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I started Moby Dick, then sidetracked when I was recommended Dresden. I also read All Tomorrows. That one was a sort of tragic/creepy history of humanity's next billion years.

I am also reading Moby Dick.

It is frustrating because it is simultaneously very interesting and WHY ARE YOU GIVING ME 70 MILLION EXAMPLES OF WHY SOMETHING BEING WHITE MAKES IT MORE TERRIFYING FUCK

Make more children

Threaten the two tribes we raided earlier that if they don’t become our vassals we will raid them again.

Raid them if they don’t comply.

There are folks around who do research for politicians and their campaigns, so I’m assuming they were either hired to look into these guys specifically, or they were hired during the campaigns, and their opponents are now releasing this information for whatever reason.

Either that or Virginians really aren’t very good at keeping their skeletons in their closets.

Former soccer player who is now an anti-racism campaigner.

Ye’s shoulda done it the other way n’ a’.

I guess the town has more honour than the scum :p

Quote from: Il Palazzo on February 06, 2019, 10:21:19 am

In what way he hasn't, though?

Quote from: Dorsidwarf on February 06, 2019, 08:48:07 am

he seems to have walked back on said statements since.

It's also rather irritating how Juncker and Tusk have misplayed the EU's hand so consistently, refusing to compromise with Cameron or never ceasing in their capacity to pointlessly insult the UK's factions. It's rather alike a pack of dogs fighting amongst themselves, then the wolf jumps in and the pack of dogs unite. I would much rather the EU remain respectful and allow our own house of cards to devour itself than for its incompetent drunkards to show up and unite the pack against such a blatantly exploitable incident

From the point of view of the EU bureaucracy, they want this to go badly so as to discourage other countries from leaving, and that is apparently a successful tactic.

I don’t think they’re wrong though. It is mindbogglingly stupid the Tories has no plan prior to the referendum, even bare bones, for a Leave vote. It is minbogglingly stupid that it appeared none of the contenders for the Tory leadership after Cameron fucked off had a plan, and they all then realized what a poisoned chalice the position actually would be and slowly but surely abandoned their goal,  and left Theresa May holding the bag.

Then she triggers Article 50 with no plan and calls a general election 6 weeks later, and lost a 20-point lead in the ensuing month and a half. I actually - foolishly, naively - thought this would actually encourage dialogue between parties, between the “equal” partners in the UK, but she just carried on with fucking about doing whatever it was she was doing, being told nobody really likes the direction it’s going and is somehow surprised when it turns out nobody really liked the direction it was going.

My favourite part was when Davis stepped out of the Brexit minister role after the Chequers plan, and was replaced by Raab, citing disagreement with the plan. Then a month later, when the plan is finalized, Raab, having been deputy for the entirety and then the man with the plan for the final month also steps down, citing disagreement with the plan he tacitly supported by accepting the position in the first place. Then the media were putting his name forward for a possible leadership bid if May lost the Tory confidence vote!

Anyway, tl;dr Tusk is biased, but he’s also right.

I hope this starts, like, a snowball of a bunch of politicians claiming they did blackface at some point but they’re sorry now.