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otto---you are trying to switch the actual claim i was making for something you can refute. that is the initial act of dishonest argumentation. the refutation you build of this imaginary claim is problematic for other reasons that have already been discussed in this thread. so either read the thread and try to say something that might open up an actual discussion of stop wasting your time with this.
poujadisme? it was a french neo-fascist movement that was around in the 1950. right wing libertarians shop keepers mostly who claimed that they and they alone represented the "real france" and who opposed all forms of the "nanny state" and the taxation that enabled it because taxation took their shit and gave it to the less worthy, whom they wanted to keep out of their pure lilly white country in any event because they threatened the purity of the very christian volk and besides most of them were illegal anyway. they also adamantly supported the war on terror that the french military was waging at the time in algeria and had no problem with torture and other extra-legal actions because terrorists are like the state in that they want to take our shit. the eternal victims, a politics of bottomless self-pity, a grinding sense of status anxiety. sound familiar?
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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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