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How deeply infectious that "decomposing ism" is among those who profess it. Will their implosion come sooner or too late?

Just this morning it was reported that Musk is calling out those who voted "America First" and dare to differ with Musk's views on H-1B visas; he deemed them "contemptible fools" and urged those "hateful, unreprentant racists" be thrown from the GOP pit. As always, he fails to recognize himself as one of "them," his own hate speech and "me first" ideology notwithstanding.

The level of cruelty toward "other" is astounding.

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Yes, I've been reading too. Musk is quite astonishing -- came to Twitter under the banner of free speech and now he's suspending all those people's accounts. He's just as twistedly mad and malicious as Trump. His ascension in politics and government is just the kind of unpredictable development I've talked about in saying we have no idea where this is going. There's going to be a lot of infighting.

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An elegant and subtle essay, Jay, which makes the case through its way of arguing for the "literary studies" that you mention early on.

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Well, that is the perfect compliment for this essay. Thank you.

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