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ace---sometimes things are complicated. sometimes it's between arrogant and ridiculous to use what appears to be some personal sense you've got of being persecuted by complexity to impose simple-minded pseudo-explanations on phenomena in the world---like what's happening in egypt----just to swat away the devil of complexity so you feel better. the thread is about egypt and tunisia and the ways that is spreading--it is not about your counter-factual realities based on your aesthetic preference for the simplistic, nor is it about arbitrary assertions that in some bizarre-o alternate universe this mangled thing you call the bush doctrine---which you don't seem to actually know anything about which doubtless makes supporting it easier----was somehow correct about the middle east---in fact it has nothing to say.
the bottom line here----the ONLY point you're making---is that you don't like the obama administration. and you're willing to go to any lengths to find a way to repeat that simple simple position that you like.
i am interested to watch mubarak's house of cards coming apart. i would hope that he is forced out of power if he doesn't wake up and resign. there are reports that the opposition is working on a draft of a new constitution. this is necessary because any opposition movement that comes to power has to dissolve parliament, which is totally ndp because it was elected by fraud. systematic election fraud---that amplifies a sense of grievance that can make of something like food prices starting to spiral explosive. but you'd have to actually look at something beyond the backward reactionary pages of bloomberg and research the history of actually existing egypt over the past 30 years to know that. and that's complicated. better to stick with repeating "i don't like barack obama" and "the bush people were right" because it lets you avoid the world.
no-one really gives a shit about conservative paranoia concerning the muslim brotherhood at this point. it's really just thinly-disguised racism. like so much conservative "thinking"...but it's simple.
people are nervous...there's alot of uncertainty. food is getting harder to come by; businesses are shut down. egyptian tv is not that different from fox---it presents a fantasy world structured around authoritarian/conservative feel-good memes. because of what happened earlier this week with the secret police creating "pro-mubarak" goon squads, people are jumpy. and there is sporadic violence still around the edges.
it's not simple.
nothing is simple.
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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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