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“During the evening of the first skirmishes, it turned out that the clock-towers were shot at independently and simultaneously in several places in Paris.”
On the Concept of History | Walter Benjamin
Short term pessimism aside, I don’t actually think it will be forever fashionable among the mainstream right to be a total fucking crank who prides himself on having zero social graces; but–godwilling–they’ll always have receipts like these to remind them of their brutally embarrassing origin & return-trajectory.