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Curious what you mean by manufactured hysteria.

A nice spread of results this time x

Drag Race twists flopping is getting to be the most consistent thing about the seasons these days The potions last season meant nothing. The gag cast of Sugar & Spice both flopped. The chocolate bar save impact was lessened after it came after two previous double save episodes (4 if you count the talent show return)

I should note for fairness that this government is also probably around where I sit in terms of political affiliation and I would say is significantly LESS authoritarian than my tastes tend to run - before anyone comes along with the critique that I must just be a lefty Labour lover or whatever. I'm commenting, as I often do on news stories, as someone who is against things being framed in a way that is misleading and/or is presenting a political agenda (in this case, 'that Labour is just as bad on every metric as Sunak's government') as if it were an established fact rather than just one person's opinion or the opinions of a group of people who were asked a survey with leading questions. The fact is Starmer's Labour since they got in has had a hell of a lot of bad press BUT if you cut through that to what they've actually done and view it with an open mind really it's not actually that bad no matter what your views are, I would say. They HAVENT been particularly extreme in, as I say, ways that I would love to be if I was in their shoes. They haven't even been vengeful or cronyist in a way that the Johnson, Truss and Sunak governments - and the Trump administration in America - did their damnedest to normalise.

God this is going to be a really strange cast at this rate. Rumours are however that there is a strong queen that nobody has clocked yet. I wonder if it could be a Holland girl again.

For what its worth, I have zero issues with most of what Starmer has done. Most of these 'issues' seem to boil down to a mix of a) people have forgotten what an actual governing government looks like and things take time b) bad faith arguing to try and make Labour look as bad as literal traitors and compleely incompetent idiots and c) media that is used to catering for a retired audience throwing an absolute shit fit when Labour "cut winter fuel" which leaves out the fact that they also put the pension up £600 on last year which more than covers the amount "lost". To be honest I would actually enjoy even more of a redistribution. So Tory voters and rightwingers are mad? Tough titties. The rest of us have had their will enforced on us for 14 years. Personally I would love it if the absolute opposite of what they would like was enforced on them. They're lucky Starmer's government isn't extreme enough to want to do that. Regarding the disability and not helping minorities. That is a misfire & missed opportunity in my book. They should take advantage of their majority instead of chasing the middle on every possible issue. Some is sensible. But broadly I think they are being over-criticized.

What an interesting set of views you have Liam. Feels like it is just to disagree with whatever the prevailing view on the thread is.

Fwiw I tend to agree with Silas

Whereas I kind of feel like the most reliable genre to send is long songs full of instrumental noise :lol:

Personally I'm of the opinion that Trump cheated to win, however, I still think that the position of abstaining "because Kamala supported genocide!1" thinking a Trump win might be better was always manifestly ignorant and tbh quite privileged.

Tbf looking back at the entries list most of my favourite entries didn't qualify anyway :lol: the whole way through.

I would be curious (the stat nerd in me esp) to see to what extent we have blocs at all any more! esp with membership shifting so much

I also definitely no longer have any idea what might be a good BJSC entry! Or maybe it's that nothing that I come across would make one :lol: I'm not saying this as a pity me just as an observation but I feel like pretty much all the genres I like don't score and the things that do score big, nowadays especially - less so 4-5 years ago - are things I've never heard of or come across outside of the contest

If I'm honest I've been at the point of considering ducking out for a while now. I feel like I have zero finger on the pulse of what is popular :lol: and constantly NQing and flopping kind of reduces investment in the game as a whole. I do feel like the contest has changed & people's tastes have evolved (but that's life in terms of change etc. and the music landscape is on a constant evolution)

So many people saying 'Trump should stop this' For FVCKS sake do you NOT GET IT? Trump is an empty shell! He's a puppet! This literally happened in freaking HARRY POTTER, Voldemort took over and installed a puppet leader under mind control and plenty of the population just went with it. People bloody believing what they want to believe or what they think sounds safe and reasonable is going to be the death of our society at this rate.

The racism in this case is insane, as well as people using it as just another excuse to rant about their existing prejudices. For example, there's a news story reporting that his father - a first gen immigrant - was able to prevent him from doing this in a school the day prior - which would have had a much larger total number of potential victims. So that would be a case of heroism by an immigrant and proof that despite being an immigrant, he clearly has values that DON'T align with mass child murder. But that keeps getting left out of the articles or it all bundled in as evidence that the perpetrator had no good influences at home/culturally because he still was able to achieve SOME murder. Re terrorism, once again. Evidence of ideology is needed for that crime. Someone who was just a violence addict who wanted to harm for harm's sake or notoriety isn't a terrorist, legally speaking. That doesn't make them not a murderer or not someone that should be locked up away from any chance of offending again, it's just a terminology difference - yet people are out here acting like not using the word is 'defending/excusing' terrorism instead of just being accurate wrt language and the law of the country.

I would be surprised if it's a cast of 10 after the last one was 11. Some other names I've seen as potentials include Madame Madness (Holland) and Scaredy Kat (UK1)

I could see M1ss Jade being a shoe for top 4 in that cast Cara Melle doing another UK season, girl why? Maybe she's found her funny bone since

Mera Mangle (drag race youtuber) is going through some health issues right now and has posted a GoFundMe to help pay for medical care (classic US) She had previously disappeared from youtube with no warning causing some alarm for her state of mind

Think Mini's song verse might be even worse than Karen from Finances!

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At the minute this looks like Lexi Love's season to lose. Whoever picked her in the sweepstake might be on the money

Ok its kind of hilarious we got a non elim 2nd ep after Acacia looked like a shoe in for 1st out

Legends only That said. If they're parasites or deliberately evil.

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