@Doctor-Phibes Both Enoch Powell and Tony Benn were highly Eurosceptic…. As was Margaret Thatcher. As well, Britain had spent much of the preceding four hundred years seeking to keep continental Europe divided so that it could pick and choose its continental allies according its own shifting interests. Hence the pejorative, perfidious Albion.

The very definition of tongue in cheek.

@jon-nyc said in I Can Has Cheezburger? Enters the AI Era: That’s totally fake. Cynic.

Yep. There's no free lunch. We could create dead zones.

@xenon said in Lutnick promotes Tesla stock on air ...: I watched a video of Nixon recently. It seemed like it was from a different universe. Kids these days are going to grow up thinking government is a clown show. I am hopeful we'll get back there eventually. Watch old debates between Obama and McCain (or Romney). Heck, even if it's Vance vs Libby McTolerance in 2028, I think at the minimum Vance will be respectful, similar to his VP debate style.

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They forgot the ending event of the PLANE FLIPPING UPSIDE DOWN.

Was Harrison Ford the pilot?

You know, when we met many years ago i was surprised how well you spoke English.

Meh.

@Doctor-Phibes larly the comedies. When I see movies from the so-called golden age, the acting frequently seems really wooden, and so many American characters have that weird pseudo-British way of speaking in many of them that seemed so popular…. I think was called a mid Atlantic accent. It was vogue and state of the art in theatre and cinema throughout the 30s and 40s. Katherine Hepburn built her career around it. Even born Englishmen like Carey Grant had to cultivate it.

You probably don't want long-term laws for a short-term problem. For example, the dems effort to pack the Supreme Court. The tide will turn when the voters want it to turn, as it should be. And there is NO WAY! we want a nice homogenized electorate where everyone agrees. The critics are essential, even if they are stupid jerks.

Vance's politics seem weird to some people, but I doubt very many people considered him weird interpersonally before his political career.

Are we just going to ignore any attempt at discovering why his account was terminated, or are we going to assume it's because he openly criticized DOGE or something?

Anybody who votes against Trump is by definition a liberal, and he knows how they're going to vote, even when one is a conservative, and therefore votes how he doesn't know they're going to vote, thereby defining themselves as a liberal if they didn't vote in the way he thought they wouldn't. I hope that clears it up a little.

@Horace said in Watch for the pivot: His poll numbers are still being framed in right-leaning media as all-time great numbers, for this long into a presidency. That might even be accurate from certain perspectives. I'm not sure he'll be motivated to pivot. It’s a personal record. I read that, as of his SOTU speech, he had the second lowest net approval of any modern president, with he himself having been lower in his first term.

We’ve become myopically focused on government as the driver of prosperity. I’ve always seen the right’s role as expanding the pie and the left’s role as distributing it. Now both are focused on distributing it - and no one is paying attention to fostering the pipeline of talented citizens to actually do the work. I think it’s a cultural problem as well. We take it for granted that our elite institutions will remain elite.

@taiwan_girl UK and France will look to increasing their existing nuclear arsenals. I also believe we will see more European countries obtain nuclear weapon capability. Germany, Sweden and probably Poland to start. The first two almost certainly.