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Biden condemns white Supremacy at site of church shooting in South Carolina
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Courting Black voters he needs to win reelection, President Joe Biden on Monday denounced the “poison” of white supremacy in America, declaring at the site of a deadly racist church shooting in South Carolina that such ideology has no place in America, “not today, tomorrow or ever.”
Biden spoke from the pulpit of Mother Emanuel AME Church, where in 2015 nine Black parishioners were shot to death by the white stranger they had invited to join their Bible study. The Democratic president’s speech followed his blunt remarks last Friday on the eve of the anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, in which he excoriated former President Donald Trump for “glorifying” rather than condemning political violence.
At Mother Emanuel, Biden said “the word of God was pierced by bullets of hate, of rage, propelled not just by gunpowder, but by a poison, a poison that has for too long haunted this nation.”
That’s “white supremacy,” he said, the view by some whites that they are superior to other races. “It is a poison, throughout our history, that’s ripped this nation apart. This has no place in America. Not today, tomorrow or ever.”
It was a grim way to kick off a presidential campaign, particularly for someone known for his unfailing optimism and belief that American achievements are limitless. But it’s a reflection of the emphasis Biden and his campaign are placing on energizing Black voters amid deepening concerns among Democrats that the president could lose support from this critical constituency heading into the election.
Biden’s campaign advisers and aides hope the visit lays out the stakes of the race in unequivocal terms three years after the cultural saturation of Trump’s words and actions while he was president. It’s a contrast they hope will be paramount to voters in 2024.
AP AUDIO: Biden condemns white supremacy in a campaign speech at a SC church where Black people were killed.
AP correspondent Jennifer King reports.
Biden also used his second major campaign event of the year to thank the state’s Black voters. After an endorsement by Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn, one of the highest-ranking African Americans in the U.S. House, the state made Biden the winner of its Democratic presidential primary in 2020. That, in turn, set him on a path to become the party’s nominee and defeat Trump to win the presidency.
“I owe you,” he said.
Biden was briefly interrupted when several people upset over by his staunch support for Israel in its war against Hamas called out that if he really cared about lives lost he would call for a cease-fire in Gaza to help innocent Palestinians who are being killed under Israel’s bombardment. The chants of “cease-fire now” were drowned out by audience members chanting “four more years.”
The president also swiped at Republican presidential candidates Nikki Haley, a former governor of South Carolina, and Trump, without naming either one.
Haley was governor at the time of the shooting and gained national attention for her response, which included signing legislation into law removing the Confederate flag from the state Capitol. But she has been on the defensive recently for not explicitly naming slavery as the root cause of the Civil War when the question was posed at a campaign event. Her campaign responded Monday with a list of comments attributed to Biden that it said showed he’s racially insensitive.
Biden called it a “lie” that the war was about states’ rights. “So let me be clear, for those who don’t seem to know: Slavery was the cause of the Civil War. There’s no negotiation about that.”
Haley, speaking at a Fox News Channel town hall on Monday, pushed back that it was “offensive” for Biden to give a political speech at the church. She also raised Biden’s ties to Democratic segregationist senators early in his career.
During his successful 2020 run for the White House, Biden faced criticism from fellow Democratic contenders for alluding to his work with Sens. James Eastland of Mississippi and Herman Talmadge of Georgia while trying to make a point about lost civility in national politics.
“I don’t need someone who palled around with segregationists in the ‘70s and has said racist comments all the way through his career lecturing me or anyone in South Carolina about what it means to have racism, slavery, or anything related to the Civil War,” Haley said.
On more current events, Biden noted the scores of failed attempts by Trump in the courts to overturn the 2020 election in an attempt to hold onto power, as well as the former president’s embrace of the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.
“Let me say what others cannot: We must reject political violence in America. Always, not sometimes. Always. It’s never appropriate,” Biden said. He said “losers are taught to concede when they lose. And he’s a loser,” meaning Trump.
It was June 17, 2015, when a 21-year-old white man walked into the church and, intending to ignite a race war, shot and killed nine Black parishioners and wounded one more. Biden was vice president when he attended the memorial service in Charleston.
Biden’s aides and allies say the shootings are among the critical moments when the nation’s political divide started to sharpen and crack. Though Trump, the current Republican presidential front-runner, was not in office at the time and has called the shooting “horrible,” Biden is seeking to tie Trump’s current rhetoric to such violence.
Two years after the attack, as the “Unite The Right” gathering of white nationalists in Charlottesville, Virginia, erupted in violent clashes with counterprotesters. Trump said merely that “there is blame on both sides.”
Biden and his aides argue it’s all part of the same problem: Trump refused to condemn the actions of the white nationalists at that gathering. He’s repeatedly used rhetoric once used by Adolf Hitler to argue that immigrants entering the U.S. illegally are “poisoning the blood of our country,” yet insisted he had no idea that one of the world’s most reviled and infamous figures had used similar words.
And Trump continues to repeat his false claims that he won the 2020 election, as well as his assertion that the Capitol rioters were patriotic and those serving prison time are “hostages.”
At Mother Emanuel, Biden revisited themes from the Jan. 6 anniversary speech he delivered Friday.
Biden has repeatedly suggested that democracy itself is on the ballot, asking whether it is still “America’s sacred cause.”
Trump, who faces 91 criminal charges stemming from his efforts to overturn his loss to Biden and three other felony cases, argues that Biden and other top Democrats are themselves seeking to undermine democracy by using the legal system to thwart the campaign of Biden’s chief rival.
South Carolina is the first official Democratic nominating contest where Biden wants another strong showing.
In an interview with The Associated Press before Biden’s appearance, Malcolm Graham, a brother of Charleston church victim Cynthia Graham-Hurd, said the threat of racism and hate-fueled violence is part of a needed national conversation about race and American democracy.
“Racism, hatred and discrimination continue to be the Achilles’ heel of America, of our nation,” said Graham, a city councilman in Charlotte, North Carolina. “Certainly, what happened to the Emanual Nine years ago is a visible example of that. What happened in Buffalo, years later, where people were killed under similar circumstances, shows that racism and discrimination are still real and it’s even in our politics.”
