PSA America
It's Sir Keir, or (the) Prime Minister, or just the surname. It's not "Prime Minister Starmer" and--I'm begging you here--it is not "Sir Starmer" under any circumstances whatsoever. No. Bad.
we're going to be calling him Prime Minister Starmer because that's what fits into our conventions of address, and you can just sit there and cry into the British Museum's massive hoard of stolen artifacts about it
PSA America
It's Sir Keir, or (the) Prime Minister, or just the surname. It's not "Prime Minister Starmer" and--I'm begging you here--it is not "Sir Starmer" under any circumstances whatsoever. No. Bad.
1. elite media finds a herd issue
2. elected dems (usually backbenchers) read the columns about it
3. columnists know electeds are reading, write more columns
4. panic sets in
5. columnists want to keep the panic going
>>> you are here
6. electeds do something fatally stupid
my favorite part of this poem is "sunset gates." as a child I couldn't understand it - new york is in the east! but in that line we see Liberty through the eyes of immigrants, who have sailed infinitely west toward her, the first sight of their new home
one of the most out-of-nowhere moving experiences in a game I've had was at the end of Wolfenstein: The New Order where (spoiler) Blaskowitz recites The New Colossus. encapsulates the best about this country
according to my wife Charles II had a mistress who he called by the pet name Fubbs, which meant chubby because she was, and he named a royal yacht HMS Fubbs, which is basically like naming a ship the SS My Girlfriend's Huge Ass
I think we should rediscover the idea that it's possible for someone's level of effort to not be good enough. Points for trying cannot be awarded if you did not try.
dumping your mental load into someone else's lap is incredibly rude, actually. it's the listener's job to make the effort to comprehend what was said. nothing was unclear or incomplete in that post, reply guy just didn't feel like thinking
going to skip the obvious dunk here (real TB heads know what a sacrifice that is for me) and observe that white media pointedly ignores black media, especially if something's popular there that they don't approve of
Part of what bugs me about this whole discourse is that all the "drop out Biden" people are talking about it like it's the most pragmatic option instead of an insane desperation move
Kamala Harris: "I am the most stereotypical California liberal you can imagine"
Online lefties, 2020 - last week: "NO YOU'RE A COP."
Online lefties, realizing politics is more than vibes: "oh damn, I think the black woman from California might be more left than the white one from Michigan"
Apparently the government of the Yucatán recently erected a Poseidon statue on one of their major beaches. It’s a very heavily Mayan area, where people still pray to Chaac, the god of rainfall.
They’re now being slammed with 3 hurricanes and significant flooding, leading to memes like this
I talk about this a lot, my theory that zoomers seem stupid to older people not just for the usual reasons but because they grew up when pop culture references went out of fashion in kid entertainment. nobody's having pigeons parody scorsese anymore and we're all the poorer for it.
Yeah, one of the reasons I litter my contemporary work with pop culture references isn't that I think I'm funny (though I am, I'm SO funny) but because little babydorks play these games I write and, like, I want them to know that things exist?
Anyways, my suggestion is that instead of replacing Biden, Dems should quietly send out feelers towards the goddess Pele in Hawaii and the orisha/lwa Aganju, humbly asking for one measly little volcanic hot-spot to form in just the right place-
this attracts them to authoritarian politics too. they firmly believe that *everyone* is just barely restraining themselves from a rampage, and accordingly anyone "dangerous" must be oppressed for the public good
I fully believe there are a lot of men out there that are only kept in check by societal rules and as soon as that check is removed they have no qualms.
