"..A creep is close to normal on the outside, but not quite normal...there's something off in the creep's manner, as though the creep is wearing a mask that doesn't quite fit.
Beneath the surface lurks an active malevolence that somehow pokes through."
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That's twice in two days McInerney has reappeared on my horizon, after many years.
Picked up a collection of Raymond Carver short stories in a charity shop yesterday, looked at his train wreck personal life on Wikipedia, see that McInerney is credited with introducing him to Uncle Charlie.
A good read, nails the absurdity of these people.
The Steve "Flood the zone with shit" Bannon MAGA approach, "just say any old crap and the plebs'll lap it up".
All deeply cynical, contemptuous of the people they claim to represent.
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Yeah, the old question, "who vets the vettors"?
A great, well written website for mind cleansing, amusing ephemera
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And also the manner and infrastructure of the process.
Obama deported a million a year, but he didn't need a "true believer" (Farage's words) para military force, grabbing people off the street, applying nakedly racist profiling, nor to build holding pen concentration camps.
It's all about power.
Let's quote the baseless opinion and evidence free conclusion of a Tory propagandist who dabbles in polling and extrapolate about a theoretical median voter that doesn't exist.
Venn diagram time.
No spaghetti either, the sauce unable to hang onto curved surfaces, hence tagliatelle.
Tomatoes have curved surfaces too; coincidence, or Italian Flat Food Society influence?
This is a bit Cold War speak.
Semantics.
De facto locked in by software structure, not a contractural monopoly, even the muppets that do these deals wouldn't sign something like that.
I bet early termination fees are juicy.
Aerstráice a hAon.
I see they binned the cap, must keep O'Leary & co happy.
Or one can expand the future beyond time, as Cixin Liu does quite successfully, imo, in the Three Body Problem trilogy, from a springboard only 18 million years away.
The future is thin, white and bifocal.
Apart from the not-thin, white and blind.
"Reverse migration" =/= randomly sending long term citizens to countries with which they have no connection.
Good luck (not really) for a future based on the endeavours of scammers, posers and fantasists.
Hampshire and Somerset looks like a cracking game to have been watching.
Maybe that's "learning"?
Some (old) ageing people that I know have done nothing but become more entrenched in the bunkers they've been digging all their lives.
Well written and interesting, thanks.
My take is that, just like MAGA, supporting Reform does offer "freedom".
Freedom from any sort of social contract, freedom from compromise, freedom to do and say anything that may be swilling around your brain, freedom to BE SOMEBODY.
Don't look for logic.
Lovely little motor cruiser, bit of a Mekong delta look.
I've fallen in love...
Just gotta steer clear of albatrosses this, time, and it's a sailor's life for me 🎶
American race supremacists, now firmly embedded in the #NHS and other vital systems of British society.
I haven't done alcohol for 20 years, but bizarre lockdown circumstances found me in a household with a craft beer afficionado, where I was introduced to Punk AF, quite pleasant.
A bit early for a mid-life crisis, no?
We've grubbed in the earth since there was earth to grub in, very 'grounding'.
Map of Jutland area
In the 1930 elections, the Nazi Party got their highest vote of 27%, in Schleswig-Holstein.
In 1932 they got 51% there, their only absolute majority before voting 'ended'.
If there is one area on a map you could point to and say "That's where Anglo Saxons came from", guess where it would be?
"traditional"
Paranoid autocrats and their inner circles, playing the "If you aren't one of us, you're one of them" game with people's lives all over the world, cheered on by homegrown flag shaggers with the right paperwork.
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Crumbling cliffs and cold mud lava flows
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Updating my muted words list
Great body language in his profile pic.
Disdain, neuroses and assumed privilege all fighting for attention.
I know every line from that film.
Who was I 30 years ago?
Church wardens are Dark Horses.
Thinking about the one that's laundering RF Yusuf's money.