Pete Fraser

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

Thanks for that. Really lovely. He and Joe are the Fugazi members I’ve heard the least from, so that was super interesting

Ah no that’s new to me, thank you!

For sure. It’d be interesting to know what it would’ve sounded like if they’d continued too.

I think at the end of the day though, the process they had with Don had evolved into something that was a bit like self recording, and the change was just too odd.

I mean, quite old news as music, but I’m glad they’re releasing it

Haha.

Amazing!

Ah wow! I had the bootlegs for years but it’s cool they’ve released them.

As a Fugazi fan I’d call them a curiosity rather than an essentially (everyone concerned made the correct call that Don Zientara should record) but they’re a GOOD curiosity.

An egg from the 90s would be REALLY out of date.

You should! The live show is pure joy. He really works hard to bring everyone in.

No YOU’RE crying.

I suspect cause it’s different for everyone!

TBF she didn’t seem all that surprised in the clip, but the general attitude of the press to play the whole thing as a kind of domestic political game - and not even one based in reality - is grimly revealing.

I should add, I think I’ve had five podcasts land in my inbox over the last 24h whose subject is ‘has Starmer been too slow/soft on Iran’ - the entire news establishment, right across the spectrum, is fully out of touch with the general public on this. V revealing, and embarrassing for them.

But they ran on NOT doing this!

Farage has had occasionally a bit of self knowledge in the past about what gives him his popularity, though I wonder if even he’s drunk the koolaid on this one. I think, unlike Badenoch, he’s always spinning about ten plates in terms of motivation.

It’s amazing. There’s no constituency for it anywhere, yet it’s simply happening anyway.

I treat the ‘Westminster had had its brain broken by Twitter thing’ with a bit of scepticism usually, but this particular issue does seem to be a bubble thing, and a really good example of why someone like Badenoch is a terrible choice of party leader, though to be fair they chose her by accident.

Why *would* there be enthusiasm in the UK for attacking iran under obviously false pretences? It seems a weird thing to simply assume there’s a big constituency for.

there are like 50 people in the country who want the UK to get involved in the Iran War, one of them is Kemi Badenoch, one of them is Nigel Farage, and the other 48 are newspaper columnists

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(Though TBF, this was a lot more than getting into a conversation.)

The people spouting aggressive patriotism always, practically without exception, doth protest too much.

I quite like the album, but I also don’t think you’re totally wrong.

It was once said of the singer Vic Chesnutt ‘careful getting into a conversation with Vic, you’ll end up as a song’, and I think that probably applies writ large here.

I can’t remember who it was - maybe a Democrat - but I remember hearing about a current US politician who dedicated a significant amount of staff resources towards finding pictures where she looked hot, and setting up fake social media accounts to talk about how hot she was.

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’How could we possibly have predicted that our recreational meth lab could be abused?’

Great! He’s a one off. Nobody else like that out there.

Like, no love for Starmer, but the reporting has been weak on pointing out how extreme Badenoch’s position is perceived to be by the public.

The coverage is very frustrating generally - myopically parochial.

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

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