telson.bsky.social
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How much messy is too much?
Personally I loved the highly - flawed characters and their dubious decisions.
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It's a horrible underworld of cruelty the people of USA have carefully ignored even though it's the manifestation of their xenophobia.
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Oh there's literally dozens of us.
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It was a reasonable assumption that UK voters wouldn't be so idiotic as to vote for it.
Unfortunately it wasn't true.
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I feel it's a question that answers itself.
The profound racism that underlies every aspect of US culture has to be disavowed.
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This is well put.
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Oh!
Ok.
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I have no idea what this might mean.
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This is bollocks.
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He couldn't be.
If he had been white America would have killed him.
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Yep. Further seasons would have diluted the impact.
See also, Lovecraft Country.
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TLDR: it's complicated.
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Whether that means it was *outside Germany* is somewhat moot.
I believe special rules applied to the annexed lands.
Jurisdictional fuzziness was something of a Nazi Speciality.
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This is often said but was Auschwitz actually outside The Reich at that time?
I don't know, but it's possible it was inside the annexed territory.
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It's never quite clear whether such people actually believe such sottiseries or whether they just think they'll tickle the ears of their followers.
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The usual fascist playbook.
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I do hope they do justice to characters I still remember like Boxer The Horse and Benjamin The Donkey.
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I thought it was fairly droll. And presumably they want to do something different from the CIA version of yesteryear.
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Being on Bluesky encourages us to learn new things.
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I'm sure he'll be happy with such a ringing endorsement.
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I don't think I've known who was *No.1* since about 1990.
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There is that.
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Most kind!
That's actually *more than a dozen* so the WaPo header is wrong as well as weird.
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Perhaps he should change his name to Elon The Martian or something to make it more memorable.
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Definitely an N.
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*does
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That's not really his fault tbf.
I'm sure he's trying his best to become more famous than he is.
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That's an important clue.
I never watch videos on TikTok and I suspect no one else on this thread dies either.
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It indicates that either Chaminda's followers skew old or that we don't watch TikTok or indeed both of those things.
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I quite like that it's more diversified.
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WTF?
You're happy telling us you injured or nearly injured children because of your bad driving?
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Well there's a surprise.
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N.
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Of course old Ambrose does like to pile on the grotesque. I could have done without the last paragraph.
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Most kind.
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Well, well.
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You have my sympathy.
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The show is very much a child of The 90s, a curious interval where everything in the political garden looked rosy.
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*for our current plight
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Probably doesn't assort well with the triviality of the show's format.
Which I think is not free of guilt for a current plight.
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Very possibly.
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*too vague and general
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The Decline of Western Civilization?
Or is that two vague and general an explanation?
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I weakly urge those who still pay for a TV licence to stop doing that.
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The zombie existence of this show is definitely a morbid symptom.
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Sam Brittan.
That's a name I haven't heard in a long time.
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Seems about right.
I was amused by the appearance of an Oppenheimer avatar called Dr Corsi in James Blish's *Cities in Flight* tetralogy.
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Pretty much.
The Brits made it policy to incinerate German workers (because they made the weapons Hitler used to kill people) and if their wives and children died too that was just too bad.
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You had a bad month,
You're taking it down,
You sing a sad song
Just to turn it around...
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She doesn't seem to be an unprincipled grifter like George Galloway so I think some sympathy for her plight is appropriate.