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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:
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As Trashfuture's Riley Quinn and November Kelly said on this morning's Trashfuture, American politics is a game with two health-bars: "racism" and "the number on the gas pump." They can be traded off for one another to a limited extent, but if you let either one dip too low, you are about to lose an election.