After the speech, Biden met privately with religious leaders and family members and survivors of the church shooting. He also dropped in at Hannibal’s Kitchen, a soul food restaurant, to shake hands.
Later Monday, Biden flew to Dallas to make a brief stop at a memorial service for Eddie Bernice Johnson, the influential former Texas congresswoman who died on New Year’s Eve. Johnson was 89.
Biden said in a statement last week that he and Johnson had worked together during her 30 years in Congress and he was grateful for her friendship and partnership.
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whoever reblogged that bernie gifset we're now enemies xoxo
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briandouglaswilson · 2 years
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It’s Brian’s 80th birthday!
Here are some lovely video messages from musicians, friends and fellow legends.
You can find another video, and many other good wishes, on his website: https://www.brianwilson.com/
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vivaciousoceans · 6 months
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I think Joe Biden has some of the worst political nicknames of any president
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Francis Spufford’s “Cahokia Jazz”
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Tomorrow (December 5), I'm at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC, with my new solarpunk novel The Lost Cause, which 350.org's Bill McKibben called "The first great YIMBY novel: perceptive, scientifically sound, and extraordinarily hopeful."
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Francis Spufford's Cahokia Jazz is a fucking banger: it's a taut, unguessable whuddunit, painted in ultrablack noir, set in an alternate Jazz Age in a world where indigenous people never ceded most the west to the USA. It's got gorgeously described jazz music, a richly realized modern indigenous society, and a spectacular romance. It's amazing:
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Cahokia-Jazz/Francis-Spufford/9781668025451
Cahokia is the capital city of Deseret, a majority Catholic, majority indigenous state at the western frontier of the USA. It swirls with industry, wealth, and racial politics, serving as both a refuge from Jim Crow and a hive of Klan activity. Joe Barrow is new in town, a veteran who survived the trenches of WWI and moved to Cahokia with his army buddy, Phineas Drummond, where they both quickly rose through the police ranks to become detectives.
We meet Joe and Phin on a frigid government building rooftop in the predawn night, attending a grisly murder. Someone has laid out a man across a skylight, cut his throat, split his chest open, and excised his heart. This Aztec-inspired killing points at Cahokian indigenous independence gangs, some of whom embrace an apocryphal tale of being descended from Mesoamerican conquerors in the distant past. That makes this more than a mere ugly killing – it's a political flashpoint.
The Klan insists that Cahokia's system of communal land ownership is a form of communism (Russia never ceded Alaska in this world, so the USSR is now extending tendrils across the Bering Strait). They also insist that Cahokians' reverence for the Sun and the Moon – indigenous royals who have formally ceded power to elected leaders – makes them a threat to democracy. Finally, the Cahokians' fusion of Catholocism with traditional faith makes the spritually suspect. A rooftop blood-sacrifice could cause simmering political tension to boil over, and for ever white oligarch drooling at the thought of enclosing the shared land of Deseret, there are a thousand useful idiots in white hoods.
Joe and Phin now have to solve the murder – before the city explodes. But Phin seems more interested in pinning the case on an Indian – any Indian – than he is on solving the murder. And Joe – an indigenous orphan who has neither the language nor the culture that the Cahokians expect him to have – is reappraising his long habit of deferring to Phin.
This is the setup for a delicious whodunnit with a large helping of what if…? but Spufford doesn't stop there. Joe, you see, is a jazz pianist, and his old bandmates are back in town, and one thing leads to another and before you know it he's sitting in with them at a speakeasy. This gives Spufford a chance to roll out some of the most evocative, delicious descriptions of jazz since Doctorow's Ragtime (no relation):
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/41529/ragtime-by-e-l-doctorow/9780812978186
It's not just the jazz. This is a book that fires on every cylinder: there's brilliant melee (and a major battle set-piece that's stunning), a love storyline, gunplay, and a murder mystery that kept me guessing right to the end. There's fakeouts and comeuppances, bravery and treachery, and above all, a sense of possibility.
Most of what I know about Cahokia – and the giant mounds it left behind near St Louis – I learned from David Graeber and David Wengrow's brilliant work of heterodox history, The Dawn of Everything:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/08/three-freedoms/#anti-fatalism
Graeber and Wengrow's project is to make us reassess the blank spaces in our historical record, the ways of living that we have merely guessed at, based on fragments and suppositions. They point out that these inferences are vastly overdetermined, and that there are many other guesses that fit the facts equally well, or even better. This is a powerful message, one that insists that history – and thus the future – is contingent and up for grabs. We don't have to live the way we do, and we haven't always lived this way. We might live differently in the future.
In evoking a teeming, indigenous metropolis, conjured out of minor historical divergences, Spufford follows Graeber and Wengrow in cracking apart inevitability and letting all the captive possibility flow out. The fact that he does this in a first rate novel makes the accomplishment doubly impressive – and enjoyable.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/04/cahokia/#the-sun-and-the-moon
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Black and Hispanic people in two of North Carolina's biggest cities faced racially motivated discrimination when trying to get mortgages, state and federal officials said Monday, and the bank responsible will now pay millions of dollars to stop further legal actions.
President Joe Biden's administration has been investigating allegations of modern day banks still using Redlining, a Jim Crow era policy used to enforce de facto segregation in housing. Kristen Clarke, who leads the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice, said First National Bank will pay $13.5 million to settle allegations of Redlining in Charlotte and Winston-Salem as recently as 2021.
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it is so wild to me that Biden admin has done something cool and positive for Black and Hispanic people, and the news drops the same day they shit the bed on Mexican immigrants. Biden supporters have a legit item they can point to and champion their man... but he is chemically addicted to fucking up so he had to piss off SPECIFICALLY everyone who would care about this story
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By Michael Tomasky
The last Congress, the 117th, which sat from January 2021 through January 2023, was controlled by Democrats on both sides of the Capitol. These lawmakers worked in concert with a new Democratic President, so naturally, we witnessed an unusual amount of legislative activity.
