My understanding is that he considered himself a Rhodesian. Which is never a good thing.

While I accept Churchill’s line that the best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter, I maintain the best argument against our current system is a five-minute conversation with the average politician (or journalist, or academic, or businessperson…).

This helps me resolve the end of Eichmann In Jerusalem, which I found so unsatisfactory when I first read it, and when I returned to it today. Berkowitz makes Arendt coherent. And her Greek understanding of political communities shines through.

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Perhaps. You just can’t allow them to be in charge.

The true answer is sortition. And single terms only.

This is how you know you’ve assimilated.

A cheap car for the Volk. Or maybe e-bike, to update for the 2020s.

Confusion is often a symptom of undersized earlobes.

How did the Minions Survive Stalingrad? YouTube video by DocuDubery

youtu.be/i0kz5-GvySI one of many classics of the genre

This has been the legal situation in some Australian states for a couple of years now. And has been an overwhelmingly positive thing.

It would be a trek, because they’d been working in the Belgian Congo chopping off hands for forty years.

Best. Episode. Ever.

HOW HAVE I NEVER HEARD OF THIS GUY BEFORE, THIS IS TRULY INCREDIBLE

Who is Job?

StarCon2! The best!

Not 100% but: while the area bombing of German working-class housing wasn’t designed as class war and anti-Communism, that aspect was at least embraced as a happy byproduct of the RAF’s inability to hit anything smaller than a city.

Hands down, Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom. There’s so much fun to be had there.

Anna Chancellor is so perfect for that role. The casting is just superb for everyone, in fact.

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!

Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!

I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

And that’s only come out since. At the time, I assumed they were pretty much responding as we were. But it seems quite different.

That’s pretty much it: there were a few people who very loudly couldn’t handle it, but they were also obviously a small minority.

Whereas the vibe from the US over the past few years is that the people who couldn’t handle it and refused to sacrifice for others were, like, most people.

This one’s for the Australian and especially the Victorians. This wasn’t my experience at all; I thought people were pretty good and very willing to deny themselves to help others, even if it they got frazzled after a long time. But Adelaide had it easy. What’s your take?

Right now it’s “I’m gonna try a canine-human mind meld. It’s an incredibly rare psychic power possessed only by me and three other clerks at this store.”

Nah, I was there.

I don’t know about the club, but that was what I expected in August.

Funniest solution: Bayern win the Champions League and Arsenal sign Harry Kane.

One of the Arseblog writers a couple of weeks ago (it may actually have been Lewis) said that the Gyokeres signing was Arsenal finally biting the bullet after years, accepting that a unicorn striker wouldn’t appear, and going for the guy who looked good enough for now.

While it’s easy (and right) to be cynical about companies ostentatiously doing good things, I maintain that it’s a damn sight better than them ostentatiously doing evil things.

Hopefully America rediscovers its 19th-century heritage, and realises that real scholars go to Bielefeld and Göttingen.

Fully agree - and I think you largely agree with each other:

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