tomrg.bsky.social
Reporter for my local newspaper, former teacher. Used to be Shazom123 on the bird site. History, politics, football, TV and plenty of random stuff.
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If ever a novel needed Kevin O’Neill…
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It’s all about picking enemies. Bit off too much he can chew on with Musk, and risks splintering the base. All in against a costal city “swarming with migrants and crime” - that’ll do nicely.
Especially if he can declare victory in time for the military parade, which will then become a victory one.
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Calling the national guard in LA and the parade - it’s all meant to provoke, to create a them against us attitude. Without that there is just infighting and disfunction. Which Trump fears most of all.
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Well, they did win an election last year with a majority of 156 seats.
But given more recent news - yes, this is a headline.
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I can’t work out where in County Cork that was filmed, but those lads look like they are having a great laugh.
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Wasn’t Univision basically in the bag for Trump?
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It’s alright. I’m sure there are teams of Militias who have spent twenty years preparing for this moment that will be rushing from the fields of Oregon and Nevada to LA as we speak.
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Didn’t the night crawlers come up with this back in ‘95?
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“For god sake how can you not know what rate your RMPR is at, man?”
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Animal Farm is about how evil can corrupt ideals, it doesn’t come in with fist swinging from the start, propaganda and manipulation are used to question ideals. This clip shows this. I really don’t see the problem.
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I don’t see that. And Stalin was a human. (Napoleon was of course a pig). Have you read Young Stalin? He was a charismatic appealing politician, who also murdered millions.
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If only the state’s political class were as brave.
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That’s true for Patel in every photo.
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Tories do badly in election isn’t news any more.
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That’s probably exactly what they are hoping for. ‘How could you speak against him? Didn’t you see all those tanks he has?!’
Will be interesting to see if it works in Americans (who over the last year or so have shown themselves to be a nation of cowards). Especially their political class.
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It might be seen as wonderful, there is plenty of military fetishisation in US politics- mission accomplished and all that. But a full in parade on home soil? And for this president (who love him or loath him we all know he has the potential to go very wrong very quickly).
It’s just so weird.
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You are spot on, I’ve just done a few kids coaching courses, and there was a pretty involved online one about this sort of thing and how you should report it. (Though in all situations described it was just coaches and children, I don’t know if parents and children makes it different).
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Gulp. Wait until Ivor starts playing football. The things you see and hear.
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It’s very weird, and looks, to me - Brit - totally unAmerican. Hopefully that’s how many Americans will see it too.
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Hahaha.
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It’s more naive youngster and older racist. It, to me, looks more like the relationship between a young gamer and alt right podcaster. Which is what gave us Trump.
Instead of basing it on the USSR maybe it’s the current US situation they’ll satirise?
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I don’t have the same reaction that other people seem to be having. What is it others are seeing?
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Going to be tricky when the dogs rip the throats from the traitors and their bloody bodies are piled up.
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What is the issue with it? For what it is worth I quite like it.
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I know, it will be termed as “woke” but, for me, it makes more sense. If you want a different tone, or take there is the 1950’s cartoon.
Are people upset because this is just not a shot for shot remake.
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I see no point in retelling the story of the USSR verbatim, instead, to make it relevant it should be about how alt right types and control of news can pollute societies.
That’s a big part of the book - Moses does this.
That’s a more interesting modern take.
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Animal farm was about taking a political message and putting it into a kids story, hence the full title: Animal Farm A Fable.
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Why? I’m going to suggest others are less familiar with the original text.
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This section is dark, he’s looking up to a guy who hates the society they live in and wants to turn it into a right wing ethno state. This is Combo grooming Woody, this is a young gamer listening to Steve Bannon and nodding without really thinking about what he’s being told.
This does not end well.
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I don’t get the hate, Animal Farm was a fable, this looks very much like a Disney cartoon that will show how devious actors destroy the ideal society with insidious rhetoric to empower themselves.
And there will still be the bit with the dogs ripping out the throats.
It could be really good.
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Livin’ your best life Jase.
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Which one?
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That’s a fair point. I wouldn’t rule it out, but Musk is the biggest ego we’ve seen Trump tangle with yet.
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In fact Musk can make a strength of it - ‘You all know me and Donald don’t always get on, but I’d rather him over a democrat etc… ‘
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Trump and Bannon, Trump and Rubio etc. Trump makes a show of being magnanimous if the other yields a little. The alt right then use this to attack the puritanical (as they see it) left who will cancel you for a through crime.
This can be l binned to join together to get migrants or trans etc.
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That could be very true. The mistake many make is to equate indie with broadly supportive of the SNP platform.
Even regular SNP majorities at Holyrood doesn’t mean the Scottish electorate is broadly inline with these policies.
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Do people still just watch TV, everything is from an app, so you never just find yourself watching stuff, like you would when you just watched C4 all night.
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Now I’m slowly beginning to understand the 2024 election.
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There was a significant “let’s just throw the system up in the air” vote for independence, now the same rhetoric is working for Reform. I know a few indie to reform voters. This makes sense.
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That’s assuming the ROK is still an ally, maybe it’s not? Maybe Vance is about to shout at it for not being free, or not accepting tarrifs🤷♂️?
Who can say Trump won’t move against it and rally behind North K in a day or two.
Best just say nothing.
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Time traveller (and shagger) extraordinaire.
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I suspect for young people “cooks” has some second meaning we don’t know, and secretly they are all cringing at how we are confused by this.
(To be fair, now, this is how I feel about almost every word…)
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I have to fess up it’s not my idea but can’t find the post where I read it.
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I thought it was quite a good twist. Just having a timeline walk out and be all calculating or camp and evil would just have been another master or Rani. Instead we got something different.
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You see the drive to do something new, followed by Please the Fans! Followed by now a single story! In the Chibnall era. A real shame because smaller (cheaper), scarier, multi part stories could be the way forward…?