Musk is a deeply troubling man though hopefully he will completely self destruct in a big cloud of Ketamine
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I don’t really get the science here but imagine it gets into the food chain…!
Musk’s double nazi salute… fucking hell. It worries me that as the WW2 generation dies out, today’s kids won’t appreciate how dark it is, or what it means
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Exactly this:
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I hope someone shoots the cunt.
Not very Balearic I know but Nazi fucking salutes?! Fuck off.
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politicised djs. it never goes well. always some form of nauseating bourgeois identity politics, be it from the left or right.
probably going to ruffle feathers, but I just don’t get it. keep playing music to drug casualties, please. And leave the undergrad dissertations on your hard drives full of furry porn. In fact, if we could institute a total ban on djs using social media, even for promo, that would be fantastic.
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To be honest I don’t think we’re living in an era where keeping quiet is helping anyone.
When billionaires are able to purchase ‘democratic’ leverage in superpower states I can’t hate on creative types who have an opinion-whether it’s an educated one, or not.
They really aren’t the enemy right now in my opinion.
The crazies on the fringes playing weird music and spouting idealistic utopian narratives are what we need right now more than ever. We need some escape from this (very real) existential madness.
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normally I’d agree, but when the question comes to complicated international geopolitics…
And to be honest with you my criticism wasn’t directed against the utopian dreamers (a tendancy I encourage, even if misguided) but the old farts who think that just because they got into acid house in 88 suddenly this makes them the most progressive person on earth. The kids are alright.
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Within the next decade, we’re likely to see a mass exodus of wealthy Southeast Asians—and other affluent individuals from the Global South—fleeing their increasingly uninhabitable home countries for more temperate climates. This isn’t speculation; it’s an inevitability as climate change, resource scarcity, and political instability reshape the global map. The problem is, this movement of people won’t look like the migrations we’re used to. These won’t be the desperate, huddled masses that Western countries are already building walls to keep out. It’ll be the ultra-wealthy, sidestepping immigration laws with ease, buying their way into citizenship or residency.
For countries like those in Europe, already struggling with tensions over immigration, this will be the final straw. The locals—already angry about housing shortages, wage stagnation, and resource competition—are going to be up in arms. And by then, it’ll be too late. These wealthy newcomers won’t be arriving with solutions; they’ll bring their demands and their dollars, snapping up land, draining resources, and deepening the divide between the haves and have-nots.
What we’re seeing is the early stages of a new kind of global feudalism. The places everyone wants to live—temperate zones with reliable infrastructure and relative stability—will become fortresses of privilege. Resources in these areas will become the last battlegrounds of human civilization, as the wealthy cling to their islands of comfort while the rest of the world burns.
The tragedy isn’t just that this will happen, but that it could have been avoided. The same wealth that’s being used to build escape routes could have been used to mitigate the crises forcing this exodus in the first place. But as Caitlin Johnstone points out, we live in a dystopia where the ruling class’s control is so complete, they’ve convinced most people that this is normal.
By the time the world wakes up to what’s happening, the doors will have slammed shut. Climate collapse doesn’t just displace the poor—it reshuffles the rich. And the places they flee to will bear the brunt of humanity’s final, desperate grasp for survival.
George Monbiot nailed it today: “Musk’s fascist salutes are a signal, showing how far he intends to go. They point to the destruction of democracy he seeks, the impunity, the violent pursuit of power. They point to the empire he wants to build, and to the degradation of all our lives as he sets out to crush our humanity.”
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And there was me feeling good about the day after getting a baguette from Sainsburys that was still warm when i got back to the office to make lunch.
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And seemingly nobody is saying anything. It’s egregious and there isn’t anyone who saw that and thought anything else. What an absolute human turd.
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No idea why the BBC are giving oxygen to people saying he made an ‘awkward gesture’.
Yeah right, nobody makes a Nazi salute TWICE without knowing exactly what they are doing.
If I had a Tesla I think I’d be putting it on Autotrader sharpish before everyone started ‘saluting’ me. As you say absolute turd.
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I sort of agree with Remington in that it is annoying when people bang on about '88, second summer of love, the end of hooliganism and all that garbage (tell that to the carabinieri at Italia '90…) but given the choice I prefer irritating to terrifying and that feels like the ongoing story of modern times, perhaps because PC/Woke/whatever is rooted in a good place but can be preachy, pious in how it is communicated - which is the heart of all this: too many people mistaking the message with the way it was spread.
I’ve long thought about whether club culture should try and keep a distance from real life and sometimes you can’t help but be politicised by things elsewhere: discrimination, money, society… but music does need to retain some escapism, because art, expression, creativity, mindless techno is never gonna be 100% political… people need to unwind, disconnect, indulge fantasies
I guess the politics for me was the act of being involved at all in the first place, choosing an alternative outlet to high street hell, which even for someone as sad and suburban as me still felt like an act of defiance. Even for someone like me growing up, you were aware that vast sections of society disapproved and forever will.
What happens next is the big unknown. Are we entering a new post-disco sucks era, where the resistance - if a counter culture can still survive? - literally disappears into the shadows or will dissenters become louder than ever albeit in more subliminal and coded ways?
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ultimately djs are entertainers. I don’t want to know the views of a white english or hgerman bloke in his 50s on the Israel/Palestine conflict. Keep that shit to yourself and mates, don’t broadcast it on social media, especially given that there is a lot of romanticism about how clubbing brought all the races together. It did to the extent that acid house and rave was all new, but clubland’s class/race system still remained.
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I think the simplest explanation for why someone does two Nazi salutes to a crowd gathered to see the election of a president championed by Nazis is that he is a Nazi.
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I kind of agree with him too don’t get me wrong… being an evangelist for the past is ultimately pointless-more that there are bigger fish to fry is all.
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sure, no doubt about that, but when that smug superiority is used to prosecute young kids or entrench white domination of clubland I am not down with it at all.
I hate going out now tbh.
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History suggests that a shift to the right is often a breeding ground for creativity. Our ability to communicate globally these days in a matter of seconds gives me some hope…
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it’s impossible to 100% separate culture and politics now though. it’s the constant elephant in the room. when people are defining you as an enemy, you’re forced to pick sides, much as Reagan politicised gay culture in the past.
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