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(quietly) the fact that the President is a teflon transgressive ghoul, and that there's been no consequences for two decades of war are important things to include in reckoning with the idiocies, shortcomings, and contradictions of how we understand apologies and accountability
(more quietly) the impunity of the powerful since '08 is also key, as is the regular spectacle of agents of the state being excused for extrajudicial murder &c. Put bluntly: our discourse thrives on the theatrics of cruelty and impunity, all the better to cannily channel malice
(even more quietly) on a certain level, libidinal economy and political economy operate in fundamentally reinforcing, toxic ways
(so quietly you can barely hear it) there is a basic way in which the fate of no single individual can ever vindicate, redeem, or totally palliate ongoing structural violence; righteous outcomes can occur but such catharsis is by definition impossible and the very idea is a trap
(with a quiet that is indistinguishable from silence itself)
(all this quiet, but now replaced with ten thousand right wing assholes screaming "Northam!" every time they want to change the subject, shut someone else up, or just get a little bump of vindictive pleasure)
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