We had streets, but now there's just police
The aftermath of the hate march barrels on. Once again reality proves it can get away with the parallelism so often denied fiction, as the judge who refused to dismiss charges against non-violent protesters pepper-sprayed by police turns out to have a history of pepper-spraying violence himself. Handcuffing a woman for doing her legal job is horribly less surprising in the current climate, but it's still not a good look. While we have a corruption scandal breaking, yet. Dammit, Boston.
In political news of countries not my own, I am interested by the order of voting operations laid out by David Schraub in his consideration of Tory Islamophobia, Labour anti-Semitism, and the existence of the Lib Dems, who he feels strongly deserve more attention: "What It Means for Jews to Vote Tory."
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spatch: I did not realize until I saw this tweet that it was Werner Herzog's birthday. I am charmed to see him on location for Fitzcarraldo (1982); that's Fitzcarraldo's parrot on his shoulder, inclining me to believe it was actually Herzog's parrot in a cameo role. I have belatedly realized that there are ways in which I link this movie with A Canterbury Tale (1944).
I appear to be fending off a cold. Dammit, body.
In political news of countries not my own, I am interested by the order of voting operations laid out by David Schraub in his consideration of Tory Islamophobia, Labour anti-Semitism, and the existence of the Lib Dems, who he feels strongly deserve more attention: "What It Means for Jews to Vote Tory."
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spatch: I did not realize until I saw this tweet that it was Werner Herzog's birthday. I am charmed to see him on location for Fitzcarraldo (1982); that's Fitzcarraldo's parrot on his shoulder, inclining me to believe it was actually Herzog's parrot in a cameo role. I have belatedly realized that there are ways in which I link this movie with A Canterbury Tale (1944).I appear to be fending off a cold. Dammit, body.
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Yes. *sighs*
What would you like to see happen, if he does manage to stave off a Tory consolidation by winning?
If I got to pick, I think my top choice would probably be a hung Parliament and a Labour-Lib Dem-SNP coalition of some kind; that has some potential to be healthy, if the various parties could keep each other honest.
If Corbyn actually wins, I want a second Brexit referendum that Remain wins and for Corbyn to be shoved forcibly and rapidly into retirement and replaced by someone like Keir Starmer (who currently looks like he might be both competent and decent, despite not yet having been cast into outer darkness by the Corbynite inner circle).
I don't even want a sparkly pony.
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I hope you get at least a decent zebra.
*hugs*