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Posts tagged with America
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
I do not want to live in an American rat race. I do not want to live in America where there is hunger for the poor, and the aristocracy laughs. I do not want to live in an American nightmare where cops are the military and the military are the…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
The End of America, Good Riddance It is too late to save anything. The slaves in most civilizations had nothing of worth to save. The rich will tell you that there must be something wrong with you – you are probably stupid – if you do not save like they…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
What election. Any attempt to save our way of life assumes it’s worth living. At one time, it might have been. Heresy. I know. That time would not be this time. America does not work. How can there be trust in an election if there is no trust in fundamental…
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I’m With Antifa
The New York Times is worried about people taking the side of the rioters. We are silenced. I am not allowed to comment on riots in America although I have been to most of them. The riots are like America because the riots are America. Kenosha feels like Minneapolis. And…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
We elected it. Nothing works. Our culture is irresponsible, and reprehensible. Our systems failed. Our politics failed. Our institutions failed. We failed. America writ large. Capitalism failed. We cannot wiggle out of the thing. The resposibiliuty for our own greed and racism. We created our own nightmare. We can’t even…
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The Idea of America Should Be Euthanized
The Cultural Nightmare That is America Needs to be Put Down Like a Dead Dog
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
It is difficult to stomach the victorious, scorched-earth Trump has left us with. We are breathlessly irrelevant. Still in shock from 2016. Shock, too, is irrelevant. It is more than shocking to hear a Republican call for unity. Where is the evidence that Republicans are even slightly, actually seeking unity.…
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America is Toast: Tim Barrus, New York Times
Americans are not living through a social crisis. America is dying – not living – through the demystification that has always been smokescreen for what America is actually all about, and always has been. A violent, unequal, class system that denies class even exists. The only evidence that suggests class…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times: Jumping Off the Cliff
Nicholas Kristoff at the New York Times is speaking about who and what American culture has left behind. I don’t think he sees much hope. If any. But he provides examples of hopefulness on the part of released prisoners. Why. Because he’s writing for an editor. I have written for…
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After Wandering
after wandering some through America, land of the umbilical alone, you begin to see fungal family graveyards infected in a different light people just staring at the rain in a parking lot cuz they were in it https://timbarrusart.tumblr.com
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Tim Barrus: NY Times: Let’s Have Another Stupid War
Trump has been looking for a war. He could go to war with the State of California. Americans would stand with him shoulder to shoulder because Americans are as fatuous as he is. Trump could invade Vermont, and Americans would applaud. But we have a congress. Oh, really. They could…
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Homelessness Is Hell: Barrus: NYT
A Response to David Brooks in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/opinion/america-nationalism-diversity-trump.html?comments#permid=29166007 Here’s a question. Is it okay to unequivocally hate America with every molecule of the self. I doubt it. Our idea of what freedom is does not allow the kind of dissent that doesn’t, and never will, fit into…
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WE ARE…
Tim Barrus: The New York Times Question posed: What are we… Pathetic. Ignorant. Americans cannot articulate how democracy works. Pompous. Conflicted. Militaristic. Murderous. We commit more murders than any other culture. Poor. They only reason the economy appears so robust is because so many Americans have multiple jobs, and Trump…