Christopher Bakke

Because by the 90’s they were aping far better American action movies. The earlier films were in fact quite a novelty: explicitly British, rompy and humorous with rare for the time on location shooting and stunt work.

Most listened to are Alligator and Discoverer. But the best song on the record is the understated Walk It Back.

You guys gotta start putting out box sets of your legendary shows and tours, complete with books of these killer photos. This aspect of your legacy deserves to be better known.

Genuinely fascinating how of all the languages Republicans could turn into their pet object of disgust, the one they chose is Western European, with an extremely rich literary tradition.

Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Finally, reactionaries, Gentile says, believe in the myth of the *past.* They hold to a transcendent, archetypal order that political actors must reenforce against a continual stream of degradation.

The conservative does *not* share the fascist myth of the future, nor its belief in the supremacy of politics. Conservatives are you say in your piece are passive. They are inherently skeptical of political activism, making them distinct from fascists, who are revolutionaries, not mere activists.

FWIW, the Italian historian of fascism Emilio Gentile distinguishes between the conservative, the reactionary, and the fascist. In Gentile’s telling, fascism is a revolutionary movement, fixated on a mythical future in which mass violence sublimates all of our private lives into state ideology.

Besnyö had one of the all time coolest hair styles.

Adults in the room.

Did we say please and thank you? Did Vance wear his best suit? What a fucking sick joke.

It pains me to say it, but it’s not a cover band anymore. R.E.M. have effectively deputized them as the new incarnation of the band. They think it’s cool, which sadly suggests that we’ll never get new R.E.M. shows nor music, despite Bill Berry’s enthusiastic return to the fold.

At this point, it's safe to assume most of the Republicans are talking like nazis in their group chats.

This is the shit that fills me with doomerism. Not so much Trump, but this now ubiquitous Hitler youth shit.

What kills me is that these stories are going to be trickling out for the rest of our lives as journalists and historians interview survivors and dig through the documents. It will be a specialist field of study that the public is aware of, but not outraged by, and its going to drive me mad.

I assume this is addressed to Greg Bovino.

Trump and his cronies have zero conception of public service, of a social contract between themselves and the people they govern. They see themselves as the royalty, sitting above the rest of us, our wellbeing and lives pointless and irrelevant, background noise to their ambitions and machinations

Denaturalization has gotta be one of the sickest acts a government can do to its own people. It should be expressly forbidden by constitutional amendment.

Completely accurate assessment. No notes. 10/10.

Abolish that shit.

Quote from Washington Times editorial board "[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

Here’s a little agit for the never believer

The photograph on the dashboard, taken years ago

All of this is coming your way

If you were around for the multi-year smear campaign of “they hate our troops” directed at anyone expressing the slightest skepticism about the Iraq War, then Trump’s “fuck it” attitude is doubly disgusting.

Wow, I didn't know that, you're telling me now for the first time

Trying to limit my time doomscrolling but im having a hard time ignoring all of this

The Secret Agent is as good as they. Its vision of political resistance based in quiet acts of friendship and solidarity is deeply moving. And of course, it’s also nice to be transported to Brazil for a couple hours.

root causes of the world wars

world war 1: clash between imperialism and rising nationalist sentiment

world war 2: resentment from ww1 treaties, rising fascism

world war 3: feminist youtuber made a video saying lara croft should have smaller boobs

Blowing things up, kidnapping and killing foreign leaders, is good because it's Doing. Considering the consequences of Doing would be Thinking, which is weak and woke

It is so depressing to realize that I’m going to be forced to regularly relive the “Charlie Kirk was bad, actually” conversation for the remainder of my life.

That Trump II is killing its way through every level of Iran's leadership until the unqualified recent hires are in charge is consistent with the notion that hegemons always try to export their ideal regime type.