bastiaande.bsky.social
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What's the most viewed SW on Disney plus? Force Awakens? Na, Last Jedi? Na. Return of the Jedi? Na. It's Phantom Menace.
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I think given the infancy of the internet in the prequal era vs the sequal era, it's impossible to compare like for like. So it's a nonsense claim. Source? Trust me bro.
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This is why the prequels spawned numerous tie-in projects, and continue to do so, and the sequals killed star wars movies for a generation.
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that's because passionate defenders of the the prequels at the time were children, while passionate defenders of the sequals, at the time, were non-star wars fans. One lot grew up, the other never had more than a casual interest in star wars.
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Better movies isn't better star wars. And if taken as a whole trilogy, the sequals can't even really that accolade given how catastrophically badly they ended
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Given there was never a cohort of people who had remotely the same affection for the sequels, I don't see why movies that were better received by everyone except Star Wars fans (the key demographic), why or when they would ever happen.
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I don't really think this is true, it feels more like projection. There continues to be far far far more tie in media for prequel era project, than sequal era.
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It'salready remembered fondly at large. The Force Awakens and TLJ are good movies, but seldom regarded by fans as good Star Wars. I can't envisage a world where that changes, why or how would it.
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I honestly don't think so, or that it's even possible given how the sequels ended. There is so much love for prequels aligned media that isn't going anywhere. Where or how is the same love from SW fans going to manifest in the sequels.
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They still have a enormous majority, they can do anything. If they don't start to use it to make changes that will satisfy a centrist to centre left electorate, and forget about the people who will never vote for them, well. What even is the point.
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According to Stephen Bush of the FT it's apparently a very simple change, and a very likley one
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Yeah, they will.
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Like the by-election. If that was a similar seat, in a Lab-Lib Demmy area, I don't think there'd be any doubt they'd sweep it.
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Fwiw, based on nothing (except maybe a years worth of council by-elections) my gut told me that reform would underperform. There's so little groundwork, they seem to just be turning up and thinking that there's no art behind what the Lib Dems do.
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But the voter groups who tend to vote Reform are traditionally lower propensity, no. Hugely motivated to vote reform, maybe, but in a low turnout local election? I guess we'll have to see.
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Of all the parties I don't think Reform will be the one with the turnout advantage
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Is it though? Trump not delivering is why House Republicans are panicking about next year when he's still in his first 100 days.
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The election is a long way off, but I think people are underestimating how successful a squeeze message would be if Labour can say its us or them, when theres so much at stake. Part of the reason the vote was so fragmented last time was everyone knew the result before they voted
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People who don't vote aren't counted, and the pro-EU side ran a dire campaign, inspired by an equally dire campaign that thought nearly half of Scots voting for Independence was a good result for Unionism.
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I don't think it's helpful or healthy of you to continue to kid yourself that it was a minority of people, or to hold that it was only due to lies.
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Lab were only on 29% in the 2021 locals, so in the grand scheme of things this year might not be down all that much.
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Maybe when you're murdered, when there's still a chance you'll be found alive I'd go for one where your face isn't half obscured ;)
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Insane Labour hasn't changed the electoral system back. Even if in this case it benefited the Lib Dems, that's better for them than the Tories or Reform winning it.
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Maybe I'm just to sanguine about it, but my sense based on the council by-election performance since the GE is that Reform will way under perform expectations and the Lib Dems will do very well.
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These locals won't be a horror show for Labour. They didn't perform well last time, so don't have allot to lose.
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And those three guys were in the last 25 years. Hardly rare for the modern Tory party
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The three who haven't done it just so happen to be in the last 20 years.
This is the party that has one just one stable majority since 1987 (vs 4 so far for Labour), this isn't the same Tory party.
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May 2019 huh 🤔 what was the result for the subsequent election a few months later? Gotta be close I imagine, the polls said so.
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No
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Musk is not Mark Anthony, none of them are Augustus.
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Yeah, like Republican types already hated Bezos. Now he's given a huge FU to Washington Post reading Liberals, there's really no one around anymore to like him
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Have a day off.
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Yeah, there's no way the Democrats are not going to be able to spend as much as the GOP in 2028. And given how thin the GOP majority in the house it's more than plausible they lose that next year.
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Your narrow and personal definition of alliance is not the definition of alliance.
As literally everyone is telling you.
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Your narrow personal definition of the word ally, is the not the definition of the word ally.
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As a non NATO member, why would it.
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It will eventually, Tesla has never been worth anything like it's Market Cap. When he has either fallen out with Trump, or there is a Democratic president, he's surely going to find himself in some difficulty.
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Yes, thank you smart-ass for that link. Believe it or not everyone does know that term limits are in the constitution, this is just hypothetical. The Supreme Court can not overturn it, but they can reinterpret it. That's what's being talked about.
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If the Supreme Court finds an excuse for a third term, that'd mean Obama can also stand for a another. And, well, good luck Trump in that scenario...
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Musk is not stupid because he is a con-men, he is a con-man who is stupid.
And I don't find it comforting, wtf you talking about? Having stupid idiots atop of the most powerful country on earth is terrifying.
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They're good at riling people up, but when it comes to governance these are morons. These are no machiavellis. Musk is going hope he stays pals with Trump for the next 4 years, else he's in allot of trouble when the Dems return to power.