[ SECRET POST #4095 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4095 ⌋

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Kinda inspired by #2

[(Anonymous)]

Who are your favorite and least favorite presidents (or your country’s equivalent) from before you were born?

Re: Kinda inspired by #2

[(Anonymous)]

Warren G Harding was the fucking worst, fuck that dude.

Re: Kinda inspired by #2

[kaijinscendre]

Abraham Lincoln was pretty cool? Richard Nixon was a pretty big jerk. I don't really know much about presidents from before I was born.

Re: Kinda inspired by #2

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Least: Jackson.

Re: Kinda inspired by #2

[bur]

Weirdly, my favorite is Nixon. I just find him ridiculously fascinating. He's totally corrupt, but also oversaw the establishment of the EPA, lowered voting age, signed in Title IX, and did a lot to try and reform healthcare and welfare based on his own dismal experiences while growing up. It's just... kinda fascinating to watch it play together.

Least favorite: Buchanan. Fuck Buchanan.

Re: Kinda inspired by #2

[(Anonymous)]

Gough Whitlam for favourite. Not sure about least favourite. Maybe Deakin? He had a lot to do with the White Australia Policy, which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like.

Re: Kinda inspired by #2

[philstar22]

Favorites:
Obama
FDR
Lincoln
Kennedy- I'm not into the whole mythology around this family, but I do think he was a good president
John Adams
George Washington

Least:
Jackson and Trump. There are others I don't love, but none come close to these two.
Well, Reagan and Wilson are also ones I hate. While Jackson was the worst, I think, Reagan raises my rage most often because things he did during his presidency are so much of an effect on my career area and the people I want to help.

an opinion on every UK prime minister from Gladstone to 1990

[(Anonymous)]

Thatcher - fuck Thatcher.

Callaghan - obviously, totally ineffective, which makes it hard to appreciate any good qualities he might have had.

Harold Wilson - very good politician. Generally lacking in conviction or morals, but a phenomenal instinct for the popular elements of politics which you have to respect on some level.

Ted Heath - such a weirdo. Probably the last major representative of the One Nation, Churchillesque conservative line, and really didn't have the imagination or political instinct to pull it off, but he really tried.

Alec Douglas-Home - a political nonentity.

Harold MacMillan - an impressively, shockingly competent, and effective, and ruthless political operator. A harmonious administrator.

Anthony Eden - a man out of time. A deeply aristocratic politician who only cared about foreign policy for his whole career, committed to maintaining Britain as an empire, a la Grey or Salisbury, but at a time when that was no longer possible.

Churchill - he was Churchill. An asshole, a terrible human being, an adventurer in the worst sense, one of the great parliamentary performers ever, one of the last people who could have an impact as a politician solely by his performances in the House of Commons, and he was undeniably the best politician to run the War.

Atlee - phenomenal Prime Minister. So knowledgeable and intelligent and just a master of any subject he turned his mind to. Dry but forceful and deeply moral.

Chamberlain - fuck Neville Chamberlain. His reputation is mud, and he's still overrated. Personally unpleasant and arrogant, committed to totally wrong courses in foreign policy and forced them through against opposition, and probably was on some level sympathetic to the Nazis at least as a bulwark against Communism. Fuck him and fuck his daddy too.

Stanley Baldwin - a much more effective politician than Chamberlain. Probably had a lot of the same beliefs but gets away with it because of when he resigned. But a totally ruthless, brutal, pragmatic political operator much like Wilson.

Ramsay MacDonald - an idealist and romantic. Pretty useless against a politician like Baldwin but, you know, he probably inspired a lot of people and the rest of that, I guess.

Bonar Law - total nonentity.

Lloyd George - obviously, a phenom with enormous self-belief, enormous moral convictions, and a real fighting spirit. I respect him a lot. Even if he was so pugnacious that he wasted a ton of time fighting people on his own side needlessly, and also kind of destroyed his political party in the process, you can't help but like the guy.

Asquith - again, very likable. Also, an alcoholic. Competent personal manager of a really impressive cabinet. Smooth talker (relative to his time).

Campbell Bannerman - really underrated. Combined a capable fighting spirit with real, deep-rooted convictions and beliefs. Slightly old-fashioned, maybe, but in a way that gave him a real integrity and self-possession. Great fella.

