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Hey, Dom.

The desire for strongmen has been manufactured, & sold-foisted, before. Set ups. Good cop bad cop ping-pong.

The Milei cheerleaders bounce up & down to the cheery brightly dyed cherries part but are mum on the part/s that actually matter.

(Cheery optimism, sex, & “you too can” fills the sails & sells-sells-sells.)

Musk, Thiel, Hoffman (“paypal mafia” … “competition is for losers”), Gates, Bezos, Ellison, et tu brutes-albeit-wimp-specimens et al - the billionaire boys club (that Carlson reminded “you ain’t in”) - central banks & the TBTF that own them, digitized/tokenized everything - not just “personal” id’s - surveilled in hi-res realtime from outer space … etc … but what great jobs those will be, eh?

Cue Hannah Arendt & think on the banality of evil, & how that is mostly always just social proof characterlessness, weakness all around. The “strong” sure have thought on it.

I saw a docu about a guy who chose the name Rockets Redglare. In it he related a prison story. A young “fish” comes into the prison. He gets gang-raped. Another convict offers him comfort right after the rape, gets turned on himself, & also rapes the kid. Rocket laughed as he recounted the story.

Mussolini-love runs a train on your ass, & the optimists & fans spin The O’Jays & emphasize how on time it was & that you can dance to that good beat.

Taking Lives - “Everything you saw…I wanted you to see.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STFgL5XwDZI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdeed8ArR6I

Worse tho: “You wanted to see what I wanted you to see.”

“Watch me pull a ribbit out of that pot that was slowly brought up to boil, plate it, & eat it. Viola! Magic!”

TD Season 1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmkF1oHF6F8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdokBQW7Suc

Did you dip into any of Whitney Webb’s podcasts?

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Correction of RC’s rationalization: The world doesn’t need bad men to keep other bad men from the door. Bad men need bad men to keep the world from their door.

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