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(preview) Militant Tendency

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Comedy

4.1702 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Anders explains the trotskyist group that took over Liverpuddlian politics in the 1980's plus we talk about why people from Liverpool are called that. Also ghosts. FULL EP AT PATREON.COM/PODDMANAMERICA

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0:00.0

And, for instance, Derek Hatton, who's kind of the main character, I guess, of Milton

0:06.0

tendency.

0:06.8

He's like the face of his was this guy with a mullet from the 80s who shows up sometimes

0:13.0

when there's like the BBC or whatever's doing a retrospective on them.

0:17.0

He'll be a little video of this guy with a mullet, like shouting.

0:26.2

He at one point uh i heard a quote where he was saying uh what are they going to change manhole covers to person hole covers

0:32.8

man see like this weird shit where there's there's like this insistence that this is new

0:42.2

you know there's the right wing culture war thing is like this new woke phenomenon is out of

0:48.5

control and and uh you know we need to do x y and z to push it back and put it back in its bottle. It's like, none of this is new. None of the history is just repeating itself over and over and over. That's a fucking, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a Dennis Leary joke from the 90s. It's a fucking stupid thing from this person for the 80s. And it's like, you know, it's a Ben Shapiro line from now.

1:12.3

What are we going to do?

1:13.0

Personhole covers?

1:14.6

Right.

1:15.0

Same fucking thing.

1:15.7

Over and over again.

1:17.3

Yeah.

1:17.7

And it's, uh, it, it, it really is kind of an odd.

1:23.1

Um, I mean, they, they, they have a very sort of blinkered view of, working class, and they become like an edgy thing, like for people to join.

1:35.9

Like young men, young white men get involved in militant tendency.

1:41.5

This is the same thing that's happened like over and over again.

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