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“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response: A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that: • Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are. • You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.

The CEO of IKEA was just elected Prime Minister in Sweden. He should have his cabinet together by the end of the weekend.

he's kinda acting like starscream whenever megatron just, like, trips

@kalaelizabeth Exceptionally excited for Osiris 🤩 Looking forward to your expositions! Are you excited for Exodus? Have you read the novel?

I wish The Expanse Osiris Reborn was coming out sooner so I could make a lore series. Really excited to dive back into that world. In the meantime my Mass Effect lore series will start next week. Every week I'll cover something new like biotic history, first contact war etc

@ItzCandyRox It looks phenomenal 🤩

Oh god it tastes 10x better the next day, I fear I have a problem

Little Elon. I call him little X-Man. Little X-Man. That’s what I call him. He came crawling back to me. Mr President. Mr President he said. On his knees. Tears in his eyes. I’m sorry I called you a pedo he says. He grabs onto my leg. Sir sir please he whimpered like a dog. Sad

@JenMsft #cat{float:right;}

My cat looks like someone struggling to center an object with CSS 😂

@NJSimmondsbooks Google says this 😅

Can anyone tell me what language this is, please, and what it says? I'm presuming it's the same message as the English wording...but maybe not

@itsAuthorize @MissLadyJay_ZA Great tip here! I would also add: - Make sure the RAM is xmp enabled in bios and running at max speed. - While in bios, look at resizable bar (if applicable) and enable it.

@MissLadyJay_ZA Looks super cool! 🎉 Only thing I’d suggest is making sure your ram is in different channels, there’s an icon next to the ram with it but normally it’s 2nd and 4th from the left

First rig I’m building has started 🫡

@MissLadyJay_ZA Component matching is on point 🔥 Great choices! Good luck, and hope y'all are having fun!

@davidfowl Agreed! I do have a soft spot for linq2db though 😅 Used it in a few personal projects (with MariaDB) and it's great.

People like to talk smack about EF but it's one of the best ORMs on the planet (if you don't like ORMs this thread isn't for you 😅).

@MissLadyJay_ZA They look so much better and risk is negligible imo.

@darrynbritton Okay yeah I was kind of looking at this one until I realized it *could* leak 💀 galaxus.de/en/s1/product/…

Need help. Air or liquid CPU cooler for my first build? Liquid coolers look soo much nicer but seems intimidating for my first build. Air coolers look too chonky for my liking 🥲

@MissLadyJay_ZA Also they're *super* easy to fit.. no more hassle than a tower air cooler.

Okay, I think I have something 👀🥳 *Budget was 2k Euros* ✨

@MissLadyJay_ZA Ah, fair point. Megekko has stock but the price is pretty eye watering 😓 megekko.nl/product/1963/1…

@darrynbritton Need the Nvidia card for the encoding when I stream :')

Trying to find a 4070 Super is actually impossible 🥲

@MissLadyJay_ZA Was shocked to find out they were originally cultivated in California. I thought they were an SA invention 😳

Found some Cotton Candy grapes from South Africa in a German grocery store 🥹