Interesting Links for 20-08-2017
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andrewducker- On decentralised communication, and being big in Japan for uncomfortable reasons
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- Nasa reveals plan to prevent supervolcano eruption and generate electricity at the same time
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- Why "Liberalism" is not "Centrism"
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- Getting married because you want to be with your partner: Threat - or menace?
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- What's needed from actal Autism-friendly clothing (and clothing stores)
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- Scientists are excited about the eclipse. Because they're people
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- Outrage in Tunbridge Wells over sex festival in the woods
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- I hadn't realised that lead leaches out of lead glass into alcohol
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Date: 2017-08-20 11:01 pm (UTC)Or these tweets:
"That's 'cos liberals are useless at fighting fascism, but Corbyn's not a liberal, & his brand of politics won us back voters we lost to UKIP"
https://twitter.com/_GayLabourLefty/status/899281057228496896
"In short the liberal, rightwing of the Labour Party, nostalgic for neoliberalism"
https://twitter.com/sz_duras/status/899288204809048064
Imperialism is evil. Prisons are evil. Policing is violence. Austerity is murder. sorry it stings to hear your flaws, liberals. fuck off."
https://twitter.com/umbyrella/status/898349379265773569
"Middle Class White Liberals blanket condemn "violence" because ultraviolent state-sanctioned racism and economic austerity don't affect them"
https://twitter.com/leducviolet/status/898063121608093696
And so on. There's *tons* of this stuff, mostly influenced by USian usage where "liberal" has a rather different meaning to British usage, and also not helped by the Lib Dems' positioning in the media as centrist. To *LARGE* swathes of the left, "liberaal", "neoliberal", "centrist", "moderate", and "Blairite" are all synonyms.