Thing is, the Shire was a hereditary monarchy, they just didn't call their ruler a king - it was Thane. Pippin was in line for and did eventually inherit the title.

There's also Buckland, the small offshoot of the Shire ruled by the Master of Buckland, and of course this title was inherited by Merry.

The most cogent analysis of the film I've seen is that it's basically a film about how cinema is realer than reality.

The big clues being that Shoshanna is only shot because she has a moment of empathy for the Nazi fuck that got her the gig for the cinema, but she only has that moment because the film she watches sympathises with him and the British spy not being rumbled by his ridiculous citation of a german film to describe his family, but something you'd never pick up from a movie - the fingers you use to indicate a number.

Bad taste, but can't argue with the dude's politics.

Oh sure, but the holders of that capital will be Millenials, so it's all good, right?

Right?

I think pretty much all of Morrison's cape comics are great, though I wouldn't exactly say they're materialist or anything.

Ironically, I got radicalised by a book written by a Milquetoast centrist, Capital In The 21st Century.

It's essentially a capitalist thinking through the fundamental implications of capitalism, especially that the market demands that the rate of return must be higher than the rate off growth. Piketty goes through the history of the 20th century and how the post-war boom came about, and how it's equality was dismantled in the eighties in order to fuel greater returns.

Then he comes up with his policy recommendations, and it's.... a wealth tax. Which you know, I'm not opposed to, but the idea that's going to have the same sort of impact as the creation of the welfare state and WW2 is insane. Never mind that there's nothing in place to prevent the rise of austerity again. At that point I knew the only way to proceed was to dismantle the capital class in it's entirety.

If Trains were invented today, they'd be really useful, because we wouldn't have invented Cars either.

Feel free to get it for free, a lot of the original team was forced out of the company by scam artists.

Now is the time of monsters.

It's kind of insane that you have people comparing this to Mosul and Fallujah, with a laundry list of things that the US did RIGHT in those clusterfucks compared to what the IDF is doing now.

Maybe it's just wishful thinking, but this strikes me as a really, really bad idea. A bunch of conscripts led by guys who are desperate for a win and think Intelligence is "woke?"

It one thing to lob bombs from afar, it's another thing entirely to actually stick your dick into the bear trap.