bat020.bsky.social
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one bizarre thing about that old Ford/Goodwin book on UKIP is that its data clearly showed the UKIP vote as coming from "ex Labour voters" who last voted Labour some time in the 70s/80s! – ie they would be better described as "ex Tory voters", but their narrative constantly tries to elide this.
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the other thing the report doesn't seem to go into is the allegations that HBOS parted company with Reeves when it became clear that she was taking time off to go canvas while claiming she had a dental appointment or something.
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have to say I found Candy's account more plausible lol
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one funny thing I read on wikipedia is that Bowie says he was on 10g coke a day during the shoot, didn't have to "act" since he was barely on the planet as it was etc; Candy Clark in contrast recalls that Bowie was clean as a whistle and punctiliously professional throughout.
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last time I saw it was on BBC2 as a teenager and I was kinda baffled by it so was slightly reassured to find out this wasn't just me being an ingenue.
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... which is online here!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6TA...
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Nosfera³ perhaps.
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Dafoe is clearly having a whale of a time.
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incidentally my favourite version of Dracula is the BBC 1977 version starring Louis Jourdain as the count with an amazing turn by Susan Penhaligan as a truly terrifying Lucy.
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read that play for English Lit O-level. loved it.
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some context from the other place
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this is the Guardian from 2002 reporting on "chaotic scenes" as Le Pen tried to launch his presidential bid at the European Parliament. my mission that day was to take a day trip to Brussels and foment precisely such scenes.
www.theguardian.com/world/2002/a...
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I wonder if he's just past caring now. there's nothing he can do to stop the rot and there's nothing the company can do to get rid of him.
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there's some recent stuff too, including this one titled Syria from 2018. anyway do go see, it's fascinating and powerful and you get a free newspaper with all his work in it! /fin
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lots of his posters from the 80s and 90s covering everything from the Gulf War to BT privatisation. oh and check out the OG transformers.
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there's some old copies of the Guardian featuring his work on show. back in 1990 the Guardian Review on Thursday would lead with an article on Walter Benjamin and commission artwork to go with it, and that was just normal.
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preferable to us maybe but any kind of serious popular control is anathema to each and every one of the state powers with their fingers in the pie. which is why I think there's a storm coming.
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she is gonna be such a disaster, u luv 2 c it.
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none of the powers that saved his arse ten years ago are mobilising now. the only thing going for the wretched man was his usefulness to those divers powers, and it looks like he's outlived his usefulness.
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also re corporate dynamics one of the effects of everything being determined by how much massive private equity you can attract creates a culture that incentivises bullshitters and bluffers and defers the darwinian crunch point where you actually have to deliver something useful.
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honestly I've always liked Taleb, I remember him as a contrarian loudmouth options trader before he was famous. he's like the only genuinely interesting right wing thinker atm I'd say. and good to see him on the right side re Palestine (which is a surprise given his background and prejudices).
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yeah I agree with the last sentence, I just wonder if it's qualitative or quantitative [if you'll pardon me speaking in my theological lingo lol]
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surely this has been a problem with traditional anything the moment innovation became a thing historically speaking, ie the dawn of capitalist modernity.
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and of course this manifests suddenly, when history actually happens and events need to be dealt with, and at that moment of showdown we realise they've been bluffing with two pair all along. hence the general collapse. maybe. well it's a theory. /fin
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the consequence is textbook imperial decadence, these great ships of state passed on to a pampered and inept generation of officers whose only lodestar is to cosplay daddy, or failing that cosplay granddaddy. >>
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consequently none or at least very few of this cadre has been blooded, they never had to fight, they never had to prove themselves in any arena beyond the petty fratricidal dynamics that are and always have been a constant of their lives. >>
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nobody ever talks about this but for decades now tacit support for zionism has been a shibboleth in ruling class circles: anyone who demurs gets a quiet word and shapes up or ships out. this mechanism might be under strain atm but it is very much still operative.
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it's very nice and all that and the zionists are predictably whining but if we are to learn anything from history it is that a liberation strategy aimed at winning over the great & good is a liberation strategy doomed to fail.