Harris Almost Won
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Harris Almost Won
After a candidate’s defeat in an election, you will be supplied with the “cause” of the voters’ disgruntlement. Any conceivable cause can do. The media, however, go to great lengths to make the process “thorough” with their armies of fact-checkers. It is as if they wanted to be wrong with infinite precision (instead of accepting being approximately
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Visiblement le mythe d’une victoire de Donald Trump qui s’expliquerait par le fait que Kamala Harris n’a pas été assez à gauche a encore de beaux jours devant lui. Ça ressemble quand même de plus en plus à une volonté de promouvoir à tout prix une idéologie politique qu’à une recherche d’explications. Qu’un politique le fasse pourquoi pas mais pour... See more
Théo Laubry 🇺🇸x.comGoing home seems to be a way to abandon victories when they’re still delicate, still in need of protection and encouragement. Human babies are helpless at birth, and so perhaps are victories before they’ve been consolidated into the culture’s sense of how things should be. I wonder sometimes what would happen if victory was imagined not just as the
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