Saturday, September 18, 2021

SEMANTIC AGRESSION MEANS WHAT WE SAY IT MEANS


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un up the black flag before the sun next rises on 

International Talk Like a Climate Pirate Day the holiday language-looting lascaradoes o'the Modern Lamnguage Association, The New Republic and The Nation Institute fail to celebrate on the heels of  the hurricane season, sure as National Fire Door safety week, and Bill Moyer's birthday.  Here be the affadavy what maps out what them o'the Climate Desk wants to get off their dead person's chest: 

Hot Take podcast host Mary Annaïse Heglar says 

“We, quite literally, have no time for nihilism. In our context now, rosy hopefulness feels downright sociopathic.”:


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