Reagan was pretty good in The Killers, his last role of any size before he won in 1966
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Reagan was pretty good in The Killers, his last role of any size before he won in 1966
Well, there are a lot of differences! There are a lot of differences between the two countries and their electorates.
The American Starmer is pretty straightforwardly Newsom imo
People forget what the times were like.
Either way, he wins!
no people in their early forties look great (source: me)
still want somebody to write the fanfic where he makes a pitch to Sabra
"people get confused by the name; actually it's named after George Klan." "whew! hey, what he did do?" "oh, uh, Grand Dragon stuff, you know."
it turns out there weren't any good solutions in the middle of the global pandemic - it was a bad time!
"No one was alive then!"
there was at least some talk of a right-wing third party ticket even in 1960 but Barry Goldwater, bless his weird soul, wasn't interested when approached.
it's a tough one. eventually Southern racists are going to get tired of being in the political party of Black people.
mickey's blood stains deep
or if Nixon dies in Venezuela in 1958
In Texas, you don’t have to worry about the left of center getting into power and then betraying you I guess.
managed to get the Social Democracy game's (rare) outcome where Oscar Hergt is elected President in 1934 and successfully restores the monarchy. so not a great outcome but still probably better than what actually happened.
I don't want him with more power because I don't care to flinch when I see my name in the news
I liked the story of the guy in the Batman onesie who caught the burglar but yeah. yeah.
“Is it in the Midwest?” “No!”
Maybe I’m not being clear in how utterly bizarre I find the people sharing the video with comments speculating on the sex life of the cameraman and his subject.
Yes, but I do not think the thousand plus people who shared it are sharing it because of their concern for our brothers and sisters in red.
under Ferengi law, mines are only illegal if they fail, because under an obscure codice that counts as giving away your property (maybe)
does Rom count as a sex worker while fixing the holosuites
I miss the Marxist historian of LA.
well I guess I've never seen him play the guitar. but it is unlikely, yes.
selling your soul and gaining nothing in particular, as far as I can tell.
I said elsewhere that the Democratic Party isn't much like the British Labour Party but there are definitely Democrats who would like to change that!
bsky.app/profile/airp... these folks.
I missed it yesterday somehow but come on. why are you spending your time doing that.
it was a little weird to share videos of that silly house to condemn the people who built it, folks.
I'm sorry. This sucks.
but he was just a guy who doing things for publicity who then went to work for an oil company. wait that _IS_ American.
it's OK for you to feel raw about it when the wound keeps getting inflicted. bad times.
Sorry on my end too if I gave any offense. I believe in
I would say "oh, that's not the stereotypes I've heard" but there's not really a way for me to finish that thought, so I will avoid it.
I am glad my friends on here stopped saying "I'd love if Canada became a state but not like this" because come on gang don't talk like that. that's not a good way to talk.
so here's a question to which I honestly don't know the answer - What is the largest British political movement that embraces the rights of trans people - in the sense that "you will not be in/have power in this organization if you are a bigot about this"?
the only solution to national cuisine discourse is expert chefs making the greatest dishes their nation has to offer and giving them to me.
people say chicken tikki masala is good, I need proof, like lots of high-res pictures of it, and really good recipes using ingredients I have in my house.
common mistake, America is the _most_ society that has ever existed.
Some claim so
All this food discourse and nobody posting their favorite recipes for the thing!
the supermarket, votes for women, the x-ray, the telephone, antibiotics, healthy childbirth, all of these are much younger than the NYPD.
let's take the NYPD (please! hey-o!) the germ theory of disease, the 14th amendment, the radio, the 19th amendment, and the transcontinental railroad are all much younger than the NYPD.
lots of things are recent invention in human history.
a conversation around the table: "Your family names are complicated." "No, I'm just named for my dad, who was actually named John, after his uncle John, who was actually named Frances, who was married to my aunt Claire, who was actually named Clara. hm."
Lots of flirting with that element of ethnic nationalism, nobody handing out Mutterkreuzes
Isn’t everything these days?
Yes but they don’t act like they mean it
you know who else centers his personal politics around hurting liberals
The two 1619s are one of those things you'd think a writer of fiction was making up - but they're woven deep in the heart of our national heritage, always.
depends on how it goes I guess
(Tom Clancy of course was the other side of things, a man who wrote how hot hot hot fecund women are and also had five kids)
when an author writes like that you know they've had a lot of kids or zero (in Heinlein's case it was zero).
sitting there watching it, thinking how babies usually have mothers
that movie was far too tame - and didn't have enough interesting women in it.
"sure it is, Erik"
now I'm picturing some sort of mutant-supremacist pseudohistory that says Asgardians are just mutants who have forgotten their heritage.
