So the inciting incident for this episode of the podcast happened this July, and I've kind of been

thinking about it more or less ever since, not on a daily basis, but quite a bit. One of those

tweets that you just see and you don't really forget because it sort of crawls into your skin

and makes you furious all the time. So John McTurnon, a former political strategist Tony Blair, and a famous airhead

whose claim to political fame involved being questioned for selling knighthoods to private equity

goons, tweeted, I am literally in favor of liberal democracy. It created the welfare state,

smartphones, the minimum wage, supersonic travel, human rights, and equality, the fourth industrial

revolution, paid holidays, craft beer,

rising living standards, and techno, and so on. Plus, it defeated communism. This tweet,

you can hear a derisive laugh in the background, because this tweet made me so fucking angry,

not only because, I mean, I don't know, it's not as though the organized labor movement delivered us paid holidays, which literally is not liberal democracy.

But techno is specifically, it's specifically anti-capitalist music.

And John McTernan is just showing himself to be, Cal Suprize, a complete fucking idiot. Aloysha, what do you think

of that?

Just the overall tone

is tweet is kind of insane.

But I mean,

the one, I guess like the 1%

of that was right,

I guess technically,

techno was born

from that kind of realm, especially, I guess,

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