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Rory Martin @roryjoshuamartin.bsky.social · 19h

American cultural dominance means we have to suffer from FDR's successful merging of liberal and left, when such a thing just never happened here.

Rory Martin @roryjoshuamartin.bsky.social · 3d

Bismarck in the streets, Robin Cook in the sheets

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Rory Martin @roryjoshuamartin.bsky.social · 3d

Also very jarring when those on the left go on about the Russian "sphere of influence" yet get cross at my suggestion that the UK should therefore reinvade Galway

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Rory Martin @roryjoshuamartin.bsky.social · 3d

Aye, the political direction is completely besides the point when the common factor being someone who was very very online.

Rory Martin @roryjoshuamartin.bsky.social · 7d

Coming out with Leveson 2 immediately in July 24 wouldn't have given any worse headlines.

I wish it was cowardliness rather than complicity.

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Rory Martin @roryjoshuamartin.bsky.social · 8d

Fairly organic turnout I'd say, but given they're treated like the Opposition by the media they receive the mid term anti government vote?

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Rory Martin @roryjoshuamartin.bsky.social · 8d

They could so easily set up a fake fox news studio and do a late Salazar to him, wheeling him out to condemn the Venezuelan fentanyl gangs he's shown on TV while the nutters control a superpower.

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Rory Martin @roryjoshuamartin.bsky.social · 11d

I love how the country of THE CONSTITUTION has all its actual day to day rules governed by obscure statutory instruments that were some of the chief complaints of the founders.

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Rory Martin @roryjoshuamartin.bsky.social · 11d

In my house we recognise all of Richards II's treaties and so do the Portuguese, thankfully.

Rory Martin @roryjoshuamartin.bsky.social · 11d

Yeah, weak when you're redrawing all the worlds borders. Tho in Spain's case, thousands of annoying leftists ended up being completely correct that Spanish fascism in '36 was a civilisational conflict that needed opposing early and hard.

The allies could never really forgive socialists being right.

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Rory Martin @roryjoshuamartin.bsky.social · 11d

The Allies kept Spain neutral during the war for logistical reasons but would have been better off knocking him out and freeing Spain. I often think it's because it would have mean admitting the popular front should have been backed in 1936.

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Rory Martin @roryjoshuamartin.bsky.social · 11d

I quite liked it at launch as I'd not done the hype, but god, the emptiness. Not felt anything like it since LA noire and then until starfield. Whole game was like being in a shopping centre.

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Rory Martin @roryjoshuamartin.bsky.social · 11d

Yeah 2016 no man's sky with occasional characters from Oblivion.

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Rory Martin @roryjoshuamartin.bsky.social · 11d

Tbf I was once served a pint of espresso by a lady in greggs in dewsbury when I only ordered a single as "the machine was broken and keeps coming out in spurts."

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Rory Martin @roryjoshuamartin.bsky.social · 13d

My partners tolerance in my showing off to my partner by identifying which roman emperor the coin shown of the metal detecting subreddit reassures me about the strength of our relationship.

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Rory Martin @roryjoshuamartin.bsky.social · 13d

Leafed through my in laws copy last night, and it was only 40% mad culture war rubbish (half of which was the seventh Labour PM, sadly.)

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Rory Martin @roryjoshuamartin.bsky.social · 13d

Same era as anglers inventing "Poles are fishing the carp from the fish ponds for Christmas dinner"

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Rory Martin @roryjoshuamartin.bsky.social · 14d

Being permitted to hate Winston Churchill is the thing

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Rory Martin @roryjoshuamartin.bsky.social · 15d

I always use my army mate for witness forms. Tried that with my Irish passport, and, er, no, British army majors aren't acceptable...

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Rory Martin @roryjoshuamartin.bsky.social · 16d

Yeah she was mentioned unprompted by a colleague this week as those who "get away with it."

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Rory Martin @roryjoshuamartin.bsky.social · 20d

Could you imagine parliament losing the war of three kingdoms if Cromwell got killed? The second world war stopping because Churchill had a stroke in 42?

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Rory Martin @roryjoshuamartin.bsky.social · 20d

In retrospect such a terrible error to stake an entire civil war on one man leading it given those rules of succession.

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Rory Martin @roryjoshuamartin.bsky.social · 20d

Yeah, they failed to kill him, but that did more for their cause than anything else they could have dreamt of.

If they'd killed both the Republican party might have done reconstruction properly.

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Rory Martin @roryjoshuamartin.bsky.social · 20d

I have two sons named Wulfric and Hector. No one's guessing them.

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Rory Martin @roryjoshuamartin.bsky.social · 20d

Brutal