Stan said a lot of things
this @jdnicoll.bsky.social fellow the page mentions sounds like a good guy to me
now that sounds pretty good!
until I saw the context I thought "wait is that what finishing a book is like for the kids these days"
a lot of these Lord of the Rings remakes you people are suggesting sound pretty bad.
one of my very first RPG characters was "mutant Mary Cheney" (or maybe "Warren Worthington if his family loved him - but still had the same political views") so half the time I read X-Men stories I have that voice in the back o my head.
I sometimes describe THE CHRYSALIDS as "Midwich but the kids are the protagonists."
Wyndham is an interesting writer - "the Other and the Normal can never live together in peace" is a recurring theme across multiple works. The Other isn't even necessarily evil all the time, just different.
a Romney-Clinton-Biden-Harris voter is just a Democrat.
if Logan killed a busload of orphans we'd get the angsty story of how he was being controlled by the diabolical forces of Justin Trudeau, if he told Laura and Jubilee that they needed to bear strong mutant children, the character would become radioactive. (I hope.)
it's interesting in terms of big IP stuff (at least in terms of the funny books) that murder can be redeemed more readily than bad politics.
there's some sort of homoeroticism in the big man saying only men are fit to receive his seed, evolving into a society that worships groups of tall, muscular men as living angels, I guess.
I went to look for why Kansas had that name and it's because they were a bunch of guys from Topeka who steered into the name about the time they got their national break. well okay, that makes sense.
even if you don't think elections are sufficient, it should be good news how they're going.
a significant chunk of the Navy that fought in WW2 (though of course not all of it) was the product of an amateur yachtsman whose previous claim to fame had been leading the campaign to get the USS Constitution fixed up. the man loved his boats.
but seriously CFA III was a very competent, even energetic Secretary of the Navy - one of Hoover's most effective Cabinet picks.
reject modernity, return to tradition - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...
the punchline that when she sought out the book in Arabic as a young student, her friends told her that that book was _not_ appropriate for a young woman, but since she was a non-believer, it was probably okay.
the MODERN LIBRARY edition of THE ARABIAN NIGHTS (a compilation of the 'greatest hits' of various famous translations) has a fun introduction where the author talks about growing up Chinese in 70s Libya and her mom reading her the book (translated into Chinese) as a way of knowing the culture - with
when you look at Reich's life, you know what, I'd get in the box too.
I do admit to thinking "hm, Starfish talks about trans folks a lot more than most cis folks I know" but now it makes sense.
Rubio gives you a possible Dem electoral college but popular vote loss - he would probably run up Hispanic voters in Texas, Florida, and California, but you know he's not going to get those Trump low-engagement voters in Wisconsin!
We all hate Jeb so much! Probably mostly the same Supreme Court nominees. Hostile to Muslim immigrants. SecState Mitt Romney, just the worst. ah if we only knew.
that came up in a couple of the novels, with the Bozeman's crew lamenting that they didn't quite have the tech to solve the problem, so they just went through the motions of the timeloop again and again, all the while suspecting something was wrong, and then the Enterprise-D just _solving_ it.
I think you sound like a real classy lady.
I like the detail in that universe that sometimes what appears at the crossroads at midnight is the Devil, sometimes it's Papa Legba, sometimes it's the one pretending to be the other, and they both think this is a very funny prank.
the TTRPG Hoodoo Blues is a little bit like that, in that the PCs are expected to be from the various folk arcane tales of the South, so you might plausibly have somebody who sold their soul to the Devil at the crossroads in the same party as a vodún, a hoodoo doctor, and a loup garou.
one of these days I'll teach a class on the history of Los Angeles and do the rare double-agent version of this
all the backgrounds with the probable exception of psyker have experience as a commander/leader of people too - which presumably explains why they can mostly handle this new job.
"would you like infinite money and relative freedom from the highly stratified society you live in" is an appealing offer for everyone from the psyker being bought out of her service to the Inquisition to the Arbite Marshal who decides that he can serve the Lex AND be loaded? good deal!
AFAIK it's basically the same - after all, bastards can be found throughout the imperium. (then there's the people of illegitimate birth, hey-o!)
and there's the Russo-Japanese War, where Japanese troops on the offensive were able (albeit w/heavy casualties) to overrun Russian troops at the end of a narrow supply line.
"hey what about us" "sorry Ethiopia we're not convinced Italy counted to begin with"
a bit like how we're not getting a Roddenberry biopic anytime soon.
a legitimately interesting life but not in ways anyone who cares about the IP would want shown on the big screen.
admittedly he never actually updated this one from September '20 but it doesn't actually _name_ the VP, so there you go
a reason to be glad of American republicanism - had America become a monarchy down the line of inheritance from George Washington, Prince Robert Lee would have been the Prince Consort to Queen Mary I of the United States of America in 1861.
I've seen modern oral surgeons talk about doing that operation, with that technology, as an impressive bit of business.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Cl... briefly drafted as First Lady when her brother became President, she was happy when he got married so she could get back to magazine editing
also he had a lesbian suffragette sister! that was a new one for me.