Behind the Bastards

simple, deeply religious woman who attended church regularly all her life.

Barry, a Stalin's first lieutenant.

Barry was a mediocre student, not excelling in any subject, but considered cunning and devious.

the story Stalin's daughter relates probably grew from the possibility that they had eloped on Beria's train.

Despite his sexual predatory nature, the marriage lasted and quote, she remained in love with her charmer for the rest of her life.

There's another book called On Stalin's Team that I use a lot later that's about like the whole gang around Stalin.

One of the other books, this is by a guy named Alan Guelzo, is *Robert E. Lee and Me: Southerners and the Reckoning of Their Past*.

*Robert E. Lee* by Alan Guelzo

His nephew, Fitzhugh Lee, wrote a biography, *General Lee*. It's a hagiography, it's a bit of a whitewash. It's not bad, but it's definitely pro-Lee.

Haruki Murakami writing about own Shinrikyo, which is the cult that set off a bunch of poison gas in the Tokyo subway, noted that many of its members were doctors or engineers who, quote, actively sought to be controlled.

Haruki Murakami wrote of the members of Aum Shinrikyo, the cult who sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995 killed 13 people.

In his book underGROUND, Murakami describes most Aum members as having deposited all their precious personal holdings of selfhood in the spiritual bank of the cult's leader, Shoko Asahara.

So that's cool.

Yeah. You know, I'm I'm stuck on this like, you know, journey to the stars through evolution thing, because I don't know. Robert, do you play Warhammer 40?

By the way, the name of the article Land wrote all this in is called Hyper Racism. So cool guy. Glad Mark Andreessen cites him in his manifesto.

Well, that's the sequel to Flume's Hyper Realism. So that's yeah, it is interesting.

And these guys don't tend to cite it as much. I think you get in some of the deeper stuff. They're all talking about these techno capitalist concepts that Nick Land plays with. They don't talk about what I think is actually one of his most sort of insightful points, which is about a concept called hyperstition.

Kanye West's favorite The Greatest Lie Ever Sold by Candace Owens.

A lot of these stories come from a book called The Game Caller, which you'll understand that term later.

He writes a book after the guy dies.

It's about Petty and it's written by a former cult member who like left and had a big lawsuit with him.

But also they kind of were frenemies because he would - whenever journalists would talk to people, like I actually like him a lot.

I don't know whether or not we should trust this either, but it's simply the only source we have.

We have a whole bunch of a whole bunch of stuff from Jordan Peterson after he left the University of Toronto and got and got kicked off Twitter.

We have we have a making a murderer ripoff documentary by Candace Owens called Convicting a Murderer.

Now, a lot of people are probably familiar with Carla, the Don Juan books.

He actually writes these as part of his doctoral program at the University of California.

I hate that I knew where he went to school.

Do you see? Yeah, he sure did, baby.

Yeah, he absolutely did.

The one Daily Wire Plus series I am not very much excited about is an upcoming adult animated scripted series created by Adam Carolla entitled Mr. Bircham.

Mr. Bircham attempts to navigate a world he doesn't understand or approve of. He's befuddled by his gaming streamer son, Eddie.

The cast includes Carolla as Mr. Bircham, Megan Kelly, Roseanne Barr, conservative comedian Tyler Fisher, Daily Wire hosts Brett Cooper and Canis Owens, comedian Alonzo Brodin, former Amy Schumer writer Kyle Dunningan, and unfortunately, Danny Trejo and Patrick Warburton.

This is from a book called The Bear's Famous Invasion of Sicily.

Oh, nice.

They take over Sicily by force. They could not do a worse job in Sicily than the Italian government.

So I think that seems like a real move forward for Sicily.

I mean in general like this revolution is based on the thoughts of Abdullah calan. So I think a good idea if you actually want to understand like the ideological basis of it about women's liberation about how democratic society can be organized.

Indeed, one activist, Tom Rogers of San Juan Capistrano, who served as the campaign finance manager for John Schmitz's state Senate run in 1964 and who shortly afterwards served as co-editor of the Catholic traditionalist paper The Wanderer, asserted years later that for him and many others, Proposition 14 was what the movement was all about.

Goldwater's frequent references of freedom of association, his belief that prejudice is a moral issue that cannot be legislated and a strong advocacy of property rights placed him firmly on the side of those opposing the Rumford Act.

Moreover, Goldwater's determination to fight lawlessness, his references to rising crime rates and his linkage of crime to lawlessness of other sorts, a reference to the civil rights and students movements appealed to the white middle classes in Orange County.

Though no great athlete, Heinz Kissinger was already a shrewd tactician devising for his team, a system that, as it turns out, is the way the Italians play soccer.

On April 9th, 1932, 15 SA men were set upon by Iron Front members as they left the pro-Nazi Yellow Lion pub.

On March 3rd, there's another torch lit parade by the Nazis through Firth.

An article by Ernst von Salomon, a right wing German writer who had been convicted for his role in the assassination of Walter Rathenau, a German minister in the Weimar Republic.

with his skill for simplifying and expressing complex ideas, Kissinger put the issue starkly.

Lawrence had gotten famous in hacker circles for a book he wrote in 1999 called Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace.

But like, okay, I want to ask the audience a question, right? Why would members of the Mujahedin be in Bosnia in the 1990s? And I want to suggest that it might have something to do with the fact that Milosevic was trying to kill every Muslim in the fucking country. He almost did it. He was pretty close to actually doing it. But the sort of like left conspiracy solution is like, no, no, it must have been the CIA. There's no plausible reason why ex-Mujahedin guys would have gone to a country where someone was trying to kill the entire Muslim population. Like what the fuck? Like what the fuck? It's all stuff that's like this. And he also talks about how Milosevic would have testified about the CIA institution of a neoliberal government in Kosovo. And like what? Like Milosevic is the guy who presided - he was one of the architects of de-collectivization in Yugoslavia. He is like - before he was the butcher of Belgrade, he was the butcher of the Yugoslavian socialist state. But you can - and he was just a hardline right-wing Serbian nationalist. But you can sell him to a Western audience by using Islamophobia, by exploiting - by doing this thing where you're like, oh, well, actually, like all of these people were - they were all Al-Qaeda. You can use this to sell the guy who destroyed Yugoslavia as like the leftist savior of Yugoslavia. And I think that the part about this that's really sad is like there was - the sort of last true believers of the old Yugoslavian working class were these - the Yugoslavian anti-war protesters. And these guys, they're protesting to stop the war they see coming that the Serbians are about to unleash. And they just get murdered in the streets by Milosevic. Well, because seven years later, the US decided that they didn't like him. He's become this hero of a bunch of these - like a bunch of Marxist-Leninists. Like see, this guy is a hero. And this is - this is just - this is their big sort of political trick is using the threat of terrifying Muslim terrorists to just legitimize right-wing dictators. I mean, speaking of right-wing dictators.

One way of posing the question of who we are in these times of war is by asking whose lives are considered valuable, whose lives are mourned, and whose lives are considered ungrievable.

In 2016, Butler wrote a book called Frames of War, When Is Life Grievable?

We might think of war as dividing populations into those who are grievable and those who are not. An ungrievable life is one that cannot be mourned because it has never lived. That is, it has never counted as a life at all.

We can see the division of the globe into grievable and ungrievable lives from the perspective of those who wage war in order to defend the lives of certain communities and to defend them against the lives of others, even if it means taking those latter lives.

You know, okay, I'm gonna recommend this book that I've talked about before called Fashion Victims by Alison Matthews David.