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Jim J Wilsky's avatar

Excellent conversation, especially around the subject of Zionism and being a Zionist. Those words and their true meanings have been hijacked and made evil or wrong. I'm not an Israeli and not Jewish but in my mind, there should be no shame or apology needed for being a Zionist, a Jew or any other popular punching bag these days. I'm one of those old, white and conservative people mentioned and frankly can't believe where some of this country stands with hating the Jewish people.

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Roscoe's avatar

morality is that science can be bought all at once in a single act of philosophy and no higher ideal. which is evil inherited.

equity is that philosophy can be done by native right. which is righteous.

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our two political parties do whatever they think is ugly-gay-porn in terms of power and political science because a certain type of cia agent who was also briefly captain america hates their lives and has beaten them repeatedly without apologizing. ok. excuse me.

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Roscoe's avatar

STAY DOWN STATUE GUY

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the communist university thing happened and was dead dogged and not a contest and the soviets won it by like 1928 and the supreme court was saying made up shit by 1954 and doing it on tv by 1967 ir something maybe 1973 or whatever. and its the main reason jfk got assassinated but they want people too know more about the jfk files than the constitution. its just in a separate file. people r that dumb. why would this sound crazy if not?

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on the isms. dems social media is bragging blue=fascism maga-doggy-style today ironically unironically but its already named ideocracy or kleptocracy - but thats currently a secret accidentally by ultra-gay-college professors

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Roscoe's avatar

im left wojack curve in this f.y.i.

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i really wanted too comment i will never encourage "stereotypical" people about sydney sweeney commercials because of / a contintentally surreptitious and magnanimous cultic culture of kleptocracy which is characterized by nearly constant blame on anything but themselves; being mischaraterized as something which the united states did not specifically intentionally declare independence from & regard with malice and hate with clout: about beauty. and then i couldn't stop trying too write about apotheosis and projection from my own reading. then i thought eh, just not write it.

so im watching this all. and i wrote this about a specious perspective on british colonialism of a stimulus on "british reparations for colonies".

1. what i believe about this topic is that. countries like the united states & china appeciate that we have completely disqualified ourselves - in public - on purpose - with malice & clout - intentionally - for mercy. Too perpetually oppose this thought process throughout the rest of mankind's existence. And destroy it's powers.

2. this is what it is; these two things - and the meaning which follows

1. the balance sheet is a "british royal real-property" (not powerful, not advantagous, providing honesty -which is a form of intelligence)

2. colonialism is a form of Democracy - which is moral law - which is chaos - which is shambolic - Which Democracy IS the name of medieval tyranny. What is egalitarian is 'EQUITABLE LAW' which prorates destroys and prosecutes EVERYTHING which is Medieval in a 'CHRONOLOGICAL' prorate - british and american intelligence lied about our language too the entire planet with assistance from our highest legal institutions and courts.

[Meaning] - they can start fixing everything at any time with an extreme level of force. By halting openly lying about how democracy was the greatest cornerstone and power of the medieval dark ages and the colonial era & instead is egalitarian / that is a chronologically false identity which cannot be amended; it is not philosophical - and they assassinated presidents and civil rights leaders WORLDWIDE too spread the lie that democracy is not a - dead, xenophobic, fatalism - with an inferior set of equitable identities for the people over a plutocracy which is differentiated from an oligarchy only by a magnificient and propitiatory bicamarel legislature - absolving wealth of its crimœsīn-democratic-shambolic powers of inheritance in a revolution without resolutions or equalities for capitation.

the british commonwealth's altrusitic desires - demonstrate the cultural blindness of a lack of a murderous revolution in canada - where they don't know what sovereignty is AT-ALL. IT IS SAD TOO KNOW THEY'RE RIGHT THERE.

lies is the biggest current theme of the deterioration of 'secular' being re-prototyped(?) as meaning "without any god".

cause it means "of the power"

so, they don't know that...

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S Stanfill's avatar

I so agree. When a culture expects study, good, hard study, success follows. You can see this in some aspects of Asian cultures as well. China had an exam culture for a very long time - studying , including subjects like poetry that were hard and somewhat arbitrary makes for a lifetime of study.

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Konstantin Asimonov's avatar

This was a great conversation! A lot to agree with, but I especially appreciated Ted's point about poetry. Kudos for writing with rhyme and rhythm, this is what makes poetry challenging and worthy.

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Brian King's avatar

Fantastic podcast. My 1984 MFA cohort in painting had a die hard Derrida, Foucult follower, none of us, mid 20s, had the balls to ask “what the fuck is he writing about” Thank god post modernism didn’t infect our work.

My one nit with you guys is conflating transgender folks with godless individuals. If you had specific examples Id love to hear those

Spot on about Poetry journals. I was lucky to have 1 accepted per year. Then I submitted a 51 poem manuscript to Finishing Line Press. Publication release is November 2. They seem immune to identity poetry

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