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On my last visit to the colonies I had the tremendous pleasure of meeting Sasquatch (to whom, incidentally, I am distantly related on my mother’s side). He told me a simply marvelous story about Harold Acton and Gertude Stein. Though I now forget the exact details. I urged him to stand for President. He bummed a ten dollar bill off me and said he would think about it.
The Wuhan ‘Flu showed us what the working-class does in an emergency – it clears the supermarket shelves of lavatory paper. Quite sensible really, considering what it will be doing when the four-minute warning sounds.
In my humble judgement (odious phrase) why not simply abandon this thread. If anyone still has something interesting to say about this boring billionaire’s brawl post it to the Ukraine War thread. Of course this must be on the qt – no letting on to the Scotswoman.
You have to hand it to capitalism, it’s managed to negotiate (in a less than smooth way) technological innovation from the first primitive steam engines right up to these AI gizmos (and beyond?). Far from capitalist relations of production being fetters these relations display a dispiriting flexibility.
Being not particularly rational (whatever that means) would prompt one to vote for a candidate with a silly name. If you were sensible you wouldn’t.
I see Vladen Tatarsky (who he?) has copped it. A pro-war blogger, Vlad was blown up in a Leningrad cafe by an agent of US Imperial Mints. (Made that last bit up but bet on it somebody will say it)
‘Ere, we’ve not heard from the Scotsman for a bit. You don’t think…Another reform whittled away til we get back to the good old days of LLoyd George’s 1908 Old Age Pension act, ’twas the only game in town. Five bob a week for all workers 70 and over. Not that many workers made it to that age. Only introduced because sending people to the workhouse was costing too much.
Who will want to employ folk in their late 60’s? Call this an unfair generalisation if you must, but old people are no good at anything.The Professor had no luck with large European financial institutions, who declined to help with his empirical test on the grounds of security. Why did he not just tell them his theory and ask if this is what they do?
If a socialist found the Scotsman raping his (the socialist’s) mother/sister/granny/brother (not necessarily in that order), would the socialist
(a) reason with the Scotsman he was showing a woeful lack of class-consciousness?
Or
(b) bray him with a handy length of four by two?
The answer is (of course?) (b).
Not a new ‘argument’. Pacifists and socialists (who are not pacifist) have to meet it whenever capitalist rivalries turn ugly. ‘Drop the naive class stuff and get stuck in with whatever side excites you’.
If the Scotsman found a Russian soldier raping a ‘nazi’ (using the word practically in it’s Japanese sense) (might be Waffen SS might not), the only consistent course open to the Scotsman would be to
(c) Join in.
You can attempt to unpack the thinking until the proverbial dairy-farm reunion but as a logician himself the Scotsman will confirm the reasoning is impeccable. What it might tell us about his moral qualities, well…that is essentially a Viennese question it would be unseemly to go in to.Lizzie and the Scotsman lament the lack of humour on this thread. S’pose this is his idea of it.
Howz about guys an gals, reducing the population of Poland to a great waxy greasy blob. Not unlike Bees Wax polish. Geddit! Polish/polish!!…(Frankie Howerd) ooooh please yerself!