Arthur Balfour - garbage. Trash. Second-worst prime minister after Chamberlain. Completely supercilious, useless aristocrat. Totally fucked up his whole party over Joseph Chamberlain's tariff reforms. Just did not have anything close to the ability to deal with it. Dickhead asshole.

Salisbury - probably a dickhead. But he had a real sense of himself and his beliefs, and although they were very cynical, grim beliefs, they worked well in foreign policy, which was all he cared about.

Rosebery - useless arrogant aristocratic prick. Fuck Rosebery.

Gladstone - what can you say about Gladstone? A total zealot and true believer, whose political convictions underwent several seismic shifts through the course of his career. Personally very weird, but an extraordinary performer in the Commons, with an intense certainty in his convictions, and a unique ability to think through and grasp extremely detailed conceptual structures. What he believed often sucked ass, though.

Re: Kinda inspired by #2

[(Anonymous)]

Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and FDR are my favorite presidents. Least favorite is definitely Andrew Jackson.

Re: Kinda inspired by #2

[(Anonymous)]

FDR seems pretty decent. I really, really hate Truman.

Re: Kinda inspired by #2

[(Anonymous)]

Fave: Obama

Least Fave: Trump.

Indirectly Inspired by #4

[(Anonymous)]

Looking your age. Do you look older than your age? Younger? Right on?

Are you one of those weirdo people who get irately offended when you're ID'd for things that you're plenty old enough to purchase/participate in?

Re: Indirectly Inspired by #4

[bur]

I look about ten years younger than I am, because good health, lack of stress, and strong Italian genetics. I get carded depending on who I'm with. If I'm with my younger friends or co-workers, I get carded 50/50. If I'm with someone older, like my Mom or my sister, I always get carded. If I'm at a store I always get carded, but their policy is "looks under 40", so whatever. I don't care. It's their job.

Re: Indirectly Inspired by #4

[(Anonymous)]

I rarely get carded for anything anymore, and when I do I assume it's because of a policy to card everyone who isn't obviously middle aged or older, and not because they think I look that young. Still, people tend to assume I'm at least a bit younger than I am, maybe 30-ish rather than the 38 or reality.

The gray in my hair tends to confuse people. Once in my late 20s, by which time I had visible salt-and-pepper, I went to get it cut and when the stylist was asking for my life story, she kept trying to add more time in there as if she needed me to be older. "So you took a bunch of time off between college and grad school, right? Oh, so grad school was quite a while ago, then?" If I cover the gray, people have tended to think I'm a lot younger. Currently, I get most of the gray dyed over, but leave this one clump where the gray was coming in more thickly, so I've got a bit of a stripe going, and that seems to walk the right line between "old enough to be afforded respect" up-close, and looking young from a distance.

Re: Indirectly Inspired by #4

[greghousesgf]

I don't particularly like being mistaken for a high school kid because I'm 56.

Re: Indirectly Inspired by #4

[philstar22]

I'm honestly not sure. I've heard both. I think I have a bit of a baby face, but I'm a fat woman, which ages me. So I can look either depending on the situation.

Re: Indirectly Inspired by #4

[(Anonymous)]

I feel older. I look younger. Weird combo.

I was once asked for ID by someone I used to babysit. They did a fucking triple take because I still look like a teenager even though I'm closer to 30. I was like "YES I AM THE GHOST OF BABYSITTERS PAST, NOW LET ME BUY THIS VODKA MARK OR I WILL CALL YOUR MOTHER."

To be fair, I only get real ticked off when people ask me for ID and not my friends, because I AM THE OLDEST AND IT IS NOT FAIR.

Re: Indirectly Inspired by #4

[(Anonymous)]

I look my age now. My face is rather sharp or angular, for the lack of a better word, so I looked older than my age when I was younger. My body on the other hand looks younger than my age.

What sports do you watch?

[(Anonymous)]

ANY KIND!

What has surprised you recently?

[(Anonymous)]

I called Capital One today for some customer service. And I was shocked to find that they were Americans! I don't really care what nationality my customer service people are but that surprised me.

Writing thread

[(Anonymous)]

Because I need some advice.

What fandom trends do you not like?

[(Anonymous)]

Or just don't get?

Villain marries heroine recs

[(Anonymous)]

Yesterday someone asked for recs for the “And now you must marry me” trope and didn’t get any recs. I’m not that anon, but I am interested, so if anyone has any good fics for this trope, please share!

Advice/Questons.

[(Anonymous)]

Ask them.