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I'm intrigued to know what weird and unnecessary way he'll get into character on this one.
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Downing Street isn't a patch on Rosings.
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-responses which were, at best, an even split; but they achieved their tactical goal of preventing the detention of immigrants on both occasions, and without any negative strategic consequences.
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I agree in principle - witness the failure of climate change-related direct action - but think it's possible for some protests to be purely tactical in nature.
I can think of 2 UK examples of immigration related protests that didn't exactly win over the nation - at least judging by the twitter-
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Part of the fantasy of superheroes is the idea that there are people whom, if granted great power, will use that power for good. Having that apply to the legal powers not just the superpowers is a neat idea.
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"I'm saying that when the President hulks out, it is not illegal!"
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It failed to make the case for itself and garner any credit for its accomplishments?
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He'd be a shoo-in for Guardians of the Galaxy 4.
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Real warriors steal from the locals to support themselves.
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Didn't Hannan say something about ball-chewing gimps as well? What is it about that particular image in this context?
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I'm guessing it's the ball that's orange, though that's a strange detail to clarify.
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We did the Holocaust in Religious Studies in my school, which feels a bit odd now, although I suppose it makes a degree of sense.
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He needs to be the hero who romances Padme but he also needs to start falling to darkness at the same time and it doesn't quite coalesce.
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AOTC's biggest weakness is that Anakin was a kid in TPM.
Not in a 'bully Jake Lloyd' sense but because the tragic hero story Lucas wanted to tell could not be told with a kid - he's barely any sort of hero, let alone a tragic one. As a result, Anakin's arc suffers from being dreadfully compressed
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Since you seem to have known the figures for months at this point, why is it taking so long to release them?
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He claims that he was influence by the way "the US army got its butt kicked by a bunch of barefoot guys running through the jungle". You can see it in the way that, for example, the marines are ambushed and almost wiped out by the xenomorphs underneath the reactor core.
Also, you should see Aliens.
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You mean the same way James Cameron claims that Aliens was influenced by Vietnam?
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A little too generous to them, but I do think that if Reeves had reversed the Employee NI cuts instead of increasing Employer NI she wouldn't be stuck with the narrative that her budget was a disaster which is strangling her now.
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Bezos will obligingly cancel Cavill's Warhammer show in order to free up his schedule.
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Feels like Disney could get there no trouble. There are 13 princesses, so that's not even 3 dolls each, and you could do it even more easily with Star Wars.
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Weren't they mostly chariots rather than cavalry at this point?
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Lucas' dialogue is not naturalistic by any means, but that isn't the same as it being bad. It needs the right kind of actors who can deliver it theatrically; or, failing that, Harrison Ford for some reason.
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I'd say the opposite, the Prequels have substance but occasionally the style lets it down.
Substantively, the PT is a very classic tragedy, the story of a hero who falls due to his innate flaws, but Lucas sometimes struggles to get that properly across.
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What does Sam Altman have to do with Indigo Children?
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I hadn't heard of Indigo Children in years, I thought that had died out decades ago.
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The problem is they probably wouldn't say what they really think while the cameras are on.
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True. But at the same time, some of this stuff doesn't inherently have to be divisive or deceitful. If cabinet meetings were televised then at least we could see for ourselves what was being said rather than trying to discern the truth from a fog of self-serving and contradictory leaks.
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The issue isn't the lack of plot progression, it's that the characters often seem to descend into self-caricature when the plot isn't around.
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You-know-who? You-know-who??
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Because they've still grown faster than wages?
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Strategic reality rather than economic. We need to be able to produce steel (to rearm, if nothing else) even if that involves running the plant at a loss.
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Although he does talk about Mine Run retrospectively when discussing Warren & his appointment to command V Corps.
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You have to admire a man who is a) willing to embarrass himself so much for the sake of his party, b) never really acts like he feels embarrassed by it in the least and c) can also make serious points about, eg, social care and disability when he needs to.
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If anything can get the govt over their infuriating hangups with regards to the EU that will be a silver lining, at least.
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Why are the Lib Dems so unpopular? What did they do?
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Raiding monasteries, yes, but you couldn't kill the monks or anyone else apart from the soldiers or you'd get de-synced.
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Outside of the neostate? Does that mean that the keys to America's weapons would be kept outside of America? In Russia or somewhere?
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Musk will abolish that soon, I'm sure.
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Megatron's stock price has fallen! All hail Starscream!
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I thought they had to wipe all the copies once they claimed their tax rebate?
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Which was the half a time, in your opinion? I'm guessing that TOS and TNG are the two times.
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Sir Ed Davey clears his throat?
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If they are going to lower it they could at least go back to the limits before George Osborne's increases - between 5 and 6k if I remember right.
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Various wargames have told me that hoplite equipment & tactics persisted in Greek Sicily/Italy for a lot longer than they did in Greece proper. Is that not the case (or if it is, might they not be Siciliot/Italiot hoplite mercenaries)?
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Fair enough, I was thinking of this Rafael Behr piece, but it's not a quote:
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In fairness, haven't the government themselves chosen to present it partly in those terms, as a plank of their industrial strategy? That choice opens it to critique on the same basis.
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"It's more the fact that he exists, if you know what I mean," is certainly going to hit different.
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Isn't the cost part of the point? I can't remember who it was but someone in the Guardian suggested that a tacit aim of all this was to increase productivity by raising the cost of labour to the point where productivity investments were the cheaper option vs more hires.
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The right of the Labour Party, not the right generally.