‘there will be between 5,000 and 7,000 residents in the city’ - my man, 5000 people does not a city make. It’s a village. They’re building a cyber village, which sounds a lot less cool & impressive than a cyber city. A village full of complete tossers.

Yes, but then he abandoned everything that’s good & rational in the pursuit of naked self-interest, grift, and tax avoidance, which is the paradigmatic Reform narrative.

Everyone’s overworked, frightened, & despairing. I just don’t have the mental space for arguing online. Certainly not if there’s a chance of any edge developing. Everything’s too fragile.

To a much lesser extent, that’s true of UK, Canadian, and Australian academics too. We aren’t worried that mentioning the word justice will get us fired or attacked by fascists, but I suspect most of us are more worried about mass redundancies & sectoral collapse than online discussions.

… joins the party of a man he knows to be a racist danger to British governance because even the Tories aren’t corrupt enough to give him a peerage.

Au contraire:

The reason they’re ICE officers is in large part because they lack self-esteem. The need to feel powerful because their masculinity is so fragile, so of course they loose their shit when the people they thought they were going to dominate & frighten mock them.

Congress is a tiny proportion of the politicians in a nation. Just as in the UK, where we have 650 MPs and then circa 17,000 local councillors. Add in members of the House of Lords, thousands of town & parish councillors, police commissioners, mayors, etc. Most people can name only a handful.

That slogan is a promise of revenge & an assertion that they are worth more than you. Cross them and they promise disproportionate retaliation. Horrible stuff.

Working on this paper has reinforced my worry that communitarians don’t have much of a ground for valuing community other than ‘because’.

I’m a little concerned that what I’m doing might be ’interdisciplinary’. Might need a wash afterwards. Hopefully the fact that I’m just summarising & synthesising other people’s research will make it less likely that I wade clumsily into someone else’s field like an arrogant twat.

I mean yes, but a large reason it went to shit was because of his own decisions.

Yeah. Part of the problem is that there's no time for coaching and no possibility of continuity.