Larry David is pretty good

I don't get the determination to make Columbus relevant to US history. He never set foot on US soil. He "discovered" a place where millions of people lived and vikings and Irish fishermen knew about. He thought he visited India until his deathbed. His contemporaries considered him a violent weirdo.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died. While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants. Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

Day Before 'Routine Check Up', GOP Insider Tells MAGA Fans Trump 'Will be Dead Sooner Than You Imagine' Just one day before Donald Trump is set to undergo a “routine yearly check-up” at Walter Reed Hospital — his second in less than six months — conservative strategist Rick Wilson delivered a blistering...

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If you are deranged enough to obsessively lobby for a Nobel Peace Prize, then you should be automatically disqualified from receiving it.

"a left wing blog" lol

doesnt think he'll get into heaven
thinks he deserves the nobel peace prize

Q Is the difference here that you’d rather talk about the work with your collaborators than with someone after the fact? DAY-LEWIS The transactions that take place between you and your collaborators are of a very particular kind, and by the time I ever get to a set, I hope that the talking is more or less over and you’re inside that world you’ve tried to create for yourself. Talking about it now is a little bit fraudulent because I’m trying to reconstruct an experience that I have very little objective understanding of. I really will try to find my way to answer anything you ask me, but I can’t be entirely sure that it’s not just a reinvention in hindsight.

Q Your father, the poet Cecil Day-Lewis, died when you were 15. You’ve said that you regret not having achieved anything of artistic significance that he could have witnessed. DAY-LEWIS Of any kind of significance, yeah. Q So I’ve got to think that to be able to watch your son embark on his biggest project of artistic significance thus far, and to do that alongside him, has got to be immensely satisfying. DAY-LEWIS That’s a lovely observation, it really is. It was quite useful to me, and unique. We were both amazed that we were given this opportunity to do this thing. That quiet sense of joy ran through the entire period of time, sharing that precious time with Ronan. It was very, very special.

Q When you were young, what did acting mean to you? DAY-LEWIS At a very early age, it seemed to me not just that there was a good chance I was going to try to have a career as an actor, but that I needed to have that career to survive in the world. The theater, when I first discovered it in boarding school, really became a sanctuary. To be in that illuminated box, I felt relatively safe from what appeared in every other respect to be a hostile and cruel environment. Q Still, you considered forsaking it as a young man to instead become a cabinetmaker, and even as an adult, you once put your acting career aside to work as a cobbler. What appealed to you about that path? DAY-LEWIS The craft thing almost felt like an alternative, largely because it’s tangible. In performance arts, we’re dancing with shadows and it’s a matter of taste: You like his face, you don’t like his face. But if you’re making shoes or a piece of furniture or a musical instrument, the quality of that is tangible. To me, it was an antidote to the unknown.

Q Do you consider acting a craft, too? DAY-LEWIS I don’t really like thinking of acting in terms of craft at all. Of course, there are techniques you can learn, and I know that the Method has become an easy target these days. I’m a little cross these days to hear all kinds of people gobbling off and saying things like “gone full Method,” which I think is meant to imply that a person’s behaving like a lunatic in an extreme fashion. Everyone tends to focus on the less important details of the work, and those details always seem to involve some sort of self-flagellation or an experience that imposes upon oneself a severe discomfort or mental instability. But of course, in the life of an actor, it has to principally be about the internal work.

There's so much poetry just in hearing Daniel Day-Lewis speak as himself, and about himself. The soul of this man, to the extent it's on display here, is fascinating. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/m...

Omg this. 👇🏽

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

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Everyone who told you to support John Fetterman in that primary, is now telling you to support an ex-Blackwater mercenary with no voting record in the Maine primary.

When are you going to catch on?

That Soros check is gonna pay off my credit card debt - this couldn't come at a better time lol

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone' Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Portland 🔥

We Stand With Chicago,This is
Fighting Chump's Regime.....

Huge mistake by Trump to let the 4'10 freak Stephen Miller take center stage during his Presidency. The more people hear and see from Mini Himmler the more they are repulsed. Plus the ICE raids are horrific and inhumane.

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News. A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

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Am I the only one wanting this for him

Yup

I'd love it if that caught on and millions did that with their driveways

Kim Abrahamson Moore's driveway with beautiful trees, a dog, and a rainbow sidewalk.

Governor Greg Abbott has ordered the removal of all rainbow sidewalks in Texas.

TikToker Kim Abrahamson Moore responded to the news with this pic of her driveway.

#LoveIsLove #Resist

It's wild that we've reached a point where the President openly admits to firing people for political reasons, and his OMB director tweets about it like it's a victory. This is page one of the authoritarian playbook, happening in plain sight.

This is definitely the definition of fascism.

#USDemocracy

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If you look closely, you can see signs of GOP lawmakers fearing the long-term political consequences of paying more attention to Trump's demands than to the voices of their own constituents - or consciences.