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Irish science fiction writer (possibly the world's slowest). Squid, spaceships, síntí fada -- what's not to like? https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/author/finbarr-oreilly/
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Spiderman: Romecoming
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If you think this can’t happen outside the U.S., consider that we’re all subject to the same forces - social media-driven discourse, collapsing institutional trust, and the rise of narratives untethered from reality. It’s a systemic vulnerability in every democracy.
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Have you tried turning the signal off and on again?
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"British chimneys for British children"
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Not to mention that even if you're misguided enough to think getting more White Christians into Britain is the answer to all our problems, the biggest obstacle to doing that is, of course, Brexit.
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And how would he drive such a change? Criminalise divorce? Legalise bigamy? Huge tax breaks for fecund Anglicans? Church-sanctioned artificial insemination? Handmaids? Joy Divisions?
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I put forcing in quotation marks because Mexico and Canada didn't really give up much of anything they were not already doing or that they would have agreed to in friendly negotiations without the tariff threat. He's not a negotiator. He's a bully.
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"Come and bray with us, Danny... forever... and ever... and ever"
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Dancing didn't have to stop the last time Americans got together to fight off fascists.
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Genuinely baffled as to his end game here, if it's not just senility or sowing chaos. And does this statement not open his BS 'emergency powers' justification for tariffs to endless court challenge? Not to mention start every other trading partner preparing for the inevitable strong arm tactics?
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Further every day, it seems. They're gonna start thawing out Hugo Boss soon.