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OUTRAGED HUMAN's avatar

Democracy in Russia? Putin has become the tsar of Russia, with no opposition, no free media. And he talks about democracy? This is ridiculous and sad

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Stegiel's avatar

Democracy anywhere is the same. We are in our respective open air concentration camps awaiting what the government chooses to do next. The camp as the biopolitical paradigm

Agamben argues that the concentration camp has replaced the city as the West's biopolitical paradigm. He suggests that the divisions between public and private, sacred and profane, are changing, and that new forms of legality and legitimacy are collapsing

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jacquelyn sauriol's avatar

He had me by speaking multiple related sentences in a serious tone. And by not painting a necessarily black future. I wonder what ol' Vlad and Don would be doing if they weren't being politicians or in government...maybe Vlad would be a polo player or coach, and Don would be....oh....well, yes, the real estate mogul that he is, with a side career in acting, now revived again for a brand new show, the Don and Vlad show for the US and the Vlad and Don show for Russia. I think Don might find out he only got a bit part, but it's better than nothing.

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