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muriel_volestrangler

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Tue Apr 7, 2026, 08:53 AM Yesterday

Harold Pinter on the US waging war

He wrote this after the first Gulf War, and periodicals and newspapers rejected it - maybe it seems over the top for the attitude in that war. But now, as the London Review of Books points out, it's pretty much a tweet by The Rapist, or a speech by Hegseth:

Hallelujah!
It works.
We blew the shit out of them.

We blew the shit right back up their own ass
And out their fucking ears.

It works.
We blew the shit out of them.
They suffocated in their own shit!

Hallelujah.
Praise the Lord for all good things.

We blew them into fucking shit.
They are eating it.

Praise the Lord for all good things.

We blew their balls into shards of dust,
Into shards of fucking dust.

We did it.

Now I want you to come over here and kiss me on the mouth.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2017/january/pinter-s-american-football
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