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“Vote for the liberal though he harms you because the conservative will harm you more

American liberalism demands a rhetorical politeness from which fascistic iteration of the modern Republican Party is fully free. There is something stomach churning about watching a parade of Biden administration press secretaries offer insincere expressions of concern for Palestinians as the same administration bankrolls their butcher

Edifice - a large impressive building

Reporters as referee/announcer/scorekeeper

“One can see the consequences of this model most frequently in political coverage, where the chief concern of so many stories is not the substance of the policy proposal but the way it moves the polls.”

“A fiction of moral convenience”

“It’s a frequent, nauseating political inheritance: come to experience the world under the reign of someone who thinks of you as subhuman, as undeserving of a future, and an ugly impression is settled that true power is the ability to do the same to someone else.”

Barbarism - absence of culture and civilization

Pg. 79 “We think we make bucket lifts to ward off regret, but really they help us to ward off death. After all, the longer our bucket lists are, the more time we imagine we have left to accomplish everything on them.”