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FOR WHOEVER NEEDS A REMINDER:

Another public service announcement. This time it’s air quality. Some of you are probably in it already if you’re in eastern Canada, New England or New York, but it’s sliding south, a huge mass of wildfire smoke. Please be careful. When it starts getting bad, especially, like when the sky gets orange or brownish, it’s best to run air purifiers in the house and wear N95 or KN95 masks when you have to go outside.

The first (and to some extent only) rule you learn about Japanese word order is that the verb goes at the end of the sentence, but in conversational speech even this gets broken fairly often. It's pretty common to hear a clause like "watashi wa" or "kore" put at the end of a sentence, after the verb. In the rare cases this is mentioned at all in learning materials I've read, it's usually explained away as an ungrammaticalized aberration. People don't form full sentences in their head ahead of time before they start speaking, so sometimes you think of something out of order and have to tack it on as a kind of errata. You hear this in English too, and probably every language, where an incomplete clause will be said as an afterthought. And so I'm sure that does explain some instances of this in Japanese, but I don't think it can be the whole story, for a couple reasons. It often gets used in very rapid and fluent speech, with no discernible pause between the suffix clause and the rest of sentence, in a way that sounds more like an intentional construction than an afterthought. It's also used in set phrases that are too short and common (e.g. "nani kore" = "what's this") for it to be possible that the speaker got lost while forming it and had to correct themselves. So this really does seem like a grammaticalized pattern to me, at least in some cases.

Revolutionaries in Africa understood that the question of African liberation was not just a question of race, that even if they managed to get rid of the white colonialists, if they didn’t rid themselves of the capitalistic economic structure, the white colonialists would simply be replaced by Black neocolonialists. There was not a single liberation movement in Africa that was not fighting for socialism. In fact, there was not a single liberation movement in the whole world that was fighting for capitalism. The whole thing boiled down to a simple equation: anything that has any kind of value is made, mined, grown, produced, and processed by working people. So why shouldn’t working people collectively own that wealth? Why shouldn’t working people own and control their own resources? Capitalism meant that rich businessmen owned the wealth, while socialism meant that the people who made the wealth owned it.