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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 11h

Exactly. Maybe the closest we get is Brazil slides back into being a military dictatorship, as it's not quite so apolitical as in America, but it's most likely to be some sort of action-movie style army who's purpose is to generate hype moments and own the libs

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 11h

That is certainly about how much parish priests worked back in the Victorian era when a lot of philosophical, technical, scientific and literary advancements were made by guys sitting around and writing a sermon for once a week. I only know a few vicars, but they work their bloody arses off.

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 12h

"If you didn't learn that in HS as a guy you are stupid or gay." Hi, I'm gay and stupid, but more importantly I am doing a degree in Geography and Transport Studies. I think you should put the paid parking in front of the bicycle lane and you don't have much expertise in any of this, Ms. Killam.

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 12h

What about the next guy saying "Eh? Piss off"

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 12h

As I understand the New York Times is actually a centrist newspaper, it's just that people, especially blueskiers, don't understand that about half the country really is incredibly right wing.

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 18h

maybe we just need to bring back vicars. But not like, for anglicans to feel good, just pay random graduates to go out and live in the countryside and work one day a week, and think the rest of the time. We'd maybe get some interesting philosophy out of it.

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 18h

So is DJ Fat Tony the reincarnation of the decrepit Russian agricultural and military system or what

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Years of Lead in Italy, only this time it's over how woke people are, and there's no conceivable way it might end. unless one side somehow manages to win every election for the next twenty years in a row.

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I would say that this sort of situation usually leads up to a civil war, but there's no economic grievance here that could lead to a fractured elite in either nation, mostly just social issues. So it looks like it might descend into some sort of brutal, ugly mindless civil conflict like the

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh, the Tories went Republican many years ago. Not that they support abolishing the monarchy.

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

the problem is that most of these people are remainers and the vast majority of the Tory machine from the newspapers to a succession of Prime Ministers have spent the last ten years openly pointing and laughing at them. Like holy shit of course they're going to read the guardian now

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

arguably lashing out in revenge against slights real or imaginary has been the guiding foreign policy philosophy of every Republican president since 1980 but you don't see me paternalistically saying that it's part of those simple minded hick's american culture

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

the thing is that system is basically the result of one guy nicknamed Rusty Butz who functionally destroyed the family farm in America and who is also the reason why corn is in everything. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Butz

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Earl Butz - Wikipedia

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

out hyper-conservative Republicans and massively polarised America into liberal Democratic cities and conservative Republican rural areas. In the South there was also the factor of racism to polarise people against liberalism. In the rest of the country that factor was abortion after the 1970s.

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Everyone that was left either benefited heavily from the new system (big farmers, car dealers, think people who probably ended up studying at Arizona State University), were diehard bible-bashers, were too dispossessed to really consider voting, or immigrant workers. This system ended up churning

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

small towns - locally-owned businesses, agricultural workers, small farmers - drained out of the countryside. Those people were the base of the Democratic Party in the Plains States who elected people so leftist they would make Bernie Sanders blush. (e.g. George McGovern.)

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

wouldn't say that people really did want it that way. In the 1970s agriculture secretary Earl Butz killed off the family farm with his "get big or get out" policies, that incidentally resulted in everything having corn in it now. All the people that didn't benefit from small landowners surrounding

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I like the character of Digger. It's like watching if Donald Trump or Spiro Agnew were smarter. The actual president character is a lot closer to Pat Robertson et al, which is one heck of a bullet America only just dodged.

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

anyway you can now resume observing my record of posts, including the words "jaquaveous johnson"

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

also some of the disaster scenes in the middle looked a bit ai-y. I can understand that as a stylistic choice to really hammer home the unreality of the play section but i just hate the ai.

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

over all else, even a collapsed society and social order composed of "fuck you", then there isn't much point to the play beyond placating the masses with a brief moment of personal vindication. the movie says very little about this either, possibly because it wouldn't have got made otherwise.

