The Coming Authoritarianism.

[mixed_biscuits]

I want to learn more about Portuguese cuisine and poetry

 

[IdleRich]

"I believe that I should be free to do exactly what I want to do - and everyone else should also be free to do what I want them to"

 

[mixed_biscuits]

"I believe that I should be free to do exactly what I want to do - and everyone else should also be free to do what I want them to"

Inspiration has clearly struck you somewhere

 

[Mr. Tea]

Aaaaanyway. Back to freeports. George Monbiot, unsurprisingly, doesn't like the sound of them - and we're talking only about normal, vanilla freeports here, not charter cities:

Welcome to the freeport, where turbocapitalism tramples over British democracy | George Monbiot

From Teesside to Plymouth, these ‘special economic zones’ are shrouded in secrecy – and only benefit big business, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

Monbiot has little truck with conspiracy theories or theorists, so he doesn't assume they're naturally going to lead to charter cities, but even he doesn't entirely discount the possibility:

Understandably, all this opacity is beginning to cause alarm. Some people have proposed an even more sinister agenda: the government wants to turn these places into “charter cities”, corporate fiefs in which environmental and workplace protections are almost entirely stripped away. There is, as yet, no evidence of this. But if any senior politician is biddable and extreme enough to extend the stupidities of freeports, it is Liz Truss.

 

[IdleRich]

Inspiration has clearly struck you somewhere

I genuinely have no idea what you're getting at here?

 

[IdleRich]

Thanks for clearing that up.

 

[Mr. Tea]

 

[version]

 

[luka]

steve_the_greek​

All by design. This time next year the only choice will be which big business (ultimately owned by the same few mega-corps).😔
6w

that.cockney.lad​

Sooner or later or there will be is big corporations. Nothing else. I really think this is being done on purpose. First COVID then this false flag war in Ukraine now an energy crisis. It reeks of control.
6w

thelostpintproject​

Well said 👏👏

 

[version]

Great names.

 

[luka]

the arguments are well worn now. it was the names that made it worth posting.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Is the conspiralad a recognised social category now?

 

[luka]

conspiracy logic has leaked into every social class and grouping

 

[Mr. Tea]

conspiracy logic has leaked into every social class and grouping

Just as They intended all along, no doubt!

 

[version]

 

[version]

Landlords Are Enforcing No-Sex Tenancy Clauses Now

We spoke to renters who have been targeted with 'no-sex' clauses in their tenancy agreements.

www.vice.com

 

[Mr. Tea]

Landlords Are Enforcing No-Sex Tenancy Clauses Now

We spoke to renters who have been targeted with 'no-sex' clauses in their tenancy agreements.

www.vice.com

Corpsey wondering if that can be taken to include solo sex:

 

[wg-]

One of the first places I lived in London was in a houseshare where the landlord lived on the top floor and he & his mrs had extremely loud shower sex in the communal bathroom every Saturday without fail. I was on the first floor and so was the big shower. Our windows looked out onto the garden.

They were so ugly. And so loud.

But- sometimes I didn't have the money to make myself scarce or was too hungover. They started later in the day once and I was just starting to watch Soccer Saturday and had to whack Jeff Stelling up top volume to drown it out. Didn't last there long, a couple of months, and then he tried to hold a bit of my deposit as well, the bastard.

 

[Mr. Tea]

They were so ugly.

Well that's just adding insult to injury.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

then he tried to hold a bit of my deposit

a sticky situation