Adam Brown

This is the key point - despite the prejudice, its not really the working classes who are like this. The working classes fought at Cable St. Its the upper-middle classes that joined the brownshirts, and they're still using the N and P words when they don't think anyone can hear them

Easy: always been like this. I've been hearing people say this stuff in private for 30 years. The upper-middle classes are still irritated we joined the 2nd world war on the wrong side. I sat next to a (old, wealthy) woman at the cricket last week who thought democracy was "a failed experiment".

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Tbh I'm amazed we don't already.

Arguably, it's not a coincidence. Hype about high productivity growth is how venture capital makes its money. It's also how resources get diverted into bubbles rather than into useful, proven, actual productivity enhancing investments

Criticising low density car dependent luxury homes isn't really a nimby idea at all. If anything its a yimby critique.

Yes

The criticism is more the fact that they're low density, and thus a really poor use of potentially valuable land, and that they are car dependent, and thus inevitably generate a lot of traffic that then pollutes and congests poorer neighbourhoods on the route to the city centre

Most people, unless they are psychopaths, are concerned for *their family as a whole* which will include members across a wide band of ages from 1 to 100, so the overall fiscal relationship with the state is roughly in balance

But people don't exist in isolation and most 30-50 year old net contributors will also be responsible kids and or elderly parents so I don't think you can break it down like this

Sorry I just realised I typed Martin sheen instead of Michael sheen lol

Right, this is the problem. Why wouldn't they. He's hugely successful, widely loved and respected, and at one point married Kate beckinsale

There are so many good male role models around though. Martin sheen, there you go

My starting assumption is that people don't become Nazis/racists so much as get bored of hiding it.

What do you think they'll say

Ah you see I can't look past either.

Are you able to look past the fact that he's openly a nazi now?

They don't acknowledge this because they haven't figured it out yet. Hanlons razor applies

Farage might be an awful racist but the point of the reform project is not about racism, it's about getting racists to vote for low taxes and deregulation

Have you not kind of missed the point as to why economically right wing groups consistently and routinely espouse socially right wing policies and talking points? It's not because they're all racists

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Yeah, I have many as I'm sure most people do. But they're not from Amazon, I was confused with where I got the music from

You know what, sorry. I am mistaken. This is true for music and I have downloaded plenty of mp3s and I thought it was true for video too but actually I think you're right

They're mp4s so any program that plays mp4s

Yes. It's just a regular MP3 or MP4

To a hard drive attached to your computer. My main advice is 'just stream movies, it works fine' but I understand that some people get a bit weird about these things. TBF I probably feel that way about music. I save my music on a hard drive

Tbh I'm not the type of person who feels the need to own masses of movies. I tend to watch lots of movies rather than movies lots. But the idea that the only safe storage format is old school dvds is millennial brain

I'm very sorry Marie that I started this debate below your perfectly reasonable post

I do not wish to promote Amazon at all but you should be aware you can literally buy films there and have the voice of a dvd or a download to your harddrive. You then own that film and it can't be deleted by amazon

15 years, whatever