this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2024
332 points (97.2% liked)

Gifs

1780 readers
73 users here now

A Community for people to create posts with GIFs, MP4s or WEBPs - anything that's animated and reasonably short.

Images can be often be hosted directly on Lemmy, or on external sites such as https://imgur.com or https://catbox.moe.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] TawdryPorker@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago (2 children)

There's the small matter of his Dad, a former editor of The Times, having written a book about how to profit from disaster capitalism.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The apple didn't fall from the tree

[–] TawdryPorker@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is what people not from the UK (and a fair few who are) always fail to recognise: the Upper Class are engaged in economic war against everyone else, their goal is to maintain a local hegemony and they have been doing this continuously since at least the 11th Century.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

A revolution would be glorious.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 10 months ago
[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

That's something, I guess. Maybe we wouldn't know specifically how he took advantage of it because the trades aren't public record.