HowManyNimons

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[โ€“] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ What are you gonna do when there are too many fucking fucks in the bike lane?

[โ€“] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world -4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
[โ€“] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Even if he is born in 1988, he could have picked a non-Nazi suffix for his username.

[โ€“] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

How convenient.

[โ€“] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

If I were born in 1988 I would not put an encoded "88" in my username. I wouldn't want people to think I was dogwhistling.

[โ€“] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"Stop shifting the power balance waaaah!"

What a toxic choad.

[โ€“] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 73 points 5 months ago (1 children)

ANOTHER TWEET!!!

[โ€“] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Smooth as a barry sax riff.

[โ€“] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (5 children)

They're doing it in a harmless way and getting cheap publicity from playing him. Honestly this doesn't bug me nearly as much as the donations.

 

Or am I simply the world's worst grinch because it makes my teeth grind so much?

 
 

It's never a "no" though, is it?

 

Thanks to the glorious shovelling of Classic Who onto BBC IPlayer, I have been enjoying a glut of mid-80s classic Who.

It struck me how many of the CBaker-McCoy era stories are dystopian tales, reflecting the pro-establishment neo-captialist society that the writers felt was being inflicted on them.

Varos, Paradise Towers and Terra Alpha (of Happiness Patrol) are obvious examples; Necros (Revelation of the Daleks) and is a particularly nasty one. Even Trial of a Timelord was, at its heart, a tale of authoritarianism and narrative control.

Modern Britain is clearly in another phase like the 80s. If anything, the authoritarianism is more extreme, and the government's avarice more naked.

So where are the writers' reactions to that nowadays? Whenever the show has recently attempted to address societal issues, it has been either a direct sermon like Orphan 55 or an incompetent muddle like Kerblam.

Where are the dystopias?

 

I suspect there's going to be more content coming up sooner than this, but it's good to have dates for the diary.

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