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the incurable autoimmune illness of global capitalism

[...] we might describe civil war as the incurable autoimmune illness of global capitalism: a disease that attacks all systems of the international body from within—indeed, pitting each against the other—calling into question the function and sovereignty of every organ.

—p.38 The Baffler No. 39 - The Organization of Hatreds Dispatches from the American Gray Zone (38) by Jonathon Sturgeon
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welter

The resulting discursive squalor—a welter of confusion in which objective fact competes against galaxy-brained and perennially unalterable “perceptions” for equal footing

—p.30 River of No Return (16) by Jason Linkins
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ineluctable

equivocation slowly but ineluctably begins to take root

—p.24 River of No Return (16) by Jason Linkins
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hermeneutic

the vacuous major-media hermeneutic of both-sides-ism

—p.24 River of No Return (16) by Jason Linkins
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anodyne

it describes the everyday experiences of people far from areas traditionally associated with America’s Long Wars—thereby implicating our own anodyne lives in the steady militarization of our common world

—p.11 War Games (6) by Scott Beauchamp
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