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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 01:30:33 JST Charlie Stross

   When I see news like this from the USA I look at Wes Streeting and suddenly it's like I've been parachuted into the last page of "Animal Farm". https://wandering.shop/@ScottEdelman/113487588121783152

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     Angus McIntyre (angusm@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 02:50:46 JST Angus McIntyre

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     @cstross I just picture Pestilence turning to the other three Horsemen and going "Well, that's going to make my job easier.”

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 07:18:14 JST Charlie Stross

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     @foolishowl Accelerationism: it was popular among some Trotskyite sects. Alas, at least one of them (the RCP/Institute of Ideas crowd of yore) look to have been a CIA "false flag" operation; they've turned into a Tory think tank who feed policy ideas to the likes of Liz Truss and Kemi Badenoch.

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     FoolishOwl (foolishowl@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 07:18:16 JST FoolishOwl

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     @cstross There was an old, and rather stupid, theory among a few radical leftists that we should want things to get as bad as possible as fast as possible so that people would be forced to rebel.

     Unfortunately, we're going to have to hope that was a good theory after all, because it looks like that's the situation we're in.