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I thought it started with BTOB. Fussballclub's photos of top tubes were surely a warning sign.

Not as old as the senior citizen who declared that, because of that kind of thing, hatbeard was single-handedly destroying the forum.

Shame so many good pics in that thread disappeared in the switch to microcosm. So much creativity in that thread, and people just having fun.

I would recommend just reading about Musk's attempt to interview Trump on Twitter rather than trying to find clips from it, for the sake of your mental health.

One of the tough things that final book does is force the reader to reconsider everything they've had narrated to them thus far, even if they were aware that a first-person perspective isn't reliable.

"Isn't that new technique a bit dangerous?"

"Hold my beer..."

That's what conservatives everywhere do, all the time since forever.

Mmm, if you go back far enough they cared about society to the extent that they owned it, it was run for them and they wanted to keep it that way. Then there was a stretch where they were quite keen to preserve a notion of society that they viewed through rose-tinted glasses, generally based on a mythical idyllic past that never existed, either unable to see neglect and suffering, or seeing it as a necessary cost suffered by people who didn't count. Unpleasant as that was, the batshit "There is no such thing as society, only vampires and their families" nihilism thing is relatively new (and taking us back to pre-Victorian levels of misery if they get their way).

The "post-Brexit" bit you omitted was plenty golf club.

Unless we’re talking at cross purposes?

The comment you first replied to was specifically about using the justice system for rehabilitation rather than revenge. If you believe in that at all (a thing that hasn't been tried nearly enough in this country and is constantly undermined by budget cuts), you really can't say "but only for the people I don't hate". In general, many people who would be suitable for the various approaches to rehabilitation are going to be people you don't like.

Britain loves punitive justice and has done very badly by it.

For the people who are still alive.

It works for Trump so obviously... um...

It's OK when the good people do it? Er...

It's kind of like his brain is a single core CPU with very limited storage that can only be flushed to voice.

Oh, that's good. Good description, I mean, obviously.

"He didn't realise I had millions of pounds stuffed down my knickers" does sound like a different kind of club.

Dear gods. Thought it was a Channel 9 piss-take for a moment, but no.

Wasn't sure where to put this interview with the Friends of Oliver Cromwell Society's only ever Irish member, the author of Cromwell at Drogheda, Cromwell: An Honourable Enemy, Cromwell was Framed and Drogheda FC: The Story so Far .

It would be easy to ridicule Reilly’s dreadful prose; his enthusiastic description of the McDonald’s outlet in modern Drogheda will, unfortunately, remain with me for a very long time

My favourite was "Rooster Car-burn", but these are good.

We seem to be drifting from the point, which is that Elon Musk is a cunt

Not only that, but Musk would be delighted by the direction of drift. Not that he's ever going to read this thread, but he would.

So, what will the MAGA reaction be when they lose again in November?

Thanks to Roger Stone's mental instability, we now know that the "Stop the Steal" campaign was originally prepared four years earlier as the response if Trump lost in 2016. They'll have no shame in rerunning it now, and they're surely preparing to. I wish I had @mashton 's confidence about that gaining no traction. At the very least, a replay of the riots we're seeing here is a possibility.

These days he has a large alt-fash fanbase. The more intelligent ones like him for being a (notional) lib "owning the libs", which they see as extra "owning the libs", while the dumber ones just like the nastiness.

The adulation for Ricky Gervais as a stand-up and wit. He's written and performed in some impressive TV shows, but put him on a stage with a microphone and he just seems to be a creepy, self-loving edgelord.

I kept hearing from his fans that his time hosting the Golden Globes was not just peak Gervais but peak awards-show wit and satire. I finally went and found those on Youtube.

Jesus.

Amy Poehler and Tina Fey, when it was their turn, did some razor-sharp and funny jokes about older celebs only dating younger women. Gervais, referring to Hugh Hefner's marriage (an easy shot, compared to Fey and Poehler who were cracking jokes about actors in the audience), advises the young bride "Don't touch it or it'll fall off" and then spends a couple of minutes miming doing just that, while gagging. Truly he is the reincarnation of Oscar Wilde. Oh, wait, he isn't; all three of the performances were amateurish, puerile and reeked of the socially inept guy in the pub that everybody tries to keep away from while he tells a story about that time he saw a snake trying to mate with a garden hose. Making jokes about Mel Gibson is great in principle, but maybe they could also have been funny.

What I've seen of his more recent stage material is no better. Maybe I missed some gold, because I don't have the patience to watch it for long. What I have seen is juvenile edgelord shit from a guy who's stand-up talent is nowhere near his massive self-estimation, convinced that his genius is being cancelled by the libs. (Reader, he hasn't been cancelled).

Google very bad. Trump want shut down.

As with Trump and Musk, the kind of people drawn to him either aren't going to care or will find it makes him more relatable.

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Ken Cheng skewering the Elon vibe:

I was about to say "Who cares about being dead to Jordan Peterson? Badge of honour, surely.", then I realised I was missing some implicit punctuation.

Ha!

Well, on reflection it's not a situation to laugh about, but I did lol.