Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn’t fit for humans now,
There isn’t grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!
Come, bombs and blow to smithereens
Those air -conditioned, bright canteens,
Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,
Tinned minds, tinned breath.
Mess up the mess they call a town-
A house for ninety-seven down
And once a week a half a crown
For twenty years.
And get that man with double chin
Who’ll always cheat and always win,
Who washes his repulsive skin
In women’s tears:
And smash his desk of polished oak
And smash his hands so used to stroke
And stop his boring dirty joke
And make him yell.
But spare the bald young clerks who add
The profits of the stinking cad;
It’s not their fault that they are mad,
They’ve tasted Hell.
It’s not their fault they do not know
The birdsong from the radio,
It’s not their fault they often go
To Maidenhead
And talk of sport and makes of cars
In various bogus-Tudor bars
And daren’t look up and see the stars
But belch instead.
In labour-saving homes, with care
Their wives frizz out peroxide hair
And dry it in synthetic air
And paint their nails.
Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough
To get it ready for the plough.
The cabbages are coming now;
The earth exhales.
This is a poem by John Betjamin and he unfortunately later apologized for it. I should give credit lest Harry bomberguy come to my house in the dead of night
YOU DOING ANY PLAIGARISM IN HERE?
one of the corporations in this image, Exxon, is partially responsible for various genocides in the middle east and the American war in Iraq
another one of the pictured corporations, Sunoco, is owned by Energy Transfer. That’s the company that owns the Dakota Access Pipeline. In 2016, police gave over 300 protestors hypothermia by spraying them with water hoses in sub-freezing temperatures.
Another depicted company is Shell, and they’re Dutch so do I really need to say more
All that pain, suffering and death… for this…
At least the pharaohs of old used to make something beautiful out of the suffering of those they exploited.
Shell is primarily British.
which I think is probably worse on balance than the Netherlands!Don’t look up what the Netherlands did in Indonesia
I said “on balance” compared to the ukkk. I’m by no means giving the Dutch a pass.
I don’t think anyone should Trust the underlying motivations of anything Carlson ever says, but this wasn’t too bad, and will resonate with the working class’ lived experience, so, may Eakle’s rebuttal fall on deaf ears.
I listened to it and got bamboozled when they started making the entire spiel about ugly dollar store buildings. Like a classic case of “YOU WERE ALMOST THERE THEN YOU VEERED INTO THE FUCKING DITCH” with a healthy dash of “JESSE WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT”
And then giggled at tucker saying “I don’t know what you’d call me because I’m criticizing capitalism in America, a socialist” or something along those lines. Partially because I would never put tucker and socialist in the same sentence nor did I ever thing I’d ever hear someone do that much less Mr. Swanson chicken nuggies himself.
Also giggling at the horrific thought that Mr. Fucker might be trying to triangulate himself into making Maga communism a mainstream thing among his herd of hogs. My brain is painfully tingling in trying to parse through that sentence like a hamster on a wheel spinning so fast it trips up and goes spinning with the wheel and gets yeeted out of it
Tucker Carlson is absolute cynical swine who believes in nothing other than making money and having an audience. He’s doing the same thing that always happens to ousted conservative pundits/politicians, he’s trying to triangulate on something that would make him an outsider but still resonate with hogs. And since he’ll never be allowed back into the FoxNews fourth estate club, this is the only option he has. He can’t keep being the same old Tucker, there are a million of those. He’s gotta position himself as somehow different than those standard TV media people.
i think sometimes people here forget how big Tucker was. He was getting 4 million people watching him per night, and then tens of million more would watch clips of his on Facebook or whatever. He’s not getting those sorts of numbers back unless he starts getting wacky with it
If anything Tucker’s position is a Red Toryism variant. Hierarchical society with white Christian patriarchy at the top, but that patriarchy controls the market as to ensure the traditional family unit is protected.
There’s red toryism? That sounds like a real pain the the old brainpan
Yeah no it’s an actual thing, although the red part is more metaphorical/relative. It’s sort of analogous to social democrats, the oppressive edge of aristocracy can be blunted with a robust welfare state.
Fuggin
I’ve always considered it “Grandpa’s conservatism”, very old school in a way not really seen in the modern conservative movement.
My grandpa was a fox news grandpa so
Yeah, it’s a very White Canadian kind of thing. Classic polite fascism kind of stuff. My grandpa used to try and get into fights with these kinds of people.
Your grandpa is automatically cool as fuck
This is how you can tell he is a fascist, when right wingers coopt leftist language you need to start lifting weights
yeah, the trick they always pull is reducing practical criticisms to pure aesthetics. human misery can only be understood through the perpetuation of ugliness. if the misery at hand is beautiful, then it’s acceptable to them.
Tucker has a sense of the zeitgeist as far as it keeps him relevant I guess.
one of the replies is the Mises Institute arguing that poverty is caused by not having gold backed currency I am going to bite my own face off
Those dinosaurs still don’t get that it’s crypto that will set us free.
This American humaaaan city is quite similar to the ones we have on Ferenginar.
Leas rain
Less beetle snuff too
Breezy
can’t spell “seethe”
I remember some discourse where if you zoom out it’s not an urban hellsprawl and it’s actually like a haven for truckers/people going long distances on an interstate.
You can still argue that it’s an ugly aesthetic. It’s gross and gray with logos everwhere. Everything that nature isn’t touching is ugly in this photo. A big honking cafeteria with some central space and a park would look infinitely better. You could put workout equipment to stretch your legs and pump the heart during a long trek and it would be like a literal sanctuary. Each restaurant has to reinvent the wheel and atomize everyone with their own building instead of just getting one janitorial service, one sequestered building, and leaving a whole lot of space for not advertising and not individual parking lots. There’s no place to sit or exist unless you’re spending money. The most beauty around you are the vistas full of things that people didn’t build. The American mind can no longer imagine a public space used for something besides commerce. You can have all your competition and civil religion in the cafeteria. For as far as this picture is concerned it can even facilitate competition by helping truckers. It just doesn’t have to contribute to making hell on Earth.
OK, sure. It’s also hard to differentiate between it and what main street look like bos in the town I grew up in.
There’s a handful of those places minus the gym. Vince Lombardi service area in Jersey comes to mind. It still ends up being kinda dumpy just because of all the cars, and the space required to accommodate them. What you’re describing is essentially a mall in miniature
Love the idea that this shit is the equivalent of a bustling Byzantine marketplace
Sure it might lack the closeness, the public space for walking, the people talking and haggling, the smells and the displays, but it has the only thing that is truly valuable about a marketplace which is shit being sold in it
I love the typos in these so much.
When you start to centrally plan: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=DmiK9v6nO3I
omg i fucking love this
I enjoy some good fast food but this just feels tiring to even look at
I’d prefer this to a 15 minute city that KILLS CHRISTIANS
As Jordan Peterson once said:
“Sorry. Not Beautiful. And no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that.”
Young men come to me with tears in their eyes, they say they searched “European bikini mall” and it just rips them up inside
I get what Preston meant by “authoritarian tolerance” but seeing him string those two words together still makes me laugh
He could’ve chosen like literally any old, unplanned European city but no he picks this LMAO
I can both smell and hear this picture and they’re both unpleasant and repugnant.
