And while The Conformist was criticized for reducing fascism to sexual perversion, it seems to have held up pretty well when looking at JD Vance or Steven Miller or a variety of other Whitehouse creeps.

Foreplay on a train in The Conformist

The big idea to me was "sexual taboo drives fascism" and reminded me of The Conformist which was criticized, fairly, as reductive. But it's not easy to fit in a blockbuster and it deserves credit. I do agree DiCaprio, Penn, and del Toro overshadow the black characters.

Made from 666 separate meats from an animal with maggots for blood

Tara Palmeri's profile show she is getting blocked multiple times per minute https://clearsky.app/tarapalmeri.bsky.social/blocking/blocked-by

Tara Palmeri is making friends here like she is in Trump's inner circle.

Behold Glonzo manifest.

Big beautiful Kim bailout incoming.

Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy Announces Consequences for California’s Failure to Enforce English Language Requirements for Truckers Wednesday, October 15, 2025 California is the only state to not comply with the Department’s ELP Requirements for Commercial Motor Vehicle Drivers WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy today announced that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) will withhold over $40 million from California following an investigation that found the state has failed to comply with the Department’s English Language Proficiency (ELP) standards. “I put states on notice this summer: enforce the Trump Administration’s English language requirements or the checks stop coming. California is the only state in the nation that refuses to ensure big rig drivers can read our road signs and communicate with law enforcement. This is a fundamental safety issue that impacts you and your family on America’s road,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy. In total, $40,685,225 from Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program (MCSAP) funding awarded to California will be impacted. MCSAP provides grant funding for states to conduct roadside inspections, traffic enforcement, safety audits of trucking companies, and public education campaigns. “Let me be clear – this is valuable money that should be going to the great men and women in California law enforcement, who we support. Gov. Newsom’s insistence on obstructing federal law has tied my hands,” the Secretary added.

It is just a weapon to use against Democratic governors and their states.
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The captions are wrong, she calls them tractor trailers.

Villainous Colonel Lockjaw combing his hair

Villainous Erik Prince at a conference

Something I appreciated about One Battle After Another is how Colonel Lockjaw has an Erik Prince haircut.

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WTF is DHS doing to detainees? This is like the kid that North Korea returned in a brain dead condition.

"He arrived back in Costa Rica with countless ulcers and unexplained surgical scars... with rhabdomyolysis and encephalopathy."

If you can install extensions I highly recommend Control Panel for Twitter. Removes the for you tab and shows accounts you follow only.

No cleavage unless you follow cleavage.

Pepper mill company says"We recently had an inexplicable tariff increase. Hence the price hike."

Trump takes pepper mills.

They really want to test whether they can get away with it.

We saw in the previous chapter how the self-indulgently bohemian Hitler spent as little time as possible on the labors of government, at least until the war. He proclaimed his visions and hatreds in speeches and cere monies, and allowed his ambitious underlings to search for the most radi cal way to fulfill them in a Darwinian competition for attention and reward. His lieutenants, fully aware of his fanatical views, “worked toward the Führer,”26 who needed mainly to arbitrate among them. Mussolini, quite unlike Hitler in his commitment to the drudgery of government, refused to delegate and remained suspicious of competent associates—a governing style that produced more inertia than radicalization.

It is terrible strategy. It seems to me radicals set the agenda will get more radical as time goes by. Look for escalation after Nov. 2026.

This is Robert Paxton describing radicalization of German govt.

The vileness of the Totenkopf and wishing to have participated in the Indian wars are greater than the sum of their parts.

His ROOMBA that had been sending detailed maps of his house god knows where, and bricking itself when he tried to disable the spyware

INCREDIBLE freaking story

Can we have Things with No Internet please, happy to pay extra

Gift link. Interesting article.

YouTube video by ACURA John Mearsheimer on War in Ukraine with Katrina vanden Heuvel, Ambassador Jack Matlock, more...

Mearsheimer literally does.

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It's good to understand the context. He's not being asked anything. He decides to correct someone that blamed Russia for massacring civilians.

Mearsheimer is a Bucha denier. Just so you know.

The discount store in my neighborhood has proscuitto ends for $8/lb. I know what I am going to do with the stuff in my freezer.

Protracted large scale protests will crack the lie.

Vaclav Havel, The Power of the Powerless The post-totalitarian system touches people at every step, but it does so with its ideological gloves on. This is why life in the system is so thoroughly permeated with hypocrisy and lies: government by bureaucracy is called popular government; the working class is enslaved in the name of the working class; the complete degradation of the individual is presented as his ultimate liberation; depriving people of in formation is called making it available; the use of power to manipulate is called the public control of power, and the arbitrary abuse of power is called observing the legal code; the repression of culture is called its development; the expansion of imperial influence is presented as support for the oppressed; the lack of free expression becomes the highest form of freedom; farcical elections become the highest form of democracy; banning independent thought becomes the most scientific of world views; military occupation becomes fraternal assistance. Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to persecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing. Individuals need not believe all these mystifications, but they must behave as though they did, or they must at least tolerate them in silence, or get along well with those who work with them. For this reason, however, they must live within a lie. They need not accept the lie. It is enough for them to have accepted their life with it and in it. For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.

Vaclav Havel describing totalitarianism in Eastern Europe. He could have as easily been describing Trump's regime.

"individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system" therefore all sources dissent must be eliminated or brought into compliance.

So just to be clear you don't object to someone with a large sized SS Totenkpof tattoo and no political record getting a 6 year term of service in the Senate?

Did you read a different article than I did?

I conclude from watching this and other videos that people like Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries dgaf because they will never have to worry about being on the receiving end of the brutality.

In other words, the people Luce was talking about, who he refers to as “lawmakers, private sector executives, retired senior military figures and intelligence chiefs, current and former Trump officials, Washington lawyers and foreign government officials.” Foreigners and Trump officials are in a different category. They’re either not part of our civic compact or actively working to destroy it. For all the rest, you profited by this system, this republican system, what you have was made possibly by it. So you have an obligation to defend it when it’s under severe threat. That’s the civic virtue that’s important, that’s real. Needless to say these are apparently quite notional obligations because hardly any of these people appear to feel under any obligation. But an obligation shirked doesn’t make the obligation any less real.

The article is not about some vague idea of virtue, more like noblesse oblige. You don't get the benefits of nobility without the social contract to defend the state from threat.

Israel doesn't enter into the question.

Ilhan Omar is a woman fyi.

@ grok is this safe?

Do people generally read it as meaning Wall Street firms? Your post initially puzzled me because I do not. Maybe because I don't or perhaps because I have never rented from a Wall Street firm, mostly from individuals owning a property or two.

Investigate Alito, Roberts, and Thomas and do likewise if they are compromised.

No man, no problem.