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if reduced to an imperative to always have “good relationships” with everyone and everything, joyful militancy and friendship become simplistic, reactionary, and colonial in their erasure of power relations and systemic violence.
“Here's the news: I am going to sue the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company, manufacturers of Pall Mall cigarettes, for a billion bucks! Starting when I was only twelve years old, I have never chain-smoked anything but unfiltered Pall Malls. And for many years now, right on the package, Brown & Williamson have promised to kill me.
But I am eighty-two. Thanks a lot, you dirty rats. The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.”
― A Man Without a Country
But I am eighty-two. Thanks a lot, you dirty rats. The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.”
― A Man Without a Country
Ben’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ben’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
190 books
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318 friends
589 books
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74 friends
181 books
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45 friends
1,328 books
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126 friends
219 books
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54 friends
140 books
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118 friends
1,062 books
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118 friends
2,093 books
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200 friends
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