Blackentheborg's city council archive filing cabinet

[Blackentheborg]

Unpopular opinion but I'd totally be down for the Reverend Warnock to run for President in the near future

 

[Meppo]

Unpopular opinion but I'd totally be down for the Reverend Warnock to run for President in the near future

Idk how this is unpopular

 

[Bolt451]

and another cabinet, cos why not

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Who is POTUS here?

 

[Meppo]

"--Sultana can't seriously be calling for universal rent control while she's living in Coventry! It's just more performative wokeness from another shitlib who hasn't even read theory--"

Late response here, but I can't help but notice that Momentum's vote share is shockingly large for what a Labour offshoot. A combined Labour+Momentum vote would be almost as large as Attlee's 1945 landslide performance.

That puts into question just how efficient the Labour vote ITTL is.

 

[Blackentheborg]

Who is POTUS here?

AOC.

Late response here, but I can't help but notice that Momentum's vote share is shockingly large for what a Labour offshoot. A combined Labour+Momentum vote would be almost as large as Attlee's 1945 landslide performance.

That puts into question just how efficient the Labour vote ITTL is.

That's the thing -- it would be, 100%. But Labour and Momentum hate each other with such a vitriolic passion there's no chance of that working. Each party points to the other as the reason they lost the last election, the former for being too socialist, the latter for not being socialist enough.

Meanwhile Patel is practically doing fortnite dances in response to her prison camps finding new copper deposits in the northern parishes

 

[Blackentheborg]

so today I found out "Black Eyed Pods" wasn't some bullshit cikka made up just to make me suffer but was actually what the Black Eyed Peas were called before they sold out. They actually used to be cool, especially if you hear the demos for Atban Klann.

 

[Bolt451]

AOC.

 

[Bolt451]

"--Great Britain stands alone in the world. America is the lone wolf. Europe is in flames. Russia is at their own throats. China is looming over the pacific--"

"--cocktail through the window of a local rec centre in Milton Keynes has been identified as a member of several alt-right message-boards known for spreading conspiracies that the Chinese Communist Party stole paper ballots from--"

"--denying the presence of migrant worker camps in Pembrokeshire--"

"--all this could've been avoided if Andy budged on the trans plank back in--"

"--case continued today following the glassing and assault of seven Youth Momentum members by a gang of Black Jackets which left two in critical condition--"

"--calling us that just shows they don't want to have any actual debate and just want to be angry. I don't want to say 'so much for the tolerant left' but--"

"--Sultana can't seriously be calling for universal rent control while she's living in Coventry! It's just more performative wokeness from another shitlib who hasn't even read theory--"

"--lmao go back to wanking to her feet pics you wannabe fascist volcel--"

"--ever since the Scots voted to leave it's all gone tits up. I can't believe I'm saying this but I think I legit miss Nicola Sturgeon--"

"--This is a common misconception. In practice, I have worked alongside people from every political spectrum. I find it impossible to have any kind of meaningful dialogue with anyone who is not willing to listen to reason, which--"

"--literally making a deal with a slightly-more-terrible Ellen Degeneres who's been running Hartlepool like her own personal fiefdom--"

"--early projections seeing Batley and Spen once again firmly in Tory control--"

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*me holding a monkey's paw, wishing for more Green seats*

I am assuming the Lib Dems have become a very local party? very focused on their seats, rather than wasting votes elsewhere ?

 

[Oppo]

so today I found out "Black Eyed Pods" wasn't some bullshit cikka made up just to make me suffer but was actually what the Black Eyed Peas were called before they sold out. They actually used to be cool, especially if you hear the demos for Atban Klann.

Will.i.am’s first recorded appearance was a guest verse for Eazy-E’s Jewish-American rap group Blood of Abraham…I have to say the song goes hard

 

[Blackentheborg]

How much do I need to donate for a Sanders-Manchin cage match

 

[Comrade Izaac/Izzy]

How much do I need to donate for a Sanders-Manchin cage match

a small donation of 27,000$

 

[Comrade Izaac/Izzy]

on a more serious note, i would personally shave 5 years off my life to witness the SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY BERNIE THE BROOKLYN BAGMAN VS JOEEEEEEE MANCHINNNNNNNNNNNNNNN extravaganza match

 

[Kimkatya]

so today I found out "Black Eyed Pods" wasn't some bullshit cikka made up just to make me suffer but was actually what the Black Eyed Peas were called before they sold out. They actually used to be cool, especially if you hear the demos for Atban Klann.

lmao yeah

 

[Blackentheborg]

This is the guy who's challenging Summer Lee in her congressional race.



