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This Wreckage

Bonus preview: Real Lib Dem Hours w/ Trash Future

This Wreckage

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2970 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Trash Future leads us in a reading of James Kirkup's dystopian fanfic "How the Lib Dems could seize power." Excuse the laddery we were many cans deep.

Read along: https://unherd.com/2019/07/how-the-lib-dems-could-seize-power/

Listen to the full episode at: https://www.patreon.com/theantifada

Transcript

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0:00.0

I mean just a little bit of background.

0:09.0

I'm not here. I mean just a little bit of background.

0:11.0

Paul Emory.

0:12.0

No, unheard just basically publishes anything except a racist.

0:16.0

Anything except leftism, especially if it's racist.

0:19.0

Cool.

0:20.0

It's a cool website.

0:21.0

Yeah, it's a cool website. Britain. It's any website.

0:23.4

It's like quilette, but what if Centrists really liked Quilette?

0:27.4

Because every Centrist in Britain just is driven with kind of guilt.

0:32.3

So because they all are like I'm not racist but what if that means I

0:36.2

think I'm superior to working people who I assume are because they're dumb.

0:39.6

It's quillette but every quillette headline is phrased in the form of a question.

0:44.7

Yeah, it's quellette jeopardy. It's questioning.

0:48.3

So just, it's only read by columnists.

0:51.3

Like, it's like a newspaper where they just like write

0:53.4

fucking like forum posts to each other. This literally happened once where I wrote an

0:58.0

article in Jacobin about how Harry Potter is a particularly neoliberal fantasy and

1:01.9

so it like makes sense.

1:03.0

I buy your thesis.

1:05.0

It makes sense that a lot of liberals sort of pin their worldview

1:08.0

to this children's story where good triumphs over evil because of an elite school.

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