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This incomprehensibility is often quite beneficial for the group that engages in it. Cant - or argot, or "academic language," or "ecclesiastical language" - serves its purpose. It's a group marker and fluency with it implies membership. To those outside, it's "duckspeak." The insiders can scheme openly in specialized language, keep out the riff raff and - crucially - have the riff raff ignore them. This is all well and good, until it happens that one of the speakers of that language tries on purpose to speak to - and be understood by - the riff raff. Then, it becomes an obstacle.
I saw a wonderful example of this in a YouTube ad. I usually skip these but the person who was actually watching it did not. I wouldn't have anyway, because it caught my attention. Not for the reasons the producers desired, but attention nonetheless:This is one of the 2024 winners of "Freedom Scholar" prize, awarded by an outfit called the Marguerite Casey Foundation. That Foundation is based on the Casey family fortune, which is rooted in UPS. Yes, the shipping company. It turns out that what Brown can do for you is fund revolutionary left-wing causes. Their YouTube channel makes that quite clear. But I digress. This is about language, not the tendency of all "philanthropy" toward revolutionary radicalism. The woman in this ad - the winner of the prize - is a University of Illinois (Chicago) professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Global Asian Studies. The language is likely incomprehensible to most laymen. Transcriptions are mine, please forgive any errors.
We're gonna need to do more work on conjoining prison abolition movements and movements against militarism and for decolonization, especially since all of these structures are already sharing technologies and strategies of sexualized violence, reproductive injustices... ... to a world organized by collective and communal care and love, a world organized by community accountability ... where people are living in safety and dignity with each other and on their lands. ... The importance of these ideas is to help us build social movements that are not rooted in Oppression Olympics, but ... rooted in the intersectionality and conjoining of all of our struggles ...And this is the simplified version, the version dumbed down for broadcast to the rubes. Many of you reading this understand it. Many of you don't. This is hard to parse - in excerpt as above, and in totality - if you don't have at least loose familiarity with Postmodern language and concepts. This is what they took to the public, though. It's the best they can do. They can't break free from their ecclesiastical language. What she's saying is simple, of course. It always is, because it's always a variation on the same theme, no matter what. She, like all radical progressives, is calling for codifying a vindictive group-power dynamic above all else, and exacting vengeance upon the enemy during the continuous revolution. It never varies, but the language obscures it. That's the point. But what was the point of this ad? It's the simplified version and it's still probably pretty hard to deal with for many normals. But are normals the target? If so, this is a swing and a miss and the Marguerite Casey Foundation should fire all of its publicity people. If it's a message to fellow travelers about who the Certified Good People are, it is perhaps more effective. One of the challenges of ecclesiastical language is that, even if you can understand it somewhat, it can still be hard to suss out the intent if you're an outsider.
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Sponge!
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 23, 2024 11:00 AM (cBeW+)
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I cannot believe that Joe is letting his "job" take time away from us!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:00 AM (GBKbO)
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huh
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at October 23, 2024 11:01 AM (scDBq)
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I seem to remember a reference in fiction somewhere to "thieves' cant."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Remembering HIs Own Disasters at October 23, 2024 11:01 AM (J2vNu)
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Willowed:
What kind of parents name their child Yo Yo?
Mother's name: Yo Ma Ma.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
Yo Ma Ma sooooo fat....
What kind of parents name their child Yo Yo?
Mother's name: Yo Ma Ma.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
Yo Ma Ma sooooo fat....
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 23, 2024 11:02 AM (cBeW+)
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The woman in this ad - the winner of the prize - is a University of Illinois (Chicago) professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Global Asian Studies.
Because of course she is.
Because of course she is.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 11:02 AM (xCA6C)
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It hurts my BRANE just to read that crap!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 23, 2024 11:02 AM (wyMQY)
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If you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with bullshit.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 23, 2024 11:02 AM (v6JzV)
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Insider language, beyond a certain point, isolates that sub-culture into irrelevance.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 23, 2024 11:03 AM (u82oZ)
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When Emperor Hirohito's voice went out over the Japanese airwaves announcing his government's acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration and the Empire's unconditional surrender to the Allies, it was particularly notable for two reasons. First, emperors do not speak to commoners, so it was the first time that most of his subjects had ever heard his voice. Second, Hirohito spoke in an ancient, hidebound dialect that was nearly incomprehensible to his subjects.
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Kurosawa talks about his address in his autobiography.
He writes that he was convinced that Hirohito was going to order the 100 million shattered jewels, the effort by every Japanese civilian to resist the Allied invasion with their lives. He writes that he wasn't the only one who thought it. He writes that he was probably going to do his part.
