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'Prince, I can hear the trumpet of Germinal, The tumbrils toiling up the terrible way; Even to-day your royal head may fall, I think I will not hang myself to-day'. (Chesterton)
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He needs the earth to open and demons erupt from it to drag him screaming down to hell like an obese senile Don Giovanni.
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Not everywhere in the UK (looking at England) has been quite so consistent in making the case that it’d be better if this line stopped going up and ideally started to go down. If only they would get on with doing something about it…
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Started wearing N95 masks all day which seems to help.
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youtu.be/9JIbnuPj84I
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Good.
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There's a couple that try and fail... The US flag however looks fine!
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Top right guys also look Spanish to me. And no one in any picture wearing an SS, SA, NSDAP or Wehrmacht uniform.
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Also everyone should be reading the hell out of Stuart Hall on Thatcherism atm
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At least one of those guys at the front looks to me like he is in a Polish uniform...
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Those Nazis are rubbish - even the swastikas are wrong!
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Not so good
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Scale.
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This video. Sent to me by a friend on here. Just a little while ago, I watched it and my emotions were all over the place. Still are. youtu.be/uVlSVkzbJDA?...
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Useful graph to get a snapshot of departmental (non capital) spending and priorities.
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'Finally a woman notices me!'
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Grant had a nice line about him being so obnoxious an officer pre-civil war that not only would he fall out with himself but he actually did so when combining a post as company commander and regiment quartermaster by cantankerously refusing his own requests.
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I am unashamedly leftist but very few other leftists would recognise me as such. Which is exactly as it always has been and always will be.
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For Vance's actual home region, I think the joke was that everyone in Kentucky signed up to join the Confederate Army the day after Appomattox
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Not 100% relevant but God I love that picture!
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Or they recognise that the game is up, that there is no going back to democracy as we knew it and that if you want to survive all you can do is ingratiate yourself with the tyrant?
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Not all leftists...