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His confusion is bc only reason American president would ever resign is to avoid impeachment i.e. Nixon, never bc of unpopularity

Correct me if I'm wrong British people but They don't have separation of powers like we do. The PM is just the leader of whichever party wins general election, not a separate election like President here. So 1) PM can resign and be replaced by another member of party i.e. Tories will now have...

there's also something specifically irritating about baseball when you're American the hokey Norman Rockwell Americanism. mom baseball and apple pie. "the national pastime" (solid self-mythologizing, that). it's like how if you say you don't like the Beatles some people will assume you're...

having said that I don't want to yunno gatekeep joy from people who like baseball (or cricket)

not as boring as cricket granted, but only bc cricket games can literally go on for days

listen baseball is something I can speak on authoritatively having both played it and been a rabid fan during my entire youth, plus a couple years in my 20s as pretty serious A's fan baseball is dead boring. dead ass. it's almost as boring as golf, which is a serious achievement.

That's a bit different bc there was initially a leftist Nazi element, i.e. Strasserism as well as Rohm and some of the SA (the Brownshirts). It was very largely purged on the Night of the Long Knives, but it existed long and prominently enough to complicate that argument, even if it's probably...

yeah I Got a Right is fucking awesome, probably the single proto-hardcore tune basically a template for Pay to Cum era Bad Brains

I just mean I think it's important to fight back against the view of them as lone nuts i.e. after the El Paso shooting there was a leaked GOP talking points memo that specifically directed spokespeople to move the public conversation toward mental health and away from white...

and also I should be clear that plenty of these people probably do have mental health issues as well. it's not an either/or.

sorry I should have been clearer what I meant by "adjacent" the sovereign citizen thing 100% originates in racist and anti-semitic circles, i.e. Christian Identity and that kinda thing so even if this dude obviously isn't (you'd hope) a white supremacist, his conspiratorial beliefs still...

when they started off they were actually much weirder, noisier, and de facto avant-garde their early live show was some proto-Einsturzende Neubaten ish, microphones in blenders and weird machine sounds type craziness combined with instrumental ineptitude and bug-eyed young Iggy stage antics...

as above, if I had to rank Stooges LPs Raw Power >> Fun House >> S/T if self-titled was an EP of just 1969, I Wanna Be Your Dog, No Fun (and maybe Little Doll) it would be number one. the rest sounds like exactly what it is, shit they just made up on the spot to to fill up the rest of space...

oh boy I might have to revoke yr kool rock music license for that one tho. TV Eye is best song on record, easy top 5 Stooges tune. the second half when Iggy is freaking out over that nailed on groove and everything suddenly drops out and then that blinding Ron Asheton riff cuts back in like a...

something something failure to plan with or deal for long-term negative consequences of globalization (deindustrialization, gutting of organized labor, environmental degradation etc) interacting with self-curated Internet echo chambers to amplify misdirected fear/anger/anxiety about economic and...

I'm afraid that ship has already well and truly sailed, John

Best VU is live VU anyway For a band that embodied the polar opposite of hippiedom they have a surprising amount in common with the Grateful Dead (who I can't stand tbc) in that way, esp talking ca. 65-69 or so. Different drugs, different vibes obv. 1969 ofc (What Goes On on there is a...

If I had to rank them I'd go & Nico >> WL/WH >> 3rd >> Loaded But I still think Loaded is good Squeeze is fucking terrible but everyone knows that

Lol I know better than to rise to that kind of bait, whether it's sincere or just trolling After all who am I to question the taste of the man who speaks French and wrote a novel and whatever else you said yr CV was when you called everyone else dumb Loaded is about 2/3 great, 1/3 dumb. They...

title track and Sister Ray are obviously untouchable highest-level Reed/Cale VU genius. Here She Comes Now is a classic Reed ballad. the rest...well I love it all, but I can see how ymmv on the combined 13 minutes of basically fucking around that is The Gift/Lady Godiva's operation, and I...