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That would be why they're polling at 17%, then?

Also, he's literally only a good guy because he got brain damage from being dropped on his head as a baby.

There's a very funny bit in one of the later movies where Hitler gets resurrected as part of an outbreak from Hell and is confused at immediately getting his shit kicked in by a golden-haired, blue-eyed superhuman.

They're McSweeney's assistants, so I'm afraid they're part of the same Mandelson school as he was.

The slightly less awful variety of sundown towns.

Tomino specifically spoke on this as one of the main reasons Gundam went from a flop to a megafranchise.

You can also use nail polish to firm up joints on poseable model kits like Gunpla if they're too floppy. It's very useful!

This is the plot of the 100 Girlfriends manga.

This reminds me of the BuyMort Saga, which is built on the simple premise that capitalism is dumb and alien snakes are attractive.

Is it true? Akehurst has a long history of internal ratfuckery and pro-genocidal political campaigning that I'm not aware of Bastani matching.

Jokes aside, I do respect how hard Max Payne committed to building an entire game around this one manoeuvre.

In fact, her suit is part of the same product line as the Second Rider, since he's a rogue Knight. Again, 'Rider' only as factional affiliation.

Kind of like how 'Gundam' has wildly different meanings and importance depending on the series and setting.

I think the thing is that the 'Riders' in this one are rebels, deviants, and solo agents, so she's a 'Knight' instead because she's still a legit elite member of her organisation rather than running off and going rogue.

It probably is a pivotal moment - it's just a question of whether they follow the pivot or get crushed by it.

Mind you, this is also very authentically British Empire.

According to my follows, you then come back a couple decades later in the most recent Street Fighter.

Again, it's all about internal influence. He's powerful within the Labour right and well-connected with the British media, which helped him and McSweeney elevate Starmer. It didn't matter whether he was a competent US ambassador, only that he was due payment for services previously rendered.

Starmer calls in Mandelson to inject a dose of New Labour’s ‘winning mentality’ Sir Keir Starmer’s attempts to shift his party away from the far left have led him to the door of one of the founding members of New Labour: Lord Mandelson. Th

Mandelson being Morgan McSweeney's mentor and a highly influential presence within Starmer's ascent to Labour leadership. Giving him the ambassadorship seems to have been more about rewarding an important ally than appeasing Trump. Sample story: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

It didn't, though, did it? We went from an ambassador the Trump team was on record as liking a lot (Karen Pierce) to one who they regularly expressed dislike towards. Mandelson doesn't seem to have been popular or influential with anyone outside Labour central office.

Except that there's a number of stories about how Karen Pierce was greatly respected by the Trump admin (to the point where they asked the UK to extend her term) and Mandelson... wasn't. This seemed to be much more about domestic politics than foreign ones.

The Starmer leadership was the result of the Labour right finally burning through its ablative shield of soft-left patsies and trying its hand at direct national leadership, leading to politics by people who refuse to admit what their own politics are.

In the case of Labour specifically, this seems to be a consequence of their exceptionally strange internal structure. They're an ostensibly left-wing party with a very right-wing permanent bureaucracy that furiously denies the existence of its own political agenda.

While McSweeney is an ideologue for his tiny right-wing clique, it's fair to assume that as a direct disciple of Mandelson, he's found plenty of ways to use his position to enrich himself. Maybe the fearless British press could take a brief glance at his finances?

Thing was, he wasn't just a novelist, but part of the core lore and design team for Warhammer and 40k. Too big a job to trim down to just the remote-workable parts, I think, when he could instead pursue an entirely new career somewhere more accommodating.

Blame Prague for being exceptionally pleasant to live in, basically.

Bill King left Games Workshop and moved to the Czech Republic, where he's lived ever since with his girlfriend. Eventually, GW decided to let other authors have a swing at his work.

No, I think that the new guy just tried to distance his first book slightly from the King series in order to give himself more wiggle room.

Technically they did, in that this is the book where the series switches author.

Meanwhile, the birds and amphibians are like 'wait, you did what to your cloaca?'