Wanna guess how much? The 117th Congress passed, and Joe Biden signed, 362 laws. Now it practically goes without saying that a hefty majority of these were small-bore matters—relatively inconsequential in policy terms. There were the proverbial post office renamings, the Harlem Hellfighters Congressional Gold Medal Act, the Big Cat Public Safety Act, and the like. Still, an unusually high number of them were very consequential indeed: the American Rescue Plan, the hard infrastructure bill, the CHIPS and Science Act, and several more. They were aimed at helping people and businesses through the pandemic, solving aching public needs, creating jobs, reshaping industrial policy, and more. Whatever else you want to say about them, these people were earning their paychecks.
The 118th Congress—the current one; the one that opened with the clown show where Kevin McCarthy needed 15 ballots to be elected Speaker by his own party—has not been quite the hive of productivity that its predecessor was. So far, seven months into its term, it has passed, and the president has signed, 12 bills. They’re on track, if they can possibly keep up this scorching pace for the next 17 months, to pass maybe 44, even 45 or 46 bills!
And what laws they are! They’ve renamed a veterans’ clinic. They’ve toasted the 250th anniversary of the Marine Corps commemorative coin. Oh, but it hasn’t all been ceremonial. They’ve also pressed forward with the racism for which they are so widely and justly known, notably the bill that revoked part of Washington D.C.’s criminal code—McCarthy called it soft on crime, and Biden quasi-reluctantly signed it to avoid that age-old tag. The only law of any real consequence was the increase in the debt limit, on which the supposedly out-of-it Biden ran circles around the supposedly spry Speaker.
As far as improving the lives of working- and middle-class people, McCarthy’s majority has done absolutely nothing. But by God, don’t call them the “Do-Nothing Congress.” Oh, no! They’ve done stuff. For example, they’ve investigated Hunter and Joe Biden over, under, sideways, and down.
I wonder how many public dollars James Comer and Jim Jordan, respective chairs of the House’s Oversight and Judiciary committees, have spent trying to prove crimes that probably don’t exist but that they insist, every week, will be pitilessly exposed for all the world to see in just a little while, you’ll see—you’ll all see. In fact, Democrats: Why not tell the world how much they’re spending? I’d assume you have access to the basic budgetary materials. How about a Biden Goose Chase Clock toting up the taxpayer dollars being wasted on this sham?
Those two just get more ridiculous every week. Last week, you’ll recall, Comer’s committee had a closed-door session with yet another star witness, Devon Archer, a former Hunter Biden business partner who was supposedly poised to finally blow the lid off the whole thing. “The walls are closing in on the Bidens,” Comer crowed on Newsmax Monday night.
In the end, Archer’s testimony—taken that afternoon, released later in the week—did nothing of the sort. Which Comer might have known if he’d even bothered to show up at his own hearing, which he did not do!
As for Jordan—well, his special new “deep state” committee or whatever it’s called has been an even bigger abuse of the taxpayer dollar. Just Google “Jim Jordan deep state committee” and look at the headlines: “Inside Jim Jordan’s Disastrous Search for a ‘Deep State’ Whistleblower”; “Jordan’s ‘weaponization’ panel is all conclusions, no evidence”; “Jim Jordan’s ‘Weaponization’ Committee Is Misfiring.”
But hey, don’t be too hard on him. He may have other matters on his mind. In late June, the Supreme Court decided that a lawsuit brought by former Ohio State University wrestlers against a team doctor who was found by an investigation to have sexually abused 177 young men from the 1970s to the 1990s can move forward. Jordan was an assistant wrestling coach during part of the period in question; he has always denied any knowledge of the abuse. Two former wrestlers, however, in a complaint to the Supreme Court, allege that Jordan was aware of the behavior of “Dr. Cough” and did nothing: “Because Coach Hellickson, Assistant Coach Jordan, and the athletic department treated Dr. Strauss’s behavior as acceptable, John Doe 23 believed there was nothing he could do to address his discomfort with Dr. Strauss.” CNN reported back in 2020 that six ex-athletes charged that Jordan knew.
This is one of the reasons I laugh these days when I hear Republicans say of Democrats, as McCarthy and others did during the D.C. criminal code debate, that Democrats are soft on crime.
And oh yeah, the other (and main) reason: Donald Trump. Today’s Republicans are the softest-on-crime bunch of legislators in the history of the republic. They wanted, until they got hooted out of town for it, to “expunge” Trump’s impeachments! I’m putting that in scare quotes because there’s actually no such thing as an “impeachment expungement,” but you know, there was no such thing as holding family members guilty for someone’s crimes until Stalin decreed it, either.
The GOP’s lies are operatic, bald-faced, and so nakedly and obviously untrue that one experiences a kind of wonderment just watching these people actually go out in public before cameras and say these things. Here was McCarthy, for example, shortly before Trump’s arraignment: “I could say the same thing that Hillary Clinton says about her election that she lost.… I can say the same thing about those in the Democratic Party from the leadership on down about George Bush not winning, that Al Gore did. But were any of them prosecuted? Were any of them put in jail?”
I mean … what?! Do I even have to answer that? Clinton made some noises about votes being off but conceded to Trump the day after the election. Gore fought the 2000 outcome to the Supreme Court, as anyone would have, but the court issued Bush v. Gore on December 12 and Gore conceded on December 13. Neither egged on a riot on our most sacred national building (a riot that McCarthy denounced at the time himself!). I can’t help but think that when these guys and their handlers sit around dreaming up what they’ll say next, they just howl to one another: “We can say anything—the mainstream press, drunk on their weird notion of ‘objectivity,’ can’t really challenge us because if they do, we can accuse them of showing liberal bias, and the gullible idiots on our side will be our echo chamber!”
I’d call these people a joke, but it’s far worse and more frightening than that. They are a menace. Congress has been littered with racists and drunks and bribe-takers throughout its history. But it has never been this bursting at the seams with people like this. They lie about everything. They denounce and seek to destroy our system of government. They use their power to conduct taxpayer-funded fishing expeditions for which they have no evidence, where they’re just praying they get a bite so that, in classic fascist-projection fashion, they can accuse Biden of that which they know Trump to be guilty.
