@augustus source?
[RT @wrathofgnon]
In a not so distant past the rich and famous would gift their towns and cities with beautiful buildings to last generations. Here is the John Rylands Library in Manchester, opened in 1900, a Neo-gothic sandstone construction on a brick base with a steel frame.
@escalion awesome thanks :))
[RT @wrathofgnon]
First prize in a competition of proposals as to how best revitalize the at present rather dreary West end of Alzira, in Valencia, Spain. @DriehausPrize is doing fantastic work promoting these things as usual. Before fixing anything, we must have a vision of what we can achieve.
@11112011 legitimately based
@nerdman show me a Frenchman who knows when he's pretending and I'll show you an Englishman who knows when to stop drinking
@11112011 Pfizer or moderna
@Prodigal @ZVCorrupted you should read Girard's "things hidden since the foundation of the world"
almost turned me Christian, I shit you not
@Prodigal figured it would be the case
this is one tent I'd rather be well outside
@Prodigal what was the cause
@augustus he would have been 96 in 2000 so not sure if that theory holds water
@augustus oh you mean if Orwell was still alive today?
@augustus applying Orwell's method to today =/= Neo-con
One of his issues was with the abuse of language, particularly in political contexts; he would have been anti-woke but beyond that it's hard to say.
doubt he would have been pro-Trump either.
not sure where your equivalence of Trotskyism and Neo-con comes from but can't say I know much about either