I don't think we live in a similar culture today where the people will be willing to take up arms to defend...the Deep State in DC.
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Kurosawa talks about his address in his autobiography.
He writes that he was convinced that Hirohito was going to order the 100 million shattered jewels, the effort by every Japanese civilian to resist the Allied invasion with their lives. He writes that he wasn't the only one who thought it. He writes that he was probably going to do his part.
I don't think we live in a similar culture today where the people will be willing to take up arms to defend...the Deep State in DC.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:03 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: spindrift at October 23, 2024 11:03 AM (OguvZ)
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... reproductive injustices ...
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She means black babies being aborted at much higher rate than white babies, amirite?
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She means black babies being aborted at much higher rate than white babies, amirite?
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Posted by: ShainS -- Musk May be The X-Factor in Overcoming Fraud at October 23, 2024 11:03 AM (8cTjv)
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The woman in this ad - the winner of the prize - is a University of Illinois (Chicago) professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Global Asian Studies.
Kamala, shut up and campaign!
Kamala, shut up and campaign!
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 23, 2024 11:03 AM (cBeW+)
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But what was the point of this ad? It's the simplified version and it's still probably pretty hard to deal with for many normals. But are normals the target? If so, this is a swing and a miss and the Marguerite Casey Foundation should fire all of its publicity people. If it's a message to fellow travelers about who the Certified Good People are, it is perhaps more effective.
One of the challenges of ecclesiastical language is that, even if you can understand it somewhat, it can still be hard to suss out the intent if you're an outsider.
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Jargon is meant to obfuscate, not clarify.
One of the challenges of ecclesiastical language is that, even if you can understand it somewhat, it can still be hard to suss out the intent if you're an outsider.
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Jargon is meant to obfuscate, not clarify.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:04 AM (GBKbO)
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Agenda 21 speak.
Posted by: BignJames at October 23, 2024 11:04 AM (Yj6Os)
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Archimedes
She was selected for her lack of intelligence.
Atoms, molecules and energy packets do not care about gender.
She was selected for her lack of intelligence.
Atoms, molecules and energy packets do not care about gender.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 23, 2024 11:04 AM (u82oZ)
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If it's a message to fellow travelers about who the Certified Good People are, it is perhaps more effective.
And pay no attention to that bullet-pockmarked wall behind you. It's for the others.
And pay no attention to that bullet-pockmarked wall behind you. It's for the others.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 11:04 AM (xCA6C)
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>>conjoining prison abolition movements and movements against militarism and for decolonization, especially since all of these structures are already sharing technologies and strategies of sexualized violence, reproductive injustices...
You want to see how eliminating prisons and the military -- and all Western Civilizational authority does to "sexualized violence?"
By all means, do that. Or maybe go hang out with ISIS or the Taliban.
GAH! The STUPIDITY behand all that jargon is legit Idiocracy.
You want to see how eliminating prisons and the military -- and all Western Civilizational authority does to "sexualized violence?"
By all means, do that. Or maybe go hang out with ISIS or the Taliban.
GAH! The STUPIDITY behand all that jargon is legit Idiocracy.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 23, 2024 11:04 AM (scDBq)
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Willowed from last thread.
I just watched Tulsi Gabbard who spoke at a Trump rally in Greensboro NC last night and announced that she is joining the Republican party. Great video of her announcement.
https://tinyurl.com/rxp2zp6n
I just watched Tulsi Gabbard who spoke at a Trump rally in Greensboro NC last night and announced that she is joining the Republican party. Great video of her announcement.
https://tinyurl.com/rxp2zp6n
Posted by: Cheri at October 23, 2024 11:04 AM (oiNtH)
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I feel like that chick in the video was supposed to be a midget but she just kept growing.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 23, 2024 11:04 AM (KbCG3)
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Commenting present
Posted by: Skip at October 23, 2024 11:05 AM (iFTH3)
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I divined one word: Communism
Posted by: Halfhand at October 23, 2024 11:05 AM (Td1I1)
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If this was in Chicago, I wonder who provided security for the photo shoot. Try making that same video after dark, professor.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Certified Oppression Matrix Remediation Consultant at October 23, 2024 11:05 AM (PiwSw)
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Her: "We're gonna need to do more work on conjoining prison abolition movements and movements against militarism and for decolonization, especially since all of these structures are already sharing technologies and strategies of sexualized violence, reproductive injustices..."
Shorter: Everyone I hate is an Oppressor that must be abolished.
