eldritch @tan@radical.town

‘Vexations’ (1893) is a piano piece by the composer Erik Satie that is supposed to be played very slowly 840 times. The first performance, conducted by John Cage in 1963, went for more than 18 hours. At the end, one audience member shouted ‘Encore!’ (Image: Sonia y natalia) https://t.co/Cye0srbcOB

**Medical colonialism in Africa is not new**

"Remarks about testing coronavirus drugs on Africans part of pattern where some bodies are dehumanised, others protected."

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/medical-colonialism-africa-200406103819617.html

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@dzuk yeah, it's simply not "misfortune" when you've been actively creating the conditions for it to happen. if boris strapped himself with c4 and blew himself up in trafalgar square, not only would that have killed a fraction of the people that will die from coronavirus due to his herd immunity nonsense, but no one would say "well, poor Boris, the explosion got him too".

(There is also the fact that he literally did this to himself; His party wanted to kill a bunch more people from the pandemic to keep a semblance of economic normalcy, Boris intentionally exposed himself to try to present that until they all realised it was kinda insane.)

The Tories' policy decisions killed hundreds of thousands of people and emiserated millions more. The way they acted repeatedly made it clear they would rather people like me just drop dead.

Because of this, I would be disrespecting myself a hell of a lot to tell myself that there is a basis for civility between myself and him, that there is a situation upon which he's deserving of my empathy, because as far as the Tories are concerned, I'm not deserving of theirs.

The idea that we shouldn't mock/celebrate Boris' misfortune would be predicated on the idea that there's some sort of basis for civility between us and him, but the problem is that it doesn't exist.

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Of course, with Boris in hospital, it's very important to have sympathy, despite your political leanings.

After all, he's an old rich white guy with like, 3 mistresses and possibly as many as 8 kids. Not to mention the leader of a political party who've been consistently underfunding the NHS for a decade so they can lie about how it doesn't work and then sell it to their rich friends.

So I absolutely have sympathy. I fully support all those doctors, nurses, and hospital staff who have to attend to that malicious bumbling oaf, despite everything he's done to bring this on himself.

I also have sympathy for all those people being declined medical care because they're "not serious enough" while some posh etonian boor takes up a hospital bed in an intensive care unit "just in case" he needs it.

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