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well, dk, what good is freedom if you're dead?
it's hard not to see in the 3-percenters not only a rebranding of the militia movement, but also an extreme expression of what's happened to conservatives given the implosion of the american conservative movement.
having guns is what allows for a sense of agency---the wreckage of conservative politics makes folk feel exposed. they've been manipulated by the whackjobs in the nra who operate those rally round the wagons boys the united nations is a-coming publications.
the center of the politics is fear. you're afraid, afraid of everything, but you've got guns so it appears ok. since you're threatened with castration by the imaginary forces of the federal government, you lay in wait for them and you dream about a bonnie & clyde moment, but you multiply it by some arbitrary number so you imagine the same sort of thing happening everywhere.
i suppose it's like that bad 80s pop song said: fear is never boring.
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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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