I saw this video on fascism a few months ago. It seemed like a really good breakdown of fascism that was relatively level-headed.

SEPULTURA - Arise (1991)

Neo is all for free speech.

Moravia once remarked that the most important facts of his life had been his illness, a tubercular infection of the bones that confined him to a bed for five years and Fascism, because they both caused him to suffer and do things he otherwise would not have done. 

I have no doubt that Ham Tyler would've punched Elon Musk.

Am re-reading Hogg's Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner and I know it's not a new or original thought but it's just striking to me again how young George (younger) and his brother Robert must have been during the tennis match and Black Bull mob scenes.

If the 'famous session' refers to the 1703 session of parliament (or even if it refers to the previous year's sitting which Queensberry also oversaw), and if old Dalcastle married in 1687 (or later), then at most George could have been 16 and his brother 15, and it's probable that both boys are younger.

I don't remember too many of the details from the first time I read this book so will have to finish it before I make any further judgement. However I don't think it detracts from Robert's culpability or nastiness in any way to take into account his probable age in the earlier portion of the narrative. I think makes for a more interesting reading when forcibly reminded that he's a young teenager. Even taking into account different social mores and expectations placed on children in both the period in which the novel is set, and the early 19th century when it was written, it seems to me that that's an element that will still have particular significance for readers in the 21st century, regardless of one's personal experience with extreme forms of Presbyterianism.

i think my biggest issue with the sequel trilogy is that it’s just such a textbook case of good ideas bad execution on practically every level in every movie and that makes me mad

idk how to spread this but i went on a nicanor abelardo binge which brought me to felipe de leon, who wrote Bagong Lipunan, aka the propaganda song used by M*rcos then during ML era and diktajunior during his presidential campaign. read up on why and how the composer came to write this piece after writing against japanese oppression in WW2. its important and nefarious history.

I always thought AFO look like a Roman emperor like one of there statues thank you for validating my suspicions

Oh, you mean in my Shigaraki and All for One post?

I mean, lotsa golden/silver/bronze age American superhero characters do look a lot like statues, but I thought it was especially significant that All for One looks SO MUCH like a statue compared to everyone else in the manga given the existing visual cues and themes that I had to point it out.

Glad I could help!

like, i'm happy to be disagreed with & might well be wrong, but my perception is that classics is, generally, less peculiar than classicists tend to think it is. and whilst it has a different historical relationship to imperialist systems of knowledge creation than other humanities subjects, i don't think it's completely unique. or rather i don't think its history is more unique than other subjects'. as it were.

Tonight's packing movies: the second half of The Sound of Music and Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Land of anger, I didn't ask to be born Sadness, sorrow, everything so alone Laboratory sickness, infects humanity No hope for cure, die by technology A world full of shit coming down Tribal violence everywhere Life in the age of terrorism We spit in your other face War of races World without intelligence A place consumed by time End of it all We're born with pain No more, we're dead Embryonic cells

Sepultura - Dead Embryonic Cells (Live in Finland 1991)

Every fictional fascist state be like:

Welcome to the glorious empire of Patria Mentulae. It's great here unless you're the wrong race in which case watch out for the Manus Mentulae. Also we're at war with our neighbors Cunni and Os Dei so make sure to join the local militia unit under our glorious legatus, Sopio Irrumatūrus.

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Review by Radical Reviewer

It's not the Bolero sequence. Favorite song they used in the movie though.