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this pollyanna talk about picking yourself up and getting back into "the fight" seems absurd. it presupposes as operational precisely the set of relations to the states that most of the folk who are considering leaving have found undermined by the act of collective self-immolation that was this past election.
i think that even a far right militant would understand that if you are going to leave it requires some planning to do it, each step of which is another opportunity to think through the decision. i suspect you will be seeing people leaving over the next couple of years. that anyone would imagine that it is possible to simply pack up your toys and leave in a week or so operates with a view of what is entailed that derives more from sitcoms like "sex in the city" (in which everyone wears 2000 dollar outfits every day) than it does the world in which people actually have to make a living.
but whatever--this thread has been more about the right deploying ugly little variants of their particular way of resenting those who oppose them politically than it was talking about what might really be at stake for folk who are thinking of leaving.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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