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#1

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Tonitrus - Today at 01:41:10 PM

Conservatives being conservatives, they have to be outraged at something every day of their miserable lives.

Today, it's the halftime superbowl.

I like Desi Lydic Fox'splaining things 

https://www.facebook.com/reel/728725113559525

It can definitely be said of the right-wing..."we have met the snowflakes, and they are us".

#2

Off the Record / Re: What are you listening to?

Last post by Josephus - Today at 12:58:12 PM

I am interested. But I've seen them around 20 times and I'm not gonna pay 500 bucks for "ok" seats. Cheapest are nosebleeds for 250. I'll consider those.  Maybe.

Yeah, I've seen them far fewer times that you, the last time was on the 'A Show of Hands' tour at the Birmingham BEC, a soulless place.

That night they recorded most of the concert video, so I have that to look back on, plus they really rocked that huge empty place, thought that at the time, so I'll stick with the memories.

Exactly. I saw them on their last tour, the R40 tour, which was supposed to be their last tour. It was a great setlist. They started off with their more recent stuff, and worked their way in time, changing the set as they regressed backwards, so by the final songs, the stage looked like a school gymnasium. I thought that was great. Wonderful memories.

And on a personal note, the guy I used to see Rush with all the time was my best friend and he drowned last summer...so going to see the band without him would just be weird for me.

#3

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by HisMajestyBOB - Today at 12:42:19 PM

I wanted to read the news articles to find out more about this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner.  One thing I learned about her is that she's not Trump.  Still going through them to see if I can learn anything else.

I am very confused by the oh wow it wasn't Trump angle.

It is incredible how much everyone is under this guy's spell. As if there was even the remotest chance that a destructive aggressive asshole would get it.

Why not? Everyone else with any amount of power or authority seems to be eager to please him.

#4

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Tamas - Today at 12:29:54 PM

I wanted to read the news articles to find out more about this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner.  One thing I learned about her is that she's not Trump.  Still going through them to see if I can learn anything else.

I am very confused by the oh wow it wasn't Trump angle.

It is incredible how much everyone is under this guy's spell. As if there was even the remotest chance that a destructive aggressive asshole would get it.

#5

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by mongers - Today at 11:43:38 AM

That seems like the perfect spot for a pan-European Languish meet up.

I can immediately see two 'death-marches', firstly around all of the outer defences, then inside to do another circuit of the main ramparts, followed by some symbolic walk through all four gates and then a collective collapse in a restaurant or bars in the central square. 

#6

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by viper37 - Today at 11:42:26 AM

Conservatives being conservatives, they have to be outraged at something every day of their miserable lives.

Today, it's the halftime superbowl.

I like Desi Lydic Fox'splaining things 

https://www.facebook.com/reel/728725113559525

#7

Off the Record / Re: What are you listening to?

Last post by mongers - Today at 11:33:34 AM

I am interested. But I've seen them around 20 times and I'm not gonna pay 500 bucks for "ok" seats. Cheapest are nosebleeds for 250. I'll consider those.  Maybe.

Yeah, I've seen them far fewer times that you, the last time was on the 'A Show of Hands' tour at the Birmingham BEC, a soulless place.

That night they recorded most of the concert video, so I have that to look back on, plus they really rocked that huge empty place, thought that at the time, so I'll stick with the memories.

#8

Off the Record / Re: Refractory Gauls, or the F...

Last post by Tonitrus - Today at 11:21:37 AM

A possibility but every part of the system would be different not only the Trump - Vance leadership dynamic.

Yes, that is the point. And I would go further to say that someone like Vance is only possible in the American system where a VP needs to be selected.

Disagree.  Vance was in the Congress...not at all unrealistic, especially with the same financial backing*, that he could be a deputy PM or high up in the leadership/cabinet in a theoretical U.S. Parliament.

*political financing is arguably the biggest factor in the differences in our systems, perhaps more so than the structures themselves.

#9

Off the Record / Re: What are you listening to?

Last post by Josephus - Today at 11:17:00 AM

I am interested. But I've seen them around 20 times and I'm not gonna pay 500 bucks for "ok" seats. Cheapest are nosebleeds for 250. I'll consider those.  Maybe.

#10

Off the Record / Re: Refractory Gauls, or the F...

Last post by Sheilbh - Today at 10:20:01 AM

I don't think there's a perfect system or that any system is necessarily capable of surviving a crisis of politics or political culture (that's partly why I personally in my own country back the political constitution).

But I think fundamentally as soon as we start acting socially and collectively there is a risk. My own view is there's no legal magic that can de-risk it. Political culture, political bodies or the tools through which we act socially are the only mitigations/prophylactics to that risk - but the capacity for huge damage is there.