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addendum:
i dont see how this particularly idiotic idea can function to define the conservative/everybody else distinction. if it can function in this way, it seems to me to legitimate the marginalization of conservativism. this simply because it is an ideology that makes genuinely insane ideas seem reasonable.
if the "problem" with conservatism is that academics tend not to take it seriously--in part (to my mind) because conservatives refuse more often than not to argue effectively for their own positions, preferring instead to use only language directed at an in-group for that in-group---then organizations like this would have to be a sane conservative's worst nightmare. i would think these folk--and i know they exist, i know that not all conservatives are of one mind about guns and so on---would be first in line to oppose groups like these.
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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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