#a monstrous child cant even describe it

[thatexygurl]

there's so many things in tsc that just come at you all at once, so it's hard to focus on just one thing to break down, but the most glaring thing that stood out to me is how hard it is to really put someone back together. especially someone so shattered that it's nigh impossible to glue them back and pray they don't crumble under your ministrations.

if jean is neil's foil, then jeremy is andrew's direct antithesis. whereas andrew is a steady bedrock because he's been broken too many times to know how to weather the storm, jeremy is too soft hands and an even softer soul. he cares and cares and cares. so empathetic and so gentle it almost breaks your heart. you pray for the impossibility that jeremy can survive knowing the truth because if he doesn't, then what hope does jean have? so you pray he can be steady too. that he can weather the storm as well. that he will not break when knowing that just under the surface lies shark-infested waters.

but then you remember the beginning. "even knowing everything could go completely sideways, you'd make that choice every time"

in every other universe, jean has not survived. but in every other universe, he did not have the trojans.

[libidomechanica]

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place, and sober nights. And devoutly wise,  and his Tears his carriage. They are  describes in Cantemir, or in proper  perspective, hand, and you speakers buy; some thought up  into place of theology.  Dancing so. (Glory might the same from which 

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shown, (not this pond answerd but all have not my heart  to beating them long-settle, one of  air-balloons of the gentle eyes  blows;’) and I hurt heart, and power orderd round:  with a baby on him through, And  smooth as fast by the blade a marble 

even some exchange to earn them well know— no more command. more I ween of the poesy,)  and that love is certain or station  as Earth with a raccoon. Our  hearts: he shall we could not my fingers— heirlooms.  Even the Englishwoman this kind it 

would Popes laurels should best wonder, or (if you  may makes us lie in vain) to hints  doves, and if young gilded joints, when myself  upon these untoward from the  many wording soft October night; o, for ( to time worse by the good 

[kiradurbin]

Super Short Reviews: winter tv part three (and last) 2019:

Perfume (Netflix) – Germany.   Another knock out murder mystery from Germany, this one is so dark its similar to the Swedish mysteries.  Strong ensemble cast; its clear from the beginning that the disturbing murder is only scratching the surface of many more bad deeds of the past.  Naughty naughty!

Informer (Amazon) – UK.  Paddy Constantine is as loveable as ever as a CI handler who waffles between looking grumpy and lost.  His partner looks like a child who cant decide which is more surprising – that she’s an actor at all, or that she was cast on a show about terrorists.  But the star here is Nabhaan Rizwan with his dreamy leading man eyes and biting street smart wit.  He makes this show.  Werk!!

Diablero (Netlix) – Mexico.  The priest looks like Michael Buble which I found exceptionally amusing and distracting. I couldn’t tell from the first 2 episodes if the actors just hadn’t settled into their demon hunting roles yet, or the director couldn’t decide what style he was going for.  If they land in the B-movie horror camp I think people could enjoy it.

Deadly Class (SyFy) – Based on the graphic novel.  I especially dig the 80s music and the Henry Rollins.  You don’t have to be a teeneager to enjoy this – since it takes place during the Regan administration rule, Gen-x viewers will likely get way more of the references than Gen-z. Benedict Wong has great fun as the principal of this school for assassins and Lara Condor is a gem as his star pupil.  She even wears a Bad Religion t-shirt in one episode.  It was not an historically correct t-shirt but hey at least they tried.

Wayne (YouTube) – 16 year old me would have been OBSESSED with this show, so if you fall into that age group please enjoy the crap out of it for me.  This kid makes more trouble in the first episode than most kids do their entire lives. Also anything that makes fun of Southies is great by me.  Funny, sad, dark, and awesome -- and huge props to Mark McKenna who takes on the dialect like a native.  (And he was also in one of my favourite movie ever Sing Street!! blatant plug)

Selection Day (Netflix) – India.  I don’t understand cricket so it took me a minute to get into this... but when the two boys (played by Mohammed Samad and Yash Dhohle) get to stretch their emotional wings my heart was bowled into rooting for them. (Lame attempt at a cricket pun.)  Plus who doesn’t love a little magical realism?

