Tag: Xenophobia
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RC 340: …. .- .–. .–. -.– / -. . .– / – .. . .-.
Happy New Tier! 340 Returns! That’s what the Morse above says. Inventor Samuel Morse was pro-slavery and a candidate for the 19th Century version of Trump, the anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic ‘Know Nothing’ Nativist party who started riots over race and religion. He seems oddly relevant to what is happening in the States in the last…
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Comin’ Over Here
This was supposed to be on the Xmas podcast but I forgot. It is by Asian Dub Foundation and Stewart Lee and is a version of his infamous sketch/rant/piece about immigation. They are attempting to get this song to #1 by December 31 – when the UK fiinally leaves Europe – a debate soiled by…
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Brexit at Stiffany’s
What can I say? I Went To Glasto with Kirk and All I Got Was A Post-EU Neo-Fascist Mess of a Country. Should’ve got a t-shirt. (Actually on theme I wore my two cowboys Westwood-copy on Saturday, sadly it doesn’t stand up to mud well o.O) Not wanted to post here (I did on my…
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Ready Brexit
Ahh…the xenophobic nostalgia! And yes although I’m off to Glasto I have my postal vote ready, and will be voting to remain (Bremain? BStay? Bin?) because I don’t want to be stuck with just the Tories on this damp little isle, bringing back the Victorian Workhouse as shoddy as the EU can be sometimes. (via…
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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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On terrorism
There have been some frankly awful analyses of the attacks in Paris a week ago, and the fallout from them. Either from surprisingly from my side, the left and anarchists seemingly serving our masters by wanting to take freedom of speech away like desperate young Tankies also doing a very good impression of hand-wringing liberals,…