Oh, hey, weird - you’re not part of that huge informal association of humans who just LOVE seeing children murdered? I mean, we’re fucking everywhere, man! It’s what gets us up in the morning!
🙄
So no arms industry.
so we’ll buy our arms from someone else - USA, Sweden, France.
Or are we saying no armed forces either?
Indeed.
But not without cost. Penalties. Trade-offs.
And certainly not by sitting around talking to everyone until a great magical convergence of opinion suddenly emerges and everybody Sees The Light…..
You came to me, mate.
Don’t like the convo? - there’s the door.
No, but you’re the guy that reckons politics doesn't have to be about least bad choices.
Looking for pointers here…..
That is a vast proportion of the political issues facing Britain at the moment - the key plank with implications right across policy both home and abroad.
But anyway - no weapons to Israel (Which, incidentally, also relates to Trumpolitics). Fair enough.
Who do you want to sell them to instead?
It’s the sign of someone serious about politics that they are interested in WHY things are worse now than they were 30 years ago.
And how you swim back upstream against that current.
(Spoilers - you don’t do it by only doing nice things.)
Okay - you’re British PM. Now.
How do you handle Trump?
Remember - good choices only!
You wanna be moved, go watch a blockbuster movie.
You want good politics, understand that everything has a price, trade-offs are inevitable and the more radical the changes you want, the more upheaval they will entail.
Oh, and that humans are a fickle, hard-to-please lot.
Nice way of putting it.
We should call this Corbyn’s Disease - a pathological inability to understand that politics is making a series of least worst bad choices.
“Let’s only do Nice Things™. No More Bad Things™. That’s how we roll.”
More than that - they appear to love it.
Some deeply rooted strand in the US psyche that actually seems to *rejoice* in bully (or at least bullying locker room jock) culture.
Late, late, very late to Euphoria…
Whose base premise seems to be What If……Trainspotting, but everyone looks super hot and gorgeous while they’re destroying themselves and, y’know, lives in really nice houses.
Hmm….
The irony of having *Walter Goggins* advertise the joys of AI systems.......😵💫
Contemporary culture as self-referential tesseract.
Not convinced that murdering a couple of hundred schoolgirls or sinking an unarmed vessel that was on joint manoeuvres with you a couple of days prior counts as "operational excellence" but hey, maybe that's just me.......
Dunno, I get the feeling the entire mechanism of venerable journalism™ in the US is just unable to digest the fact that the lunatics have taken over the asylum.
So instead - a desperate scrabbling to assign gravitas to these figures and their actions because the alternative is too horrible to face.
Dear @theatlantic.com - just curious, do you let people just churn out any old shite for you?
"A man full of ideas"????
As I recall, Vance entered the White House as a man prepared to do and say any lickspittle thing he thought would advance his career.
Y'know, with this & the Kennedy piece a few months back, I am really starting to wonder what possessed me to take out a subscription to this magazine.
"A man full of ideas"?
As I recall, Vance entered the White House as a man who would say or do any fucking lickspittle thing to advance his career.
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
Like casting Jason Momoa as a kid filled with angst because he's just not tall enough to be allowed to ride the rollercoaster.....
"It's not sexual assault when WE do it!"
Willing suspension of disbelief my arse.....
This campus romp show about an ageing female academic whose sexual allure has faded would work a whole lot better if they hadn't cast Rachel Weisz, who is painfully, obviously, undeniably gorgeous and hot in every single scene she appears......🙄
"We call this process - History....."
If you will vote the "Scalzi Eating People's Faces" ticket........
Guess you never thought he'd eat *your* face, right?
They're HERE!!!
Good to know - thanks.
Preference still stands.......🙂
Crap vision of a human future as far as the humans are concerned. But the alien Krell & what took them down was fascinatingly prescient. Advanced civilisation eaten by creatures from its own id.
Social Media has turned us into the Krell.
And - supplementally - who do you think this looks like?
depth of 4 - 6 metres......