Look at this goober.



Why does every establishment candidate running against a progressive look like they were grown in a vat?

 

[Blackentheborg]

"You claim the DPRK is a "dictatorship", yet they just had a democratic election. Curious."

"No, you tankie brainlet, it's not democratic at all. It's all for show so they can get more international aid. Not to mention everyone who isn't pro-China gets ostracised by the community for being against the Juche--"

"Lol lmao you're just mad your cucked country leader isn't based like theirs."

"You mean a puppet of China? If anyone's cucked it's Kim Jong Un at the moment."

"Cope and seethe, anarchkiddie."

[Ancom attempts to reason with Authcom but is drowned out by "No Motherland Without You" in crude Korean]

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[rosa]

Unpopular opinion but I'd totally be down for the Reverend Warnock to run for President in the near future

That isn't unpopular at all

 

[Blackentheborg]

The Yellow Years
A "Simpsons" retrospective, 70 years later...


"Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" (1989) was the first broadcast episode of the Simpsons proper, cementing the animated sitcom as more than a popular cutaway gag sandwiched between the Tracey Ullman Show. The show very quickly cemented itself in popular culture, going on to become the longest running television show in world history, as well as one of the most successful and lucrative franchises for Fox Entertainment.


"Lisa Goes Gaga" (2012), guest starring the titular Lady Gaga, was considered by contemporary scholars as the beginning of the major downturn in viewership, earmarked by the show's creators attempting to modernise by haphazardly inserting popular trends and tropes. Many in the younger generation would bitterly summarise this creative trend as the "Homer Get iPad" principle. While it kept being renewed for multiple seasons at a time, viewership continued to plummet from the upper millions to the lower thousands.



Graeme "Gunner" Hampton and Roebuck Powell, who took over as showrunners from Al Jean and Matt Selman in 2038, considered to be the major reason for the show's uptick in quality and viewer reception. Both were responsible for the critical upheaval in the show's structure, introducing new developments that would continue through seasons instead of curtailing themselves at the end of a one-off episode, and, most pivotally, repealing the sliding timescale that meant the characters needed to stay the same age.


Season 40 kicked off the 'Hampton-Powell era" by opening with the canonical death of Centenarian character Mr. Burns, an event that set the stage for many storyline changes to come. As Bart and Lisa began attending Springfield High School, Maggie, known to many as the ever-silent baby character, was now walking and talking, voiced by actress Jacklyn Uweh. The "Mayor Marge" arc, despite its mixed reception, saw Marge move beyond her role as a housewife to an active member of the city council, allowing for plentiful colour commentary on politics.


The family at the time of this article's publication, c. Season 60.​

 

[Meppo]

Graeme "Gunner" Hampton and Roebuck Powell, who took over as showrunners from Al Jean and Matt Selman in 2038, considered to be the major reason for the show's uptick in quality and viewer reception.

I mean, it's not unexpected, but I find it rather shocking that it fared for so long while maintaining roughly the same level of viewer reception.

by opening with the canonical death of Centenarian character Mr. Burns, an event that set the stage for many storyline changes to come.

I would love some elaboration on that.

 

[Blackentheborg]

I mean, it's not unexpected, but I find it rather shocking that it fared for so long while maintaining roughly the same level of viewer reception.

Fox kept renewing it.

I would love some elaboration on that.

Nothing says "the rules are broken, anything can happen now" by letting the one character who never seems to die actually die, permanently.

 

[Meppo]

Fox kept renewing it.

Not sure what I expected here.

Nothing says "the rules are broken, anything can happen now" by letting the one character who never seems to die actually die, permanently.

Of course. I suppose this would be an incredibly consequential development, seeing how central Burns and SNPP are to several major characters and arguably to the family as a whole.

P.S. I once thought of a Simpsons episode, set in the future with Lisa as a central character, albeit as the SNPP Nuclear Safety Inspector following a dead-end job in a law firm and struggles with alcohol. By that point, Bart Simpson had become a U.S. Congressman, and his folksy charm and guile made him a political rising star.

To say that Lisa resents these developments would be an understatement.