Behind the Bastards

A general strike doesn't just happen. We don't actually know exactly why general strikes happen, but we know that they don't just happen. They're not spontaneous.

Our plan then is to make our war, openly or secretly as circumstances may dictate, upon the property of the slaveholders, burn the masters' buildings, kill their cattle and horses, conceal or destroy farming utensils, abandon labor and seed time and harvest and let the crops perish, make slavery unprofitable.

White rascals of the South, willing tools of the slaveholders, you who drive slaves to do their labor, hunt them with dogs, and flog them for pay, without asking any questions, you are the main pillars of the slave system.

Occupation of the Casbah in Tunis and of the Sigtagma Square in Athens. Siege of Westminster in London during the student movement of 2011. Encirclement of the Parliament in Madrid on September 25th, 2012 or in Barcelona on June 5th, 2011. Riots all around the Chamber of Deputies in Rome, December 14th, 2010. Attempt on October 15th, 2011 in Lisbon to invade the Assemblea de la Repubblica. Birding of the Bosnian presidential residence in February of 2014. The places of institutional power exert a magnetic attraction on revolutionaries. But when the insurgents managed to penetrate parliaments, presidential palaces and other headquarters of institutions as in Ukraine, in Libya or in Wisconsin, it's only to discover empty places that is empty of power and furnished without any taste. It's not to prevent the people from taking power that they are so fiercely kept from invading such places, but to prevent them from realizing that power no longer resides in the institutions. There are only deserted temples there, decommissioned fortresses, nothing but stage sets, real traps for revolutionaries. The popular impulse to rush onto the stage to find out what is happening in the wings is bound to be disappointed. If they got inside, even the most fervent conspiracy freaks would find nothing arcane there. The truth is that power is simply no longer that theatrical reality to which modernity accustomed us.

I found a book called Trump U Inside Trump University Written by a guy named Stephen Gilpin

Now Stephen builds himself as essentially the only honest man inside Trump University And I think he's fudging the truth to some degree

Entrepreneurship students would be asked to assume the role of a venture capitalist and analyze a business plan. They would then submit their work to classmates for a peer review. A course would consist of three such assignments.

People learn the hard way trying to replicate the classroom experience isn't particularly effective, said Michael Sexton. Education is worthless without feedback. This system enables however many students we have to get live feedback about their work.

This is not for somebody who wants to put a sheepskin on a wall and think that is going to meaningfully help their career.

He gave me a copy of his self-published novel Operation Night Watch, which was about a group of Navy SEALs going rogue to stop drug dealers.

One of the worst things I've ever read.

So there's a book called A Billion Wicked Thoughts that was written by Google engineers who are quite reliable social scientists when they put their minds to it engineer types because they tend to follow the data independent of any political inclination and they looked at patterns of pornography use among men and women drawing on literally billions of data points A Billion Wicked Thoughts and they found was something that had been reported previously, but this was on a very large scale that men use visual pornography.

and they found was something that had been reported previously, but this was on a very large scale that men use visual pornography. I don't think that comes as a shock to anyone but that women's preferred pornographic art form is literary the women like stories and they analyze the canonical female pornographic fantasy and it's basically surprise surprise 50 shades of gray.

Hitler was a sexually confused serial killer psychologist claims in new book

Hitler one and hitler two the sexual no man's land

He quotes Marion Hop, an actress who was an acquaintance of Hitler, describing a time that she went to the cinema in the dictator's Berlin palace to watch a film called "The Rebel". It featured Austrian troops hurling boulders from a mountain onto the French below. Hitler got some kind of thrill and rubbed his knees at this event as the stones rolled down on the French and groaned.

"I don't know if he was crazy, but he got some kind of orgasm." She said, "I wanted to leave during the show." The man was creepy.

Hitler's sexuality, I believe, drove the dictator into the most colossal annihilation that man has witnessed.

With abundant dark hair.

Installed with the Hitlers at an end where Alois was already carrying on an affair with the kitchen maid Francesca.

Only too aware of how tempting a pretty maid could be to the susceptible Alois.

On promenades girls and women would often slightly glance at them. At first Kubizek thought their interest was directed to him, but it soon became apparent that the reserved Adolf was the object. He coldly ignored their silent invitations. If the two did nothing about sex, they spent hours at night discussing women, love, and marriage with Adolf as usual dominating the conversation. Over and over he insisted that he must keep the flame of life pure.

As a dad, he's remembered generally as a strict authoritarian figure, but most people who knew the family when his dad was alive say that Alois wasn't particularly violent or bad by the standards of the time towards his kid or his wife.

When his circle of acquaintances got around to discussing women and doubtless their own former girlfriends and sexual experiences, the best Hitler could come up with was a veiled reference to Stephanie who had been his first love, though she never knew it, because he never told her.

But his prudishness went far beyond this; it amounted, according to Kubizek's account, to a deep disgust and repugnance at sexual activity.

According to Thomas Lacker's 2003 book, Solitary Sex, a cultural history of masturbation, masturbation as we know it was invented in 1713.

It's called Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture.

It was basically a love letter written to me and you, Garrison.

so common was the practice of animal masquerades in the middle ages that detailed condemnations were issued against them.

If anyone in the cleanse of January goes about as a stag or a bull that is making himself into a wild animal and dressing in the skin of a herd and putting on the head

If you're familiar with Hey Duke and Edward Abbey's eco-anarchist novel The Monkey Ranch Gang, that's a pretty good way to envision Paul, albeit without the misogyny and racism that makes it pretty hard to have any respect for that book or its author.

I found a book that told me that holding hands is foreplay. That was called Sex in Marriage.

The Urbanization of People, the Politics of Development, Labor Markets and Schooling in the Chinese City.

We could not engage at once in business or professional pursuits. Few had capital to enter mercantile or agricultural enterprises. There was a total lack of amusement and social diversions which prevail wherever society is in a normal condition so everything's fucked up because of the war still.

During the fall and winter of 1866 the growth of the clan was rapid. It spread over a wide extent of territory sometimes by a sudden leap it appeared in localities far distant from any existing dens.

In a short time the lictor of the Pulaski din reported that travel along the road which he had his post had almost entirely stopped. In the country it was noticed that the nocturnal perambulation of the colored population diminished or entirely ceased.

Wherever the Ku Klux appeared, in many ways there was a noticeable improvement in the habits of a large class who had hitherto been causing large annoyance. In this way the Klan gradually realized that the most powerful devices ever constructed for controlling the ignorant and superstitious were in their hands.

Only the best. Nae Bed, no, Bed Four. Bed Four. That's his 2019 nickname. They admitted no man who was not a gentleman and a man who could be relied upon to act discreetly. No men who were in the habit of drinking, boisterous men, or men liable to commit error or wrong or anything of that sort.

You can find my book on Amazon A Brief History of Vice

Well, there was an article that I read that was like, he loves the Greek classics. You know, like the Ennied.

It's actually Roman propaganda written by Virgil so that he could make the case that Octavian had like a deep connection to like Roman history.