While repeatedly dunking on other people for not following the same path as him. There's a lot of "I'm not owned" in a man

It's very strange, a number of observations on his Substack still strike me as interesting and thoughtful, but his social media output is frequently farcical

Sometimes there's magic in art - the "first take" can be very powerful, and the emotional context of SS Edmund Fitzgerald makes this an absolute doozy of a story!

Interesting - it has some of the right feel, but is also a bit overly complicated for a shanty, and lacks the typical call/response structure. Reading this account though it seems like it was just a simple tune he landed on and worked up

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Can't remember who is selling it but I saw a post the other day. Kind of reluctant to search for it or give it further prominence tbh, but yeah someone is promoting a t-shirt which is essentially nod-winking about white supremacy beating down black liberation. Grim

I'm an absolute sucker for any version of this song. There's a bunch of great covers out there, especially the Longest Johns who turned it into a quasi-shanty

"In point of fact I do engage with culture to enrich my perspectives, as demonstrated by these two films about people kicking enormous quantities of ass"

That "paper beats rock" t shirt with the sieg heil and the black power fist?

It's from Robert Tressell, so it's best understood as a description of dynamics which applied a bit over 80 years ago

Part of the Problem is that people want a whistleblower martyr but when the Inevitable Fate of Whistleblowers hits that person like a freight train at full speed it becomes a lot more Common to blame nebulous hitmen than "Wow, fucking sucks trying to rebuild your life in your 30/40s huh"

The entire project here is so cynical. "We have to end foreign aid until we fix unemployment and bad schools!"

ok are you working to fix those problems?

"No."

Maybe, but I'd say that the fate of the Further Education system is a greater concern

Also, either his tailor hates him (entirely possible!) or he has chunked up considerably