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Tuesday, December 25, 2018

And What Have We Done

Spastic declarations of the end of hostilities here and the beginning of bombings there, without congressional consultation or approval or expert consensus or diplomatic support by our idiotic incompetent infantile Trumpublican id notwithstanding, this is yet another Christmas in wartime, lived in dangerous destructive denial of the many wars being illegally, immorally, catastrophically waged in our names for plunder, for power, for poll numbers in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Uganda, Syria, Yemen, Libya, and elsewhere, right now, and across the planetary archipelago of military bases and at our many (imaginary) borders in militarized prisons and detention centers and carceralized social spaces throughout the nation as the colored lights twinkle and smiling puppies tinkle, and the slogans robotically exhort us on to buy, buy, buy! As every year, a dumb numb contrarian thought:

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