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We are a TV based culture. We have been for some time now. The average American spends 5 hours a day, every day, watching TV. After sleep, it is our number one activity. Donald Trump Is Going To Be Elected

There should be a hyphen between “TV” and “based”, otherwise, it reads like we are a TV culture and (shouts to Lil B) a based culture.

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The French may love food, the Italians may love opera. What we love is TV. We are TV culture. It defines who we are. Donald Trump Is Going To Be Elected

Interesting how there’s no definitive verb given to the first two countries (“may love”) while Americans are given the definite, commanding, “is”.

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Interesting, although I think here it specifically comes from grammatical the structure of the sentence: “While X may Y, America does Z” (that is, “may” is serving a more prosaic function here as well)

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... For the past 40 years we have devoted 5 to 8 hours a day staring at a screen - every day. And we haven’t been watching Judy Woodruff. We have been watching Reality TV shows. That is what we love. That is what we resonate to. The Real Housewives of Atlanta. Donald Trump Is Going To Be Elected

This reads like a very bad postmodern novel: an entire paragraph of exposition closed with a one-sentence pseudo-non-sequitur. Not that I wouldn’t read a bad postmodern novel. Just like the fact that Vanderpump Rules is one of my favorite television shows – Americans, nay, all people, contain multitudes, and we are certainly capable of balancing “mindless entertainment” with intellectually taxing activities. Or you can watch Vanderpump Rules and try to apply philosophy to it and do both at once. Your choice.

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Man, I messed up adding the pyong note …

“This is beautiful, so many concise nuggets of wisdom and truth here that I want to annotate it myself to pull free all the strands and say something about how they all resonate around the wider culture of pronouncing grandly on humans and nations.”

Was gonna be something like that. Nooiceee

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Thank You, Mr. Tokyo Thank You, Mr. Tokyo
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Thank You, Mr. Tokyo is the first full-length release by MadeinTYO since his massive 2016 single “Uber Everywhere.” The mixtape is handled almost entirely by “Uber” producer K Swisha, with two tracks helmed by producer Richie Souf, who linked up with TYO through a mutual friend, fellow rapper Villa, whose breakout hit “Teardrop Mercedes” Souf produced.

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I hopped out the Balmain and then I put on some Bape Jeremih (Ft. Chance the Rapper, Starrah, The Weeknd & Young Thug) – Pass Dat (Remix)
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Playing on Jeremih’s line from the first verse of the original song— “I called up the Uber, but then I pulled out the Range—, we see Young Thug reference a brand he’s discussed and worn many times before (Balmain) paired with another beloved brand that he’s never mentioned, but has worn, before this verse (Bape).

“Balmain” and “Bape” continue the alliteration of B’s from the previous line.

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