The Other Two (Comedy Central) – I laughed.  Its a send up of childhood overnight youtube stardom, and crazy people in loveable but crazy New York.   Plus Molly Shannon and Ken Marino -- Who doesnt love those two crazies?

Demon’s Path  (Netflix) – Hong Kong.  You know when you were in junior high / high school and you made bad home movies with people that couldn’t really act and dialogue that wasn’t really good?  This is a lot like that.  How is a 16 year old on the police force?  Its impossible to make a supernatural story line work with goofy acting … but maybe Hong Kong, like Korea, doesn’t consider this goofy acting. Maybe they think all our shows are goofy acting.  I dunno.

Black Earth Rising (Netflix) – UK. This is super heavy.  You’ve got the Rwandan genocide, the war in the Congo, a big trial at the Hague, and some mysterious events of the past that John Goodman knows but will never tell.  Bonus: Harriet Walter!

Four More Shots Please (Amazon) – India.  These people are actually speaking English most of the time but if you’re like me you’ll need to turn the subtitles on. Plot:  Four plucky young women traverse life and love (or at least sex) in Mumbai. Style: It’s not quite SATC but there is a dance number!!  (duh its Mumbai!)

Justice (Netflix) – UAE.  The genre is legal procedural.  But the style is almost soap opera.  And the music is all over the place.  Confusing.  Still, Fatima Al Taei makes a strong case (pun intended) for herself as a young, intelligent, female lead, and the stories highlight the complex struggles between traditionalism and modernism.  Netflix’ first Emirati show.  

Sex Education (Netflix) – UK. Tempting to describe this using only emojis (ha ha ha!)  But seriously, Asa Butterfield has grown up to be the awkward-ish high school son to Gillian Anderson’s single sex therapist mother. Sooooooo fun to see Gillian in a comedic role!! (and a mod haircut to boot.)  Emma Mackey and Ncuti Gatwa shine as the best friends ready to drive or support any potentially comedic ‘therapy.’

Sydney to the Max (Disney) – Yay Caroline Rhea!  Another one for the teeny boppers; this show centers on the cute juxtaposition of a girl in seventh grade and her dad’s memories of the same grade in 1992.  The girl acts waaaaaay younger than my seventh grader, but hey, maybe these people live in some nice hubba bubblea suburb.  

Kingdom (Netflix) – Korea.  Visually beautiful –  a lot like the Japan episode of Westworld.  Government factions fight each other – a lot like the Japan episode of Westworld.  Beautful people do monstrous things – a lot like the Japan episode of Westworld.   But how you know that its NOT the Japan episode of Westworld is howwwwww slooooooooow eeeeeeveryyyyyyone iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis.  I wonder if Koreans think everyone on our shows talk way too quickly.  

I Am The Night (TNT) – actually a mini-series but I’m throwing it in here anyway  cuz I enjoyed it. Patty Jenkins and Chris Pine reunite to tell a story (mostly fictional) of the real Fauna Hodel and the really bizarre people she meets as she tries to discover who her real family is.  I loved the 1960s detailed pictures (shot on Kodak film) of Los Angeles and  India Eisley is great in her wounded kitten portrayal of Fauna.

[atlanticsentinel]

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Jeremy Corbyn (Catholic Church)

Bernie Sanders (Lorie Shaull)

Britain’s Labour Party suffered its worst electoral defeat since 1935 in December, because it chose to be led by a far-left extremist.

Center-left Democrats in the United States worry their party is about to make the same mistake. Bernie Sanders, a self-described socialist from Vermont, won the most votes in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary and now places first in national polls. (Although he has yet to get more than 26 percent support.)

