#274: Games, and Why We Play Them (Patreon)

First, enjoy an 8-minute tour of empire's end, directed by a bad comedian with no nose. Then: The United States of America, Considered as a Sadomasochistic Party Trick.

Marat/Sade, free, divided into chapters. This fictional Sade is often righter than Marat. Jacques Roux is righter than either.

If you'd like (and you'd better) to know more about Jacques Roux, a real priest who joined the Revolution and then was really clapped up in prison – because he wouldn't stop insisting that the point of a Revolution is to feed the fucking poor – and really killed himself awaiting execution, here, let Alan Rickman give you his last sermon.

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It's Eid right now, the major Muslim holiday that officially ends Ramadan fasting, and the children of Gaza aren't hoping for toys. They need clothes, since they were bombed out of their homes two and a half years ago and had to leave whatever they couldn't carry, and they medicine. Amjad's baby sister is still horribly ill, and because nobody in Palestine thought the genocide could go on this long, all the children are just barely emerging from their third straight winter with no winter clothes. Iran is, for the moment, beyond your grasp, but this is not; this is something you can do in minutes. Thank you for whatever you might be able to give.