And as for trying to do anything to improve the lives of the American people—i.e., doing their jobs? Please. Don’t be naïve. To their mind, American people don’t need health care or wages or a cleaner planet. They need tax cuts and guns and protection from those 100 or so transgender high school female athletes (yes, in the whole country) and, most of all, Donald Trump as their President for life. Come to think of it, the fewer laws these maniacs pass, the better.
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Storia Di Musica #300 - Miles Davis, Live-Evil, 1971
Quando si ascoltò questo disco per la prima volta, i critici ebbero un profondo senso di smarrimento: Come bisogna definirlo? Cosa è? È jazz? È rock? È qualcosa di altro? In parte era lo scopo del suo creatore, in parte perfino a lui, genio incontrastato delle rivoluzioni musicali, qualcosa "sfuggì di mano", divenendo addirittura qualcosa di altro dalla sua idea primigenia. Questo è un disco che parte da un percorso iniziato qualche anno prima, quando Miles Davis e il suo storico secondo quintetto iniziano ad esplorare le possibilità che gli strumenti elettrici e le strutture della musica rock possono dare al jazz. I primi esperimenti con Miles In The Sky (1968), poi con quel capolavoro magnetico che è In A Silent Way (1969), il primo con la nuova formazione elettrica, la quale sviluppa a pieno quella rivoluzione che va sotto il nome di jazz fusion con il fragoroso, e irripetibile, carisma musicale rivoluzionario che fu Bitches Brew (1970, ma registrato qualche giorno dopo il Festival di Woodstock, nell'Agosto del 1969). Davis è sempre stato curioso e non ha mai avuto paura di guardarsi intorno dal punto di vista musicale, ne è testimone la sua discografia. E nell'idea che il jazz stesse morendo, era sua intenzione innestarlo di nuova vitalità contaminandolo con altri generi, non solo il rock, ma anche il funk, il soul, la musica sperimentale europea. A tutto ciò, per la prima volta nel jazz (e questa fu l'accusa più viva di eresia), il ruolo del produttore, del suo fido e sodale Teo Macero, è proprio quello di cercare tra le sessioni di prove le parti migliori, o come amava dire Davis "le più significative", e metterle insieme in un lavoro sorprendente e meticoloso di collage musicale, che in teoria elimina la componente espositiva solista del musicista jazz, ma che allo stesso tempo regala una nuova filosofia musicale ai brani, del tutto inaspettata. Decisivo fu, nel 1970, il compito che fu affidato a Davis di curare la colonna sonora del film documentario A Tribute To Jack Johnson, di Bill Cayton, sulla vita del pugile che nel 1908 divenne il primo pugile di colore e il primo texano a vincere il titolo del mondo di boxe dei pesi massimi, quando sconfisse il campione in carica Tommy Burns. Per questa ragione fu considerato una sorta di simbolo dell'orgoglio razziale della gente di colore all'inizio del ventesimo secolo, soprattutto poiché nel periodo erano ancora in vigore le leggi Jim Crow, leggi che di fatto perpetuarono la segregazione razziale in tutti i servizi pubblici, istituendo uno status definito di "separati ma uguali" per i neri americani e per gli appartenenti a gruppi razziali diversi dai bianchi, attive dal 1875 al 1965.
Il disco di oggi somma tutte queste istanze, in maniera unica e per certi versi selvaggia, divenendo di fatto una sorta di manifesto che Il Signore Delle Tenebre ostenta alla sua maniera, cioè nel modo più sfavillante possibile. Live-Evil esce nel Novembre del 1971, ma è frutto di storiche serate live al The Cellar Dome di Washington DC, dove la band di Davis si esibì per diverse serate nel Dicembre del 1970, e una parte di registrazioni in studio sotto lo sguardo attento di Teo Macero, presso gli studi della Columbia di New York. Con Davis, nelle esibizioni al Cellar Dome, che come prima pietra dello scandalo usa la tromba elettrica, infarcita di pedali di effetti e di wah wah (amore trasmessogli da Jimi Hendrix) c'erano Gary Bartz (sassofono), John McLaughlin (chitarra elettrica), Keith Jarrett (piano elettrico), Michael Henderson (basso elettrico), Jack DeJohnette (batteria) e Airto Moreira (percussioni) e in un brano solo, come voce narrante, l'attore Conrad Roberts. Nelle sessioni in studio di aggiungono altre leggende, tra cui Herbie Hancock e Chick Corea (con lui nei precedenti dischi citati), Billy Cobham, Joe Zawinul e il fenomenale musicista brasiliano Hermeto Pascoal, la cui musica e i cui brani saranno centrali in questo lavoro. Tutto il magma creativo di queste idee sfocia in un doppio disco dalla forza musicale devastante, tanto che oggi alcuni critici lo definiscono un heavy metal jazz, che parte dalle origini più profonde ma sfocia in una musica caotica e sfacciatamente meravigliosa, trascinante e indefinibile, che gioca tutto sulle dissonanze, sugli ossimori, sui palindromi simbolici e musicali. E manifestazione più chiara ne è la copertina, bellissima, di Mati Klarwein, artista francese autore di alcune delle più belle copertine musicali, tra cui quella di Bitches Brew: lasciato libero di creare da Davis, pensò alla copertina con la donna africana incinta, come simbolo di creazione "primordiale", ma fu lo stesso Davis, a pochi giorni dalla pubblicazione, una volta deciso il titolo, che gli chiese un nuovo disegno, che accostasse il "bene" al "male" attraverso una rana. Klarwein in quel momento aveva una copertina della rivista Time che raffigurava il presidente Hoover, che fu presa come spunto per la rana del male, che campeggiò sul retro della copertina, e che vi faccio vedere:
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Musicalmente il disco si divide in brani autografi di Davis, che diventano lunghissime jam session di sperimentazione, di assoli di chitarra, sfoghi di batteria, con la sua tromba elettrica che giganteggia qua e la, che raccolgono quel senso di rivoluzione, anche giocata sulla sua storica abilità di comunicazione (Sivad e Selim, che sono il contrario di Davis e Miles, la seconda scritta per lui da Pascoal, languida e dolcissima), il medley Gemini/Double Image, scritta con Zawinul, e le lunghissime e potentissime What I Say, quasi una dichiarazione di intenti, Funky Tonk, rivoluzionaria e la chiusura con Inamorata And Narration by Conrad Roberts, che è quasi teatro sperimentale, e le altre composizioni di Pascoal, Little Church e Nem Um Talvez, musica che stupì tantissimo lo stesso Davis, che considerava Pascoal uno dei più grandi musicisti del mondo: il brasiliano, polistrumentista, arrangiatore, produttore, è una delle figure centrali della musica sudamericana, e essendo albino è da sempre soprannominato o bruxo, lo stregone. Tutti brani vennero "perfezionati" da Macero, e addirittura nelle ristampe recenti è possibile leggere nelle note del libretto l'esatta costruzione dei brani, ripresi dalle sessioni live e dalle registrazioni in studio. Di quelle leggendarie serate al The Cellar Dome, nel 2005 la Columbia pubblicò un inestimabile cofanetto, di 5 cd, The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 con le intere esibizioni del Dicembre 1970: le parti usate in Live-Evil sono nel quinto e sesto disco, nei precedenti ulteriori esplorazioni musicali da brividi, per una delle serie di concerti storicamente più importanti del jazz.
