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Ann Peters's avatar

I was in another country when all this happened. There, many people thought this was political theater. The foolish youth (not a professional sniper) encouraged to take a pot shot from an inexplicitly unguarded vantage point. The small bladder of blood tucked behind the ear. It seems like a classic trope.

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Jeff Takacs's avatar

Compelling. But “structural violence of economic inequality also kills us” is most certainly said by liberals.

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Bern's avatar

"We live in Biblical times."

Nope. "WE" do not. You, maybe. I'll give a pass on the relative merits of the bible as an entertaining work of fiction, with many fans to the present day.

No heaven, no hell.

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Rosalba Cofer's avatar

Trump may have a showman's instincts, but they're given a greater value only because corporate media and interests magnify them. They continue to write the script as if we were all living an episode of the apprentice.

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Barbara Crow's avatar

Expertly said. Historically correct.

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