McDaragh
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I got 47 and pretty sure it's only because of the child units.
December 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I got 47 and pretty sure it's only because of the child units.
I think that's partially true, but with Badenoch it's more about the whole scale intellectual evisceration of the various media organs of the right. They've all gone Guido.
December 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I think that's partially true, but with Badenoch it's more about the whole scale intellectual evisceration of the various media organs of the right. They've all gone Guido.
Precisely - it's also a commitment issue. The EU got burned after offering plenty of opt outs pre 2016 so any Brejoin will be on standard terms. Then there's the fact that Starmer can't credibly promise the next election won't result in another massive reversal of policy.
December 3, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Precisely - it's also a commitment issue. The EU got burned after offering plenty of opt outs pre 2016 so any Brejoin will be on standard terms. Then there's the fact that Starmer can't credibly promise the next election won't result in another massive reversal of policy.
That's all fair enough, but I still think we're not at the negotiations point. Stanovaya had a good point that the Russian offer is "give us what we want through negotiations or we'll take it by force".
December 3, 2025 at 11:10 AM
That's all fair enough, but I still think we're not at the negotiations point. Stanovaya had a good point that the Russian offer is "give us what we want through negotiations or we'll take it by force".
Also it's not written in crayon.
December 3, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Also it's not written in crayon.
Anyway, I suppose it keeps you busy and away from something that might have a real world impact which I guess is a generally positive thing for all involved.
December 3, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Anyway, I suppose it keeps you busy and away from something that might have a real world impact which I guess is a generally positive thing for all involved.
I'm spending literally seconds to give myself a bit of amusement about you investing hours of time in this most quixotic of political efforts. Nice little break from the day while I brew some coffee.
December 3, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I'm spending literally seconds to give myself a bit of amusement about you investing hours of time in this most quixotic of political efforts. Nice little break from the day while I brew some coffee.
More to the point Your Party has probably attracted the 55,000 people in the country most likely to repel significantly greater numbers of voters through their activism.
December 3, 2025 at 10:21 AM
More to the point Your Party has probably attracted the 55,000 people in the country most likely to repel significantly greater numbers of voters through their activism.
"Sure, Trump has come up with a completely unworkable set of proposals that will never be implemented by sidelining most of the key stakeholders, but where is Europe's competing idiotic initiative from one of von Der Leyen's golf buddies?"
December 3, 2025 at 9:36 AM
"Sure, Trump has come up with a completely unworkable set of proposals that will never be implemented by sidelining most of the key stakeholders, but where is Europe's competing idiotic initiative from one of von Der Leyen's golf buddies?"
The fun thing is that this is basically indistinguishable from the editorial output of the National Review since forever.
December 3, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The fun thing is that this is basically indistinguishable from the editorial output of the National Review since forever.
Perhaps for aesthetic purposes? Blakely though... Jesus wept.
December 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Perhaps for aesthetic purposes? Blakely though... Jesus wept.
Which is incredible given Polanski's history.
December 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Which is incredible given Polanski's history.
Avatar was incredible in the way that Cameron actually used 3D filmmaking to make 3D images rather than just boost ticket prices. Otherwise it was "Ribisi plays Paul Reiser's character in Aliens but less subtly, and the plot is a white saviour narrative Kipling would have found problematic".
December 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Avatar was incredible in the way that Cameron actually used 3D filmmaking to make 3D images rather than just boost ticket prices. Otherwise it was "Ribisi plays Paul Reiser's character in Aliens but less subtly, and the plot is a white saviour narrative Kipling would have found problematic".
Also is that Mark Halperin?
December 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Also is that Mark Halperin?
Lustration - not just for government personnel!
December 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Lustration - not just for government personnel!
The AI future is here!
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The AI future is here!
Always amazed at how much money these films make and yet they seem to have almost zero cultural impact.
December 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Always amazed at how much money these films make and yet they seem to have almost zero cultural impact.
Afraid numbers 6 and 9 are deal breakers. The point of Your Party is not to engage in politics and achieve meaningful change for the people. It is to remind all of its adherents that they are good and righteous and their failures are evidence of this.
December 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Afraid numbers 6 and 9 are deal breakers. The point of Your Party is not to engage in politics and achieve meaningful change for the people. It is to remind all of its adherents that they are good and righteous and their failures are evidence of this.
Yes but then it wouldn't have any members.
December 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Yes but then it wouldn't have any members.
A personality cult that took over the party propelled by the kind of ridiculous cranks who still can't get over the fact that East Germany collapsed the second it stopped shooting people trying to leave.
December 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
A personality cult that took over the party propelled by the kind of ridiculous cranks who still can't get over the fact that East Germany collapsed the second it stopped shooting people trying to leave.
Counterpoint - Corbyn has always been an extremely dim man whose main personality trait is a titanic ego and sense of self righteousness who managed to capture a political party for various reasons and whose leadership was just as disastrous as one would exist.
December 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Counterpoint - Corbyn has always been an extremely dim man whose main personality trait is a titanic ego and sense of self righteousness who managed to capture a political party for various reasons and whose leadership was just as disastrous as one would exist.
platform so ridiculously vapid even Owen Jones struggled to take it seriously, and choose a leadership model guaranteed to ensure it collapses into a further mass of factionalism, indecision and paralysis. Just absolutely magnificent stuff.
December 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
platform so ridiculously vapid even Owen Jones struggled to take it seriously, and choose a leadership model guaranteed to ensure it collapses into a further mass of factionalism, indecision and paralysis. Just absolutely magnificent stuff.