I flirted with liberalism (economic and social) as an unbearable teenager, now Milton Friedman Hayek et al are everything I hate with every fibre of my being. Then I thought we could spin out an ameliorated 3rd way free market forever till about the age of 20, since then it's been a steady move left left left (when I was awake enough to fucking think). My folks have moved left as well (ex Lib Dems, then SLab briefly then Nat), but I suppose almost all their friends have gone the other buy to let ok with the Tories way. Guess soon enough I'd better prep myself for bezzie mates voting Fine Gael (the party for people "who get up early in the morning", thanks Leo!)
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I've thought for a little while now that most people stay pretty much where they always were on the spectrum as they age, but society itself - in terms of rights, identity politics etc. at least - gets more progressive with each generation, and this leaves older people saying things like, 'You get more right-wing as you get older,' (or the less coded, 'You'll grow out of that sort of thinking,') in order to convince themselves they're not intolerant arseholes.
Having just typed all that, I'm definitely a lot more left-wing than I was when I was younger. I suspect this is partly down to having spent nine years(!) on this forum.
Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostIt is equally true that if you happen to find yourself at a party with that audience, you very much wish you weren't there.
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The first half of that article seems almost reasonable. Until it suddenly goes so far off the rails. The problem isn't actually overpriced housing; the problem is that poor people don't know barre techniques and are thus ostracized by the metropolitan elite...
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I bet he's proud of having a friend with a mere high school education. He could have quickly (mibees in an offhand joking way, if Brooks could do that instead of Mansplaining at length) translated the trying too hard diner ponce menu into non-wanker. Maybes yer one might have enjoyed the fucking sandwich.
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Or, you know, he could have not been so desperately patronising as to assume that she couldn't deal with "soppresata" just because she wasn't as educated as him, and to not assume that "Mexican" is safe for the poor people while Italian cold meats aren't.
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About the only scorched earth madness where I’ve half agreed with Adam Smith Institute is when Mad Madsen Pirie called for a 100% inheritance tax. I’m guessing their secret donors back then didn’t have Mercer deep pockets and it really was just a crank think tank. If you truly believe in (and ugh, fuck it as an aspritation) meritocracy and the free unrigged market, ridding the game of chinless, red faced, jolly great types must be a necessity. The bank of Mum and Dad must be closed down for anything over inheritance tax thresholds if you want a “property owning democracy” to continue in Anglosphere dystopia.
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Originally posted by Lang Spoon View PostAbout the only scorched earth madness where I’ve half agreed with Adam Smith Institute is when Mad Madsen Pirie called for a 100% inheritance tax. I’m guessing their secret donors back then didn’t have Mercer deep pockets and it really was just a crank think tank. If you truly believe in (and ugh, fuck it as an aspritation) meritocracy and the free unrigged market, ridding the game of chinless, red faced, jolly great types must be a necessity. The bank of Mum and Dad must be closed down for anything over inheritance tax thresholds if you want a “property owning democracy” to continue in Anglosphere dystopia.
I've benefited from that. Not a lot compared to what we're talking about here - nowhere close to the inheritance tax threshold - but it was a big help.
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