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i don't think you can totally discount the extent to which people believed that america had a moral mission in the world. some of it is fake obviously. but someone like w bush and someone like obama really believed in all of that i think. blair and cameron believed it too. some of it was a...

half-remembered from a couple of books i read in 2018: essentially the US and the rest of the world didn't stop it forcefully enough in the 80s and 90s, partly because the US was were running their war against the Soviet Union via the government of Pakistan. Pakistan was committed to doing it...

the one that keeps coming up for me is counter-terrorism. the al qaeda, isis, pakistani taliban continuum hasn't gone away. maybe something else is in the works. but pulling back from trying to maintain some kind of stability in somalia, pakistan, iraq, the new syria could open a window for a...

I think it's always been a mixture on the aid side. I read two books over the weekend, one a history of USAID since the 60s and the other a history of DfID, alternating books so that I was reading about the same time periods in each agency at the same time. When you read about the internal...

the best one is Linda McMahon, who I used to inhabit and use to hit people with chairs and throw through tables on WWF No Mercy on the N64, is now in charge of Education. I love that

to summarize - they are pulling back from about half the world and focusing on their hemisphere and the pacific. and at the same time they are remaking the american domestic state and the democratic process

it's not quite deleting the US off the map. but the direction of travel is clear and everything will reshuffle now. you can't underestimate as well how much trust the last month or so has obliterated. who would ever count on US military support again even under a democrat in the future? after...

we're going to see what happens to the world without that stabilizing / destabilizing force. on the aid side the human suffering will be immense. but beyond that, we'll find out what happens in a place like somalia without the US being involved. same with the new syria. and what will happen to...

it's a pullback to the western hemisphere i think, and looking west towards china and the pacific. a withdrawal from the middle east, europe, africa and south asia. i do think its coherent. something that loads of people were gunning for in the 00s - the end of the american empire, the global...

version keeps talking about how 'sexual' the aliens are, which is odd, but it does at least answer the question of what kind of girl he goes for

alien is really good, haven't seen it before, brilliant film. you can see the change in the pace and unreality of cinema from the 70s to the 80s in alien and aliens. in alien everything happens slowly and patiently and the people act like people. in aliens everythings moving much faster and the...

watched alien and aliens coz of this thread. i think all these kinds of films are about an enjoyment of watching Control breaking down. the basic parameters of life shifting and having to figure it out. loads of people want to see that. in alien(s) it's human supremacy that's the parameter that...

i've been in similar discussions with sufi and the management of the moneysavingexpert message board for our one and hopeful that we'll sign the contract soon

some tunes do this deliberately. do you like it? i don't. someone must like it

obviously i was covered in cat sick and dust

saw ben ufo last night not exactly by choice. he was playing a set at 6pm in a kind of pitchfork tasteful mixture of acts in a big former glass factory with wooden beams and concrete floors. i hate that venue. there's people on the internet who rate him as a totally amazing dj with range and the...

this is totally made up once again from luka. gerald durrell has definitely never been on the cover of the wire

he keeps saying it but he hadn't even done one of us yet

I can smell it every time I sit down

I'm too far from home to pop back