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digression on the french election/sarko (post 189):
this an appalling result. but the shoes have not really dropped yet--he still has to form a (viable) government and then the elections for the assemblé have to happen next month. if no-one else does it, i'll put up a thread about this when things are clearer. but at the moment, sarko's election is a very bad development for france. the only good thing is that the biggest loser is the front national--but the reasons for it are terrible--alot of their positions have been co-opted by sarko. the 53.6% that voted for him voted for front national-lite.
btw this election is also very much about the disarray of the socialists on the one hand, and about the problems that non-fascist conservatism confronts as well.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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