Re: Biker Gangs

On Wed, 15 Jan 2025, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 15/01/2025 09:04, D wrote:

I've met _one_ artist in my life who was centrist, or almost a-political, and one artist was a friend of my mother and although being left, she didn't really care that much about it. My mother, being very right and conservative and her artist friend managed to stay friends for decades.

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WE have  long running jokes about the Engineer™ and the ArtStudent™
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While the ArtStudent™ spends hours dreaming up idealised imaginary solutions, the Engineer™ gets a tool and cracks the problem in seconds...
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It is the essential difference between what the US calls Liberalism, and what is called Conservatism.
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I think Winston Churchill summed up socialism as the 'equal sharing of poverty', because social justice *only* was the aim. Never increasing wealth, only splitting it 'fairly'.
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Today's UK government epitomises that.
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Job creation, not wealth creation
Taxation not investment.
Regulation, not free enterprise.
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The furore in the free software epitomises it. Never mind good code, as long as you are a right minded person who thinks men can have vaginas.

This is the truth! For a lot of entertaining material on that theme in the tech sector, have a look at https://lunduke.substack.com/ .