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There’s two middle classes though aren’t there?
They can intersect but also be separated
There’s middle class semi detached, big car, holidays abroad, survivable pension.
There’s middle class bookshelves with books, cooks fancy food, goes to museums, drinks posh tea, pronounces foreign names and words with an accent.
You can tick those boxes and be working class, but tick too many and the next thing you know, you might not feel quite at home as you did at your old local
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Yeah I agree there are parallels
Have you seen the Adam Curtis Documentary “the power of nightmares”
It draws that direct comparison even drilling down on the architects of Neo-Conservatism and Islamic Extremism to the same event at the same college. (If I remember rightly)But yeah both sides are fuelled by misinformation and hold patriarchal fascist beliefs
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I am concerned that the assault on the Capitol is only the start of a series of ever escalating confrontations between the swivel-eyed right wing and the rest of the world.
The Tea Party morphed to the Birthers to MAGA to Q. Momentum is building and the response needs to be met directly. You can’t extend an olive branch to an ideology that isn’t grounded in reality. You can’t compromise with fascism. These populist movements bring nothing to the table that could benefit society, so they have to be stopped...but how?
When their belief is based on fantasy, debunking the myths just entrenches their position. How do we offer an attractive alternative that they can get behind without turning the planet into the hand maids tale/mad max? -
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I keep banging on about this, but the way to do it is to get a decent podiatrist to make some proper custom orthotic insoles.
It will be expensive (£300 ish) but you can then wear fancy fast shoes by replacing the insole with your custom insoles. Never wear a stability shoe again.
It’s a total game changer. Brilliant for bike shoes too.
I had mine made about 10 years ago. I had them checked a year back and was told they were good for at least another decade.
https://nltimes.nl/2021/01/20/netherlands-london-high-speed-train-disappear-bankruptcy-looms-eurostar
So Eurostar is fucked..