The little nods to realism they manage to squeeze in just make it worse The fact that the husband took out a mortgage on their farm and sold the tractor to pay for the golden arm
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The attempt to make it topical almost feels offensive The narrator, a weary older Black man, telling us the 2009 recession hit their rural Michigan community especially hard and that's what drives the husband to break his vow and exhume the golden arm
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Like the part of the Aristocrats documentary where Sarah Silverman starts telling the joke like it's a real story that happened to her in the 80s and it becomes a tearful MeToo thing
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The Golden Arm is a metaphor for the F-35
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