Amanda Scott

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2,179 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 25 Feb

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There was a cruise ship going from somewhere in Europe to somewhere in the Americas, I think Panama, at the time of the election.
And it was empty.
And so a bunch of people took it over and brought in people from right across the spectrum of politics to be on a ship and
And I gather there was quite an interesting response when the results came in because this ship was cruising and someone we both know of, Primavera de Filippi, was on there.
But so were a whole bunch of very, very alt-right network state people who were celebrating a lot until people started to explain to them what it might mean.
So they basically bought the election.
I think we need to say out loud that we have the best democracy money can buy, and they have a lot of money.
We don't have a democracy.
We have a kleptocracy.
The democracy, in inverted commas, that was designed was never designed to give ordinary people any sense of actual decision-making power.
And what's different now is that
tech people have most money instead of oil people.
And before that, it was coal people or railroad people or people who enslaved other people.
It's always been whatever is the latest iteration of imperialism has owned the power and has pretended to lease to the general population a degree of power.
Would you say that was fair?
Right.
Yeah.
So they got it back within days.
Could you unpick that for us a little bit in a minute?
And what did they want to do?
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