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Yeah, fuck that dude not unequivocally condoning state executions. It's not like there's any context of police popping off vaguely brown people or anything.

If there's a realistic better option than Corbyn I'd be all ears.  Whoever the approved candidate of the PLP is is practically guaranteed to be a bellicose neoliberal ghoul though (cf Dan Jarvis).  If you'd trade in a pretty useless socialist for a competent (i.e. scores meaningless rhetorical points at PMQs) liberal, I don't know what you think an opposition to Toryism is supposed to be for, other than making some piddling incremental improvements, then watching all of them be dismantled when voted out.

...realised I kinda misread your post DDD and of the people who *did* vote Dem I think you're right.

this did seem to be an election where people were voting against the candidate that they hated more rather than for the candidate they liked.

I think that's sort of true for Republican voters, but certainly not for the Dems: as the boys on the Chapo Trap House podcast have pointed out, HRC's campaign was an awful, tin-eared mess that amounted to little more than "Donald Trump is a big meanie, it's my turn". The hope was obviously for a negative mobilisation against Trump, but it utterly failed to materialise on election day. Huge swathes of people who had voted Obama twice just didn't bother this time- the relative difference in popular vote count is stark, but obviates how much her share as a total of the population tanked.

And frankly, fuck her. Seeing hubris and incompetence like hers punished is a tiny silver lining to the fact that she let a protofascist beat her.

The Vote on Article 50 Gives Labour a Chance to Make Brexit Less Terrible: decent article by Sam Kriss in Vice. As much as it sucks that we're leaving, the EU has always been an oligarchic worker dicking machine that brutalised Greece and gives billions to homozygous aristocrat fucks and subhuman Saudi royals under the CAP. If in some magical, contrite for its imperialist enormities alt UK this had been a win for Lexit, I have to admit I'd be happy about the result.  I don't know if there's actually any chance of of keeping freedom of movement, one of the few unambiguously good bits of the EU, given only the hard left of Labour gives a fuck about the concept of itself.

I dunno about nuance - seems to me the really good Klingon episodes are the ones where they're always seconds away from stabbing someone.  There are episodes of DS9 where Worf is getting along great with another Klingon but you still know someone's getting kebabbed in the next 40 minutes because the wonky-foreheaded nutters can't help themselves, and I like this version of the Klingons because it's so single-mindedly one-note that it avoids the pitfalls of TNG or Voyager trying to paint them as a noble warrior culture and just making them boring.
They're just more fun when they're violent racist space cunts.

Really late reply I realise, but I fucking hate that- almost everything about TNG-onwards Klingons annoys me, and I can't really see the difference with their DS9 incarnation.  TUC showed some actual maturity in how they were written- they were clearly martial and alien, but were capable of civilised conversation without  yammering about honour and glory, didn't solve political disputes with knife fights.  They also showed some diversity in appearance and dress, contra the stultifying uniformity in appearance (long hair, fangs, body armour) and mannerisms of mid-to-late TNG onwards.  Basically I hate them being space vikings transposed in toto to a technological SF setting, regardless of how ill a fit that is.

I know Dredd ain't exactly hard SF but the ending sort of got on my tits.  "Psychic virus?"  What's one of them when it's at home Rob?  And it makes their aircraft crash?

Just a thought, but according to Missionary Man it's the Deputy Chief Judge who holds the real power in Texas City IIRC, with the Chief Judge being a figurehead; this obviously doesn't seem to have been the case with Oswin, but perhaps the understanding with TC is that Lewis will be such a figurehead, when in fact she'll be using her Psi talents to assume more direct control.  Seems weak, but IDK.

My favoured solution is a negotiated resignation, with a left candidate guaranteed to go on the leadership ballot against whoever the third-wayers chuck up.  OF course, as with Corbyn himself, said candidate would probably walk  the resulting election, hence why the backstabbers haven't suggested it.

I didn't think I could be any more convinced of the utter and total disdain in which the PLP hold their members; it's like they looked at the US election as a playbook for how to alienate their left-wing base.  The divide between leftists and liberals has never been starker- I don't know if it's because we've won most of the legislative victories that united us (gay marriage, minimum wage etc.) or what, but the idea of handing the party over to another identikit third-way mediocrity who'll immediately tack right and throw immigrants under the bus almost physically nauseates me. 

I've come round to the view, rather painfully,  that Corbyn doesn't have the competence to push his agenda, but there's no way in hell now I'm not voting him straight back in given the scumminess of his opponents.

Dang, well remembered Tordels. He was one of the cloned foetuses of MC1's great and good given to Texas City, who Dredd recovered from the cursed earth in Dredd Angel. How old was he when he came to the Meg?

Rofl, there's a mid-nineties Meg story we can be glad.never happened.

I just find the aesthetics of biker fascist and cowboy clash terribly.

That's basically my wardrobe!

Cheers

Jim

Rofl I remember you from the Brum Dredd screening a few years back Jim, you can pull it off.

Decent article by the moonbat in the Groundhog on the obscenity that is the common agricultural policy.  Pretty much sums up my feelings on the ref; I'll be voting remain as an antiracist vote but with no great conviction.

Fair enough, I just find the aesthetics of biker fascist and cowboy clash terribly.