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that's not what i am asking you, dk.
what matters is your decision process---the politics that enframe the gun, that make it meaningful, that position it as an instrument.
your own position is rooted in a political vision.
you confuse that politics with the object "gun" which your *politics* cause you to make a fetish.
if you think about the history of revolutionary movements dk--which is part of the larger set of groups which dreamed about revolution--which is part of the still larger set of groups which dream about toppling the existing order--it is pretty bloody obvious that there is no single politics that unifies them. a host of possible outcomes follows from a host of political orientations. anarchists in the 19th century differed from leninists differed from the khymer rouge.
they all were armed.
if a politics followed directly from being armed, you couldn't explain this variation.
nor could you explain the fact that politically, so far as i can tell, you'd have opposed all of these movements.
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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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