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By Jack Joseph Smith

The Trick terms of the oppisite terms being the oppisite different The oppisite changes into a lie, not a suggestion, suggested by the former that things after all, could be the same So here we go with the trick the supreme defination of terms of the oppisite What is strange about the trick, is that the trick is, Like magic, IN that it remains unseen unmentioned The oil in Iraq did not and is not and will not pay for the war And oil prices will not stop rising Soon the government will have the logical spin to call it a shortage

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GPT

The page uses the language of opposites and magic tricks to describe how Iraq's oil economy is rhetorically hidden while its costs are publicly displaced.

What survives clearly is the linkage between false oppositions and political cover. The trick, the speaker argues, works like magic: it remains unseen and unmentioned while the public is handed a shortage story instead. Iraq is the occasion, not just the metaphor, as the page thinks hard about euphemism as power.

Claude

The Trick reads political euphemism as stage magic. Oppisites collapse into lies that suggest things could be the same, and the handwritten right margin names the mechanism: Like magic, IN That it remains unseen unmentioned. Iraq oil is the example; the trick is how language does the hiding.