Why are they not available year-round? Seems like petty withholding...

The Northeast is the sort of landscape they are used to. Very high immigrant population as well

Powerful Dukakis energy.

Sez you.

Wealth is power, so the poor have no ability to resist this sort of structural fuckery. And immiseration is *efficient*: it is vastly easier to own a populace that is too poor to survive than it is to buy folks who have enough, even if just barely.

We do though: in many trailer parks, folks own the structure - which is cheap, relative to other construction - but rent/lease the plot of land it rests on. Theoretically, it's movable. In practice, often not so much. Recently, VC firms glommed on to this detail, and began buying parks...

together. And it all leads here.

was a pretext for an expansion of police powers that has always been a central aim of conservative governments. Legislation to empower law enforcement, judicial doctrines like qualified immunity, endless cultural production overstating the dangers of crime, and lionizing police, it all hangs

My judgement of the whole thing depends entirely on whether visiting children are allowed to ride the animal statues.

Though the Tommy Shelby art is puzzling regardless.

Unless it's Iris Murdoch media.

Democratic Socialists of America, I'm guessing.

That is unkind, Ofcom are in fact extremely efficient at their chosen aim: ensuring no-one who chooses to persecute and denigrate transgender Britons is ever inconvenienced in any way.

They're 98.6% asshole by volume. To react in any way is to spew santorum.

I'm impressed. No, wait, irritated. I meant irritated.

And the defense of the indefensible in Israel's behavior in Gaza. Neither can be accommodated by decency, or by a set of coherent principles. So principled decency was jettisoned.

And the US stands alone in having the delegitimized urbanites widely buying into the belief.

Yeah, I think that's the crux. There's almost always a sense of difference, and it's often resentful. But the notion of national authenticity being rural is something I've only seen in England and the US. Probably exists elsewhere, I suppose, but I haven't encountered it.