Il disco verrà considerato il capolavoro che è solo dopo anni, in un periodo, quello degli anni '70, dove Davis accettò apertamente di sfidare la critica con la sua musica. Da allora però, per quanto in parte ancora enigmatico e "difficile", è considerato l'ennesimo pilastro della leggenda Davis, in uno dei suoi capitoli musicali che ebbe più fortuna, poichè buona parte dei fenomenali musicisti che contribuirono a questo disco erano in procinto, o già alle prese, con esperienze musicali che partendo dalla lezione del Maestro, ne approfondiranno i contenuti, e ne esploreranno i limiti: sarà quest'ambito che legherà le altre scelte di Novembre e questo omaggio, che come i precedenti numeri miliari (1,50,100,150,200,250) è dedicato al formidabile uomo con la tromba.
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Biden goes on offense.
March 11, 2024
ROBERT B. HUBBELL
If the campaigning over the weekend is a portent of things to come, Democrats should be feeling good. As Joe Biden continued the momentum gained from a commanding State of the Union address, Trump partied with the anti-democratic strongman of Hungary, Viktor Orbán. Biden and Trump gave dueling speeches in Georgia: Joe Biden delivered a fiery but traditional campaign speech. Trump rambled in a stream-of-consciousness manner that would have made James Joyce scratch his head in puzzlement.  
The difference in tone and comprehensibility of their respective campaign speeches in Georgia was palpable. In this clip, President Biden thanks his Black supporters for their key role in his 2020 victory and asks for their support in 2024. He also praises the bravery of the civil rights marchers—including the late John Lewis—who were beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge fifty-nine years ago on Bloody Sunday.
President Biden said:
Thursday marked fifty-nine years since hundreds of foot soldiers for justice marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge named after the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan to claim the fundamental right to vote. They were beaten, they were bloody, they were left for dead—but they were unbowed. Our late friend, son of Georgia, John Lewis, was there. Five months later, what happened? We passed the Voting Rights Act [and it was] signed into law. But in the nearly six decades after that, the same forces are back, led by Donald Trump, taking us back in time, suppressing the vote, subvert[ing] elections. That’s why we have to stand up again. We know what to do. And my message to Georgia voters—and the voters all across the country—is to send me a Congress that will pass the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.
The new toughness in Biden’s speech is welcome. He is making a direct connection between the brutal voter suppression of the Jim Crow era and the reactionary tactics of MAGA extremists. And he is calling out Trump's submissive courting of foreign dictators. See The Guardian, Biden hits out at Trump in Georgia rally: ‘He’s been sucking up to dictators all over the world’.
Trump, on the other hand, attacked supporters of Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley—because nothing invites party unity like rubbing salt in the wound! He spewed venom and ugliness about immigrants, the media, judges, rigged elections, and Joe Biden’s State of the Union address—but heaped copious praise on the enemy of democracy in Hungary, Viktor Orbán.
Trump flitted from grievance to grievance, speaking in an opaque code that was comprehensible to few members of the audience. In the snippet below, Trump complains that people are saying Joe Biden appears to be more fit than Trump:
Somebody said he [Biden] looks great in a bathing suit, right? And you know, when he was in the sand, having a hard time lifting his foot through the sand, because, you know, sand is heavy, three solid ounces per foot, but sand is a little heavy, and he is sitting in a bathing suit. At 81, do you remember Cary Grant? How good was he, right? I don't know what happened to movie stars today. We used to have Cary Grant, Glark Gable, and today – I will not say names because we don't need enemies. I get enough enemies. Cary Grant was like Michael Jackson once told me, the most handsome man in the world, Cary Grant, and we don't have that anymore. The Cary Grant at 81 or 82, going on 100, this guy, he is 81 going on 100, Cary Grant would not look too good in a bathing suit either, and he was pretty good-looking, right?
Huh??
Of course, Trump's most reprehensible conduct was imitating President Biden’s stutter. In this post, you can see Trump mocking Biden’s stutter and a moving video of Joe Biden comforting and inspiring a young boy with a stutter. Watch the video of Joe Biden until the end. It will remind you (again) why he is admired and liked by all who have worked with him.
One man is a monster and a criminal, and the other is a decent, kind person who can empathize with the challenges faced by others.
This pattern will continue for the next eight months. Trump's hate-filled, rambling rallies will continue to alienate persuadable voters, while Joe Biden’s humanity will shine through. Of course, there is no guarantee of success in anything in life. But as between the two candidates, we should be encouraged and proud to have Joe Biden as our standard bearer.
