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again, this ridiculous context-free stuff. and red-baiting (my favorite retro-technique).
if you want to play the game of locate the violent-seeming phrase and act as though this makes some point you could make ghandi into a prophet of violence because he talks about violence a lot and does it in a way that is critical of violence and so is not only violent but also oppresses people who like violence.
that way you don't have to take any account of or responsibility for conservative media saturation with paranoid and violent rhetoric.
and true to form, conservatives are all about avoiding having to take account of or responsibility for their media apparatus unless for some reason people inside that apparatus were to start telling conservatives that the should take account of and responsibility for their media apparatus in which case they'd be all about both and all about those things in exactly the ways they are told to be all about them just as they're all about these decontextualized fake equivalence games and one-dimensional metaphysics that amounts to nothing more than "i know you are but what am i?" as if that were an argument that grown-ups would make.
to say "the weather underground wrote some violent things" is to make among the more no-shit points ever. but you aren't getting weather underground statements repeated in the major media. anywhere. so the equivalence is stupid. stokley charmichael? are you serious? where do you imagine the stockley charmichael network to be? i mean apart from your imagination: it clearly exists there.
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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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