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i would also like to comment on the role of the play. allowing people to grieve for climate change by doing 2 minutes hate for a singular guy allows the (also very powerful) nephew funding the play to get off the hook. if people understood that it's the system that prioritises oil and gas extraction

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i like the character of digger rockwell. he's much closer to degrowth don than the president character, able to cult-of-personality his way out of any shitshow he's in. somehow he is also the smartest guy in the room.

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

as I suspect will happen in real life the same group of nepotistic guys keep running everything despite their manifest failures in maintaining the standard of living in a collapsing world which they helped to fuck up in the first place. the film does not really touch on this. cough cough flavio

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the film is an exquisite series of magnificently horrifying tableaux. every scene is a deep loathing of the hole we have dug ourselves into. i like it, and i even like the president pat robertson bit, which is a bullet america doesn't know it dodged. it is a truly tremendous bit of acting and design

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

if you would not like to hear the spoilers then don't read this thread

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

so i have some thoughts about digger

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don't want to scare anyone but about sixty people get the plague every year in America you can sort it out pretty easily with penicillin for now

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

hooray for the new math new hoo hoo math it won't do you a bit of good to review math 'cause it's so simple so very simple that only a child can do it!

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

well, shit. I can't really say anything else other than expressing my condolences, and suggesting buying a chocolate bar.

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

some say that he visits euston regularly some say that he designs transport networks for fun all we know is that he's our tame railway engineer he's called the Gareth!

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Great dance music makers and their meanings: Stardust: I love you Modjo: I love you Crystal Waters: She's homeless

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Incredible that American anti-war activists* invented things and said that the US government was doing them and then now we have the US government saying "that's cool and we can** and should do it actually" *lyndon larouche ** this is an advanced tactic known as "lying"

a headline from Le Monde saying "US ambassador's interventions in Greece spark controversy in Bucharest and Athens - According to revelations by the 'Wall Street Journal,' Kimberly Guilfoyle would not hesitate to threaten toppling governments to promote sales of American liquefied natural gas."

"with the Greek energy minister, Stavros Papastavrou. While the WSJ did not specify the reason, the ambassador reportedly mentioned the imminent fall of the Romanian government and said, "We can do that to any country we want. We can do it here." Papastavrou is said to have replied that the US could not replace the democratically elected Greek government. Guilfoyle's lawyer has disputed this"

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I thought it had some absolutely incredible acting and set design but everything else was kinda ehh. And some of the disaster scenes looked like they were made with AI, which I could understand as an artistic statement to highlight the unreality of that bit but is unforgivable anyway.

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

As it is officially spooky season it is time for a new banner.

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

what if an irish guy was protestant

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ah. Well, she isn't wrong. It's not like there's anyone else serious left in the Conservatives.

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

But don't you remember? There's no-one as Irish as Barack O'Bama!

The statue of the Obamas outside the Barack Obama Plaza service station in County Tipperary

heavy north korea vibes coming off of this

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fucks sake. If he's a socialist then the Lib Dems are too. They want more spending and taxation than Burnham.

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

can I just say that passing a law that means water companies in england and wales can now be owned by the government but probably won't is most definitely not the British Road to Socialism

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm pleased to know that despite being the whitest boy, I'm not white enough to be English

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Despite being the certified Britain's whitest boy, I'm apparently not white enough for ... err ... Suella Braverman. If these numbnuts get in, I'm getting deported back to Berlin, a place where none of the family have lived since 1882. Honestly I would take that.

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

you found the machine from private eye well done!

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"LAMBETH services worth defending" Damn, Ted. That's just petty.

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Because, just as people have right or left hands, people also have right and left eyes. Driving on the left means that the right eye, which for most people is ever so slightly better at seeing things, is focused on oncoming traffic.

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It actually got to the point after the Toxteth riots where the *Daily Mail* turned on Thatcher and said "what a shame to see the fruits of our oil bonanza frittered away on stagnation and decline." The recession could've been mostly avoided if the Tories had devalued the pound or spent the oil cash

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McGovern4President '28 @stanzback.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What on earth does "championing Western values" and the rule of law have to do with the 1980s economic growth? We already had those things! It's not like Jim sodding Callaghan was a Putinist autocrat!

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