[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]
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October Masterlist
(Horror and Halloween related content in no particular order.)
Hocus Pocus
Max Dennison
Thackery Binx
Dating Max and Thackery
Halloweentown
Luke dating a witch
Caspar
Caspar McFadden
The Addams Family
Gomez Addams
Pugsley crushing on Wednesdays “relatively normal” friend
Beetlejuice
Adam Maitland
Lydia Deetz
Edward Scissorhands
Edward Scissorhands
Falling in love with Edward
Dead Poets Society
Spending Halloween with Knox
Little Shop of Horrors
Seymour Krelborn
- NSFW
Ghostbusters
Ray Stantz
- NSFW
Egon Spengler (Not completed yet)
- NSFW
Creepshow
~2
Andy Cavenaugh
Forbidden Zone~
The Devil
- NSFW
Misery
Paul Sheldon
Silence of the Lambs
Clarice Starling
The Fly
A will they, won’t they relationship with Seth Brundle
An American Werewolf in London
Jack Goodman
Re-animator
Herbert West
The Evil Dead
Ash Williams
Aliens
Dwayne Hicks with an Android!s/o
Bishop
Candyman
Daniel Robitaille
Friday the 13th
Jason Voorhees
Sleepaway Camp
Ricky Thomas
Children of the Corn
Malachai Boardman
Carrie
Carrie White
Jaws
Being married to Hooper and going to Amity with him
The Thing
R.J. MacReady
The Shining
Jack Torrance
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Spike
- NSFW
Spike having a crush on you
Having a bad fight with Spike
Sabrina The Teenage Witch
Harvey Kinkle
The Stand
Harold Lauder
Goosebumps
Sticks
Freddy Renfield
Steve Boswell
The Lost Boys
Poly Lost Boys
Poly Modern!Lost boys
Getting Drunk with the Lost Boys
The Lost Boys taking care of you when you’re hurt
The Lost Boys with an s/o having an anxiety attack
The Lost Boys dating a shy short girl
The Lost Boys fighting with their mates
The Lost Boys having a curvy mate
The Lost Boys with a sweet and innocent s/o
- NSFW  
Group Sex with the Lost Boys
Skinny dipping with the Lost Boys
David (Not completed yet)
David having a crush on you
David taking your virginity
Laddies older sister
Sins of the Flesh and Matters of the Heart
Dwayne
Dwayne having a crush on you
A Little Stevie Nicks
Sins of the Flesh and Matters of the Heart
Paul
Paul having a crush on you
Marko (Not completed yet)
Marko having a crush on you
Edgar Frog
Making out with Edgar
Michael Emerson (Not completed yet)
- NSFW
Sam Emerson (Not completed yet)
- NSFW
Near Dark
Severen
- NSFW
Interview with the Vampire
Lestat and Louis dating a girl who loves horror movies
Lestat de Lioncourt (Not completed yet)
Lestat with a Trad Goth Witch s/o
Louis de Pointe du Lac
- NSFW
Armand (Not completed yet)
- NSFW
Armand with a s/o who’s never been in a relationship
Fright Night
Jerry Dandridge
Martin
Martin Mathias
Night Of The Creeps
Chris (Not completed yet)
- NSFW
Intruder
Randy
- NSFW
Produce Joe
Scream
Poly Billy and Stu
Helping Billy and Stu on their murder spree
Billy Loomis
- NSFW
Bringing Billy to a big family Christmas party
Stu Macher
- NSFW
Stu dating a goth girl
Randy Meeks (Not completed yet)
- NSFW
Randy Meeks with an sfx artist s/o
Idle Hands
Anton Tobias
The Faculty
Zeke Tyler
- NSFW
The Craft
Nancy Downs
- NSFW
Sarah Bailey (Not completed yet)
Being a witch and getting close to Sarah
The Crow
Eric Draven
The Hitcher
Jim Halsey
- NSFW
My Best friend is a Vampire
Jeremy Capello
Trick or Treat
Sammi Curr (not completed yet)
- NSFW
The Company of wolves
The Huntsman (not completed yet)
- NSFW
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A thought about 'Minority Groups'
As I said in previous Essays- while (Indigenous) Black Americans continue to get lip service & empty tributes, i'm looking at WHO is getting WHAT. There has been a lot of activity under The Biden Administration, & I found myself looking at these events from an abstract perspective. 'Jim Crow' Joe said that he appreciated Black America 'having His back' throughout the years, & he would have Ours. Since that statement, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Latinx (Citizens & Illegals), LGBTQ..., have All received legislation & funding. On top of the $113 Billion spent in Ukraine over the last Year, Israel continues to receive Billions annually from The U.S. Now provisions have been made for 100,000 Afghani & 100,000 Ukrainian refugees to relocate to America.
We Black Americans/ ADOS/ FBA/ Freemen/ Indigenous Americans can be a well intentioned, but socially naive group. The efforts of White Supremacists w/i Local, State, & Federal Government Agencies to systemically oppress Our Community has created a 'Collective Consciousness' that empathizes (abstractly) w/ the oppression of other Ethnicities. We can identify w/ the hardship of Others, & when possible, We do what We can to combat that hardship. We fought against the oppression of American Slave Codes, Black Codes, & Jim Crow Laws; simultaneously, We fought for The Rights of Irish, Chinese, Mexican, Jewish, Italian, Haitian, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Panamanian, Filipino, & Japanese immigrants that faced a measure of the oppression We experienced here.
Looking at this 'Collective Consciousness' historically, a Pattern can be seen over the centuries. Every Immigrant Group in America has gone through a 'Hazing Period', where they are the target of Social Bias & Prejudice. During this 'Social Phase', newcomers tend to identify w/ the Black Americans that they are in contact w/. We encircle these people w/i Our Community, & take the lead in protesting injustices against them. In the past, 'Brownfolk' tended to identify w/ Us. We shared Culture & Traditions; in some instances, we intermarried. In this Era, things have changed. If Black Immigrants & 'Brownfolk' start off in Black Communities, they don't always stay.
