Many such cases!

I don’t think his reasoning was prescient and correct, though.

If Trump wins, both big parties, Republicans and Democratics, would have to return to basics, rethink themselves, and maybe some things can happen there. That’s my desperate, very desperate hope, that if Trump wins—listen, America is not a dictatorial state, he will not introduce Fascism—but it will be a kind of big awakening. New political processes will be set in motion, will be triggered.

he will not introduce Fascism

Neither party rethought anything (your point about Mamdani shows just how little the Dems have rethought) and now the US is rounding people up to put them in camps.

And re. the transgenderism/Freud comment, I think it mostly serves to show that he puts way more stock in Freud than he should, because Freudian psychology is largely a load of wank.

(Yes, the use of a sexually based pejorative to disparage Freud was deliberate. Please appreciate my clever joke.)

Cowuuube!

Slavoj Zizek also advocated for voting for Donald Trump in 2016 and says that “transgenderism is incompatible with Freud”, so his advocacy doesn’t count for much AFAIAC.

If I had a million dollars we wouldn’t have to eat Kraft dinner.

But we would eat Kraft dinner.

Ice cubes and artificial sweetener?

So no.

If you’re inclined to be charitable, I believe the capitalist-brained reasoning goes something like:

These grocery stores will inevitably run at a loss and/or need to be subsidised - costing the taxpayers money - because the state couldn’t possibly run them as efficiently as a private enterprise competing in the free market.

(Not saying I agree.)

Sure, the result isn’t as stiff or sturdy as wood, but hey, when did a pencil need to be this stiff?

To sharpen the pencil, just use a regular blade or knife.

So it’s incompatible with existing pencil infrastructure, and you can’t even chew the end of it while you’re thinking.

I’m sure this will be a hit!

Women are too emotional to be leaders

Seems to only ever be said by people who don’t count anger as an emotion.

If I had to describe my feelings about this, I would have to say that I am bivalent.

Any floury potato will do. In England we would probably use Maris Piper potatoes.

It depends on your definition of “legitimate”, I suppose.

My point is that the targeting of civilians is still and always has been common in war. It may now be de jure illegal but it is de facto not policed.

You couldn’t make Brokeback Mountain today. Some Hollywood studio would be like “hey you can’t make Brokeback Mountain, we own the rights to that.”

According to the British (during the Malayan Emergency) and Americans (during Operation Ranch Hand), indiscriminately starving enemy civilians by spraying Agent Orange everywhere was legal.

In more recent history, we of course have Captain Drone Strike’s reign of terror against wedding parties and aid workers in Afghanistan.

The only thing that’s changed since the Geneva conventions of 1949 is that when civilians are targeted, the rest of the world says “tut tut, that’s a war crime” before it proceeds not to do anything about it.*

* Unless you’re from Africa or the Balkans, apparently.

Since when?

Baked potatoes fancy? I love a baked potato with beans and cheese, but it’s hardly fancy.

Fondant potatoes are what you want for fancy (and delicious).

Why does anyone get to have nuclear weapons?

Because once you have them, who’s going to try to take them away?

Celtic was founded by Irish immigrants to Scotland, and they’re big on that connection to this day. Waving Scottish flags is left to the Rangers fans.

One and the same person, Jack.