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huh, ranger. interesting update of the old category of smugness. sort of.
for myself, i do not see the advantage of consistently underestimating the enemy. so i do not see the advantage of reinforcing the sense that the main constituency that voted bush is made up of uninformed nitwits. i prefer to look at the types of arguments that circulate in conservativeworld and to think about the extent to which those arguments would function to detach even a fairly informed person who was (for some reason) sympathetic to the right from the world that other people know about.
the structuring of dispositions by types of argument is an actual strategy, something that can be demonstrated, something that can be opposed. i see the present far-right bushworld ideology as dangerous precisely because it does not simply appeal to stupid people.
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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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