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yeah and do to the Tories what they to Mussolini or did in Babi Yar don't give these people the pagentry of the guillotine

i don't have the kind of dissapointment like say my mother has not that she believed in this place being "the mother country" she emigrated here over in '75 in her teens

that those buntings and portraits never meant anything and it was more to do with what people projected onto those images

or Glastonbury and we're supposed to be happy that we have those 2 days off i'd give people a week off at the very least

and i'm more than happy to take that one step further and say then never signified anything ever

like i said before to @version i understand his existential crisis and neurosis over being in Britian and going above and beyond to not see hear or deal with anything "British" but i'm coming at it from a different vantage point and lens in regard to that kind of familiarity

if it was up to me i'd rocket launcher those statues of Britannia you see down Kings cross

so then you tie that in with all this jingoism the tories being in power from when i was in year 9-10, the history of the crown and how that was maintained, the black diaspora and just where things are at now? it's like what the fuck do i want with any of this shit?

yeah i'm Black British sure and its my home but i'd sooner be struck by lightning than try to pretend as if i've felt any connection to the royal family Edward Elgar and did those dry crusty feet in ancient times and all of that

@catalog @luka i think the crux of it for me is that i dunno about you man but i feel like a man without a country and have always tended to

i've only seen it twice in wood green but i imagine it'll be strewn about the place soon i can't put it down to some kind of basica anti-royalist thing its not one aspect its the whole picture on all levels

nope i got off the bus on the way back from Dalston saw it waving in the breeze and let out an audible "uuuugh"

its less i don't want people to not have their street parties its more I want nothing to do with it the whole thing is a sham everything about it

i don't find it quaint at all

"the future isn't flying cars its Rachel Dolezal absolved"

i've got a folder of Graeber stuff that i'v been meaning to read only read a little bit of his stuff seemed like an alright guy one of the few after Occupy failed who managed to keep a decent lid on his head

and i prefer this definition of stagnation compared to the Fisher "cancellation of the future" one that tends to get trotted about so much which you could just so much rephrase it to "i liked it then but i don't like it now"

ay Luke you can laugh at my point all you want it's the truth maybe we should do a dissensus group watch of Birth of a Nation stare into the maw of true evil for 3 hours and see what it has to say about now

@luka if the apocalypse is mean to come in this life time it's gonna be like that dariacore thing i just shared not that i really like it but its that something you'd sooner call some combination of noise and "music for nonces"

shit even the roaring 20s for all its "advancements" and hedonism it was predominantly in America where all this lavish hedonism was happening. Same America where the Klan was on the warpath