Estelle Platini

"Though Trump is a small-timer at this point, Cohn (who’s surrounded on their first date by various mobsters) correctly identifies him as a dreamer determined to do whatever it takes to be Rockefeller-grade rich, as well as something of an empty vessel into which he can pour all his evil. Pour he does, gradually taking Trump under his wing and indoctrinating him in the ways of unabashed cutthroat nastiness.

"To succeed, Cohn instructs, Trump must follow three surefire rules: attack, attack, attack; deny everything and admit nothing; and never acknowledge defeat and always claim victory.”

Nick Schager writes about ‘The Apprentice’ movie: https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/trump-rapes-and-pillages-his-way-through-scathing-apprentice-movie

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Donald Trump Rapes and Pillages His Way Through the Scathing ‘The Apprentice’

“The Apprentice” is the movie Donald Trump doesn’t want you to see—and for good reason. A sneak preview at TIFF revealed a damning film about the making of a monster.

The Daily Beast
Sep 8, 2024 at 8:17pmWeb
Show threadEstelle PlatiniOct 8, 2024

“For kids like me, the part of the brain that deals with stress and conflict is always activated — the switch flipped indefinitely.”

'The venture capital firm [that J. D. Vance started, Narya,] invests in companies that aim to monetize Catholic prayer, obstruct environmentally conscious equities trading, further militarize outer space, and consolidate agricultural production, squeezing out the country’s remaining small farmers.
'Vance can’t be sated. During 2022’s campaign, to the horror of centrists and liberals who’d been gulled by his earlier Never Trump shtick, it became clear that there was effectively nothing he wouldn’t say or do — to win, certainly, but also for some purpose more libidinal and obscure.'

https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/politics/j-d-vance-changes-the-subject-2/

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J. D. Vance Changes the Subject | Gabriel Winant

Vance’s form of far-right politics is so ominous because it responds in a primal, perverted way to something actual. We are caught under a heap of wreckage, an accumulation of social and historical trauma that we are largely without means of getting out of. Millions are dead, and millions more permanently sick, from a pandemic that everyone now pretends didn’t happen, and even more vigorously pretends is not still happening.

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Show threadEstelle PlatiniMay 14, 2025

Why rejoice in the misfortune of others

One way to feel my social status improving is if someone else lowers theirs. And so, when I see someone mess up in ways that cause them to lose face, and thus lose social status, I can feel a burst of satisfaction as my own status is raised, at no cost to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude

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Schadenfreude - Wikipedia

Show threadEstelle PlatiniOct 2, 2025

"Revolution consists in… destroying the ‘administrative apparatus’ and the whole state machine, replacing it by a new one."

"Abolishing the bureaucracy at once, everywhere and completely, is out of the question. It is utopia. But to smash the old bureaucratic machine at once and to begin immediately to construct a new one… this is not utopia."

Vladimir Lenin wrote in his pamphlet entitled "The State and Revolution: The Marxist Doctrine of the State and the Tasks of the Proletariat in the Revolution" (written in 1917 to explain and prepare for the October Revolution)

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