It's always an uphill battle against recuperation and cooptation, right? There are just so many avenues along which transgressive or radical ideas are evacuated of their urgency and reduced to empty aesthetics, or to anachronistic dogma, or to neoliberal identity games. S0 I tell myself it’s because

To note that the wEsTeRn DeMoCrAcIeS are nothing close to the “honest brokers” they’ve spent decades trying to portray themselves as isn’t really much of a statement, is it? I mean, it feels like an assault on language itself to play along with that characterization when their actions