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James Mullaney
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Scottish football fan. 90s indie music and jangle guitar lover.

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Any possibility you could do something on Freeports in UK?

We now have 2 more in Scotland rebranded as "Green Freeports".

I may be very cynical but seems like evidence is very thin on job creation (limited to displacement from other areas)? It's DHLUC so does it reduce inequality?
September 26, 2025 at 6:58 AM
jamesmilani7.bsky.social
Plenty of Tories would have the US model in a heartbeat as would frog impersonator and "man of the people" Nigel Farage. The threat hasn't gone away yet and won't be anytime soon. We'll need to fight privatisation of the NHS every step of the way.
December 9, 2024 at 10:35 PM
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tgreywolfe1.bsky.social
Trump and his billionaires think the end point of Maga is authoritarianism with them at the top. They are fools. I do not condone violence, but this article from 2014 by Nick Hanauer seems prescient for today.

www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats
A memo for my fellow filthy rich who live in our gated bubble worlds: Wake up, people. It won’t last.
www.politico.com
December 6, 2024 at 2:38 AM
Reposted by James Mullaney
nataliehb.bsky.social
Touching on Karl Popper’s ‘Paradox of Tolerance’
The Paradox of Tolerance Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. - In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be un-wise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intol-erant. Credit: Karl Popper
November 21, 2024 at 7:42 AM