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UK politics - not inspiring but effective
mormont replied to BigFatCoward's topic in General Chatter
What's interesting to me (academically, anyway) is the extent to which nothing the Tories do moves the dial at all. Tax cuts? Thanks, now fuck off. Friend of the motorist? No friend of mine. Voters just don't want the Tories to be on their side. It's like when that embarrassing guy at a party agrees with you and you change the subject. So some of the party seem to be jumping at anyone who gets a positive headline. Penny Mordaunt held a sword up for a bit, everyone liked that, let's make her leader! Has she done anything since to suggest she could actually do a good job? No. It's desperation. It's not going to go anywhere, but it shows how the party is entirely out of options. -
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UK politics - not inspiring but effective
mormont replied to BigFatCoward's topic in General Chatter
If you want to have good infrastructure, you need to pay for it. Roads, hospitals, schools. And not just physical infrastructure. The weather plays a part, sure, but that is a funding issue, since we all need to pay more tax because of the effects of climate change. As people were warning us we would, forty years ago. -
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UK politics - not inspiring but effective
mormont replied to BigFatCoward's topic in General Chatter
Who do you think is behind the removal of Harry's protection detail? -
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UK politics - not inspiring but effective
mormont replied to BigFatCoward's topic in General Chatter
With his brother gravely ill, one nephew in exile and another heading to jail, no obstacle remains to Andrew's reign as King Regent over George, Charlotte and Louis. The next step... move their bedrooms to the Tower... -
‘In no sense a conservative’? I reject that. He’s not an economic conservative, but Putin is unquestionably a social, political, cultural, national and religious conservative. There are more senses in which he is a conservative than not.
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US politics - Yes country for old men
mormont replied to IheartIheartTesla's topic in General Chatter
I have never fainted at a Florida Man joke, but I’ve never laughed at one either. Cringed or rolled my eyes, yes. Laughed? No. -
US politics - Yes country for old men
mormont replied to IheartIheartTesla's topic in General Chatter
When are you two starting your podcast? -
UK politics - not inspiring but effective
mormont replied to BigFatCoward's topic in General Chatter
Moving on from the trailer for Murder In Kensington, further shabby stuff from Lindsay Hoyle today when PMQs was dominated by arguments about racist, sexist comments about Diane Abbott, but Hoyle somehow couldn't find time to allow Diane Abbott to actually speak about the subject. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68556911 So previously he was so upset about the idea that people were allegedly threatening MPs that he abandoned tradition, but today he could not abandon tradition to allow a member to respond to a man saying she should be shot. I'm not a huge fan of Abbott (her record as a frontbencher anyway, as a backbench MP she's done some admirable things) but Hoyle is a weak Speaker who needs to go. -
US politics - Yes country for old men
mormont replied to IheartIheartTesla's topic in General Chatter
Like TV, or rock'n'roll, or novels? Kids today. It's not even that, since he's not going to be specific about what the lawyers said/did. The defence appears to be just vibes. Lawyers had been involved, so I had the feeling that it was all legit. -
US politics - Yes country for old men
mormont replied to IheartIheartTesla's topic in General Chatter
Next in the 'novel legal theories tried by Donald Trump': In the New York hush money trial, Trump intends to rely on an 'advice of counsel' defence. But he won't be waiving privilege, because it's not a formal 'advice of counsel' defence, so he won't telling us what his counsel actually advised. Instead, he'll be advancing the argument, and I kid not, that he So it's actually a 'general sense that counsel of some sort were involved at some point' defence. If a lawyer has been involved in any way, you naturally assume everything that follows is entirely legal, without question. Due diligence completed. What's the problem? https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-argue-t-held-responsible-223221150.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAc4lWA4wHeL5KqsGtsPxHYFeIHXrCAUyma2CoErtO0LXSEwvGXB2TmRqHKSZw_clmxJAV3MPrIlySTFtP9eyGA4EQ-ly99IYGUP0E1SMjJW263ayo-WSJtN4R1dzKLFUW-QFOcmlM2vtIg60YJreWvJITlOHQUJVMNOY0QtneaI -
UK politics - not inspiring but effective
mormont replied to BigFatCoward's topic in General Chatter
The remnant L there is the second L, not the first, so it's not backward. 'Cholmond' becomes 'Chum', -ley remains. Ch(u)'m'ley. So it is sort of a simplified pronounciation. Not unlike several other industries, e.g. finance, journalism, politics. -
Watch, Watched, Watching: Watching Severance and working for Lumon
mormont replied to Veltigar's topic in Entertainment
Well, yeah. It's a film whose themes include the infantilisation of women in society, how that enables their exploitation, and whether humanity is bestial at heart. It clearly intends to make the viewer feel uncomfortable (so job done). If anything, the film can be (and has been) criticised for not going far enough in that respect. I also watched it on Saturday and as a big fan of the original novel, felt it was a pretty good adaptation. I was slightly cautious going in because I knew it had dropped certain aspects of the original. But it's actually very strong. The steampunk aesthetic is an addition, but it serves the same role as Gray's illustrations in the novel, lending a sense of fantasy that's important to the tone. (The novel has an epilogue where Bella explains that the entire story of her being an infant brain transplanted into an adult body is an obvious fantasy of her imaginative and frivolous husband, who has read too much Gothic fiction). The setting is moved from Glasgow to London but that barely matters in the end. Mark Ruffalo is amazing in this, as is Willem Dafoe, and obviously Emma Stone. It has some issues, but overall I'd recommend it to anyone. -
US politics - Yes country for old men
mormont replied to IheartIheartTesla's topic in General Chatter
Biden's best weapon on this is going to be any time Trump talks about the issue. Trump loves some 'strong man' rhetoric and he's going to say more along the lines of his 'finish the issue' comments. -
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US politics - Yes country for old men
mormont replied to IheartIheartTesla's topic in General Chatter
Not picking on Simon but this, for me, sums up the problem. There is no division here. 'The voters the Democrats need' makes it sound like these voters are passive, an unshaped mass that is separate to the party and therefore not part of the solution. That's flat wrong. Those voters are part of 'the Democrats'. If they don't like their choices, they need to change them. Policies, candidates, processes. Starting tomorrow and continuing for years to come. If 'the voters the Democrats need' are sitting waiting for 'the Democrats' to give them what they want, they're part of the problem as much as the party higher-ups are. Trump is vile, but he has power because he inspired a lot of his voters to get involved in the Republican party at lower levels. But it is not up to the higher levels of the Democrat party to go out and find a unique individual who can do the same. That's like asking them to come up with magic beans. The boring truth of the matter is that the party can't (not won't) do better until the voters do the work. And it's way too late to do that now. The candidates in this election are already picked. If you think there's any way to ditch Biden that's not an electoral catastrophe, you're kidding yourself. But you can get involved now if you want to see a better candidate in 2028, or 2032. If you don't change things, you can't expect change. -
I do love What We Do In The Shadows but the latest season does feel like they've run out of road. I believe the next is the last?