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Indeed. I think Townshend was often hampered by his band-mates' lack of direction. He was all guitar smashing, pop art experimentation and social commentary while the others were just preening cock-rockers

The Who were always just loud pop and often six months to a year behind the zeitgeist. Mods when everyone was going Hippy, over-produced Prog concept albums when kids were into Glam, Classic rockers during Punk and, by the time Mod got revived, instead of embracing it became resentful old rockers

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Bohemian Rhapsody. Pompous, overblown doggerel

Prize over here for the most tin-eared response to a comment

Remember her name: Aliya Rahman

Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.

It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.

ICE MUST GO‼️

No new pictures. Where are you mentally?

This is the old "cover version that ruins the original" argument. If you want a whitewashed Helen go watch any of the thousand other versions.

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

In the UK we had the "Go Home" vans. a controversial 2013 advertising campaign by the British Home Office in which advertising vans with slogans recommending that illegal immigrants should "GO HOME OR FACE ARREST" were sent to tour areas with high immigrant populations.

Jammie dodgers

Europe. You might lose your wallet but you won't get shot in the back ten times by immigration officials

The one thing they all have in common is facial masking. Doesn't matter which agency they claim to represent, they all deny personal accountability.

At a production meeting of our company, 'Cherry Top Hat' last week I suddenly realised we're just like a Weimar republic cabaret. Battling away at creating frothy entertainment while all around us the world descends into fascism. But then, what else can we do? It's better than doom scrolling.

I think it's worse than that. The current "baddies" know exactly what they are and think it's funny. ( See Musks salute and Bovino's gestapo coat)
1. Because Nazis have no sense of humour
2. Because half a century of anti-heroes in movies and TV has made being "badass" cool to these babymen.

Doctor Strangelove

🎯🎯🎯🎯

1935 Sinclair Lewis writes 'It Can't Happen Here'
a cautionary dystopian novel predicting the rise of an American fascist dictatorship”.

2026: MAGA celebrates. “At last! We have created the society described in the classic fantasy novel - ‘Don’t Create an American Fascist Dictatorship’”

*continuity announcer* ...and now on BBC 1 it's "Boss Cat"
*Theme song* "🎼🎵🎶TOP CAT! the most effectual
TOP CAT, whose intellectual
close friends get to call him T.C.
Providing it's with dignity
🎵🎶"

What a snowflake!

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day. Today we remember the 6 million Jews like myself who, between 1939 and 1945 were systematically rounded up and industrially murdered in Nazi death factories. Lets ensure this never happens again. To anyone.

Always fight Fascism.

I guess Adama was right! (Of course he was)

He sounds like one of those Japanese soldiers that emerged dazed and confused from forests now and then in the 1970s. Someone tell him the war is over.

Amazing how often he pops up in mid-century British movies and TV. Always gets a little cheer from me.

Hamlet. Everyone dies.

I have questions.
What kind of police officer dresses like they're outfitted by TJ Maxx and Army surplus? How do I know they are real officers and not larping proud boys?
If it's legal to carry a concealed weapon why was the nurse, who hadn't drawn their weapon, executed without trial?

Blondie, Souxsie and the Banshees, Patti Smith, The Slits, The Pretenders,
(I'm old)

a cartoon of bugs bunny wearing a hat with the words what a maroon below him ALT: a cartoon of bugs bunny wearing a hat with the words what a maroon below him

They took him aside, showed him the NATO agreement that was already in place and pretended he'd won something.

Once again Trump chickened out, abandoned his tariffs, and struck a "deal" with Europe that accomplished nothing.

To quote Bugs Bunny

"What a Maroon!"

"that Sartre quote". Oh yeah that famous lengthy Sartre quote that everyone knows and can quote verbatim from memory that I never saw before and had to scroll through thirteen comments to find before you kindly posted it so I could understand what I was fervently agreeing with you about.
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Worst film I've ever had the misfortune to sit in a cinema and watch