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The Manifesto w/ China Miéville

The Dig

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The History of Red Baiting in the Face of the World

Derry: Why start by invoking the specter mocking their enemies and reveling in their fear? Derry: It's an incredibly fecken and strange beginning. But then they do this amazing switchback, which is having essentially teased them, mocked them for this overdramatization. They go from sort of saying they're invoking this imaginary thing to saying this thing is real, but they're misrepresenting it.

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