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Thanks for reading the excerpt, Chisel. I was intending to read it more carefully, and I definitely paid more attention when listening than while the first time reading it. I receive the scolding for the careless commenting; you are right.

Greg, you said bricolage... D:
It's okay when you say, guess...I'll allow it.

On the TOTW discussion, it's interesting to bring a perspective from someone from UK.
From outside mainland USA I had found it easy to dismiss the civil war rhetoric coming from fringe wingnutty elements that were getting their hot takes from Alex Jones. But then suddenly upon talking to some people in different areas of mainland USA, you get different takes if they come from the big cities in the East, or from the Midwest, or the South or from the West side.
Different opinions and takes, but certainly a trending topic, and not such a fringe discussion.

All this to say that while it makes the news, it's still far from something that's happening or that will happen, much like an insurrection or a revolution. This is similar like Cold War anxieties of Russians taking over, with communist sleeper agents all around, and fears of race riots by the white supremacist establishment or garden variety of vicious racists that are not a negligible part of the population, but certainly not all that voted for Trump fall into that category, or the panorama would be very different. Ultimately, the status quo is more insidious, persistent and "centric" that many extreme scenarios and factions that catch our attention because they stand out.