By the 2nd Generation, their children either identify w/ The Black Experience in America, or they make every effort to move away from it. Ethnic Enclaves have literally 'popped up' outside of Black Communities over the last 30Yrs, creating true Buffer Zones between Black & White Communities. Black America was oblivious to any possible agenda amongst Minority Groups- We also identified as Minorities, & assumed We were all in the same boat. Black Power isn't a selfish endeavor- Our Right of Autonomy grants other Minorities the same Right. American History substantiates this truth. To be honest, We were naively ignorant about the 'Culture' of these Minority Groups in their Native Land. We assumed they shared a similar experience of White Supremacy.
We knew about the Racism in Europe, but were unaware of the Tribalism that existed in Afrika & The Caribbean; or the Colorism that exists in Arabia, Asia, & Latin America. Many of the minorities that We had 'First Contact' w/, were friendly. As a Marginalized People, they had something in common w/ Us. We collaborated in business & in Social Action. We shared Our Community, & worked together to improve Our collective Quality of Life. We thought that We were united in the fight against White Supremacy. Then a funny thing happened- one by one, these 'Marginalized Groups' were accepted into Society, & given Rights & Privileges that We were (still) denied.
Over the Centuries, We watched- as Irish, Jewish & Italian neighbors elevated their status. The more they achieved, the more distance they placed between Us. Collectively, each group became increasingly intolerant of Blackfolk. They began to speak the Anti- Black rhetoric of Mainstream America. Our old neighbors appeared to 'pledge allegiance' to the same people that discriminated against them. Black Americans were now victims of mob violence, stemming from (perceived) competition that Irish & Italians had w/ Black Men for Jobs. The Irish in particular, were brutal in their efforts to push Black Men out of specific Trades & Sports. The only reminder of Black involvement in Horse Racing, are 'Lawn Jockeys', that many Black People see as racist. 150Yrs- 200Yrs ago, Black Jockeys dominated Horse Racing.
As disappointed as We were w/ the actions of the Irish, Italians, & Eastern Europeans, the current Anti- Black American sentiment held by today's 'Minority Groups' (POC), truly stings! We can't say that We didn't see it coming though. Many (Indigenous) Black Americans have an experience of being 'in the company' of a given Minority Group. When they are in mixed company, the conversation is civil; but when they outnumber Us, We begin to hear the stereotypes about Us. The larger the advantage, the more prejudiced the language becomes. While they may repeat White Supremacist talking points, they lack the power to truly be 'Racist'. That being said, quite a few individuals have ridden this rhetoric into Mainstream notoriety; the names represent a literal Who's Who in Pop Culture & Politics.
Collectively, these Minority Groups seem comfortable w/ their place in AmeriKKKa's Caste System, as long as they are 'positioned' above Black America... Hispanic & Asian women are currently testing the racial waters, by way of recent attempts to gauge their degree of White Privilege. Their actions legitimize the notion that White Privilege is defined by Anti- Black Racism & Oppression. The actions of these 'Karens of Color', are no different from the garden variety Karen. All of these women are trying to exercise their 'Right', but Women Of Color are also establishing their position in the Social Caste. I personally don't understand the need to gauge one's 'Power' on the ability to harass or harm what is believed to be a Soft Target. I thought that White Supremacy is a philosophy premised on strength & 'Might makes Right'- Where is the challenge?
Joe Biden's Policy actions have made clear his intention to extend White Privilege to Asians & Hispanics. Like (White) LGBTQ... individuals, & European Jews, Asians enjoy meaningful Hate Crime Legislation. Meanwhile, Black America still fights for this legislation, as the #1 Victim of Hate Crimes in America- according to the latest FBI Crime Stats. For Latinx, Biden is fast tracking Citizenship for illegal immigrants in Sanctuary Cities. Many Cities are suggesting Drivers Licenses for illegal immigrants, while California is talking about hiring non- Citizens for the LAPD & State Police. In short, 'America' has become a Multicultural & Multilingual Nation. All of this is very curious. Just a generation ago, Local, State, & Federal Officials were adamant that America is a 'Judeo- Christian' Nation that speaks 'English'. Efforts to make Spanish an Official 2nd Language were quickly shot down. 100Yrs ago, America was a 'White Man's Country!'.
Black Americans were looking for a Seat at The Table, but didn't have a problem sharing w/ Our fellow 'Minorities'. Affirmative Action was designed to level the playing field between Blackfolk & Whitefolk. It was supposed to make up for The New Deal & G.I. Bills that excluded Black Families. Despite this, We didn't complain when these resources were diverted (via Diversity Initiatives) away from Us, & given to people who NEVER had to experience what We went through. We were as compliant as Cows being bled by Vampire Bats, until We renewed the Reparations Conversation. Suddenly, We were xenophobes. The loudest voices have come from 2nd & 3rd generation Americans, who (collectively) enjoy a better Quality Of Life than the average Black American. The fact that the children of immigrants from the 1980s are now attacking Black America w/ White Supremacist talking points, is simply mindboggling!
An Ethnic Group that appears to do A LOT of 'Racial double dipping', are Hindi/ Pakistani/ Bangladeshi Americans. They are conveniently 'Black' when there is opportunity, but otherwise, they not only identify as 'White'; they subscribe to a visceral Anti- Black sentiment that needs to be addressed. This is important, because Joe Biden is putting Kamala Harris at the forefront of his Re-election Campaign. America is still calling Kamala the 1st 'Afrikan American VP', but both of her parents are Brahmin. Kamala's 'Black Experience' ends at Howard University & Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. She is otherwise an Elitist, who has a decades long resume of undermining Black Californians (Black Women in particular), & looking out for her own best interests.
Former Governor of South Carolina & U.N. Ambassador, Nikki Haley (Nimarata Nikki Randhwara- Haley), is the flip side of Kamala Harris. Both Women are Brahmin, but while Kamala is 'Asian' w/ a cultural leaning towards Black America; Nikki is 'Brown', but has consistently shown a cultural leaning towards White Privilege. Both Women highlight a simple truth- that 'Black' Issues aren't 'Brown' Issues. People Of Color (POC/ BIPOC) tend to be victims of Discrimination, more than Racism. This is evidenced by their Collective Autonomy throughout America. They have a Right of Expression that Indigenous Black Americans never truly had; not even during Reconstruction. It may be due to their sovereign status, but it's clear that they DON'T share Our plight.
