Oh, for fuck's sake, look around you, it's going down one way or the other, and the question is who's going to still be in charge of the ashes when the smoke clears
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I'm actually pretty serious here, maybe I'll regret saying this later but the one-two punch of the coronavirus merrily running freely through our population while our governing institutions go full fash has completely depleted my capacity for the requisite liberal pieties here
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I don't believe in America I don't mean that in a rhetorical or ironic or hyperbolic sense I'm not saying it to follow it up by quoting Langston Hughes, "America never was America to me, but America will be", or whatever America is fucked, it's over, it's dead
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Best get your mourning over with early and start making plans to dispose of the body and divvy up the good silverware Stop concern-trolling against the death throes "Mercy to thee would prove itself a bawd; 'Tis best thou diest quickly"
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I'm very sorry to hear this, sir. I doubt this will help much, but it's all I have to offer: Even now, I still have hope. Especially now, in point of fact. We've just seen some tremendous, glorious things happen. Awful things too; they come all together, all at once.
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My vague optimism that good things in the world can still happen mostly depends on the idea that what we have now is going to inevitably be swept away into the dustbin of history and something unknowable will replace it But the system as it is is a rotting corpse
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You have inspired me. This is what I came up with. It's not polished at all, but I feel haste is more important this morning. Hopelessness does us no good at all. Tell me honestly what you think. https://thenotfakenews.com/2020/06/03/a-glorious-hope/ …
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No worries, mate. We all each of us only have just so many spoons. Good luck today.
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