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Dec 30, 2020Liked by Niccolo Soldo

Love this! What will he do next? Can't wait to see.

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Dec 31, 2020Liked by Niccolo Soldo

Finally, a good damn answer to the Mel Gibson question. Great interview, especially appreciate the classic porno recommendation.

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I came across a blog post about a 70s porn actress that appeared in that film and the still was posted and I laughed as I was working on the questions for this interview that very same day.

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Dec 31, 2020Liked by Niccolo Soldo

... Anna K... as ever, wise, witty, wicked, word-ee and wishful... :)

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Dec 31, 2020Liked by Niccolo Soldo

Fisted by Foucault? Or Busted by Big Naturals?

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Dec 31, 2020Liked by Niccolo Soldo

no homo but that scene was written so well i wish i was anna sitting fireside in breckenridge under mel gibson’s embrace.

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lol that goebbels quote was a nice ambush

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Dec 31, 2020Liked by Niccolo Soldo

Great introduction to Niccolo, deepened my love for Anna

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Thank you. Check out my other interviews here.

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They are: "It’s just not the socialism anyone thinks it is or wants it to be, unless of course you’re trying to run some kulaks off the road en route to your diversity commissarship."

They.

Are.

Running the Kulaks off the road is not even a feature, it is the application- it is the point.

Even the Commissiarship or the great riches are merely means, ways- the End is Harm.

Perhaps it's difficult for newly arrived or even first generation immigrants to understand our elites but - They.Mean.Harm. Which is why they always do harm, no matter what they say.

The Commissariat is like runaway gangster capitalism, like our Blank Slate Process Schools all merely means to the end: The end is Harm.

As some of us have noticed some of us say we must ensure the existence of our people and a future for our children - repeat those words and watch the rage become rabid.

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'...the outwardly “permissive” but latently punitive maternal superego, which enforces no terms or boundaries ahead of time but retaliates arbitrarily and disproportionately after the fact' -- as I sit here, halfway through a month-long holiday stay at my mother-in-law's, this is hitting particularly hard.

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Jan 5, 2021Liked by Niccolo Soldo

perhaps a dumb question but Niccolo, ive been meaning to ask you: you say you're Croatian/slav but have a very Italian name, which are you? let me guess, you are an istrian/dalmatian of at least partial Italian origin (just curious because I am partially that and hardly ever come across other ppl of that origin)

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Niccolo is the Italianization. I am an Italophile. I am from Western Hercegovina along the Croatian (Dalmatian) border, but my roots on three of the four sides of my family are from Dalmatia.

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Jan 5, 2021Liked by Niccolo Soldo

ahh ok I understand. some of my great grandparents came from krk and Rijeka but were Italian/Venetian speaking. in any case, great interview!

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Krk is very, very interesting because the last known speakers of the non-Italian Dalmatian language (the language that grew out of the Latin of the East Adriatic Coast) were on that Island. Tuone Udaina, who died in 1898, was the last known speaker of that language.

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

Over the centuries, many Venetians settled Istria, the Kvarner Islands, and Dalmatia, gradually making their dialect of Italian more prominent over the older Romance language.

I grew up with a lot of Italians as a kid. They were mostly from Calabria, Abruzzo, and Friuli.

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Jan 5, 2021Liked by Niccolo Soldo

Yeah I know about Tuone Udaina. The funny thing is I only found out about him through learning a bit about the history of that area, the fact that there used to be this Dalmatian Romance language and that he was the last speaker, but the Italianized version of his last name is the same as my great-grandmother from Krk's. Based on his age he was probably her grandfather or maybe a great uncle. I don't think anyone in my family would know if this is true so I can't really confirm but it seems quite likely.

My parents are both from Trieste (I'm their American-born son) which is technically the capital of the Friuli Venezia-Giulia but culturally is pretty distinct from the Friuli which encompasses the majority of that region. The rest of my roots are mainly from various parts of southern Italy, a sliver of Friulian and a sliver of Slovene.

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she doesn't understand Paglia though

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After reading Anna’s responses, Rich Boomer men are hooked. I have been instructed to send note through you to her, written in fountain, bearing audacious wax seal, requesting Anna join Boomer Chad on yacht in Mediterranean to talk southern gothic art and see where it goes.

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Where are all the ACX fans in the comments?

ACX brought me here. I can’t write like this.

I can say Breckinridge is not the most romantic of mountain town destinations.

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May 29, 2021Liked by Niccolo Soldo

this is so fucking boring kys

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Kissinger stole that quote from Otto Rank, asshole that he is.

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Not Otto Rank. Someone else though

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