Vivek Ramaswamy is yet another type. He is a 2nd Generation child of [Elitist] Asian Immigrants, but he tries to weave an Ellis Island narrative out of his experience. Like Kamala Harris & Nikki Halely, both of Ramaswamy's parents were Post Graduates w/ more education than the average [White] American Family. He gives the impression that they were Blue Collar Workers living the American Dream for their children. Ramaswamy casually speaks about his 'rough' Public School experience in Cincinnati, before going to a Private (Jesuit) School- that 'didn't conflict w/ his Hindu values'. This experience supposedly positioned him for College, Post Grad work, & starting his 1st Biotech Company... He implies that EVERYONE gets this opportunity in America.
Kamala Harris' Mother had the support of the Black Community in Oakland & Berkeley. Nikki Haley's Father had the support of (HBCU) Voorhees College, where he worked for nearly 30Yrs. Despite that support for their Parents, Nikki Haley & Kamala Harris have done NOTHING meaningful or specifically for Black Americans. In fact, both have supported measures that were detrimental to their Black Constituents; i'm reminded of The Tale of 'The Tortoise & The Scorpion'... Vivek Ramaswamy takes it up another notch. His 'Anti- Woke' Campaign, is a not too subtle Anti- Black dog whistle. Ramaswamy has the audacity to use his Experience (as a 2nd Generation Brahmin- American) to minimize, if he can't outright disclaim The Black American Experience altogether.
Vivek Ramaswamy's family has been in America for roughly 40Yrs. That means that they arrived sometime in the 1980s, nearly 20Yrs after the End of the Jim Crow Era; but Vivek feels that he can speak about the History of Anti- Black Racism in America. Ramaswamy, along w/ Harris & Haley represent the 'People Of Color' Prospects for POTUS. The similarity of their Agendas speaks volumes. All of them benefited from opportunities meant for Blackfolk, but they lecture Us about 'bootstrapping'. Add in Joe Biden's thoughts about Latinx being 'the largest Minority Group in America'(???), along w/ weird Culture Appropriation rhetoric coming from Eva Longoria, then John Leguizamo, & it looks like a conspiracy.
It's crystal clear that collectively speaking, Indigenous Black America has NO FRIENDS. We should act accordingly... These Minority Groups forget that Our 'Culture' is fighting White Supremacy, not bowing to it. We're not Here for a Come Up, or a Hand Out- We're indigenous to This Land. We were Here before the first Colonizer, & We'll be Here long after the Last.
-Just Sayin'
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these people would lose it if they knew joe biden helped aid jim crow laws . like he literally made jim crow laws last longer
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‘American Primeval’: Betty Gilpin, Dane DeHaan, Shea Whigham, More Cast In Taylor Kitsch Netflix Limited Series
Netflix has rounded out the cast for American Primeval, its upcoming limited series from Pete Berg, Eric Newman and Mark L. Smith. Betty Gilpin (Gaslit), Dane DeHaan (Oppenheimer) and Shea Whigham (Joker) join previously announced Taylor Kitsch, along with Joe Tippett (Mare of Easttown), Jai Courtney (Kaleidoscope), Kyle Bradley Davis (American Horror Story), Nick Hargrove (Devotion), Derek Hinkey (Walker Independence), Saura Lightfoot Leon (Hoard), Preston Mota (Asteroid City) and Shawnee Pourier (Stranger Things).
The six-episode American Primeval is described as a raw, adventurous exploration of the birth of the American West. The violent collisions of cultures, religions and communities as men and women fight and die for control of this new world – for a land they truly believe is their destiny. The ensemble tells a story of the sacrifice all must pay when they choose to enter a lawless and untamed wilderness.
Gilpin will play Sara Rowell, an extremely capable woman with an air of composure and grace that seems out of place in Fort Bridger as she seeks a guide across the frontier for her and her son, Devin.
DeHaan will portray Jacob Pratt, a Mormon leading his family across the frontier to join other settlers in Utah.
Whigham will play Jim Bridger, a grizzled realist but a decent man, Jim Bridgers runs his namesake Fort, a popular stopping point for settlers and trappers.
Tippett will portray James Wolsey, a Mormon man leading a militia of men who don’t possess the moral code they claim they do.
Courtney will play Virgil Cutter, a trapper and bounty hunter who sees opportunity in the naiveté of others.
Davis will portray Tilly, one of Cutter’s trappers, Tilly is a nasty, dangerous man who doesn’t mind killing to get ahead and rather enjoys it when others fear him.
Hargrove will play Cottrell, a young man that helps out around Fort Bridger and serves as Jim Bridger’s right hand.
Hinkey will portray Red Feather, the leader of a renegade group of Crow warriors known as the Wolf Clan.
Leon will play Abish, a Mormon woman not content with being seen as the property of her husband, Jacob.
Mota will portray Devin Rowell, a sensitive soul with a curious mind, Devin is Sara’s son.
Pourier will play Two Moons, a young girl who flees her village with a strong will and drive to survive at all costs.
They all join Kitsch, who portrays Isaac, a traumatized man struggling to overcome his demons and find a reason to live in this brutal and punishing world.
Berg will direct all of the episodes and exec produce for Film 44 alongside Newman, who exec produces for Grand Electric under his overall deal. Smith will write all episodes and exec produce.
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scamshan · 5 months
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biden is a fascist biden is a fasicist biden is a fasict!
i need people to get this through their fucking heads.
he has always been a fascist! do you know what they called him when he was a senator??? JIM CROW JOE!
"if israel didn't exist we would have to make it" <- a thing the guy y'all are telling me isn't a fascist literally said.
cape for biden all you fucking want, but you can't say that the election is going to come down to fascist v not fascist. THEY ARE BOTH FASCISTS!!!
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