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it's not so surprising--american conservatives believe in this bogeyman called "radical islam"--they confuse it with a single coherent entity despite all empirical evidence to the contrary (even in this thread, the problem turned up--via seaver, charlatan, will and others--that you can't say anything singular about class composition, that you cant offer a single explanation that refers to anything beyond nationalist-driven paranoia)....
some conservatives seem to believe that a category constructed to market the bush administration and then to market war, a category which made cynical use of 9/11/2001 for its own political advantage (while decrying its use for political advantage) refers to something in the world. its laughable, but it functions.
so there is little difference between the demos you read about calling for death to the namer of teddy bears and what you read from ustwo and others calling for some campaign against this fantasm of a single, unified "radical islam"...
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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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