James Carville, the architect of Bill Clinton’s 1992 election victory, warned Democrats this week: “if we nominate Jeremy Corbyn, it’s going to be the end of days.”

Andrew Sullivan, a British-born conservative commentator, believes a Republican campaign against Sanders would be brutal:

He’s a man … who sided with a Marxist-Leninist party that supported Ayatollah Khomeini during the hostage crisis in 1979. He loved the monstrous dictator Fidel Castro and took his 1988 honeymoon in the Soviet Union, no less, where he openly and publicly criticized his own country and praised many aspects of the Soviet system.

On the other hand, Sullivan points out Corbyn had a net favorability rating of -40. Sanders is only at -3. Most polls show him beating Donald Trump with between 2 and 8 points.

Corbyn and Sanders are not the same — but they are not completely dissimilar either. There are differences in policy, but worrying similarities in strategy.

Policy

A year ago, I cautioned American leftists against sympathizing with Corbyn, arguing that the British politician was far to the left of their man.

Sanders’ policies — universal health care, debt-free college, higher taxes on the rich, tougher regulation of business — would be considered mainstream left in Europe. (Which doesn’t mean they’re all good idea. Some European countries that used to have something like Medicare-for-all have actually moved away from it.)

Corbyn, by contrast, ran on nationalizing utilities, including electricity and rail, transferring 10 percent of the shares in every big company to workers, free broadband Internet and child care, a higher minimum wage, an expansion in social housing, and a 65 percent increase in public spending to pay for it all. (Which might not even have been enough.)

Abroad, Corbyn sided with every anti-Western actor and regime, whether it was Hamas and Hezbollah in the Middle East, Evo Morales in Bolivia, Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, or Iran and Russia.

Sanders also denounced the military coup in Bolivia without mentioning Morales’ attempt to serve an illegal fourth term as president, despite losing a referendum on constitutional reform and rigging his last election.

But Sanders, who is Jewish, takes a more balanced view to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He has called Maduro a “tyrant” and is clear-eyed about Vladimir Putin.

Strategy

Sanders’ views may not be as radical as Corbyn’s, but, like Corbyn, he doesn’t appear to have changed his mind on a major issue in his entire political career. Their fans admire this. I worry it betrays a fanaticism.

That’s borne out by another thing Corbyn and Sanders share: a refusal to shut up about issues that only matter to the (woke) left.

When Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar, two of Sanders’ center-left opponents in the nominating contest, used their victory speeches in New Hampshire to reach swing voters, Sanders spoke to his base, arguing that his campaign is not just about defeating Trump but “transforming” America.

He touted his support for abortion rights and opposition to the “military-industrial complex”, causes that are unlikely to endear him to voters in the middle.

David French, a conservative columnist, has called Sanders’ insistence that “being pro-choice is an absolutely essential part of being a Democrat” a missed opportunity.

Sanders could argue that under his program — free health care, free child care, higher wages, longer parental leave — abortions will continue to fall, as they have since the early 1980s. Instead, he is turning abortion rights into a litmus test, which could give the type of suburban voters who switched from the Republicans to the Democrats in 2016 and 2018 second thoughts.

A socialist talking about the “military-industrial complex” could similarly rub Republican-leaning voters the wrong way in states like Arizona, where Boeing manufactures its Apache helicopters; Georgia, which has a large Lockheed Martin plant; and Virginia, where many military contractors live. A Democrat probably needs to win at least two out of these three states to defeat Trump.

Corbyn’s acolytes in the UK argued that his policies were actually popular, and individually they were. But rather than run on bread-and-butter issues like nationalizing rail and raising the minimum wage, Corbyn turned the election into an ideological choice between “the many” and “the few”. Even some traditional Labour voters didn’t think he had his priorities straight. That’s what Sanders needs to avoid.

How alike are Corbyn and Sanders? Britain's Labour Party suffered its worst electoral defeat since 1935 in December, because it chose to be led by a far-left…