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i don't think we're dealing with rocket scientists in any of these situations.
given the speed and intensity of the streams of bullshit pseudo-information that characterizes the sorry state of affairs that is this campaign at this point, anyone deciding to undertake such an action has to be a fucking idiot.
so now we have a great little fake issue, the pseudo-equivalence of effigies hanging from a rope in the days immediate prior to halloween.
obviously, if you're conservative and have been alarmed by the nature and intensity of the populist rage being manipulated and stoked by the increasingly desperate mc-cain campaign machinery as it feels itself sliding into the ant-heap and you want to make this bothersome turn of events seem less bothersome without going so far as to deny anything is happening outright, the best move is to generate a false equivalence.
and since anyone who is awake at this point would know that something like this is possible--again--you'd have to be a fucking idiot to make a palin effigy.
do they mean the same thing? no.
are they the same thing? in a way. but if you want to play this game, you'd also have to find outrageous the hanging man in a deck of tarot cards.
i think the superficiality of the equivalence is obvious: you have two body-shaped objects hanging from rope. therefore these situations are the same.
but in the united states, the symbolic resonances are not at all the same, now are they? lynching is a very particular tradition in petit bourgeois resentment land, now isn't it?
is there really any need to go through this?
the op is shallow, the equivalence is shallow, it's all a function of the noxious character of the presidential election charade 2008 style.
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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