Huldra

Apparently it's a trend again on twitter to joke about how 9/11 and the Afghanistan War are "canon" to Bluey.

And it's driving me mildly insane cause literally not even last year but back in fucking January 2024, it was a culture war scandal when an Arab-Australian writer wrote a poem about how even in his childrens tv shows, it is the natural order that Arabs are in a state of being slaughtered by heroic white people.

It seems to me like they lost credibility on Palestinian liberation due to multiple figures being shown to have straight up antisemitic views about the holocaust, and also it sounded like they just had no other real fundamental commitment to oppressed groups in Britain.

Difficult to be a single issue party essentially and then the convictions behind that single issue fall into question.

Well yeah but thats obviously not an option for Democrats.

There is definitely some tragedy to him, but for me I really read him as kind of fundamentally parasitic and unpleasant, obviously theres him borrowing money and dodging the debts until his associate kills himself, but also him belittling his son reciting poetry but then also stealing one of the lines for himself to try and use for more pity and sympathy, he never really seems to offer much empathy towards anyone else, but his tragedy is that he doesn't have the stomach like the true elite of just not feeling guilt about it, he still feels guilt both for his own actions and humanity in general, but seems to lack any capacity to actually be considerate towards others in order to alleviate that guilt.

It's an interesting different read on it though, I felt just completely sure that the film was mocking his despair and self pitying.

Thinking about the idea of packing the court and like, one thing I havent heard of is if there is actually a reserve of pragmatic liberal judges who would be candidates for expanding the court.

My gut feeling is you would just get these morons who would decline the whole venture as being a naked power grab and against the spirit of the civic cult.

An annoying guy having Trotsky as a godfather is something you'd see in some cult classic comedy like Network lmao.

Wow, that was basically my guess for how this might actually work, that's really funny if this turns out to be true.

I was thinking what if the law is written so it only applies if the cheating couple could get married after causing a divorce, which would be an extremely funny way to word a law like this.

That doesn't make any sense, the law "recognizing" certain relationships isn't the same as purely acknowledging the existence and possibility of them for the purpose of laws like if there is a law against cheating on a partner.

Swedish authorities demanded he return to Sweden for interrogation and evidence collection, he refused with the justification that this shithole of a country would just hand him over to be tortured by AmeriKKKa, the Swedish State offered no guarantees or alternative routes for the investigation to take place, so the investigation was closed for lack of viable routes to investigate and prosecute it.

As far as I recall that is what happened in short.

Popefully, it will have been worth the wait.

I would definitely suggest people check out the band that drummer Jeremy Barnes started afterwards, "A Hawk and a Hacksaw", him and violinist Heather Trost play their take on Eastern European and Balkan folk music, with lots of Accordion and sometimes variants of hammered dulcimers.

I think at least one or maybe several of their albums were collaborations with folk musicians from the various countries like Romania and Hungary too.