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i keep not understanding how folk are thinking about the relation between making a statement that an initiative is going to happen and seeing effects from it. it's most strange, like there's an instant gratification thing that cuts across otherwise reasonable people's judgment.
the situation that neoliberalism generated--all the while providing more than enough ideological blah blah blah so that there was no need to look too hard at this situation as it was taking shape--is complicated. look at it this way: it took the united states 30 years of sustained reactionary stupidity to get itself into this mess, so it hardly makes sense to assume that somehow a new president is going to be able to wave a magic wand about and everything will be all better.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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