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Culture at the Border Patrol has been toxic since at least the late 90s & probably a lot earlier.

It's not that the data centers are being built: it's how & by whom. When businesses used to run ramshod over people, it was done by anonymous backroom operators who, it must be said, were no less despicable, venal or greedy than the intensely repulsive, narcissist techbros doing it now.

Middle class boomer from Kent who grew up immersed in the neo-colonialist Commonwealth mythology. Disappointing from her, just because so much of her music was influenced from people all around the world.

The far-right, not just in the UK but across the entire Western world, has been working furiously, for many years, to stoke those soft fears & discomfort with strangers into a much stronger fire that they hope will burn down the establishment & bring them to power, as it has in the US.

Can't overstate how deeply engrained xenophobia is in the collective English psyche, especially for people of the post WWII generations. Cleese is basically stuck in the 60s/70s, & pines for the time when foreigners to the UK "knew their place" & the BBC ran the "Black & White Minstrel Show"

s'why he's trending.

He's as classically trained as Michael Caine or Terence Stamp. Which is to say that Bob Hoskins never actually went to drama school, but learned his craft in regional repertory theatre rather than spending much time in places like the RSC.

Better is subjective, but in their defense, even without Boy George, Culture Club were a band of real musos who could actually play & paid their dues by gigging. otoh, Pet Shop Boys was a small studio project lucky enough to not have to go through the slog of proving itself in a live context.

"I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand Walking through the streets of Soho in the rain"

United started this race to the bottom back in the oughts.

Going into a liquor store for lottery tickets becomes an emotional experience for just that reason: like seeing lost lost old friends again.

wasn't the techbros... it was the airlines.

Seems to me that DHH is a particular kind of cunt.

two weeks too late

Might be as simple as the fact that sometimes the obvious just needs to be said out loud.

Just wish Mamdani would send the health inspectors into 1211 Avenue of the Americas to investigate reported "vermin infestation"

Dems lost a long-term culture war they refused to pay attention to. imho, the "religious angle" is a way back in. Another thing GOP did was that they realized some issues (e.g. Roe v Wade) were too important to discuss in public & left them to the party's fringe elements to cultivate.