Strong vibes of all the brexiteers who thought they'd keep all the benefits of the EU

His memoir is a banger, he's got a really dry sense of humour

Like a lot of fantasy tropes, this is probably the result of something from LOTR being tropeified, specifically the Doors of Durin. The riddle on the Doors is meant to be easy because it's not actually supposed to keep people out as long as they can read Elvish, but this context gets lost in copies.

Notably the streak was blue in the MCU until Thunderbolts, released in 2025

very Marx coded

By far the most surprising thing here is that Ammon Bundy doesn't support ICE

Hmm, I wonder who else pulled that trick

Oh yeah I just couldn't think of a better term to succinctly say that he's not a bog standard 'conservative who likes weed' type of libertarian

InRangeTV is known to be pretty progressive, he's made videos celebrating slave revolts, I wouldn't take his audience as representative

it's the guilt

People love to quote Marx about "First as tragedy, then as farce," but apparently forget that the farce he was talking about was an autocoup by the populist president of an unstable republic.

Dem Tennis Court Oath would be amazing, both in the positive sense and the sense that it's unlikely

maybe they should stop putting deadlines in their narratives then

It was quite revelatory for a younger me to read about the history of special forces and learn that whenever they've been used as conventional line infantry they've eaten shit.

There's already a steady stream of footage

Reading about the Vicksburg campaign in Grant's memoir was the point when I started to love him

One time I was walking through Winchester with a guy who was an elected Tory councillor at like 21, and there were some teenagers in tracksuits ahead of us and he wanted to turn around and go a different way.

fr all the replies to this talking about homophobia when the motivating bigotry is obviously misandry, with the homophobia being something they've blundered into *because of the misandry*

Like how the pitch to voters in 2024 was "Elect us to save democracy so that we can work on bipartisan legislation with the people who want to destroy democracy and also get dinner with them."