run-up to the last election (Pro-Tip: no-one ever agrees to a coalition before…
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A Song for David Cameron
Just in time for the UK elections, Robin Grey hit the headlines yesterday for singing the catchy ukelele song ‘Fuck Off Back to Eton’ at David Cameron. I’m sure it’s directed at all the other Eton educated Tories too, not just Dave, who want to wreck the NHS and support their rich banker mates. So…
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Upvoting and democracy
As an extension of my recent politics rant, this excellent Ideas Channel video sums up some of the problems I have, not only with like/crowdsourcing but also democracy in question. I mean, ask Sokrates about how the whole ‘going against the grain’ thing worked, and he was a ‘content creator’ and ‘super-user’ and probably ‘redditor’…