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that's more on the level of meme-generation--and yes, i know about that.
what i'm more curious about is the dispositions out there which are being played to--why it would be so intuitive, so easy, for some folk to believe absolutely nothing about obama. it's a peculiar kind of politics, if you think about it---the positions obama outlines can't be true because of doubts which speak to something or another as to his "character"---the questions of positions, of policies, of alternatives for the next 4 years gets evacuated with this move.
i continue to assume that people aren't simply fucking stupid (though sometimes i think that my assuming that people aren't stupid shows how stupid i am) and os have to be aware of how this move vaporizes the space for what one could call rational politically-oriented deliberation.
so i wonder why it has traction.
i have theories, of course, but not the time to run them out. and besides, i know my own theories about this and it'd be more interesting to read others.
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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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