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i don't see that in the media reality that i move through. maybe it's part of other media realities, given that it's entirely possible to assemble tunnels that one moves through on the net. any such media tunnel will have a self-confirming aspect to it if you aren't careful. i suspect that there are conservative tunnels within which that claim is understood as true. in the tunnels i move through, which are left-oriented, there's absolutely no such thing. the claim is, from my viewpoint, worthless. every left outlet that you read is critical of obama. he has no particular appeal to the "progressive" constituency---and he doesn't really govern as if that consituency is important to him. remember his complaints about the "professional left" of last year?
of course you don't. that's mean you'd have to rethink your absurd characterization of the political climate. i mean, the one that exists outside of rightwing outlets which have an interest in normalizing the previous 8 years of neo-fascism by projecting it onto others.
and for the record, the question i posed to pan was about "islamophobia" which is the republican-legitimated mode of routine racism that's abroad in the land these days. makes the american right a bit like those fine settler parties in the west bank, don't you think?
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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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