Shorter: Everyone I hate is an Oppressor that must be abolished.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 23, 2024 11:06 AM (scDBq)
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TMJ have seen a handful of new release movies in a decade, but enjoyed that latest Godzilla one for all the wrong reasons. Actually it was sort of a movie, with characters and a story, unlike the classic versions, but what I am talking about were the little historical details. The ruins of Tokyo, the protagonist getting a job de-mining the waters around Japan (actual story of how the post-war Japanese navy, or JSDF, began), the resentment and of the former naval officers and men towards the war-time leadership - all quite accurate. And not central to the story, which made it all better.
Thus endeth my last comment on movies for another year or so.
Thus endeth my last comment on movies for another year or so.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 23, 2024 11:06 AM (GcNJ2)
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Making word salad great?
Posted by: Skip at October 23, 2024 11:06 AM (iFTH3)
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Many of you don't. This is hard to parse - in excerpt as above, and in totality - if you don't have at least loose familiarity with Postmodern language and concepts.
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Not a single word in it refers to something you can actually point to or hold in your hand.
Okay, maybe "prison" is something you can point to and say, "That right there, that's a prison." The rest is full of abstract words. Sense-free.
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Not a single word in it refers to something you can actually point to or hold in your hand.
Okay, maybe "prison" is something you can point to and say, "That right there, that's a prison." The rest is full of abstract words. Sense-free.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2024 11:06 AM (J2vNu)
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As always, the Right succeeds to the extent that it can explain it's intentions. The Left to the extent they can obfuscate them.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 23, 2024 11:06 AM (aD39U)
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Correct Joe, these people ARE the root of ALL of our problems and fail upward.
Posted by: Danimal28 at October 23, 2024 11:06 AM (klw0w)
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... Oppression Olympics ...
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She means biological males beating the crap out of and eventually killing biological females in the boxing ring, amirite?
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She means biological males beating the crap out of and eventually killing biological females in the boxing ring, amirite?
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Posted by: ShainS -- Musk May be The X-Factor in Overcoming Fraud at October 23, 2024 11:07 AM (9+px+)
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Evil does evil. Or, marxists do marxism. All the same. These people are at best low IQ midwits who can destroy but cannot build anything true, good, and beautiful.
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at October 23, 2024 11:07 AM (6PUpl)
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In the end, those without guns dig.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 23, 2024 11:07 AM (aD39U)
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I don't think we live in a similar culture today where the people will be willing to take up arms to defend...the Deep State in DC.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:03 AM (GBKbO)
The Unholy Church of the Deep State, and it's adherents throughout the land, are perfectly willing to sacrifice every single "other" to defend their prerogatives to make your life less than it could be through maliciousness and incompetence.
Actual sacrifice on their part... not a chance.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:03 AM (GBKbO)
The Unholy Church of the Deep State, and it's adherents throughout the land, are perfectly willing to sacrifice every single "other" to defend their prerogatives to make your life less than it could be through maliciousness and incompetence.
Actual sacrifice on their part... not a chance.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 23, 2024 11:07 AM (ExV1e)
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Stripping out all the jargon, it boils down to "Marxism rawks'".
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 11:07 AM (xCA6C)
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I cannot believe that Joe is letting his "job" take time away from us!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:00 AM (GBKbO)
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This is outrageous! He should ignore work and do more posting, obviously.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:00 AM (GBKbO)
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This is outrageous! He should ignore work and do more posting, obviously.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 23, 2024 11:07 AM (b3cMx)
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And what does "Oppression Olympics" supposed to mean?
Posted by: Halfhand at October 23, 2024 11:07 AM (Td1I1)
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Good morning good people.
Posted by: Tonypete at October 23, 2024 11:07 AM (WXNFJ)
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The professor's face is clearly one that goes on the theory that a nose is all a face needs.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2024 11:08 AM (J2vNu)
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36 And what does "Oppression Olympics" supposed to mean?
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Pretty much Obama pulling a train in the bath house.
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Pretty much Obama pulling a train in the bath house.
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 23, 2024 11:08 AM (AdHga)
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Your mariner is a capital fellow, none better, but he is sadly given to jargon.
Posted by: Stephen Maturin at October 23, 2024 11:09 AM (U1w17)
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We're gonna need to do more work on conjoining prison abolition movements and movements against militarism and for decolonization, especially since all of these structures are already sharing technologies and strategies of sexualized violence, reproductive injustices...
They just drop a thesaurus in a blender and hit frappe'. What a pantload.
They just drop a thesaurus in a blender and hit frappe'. What a pantload.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 11:09 AM (xCA6C)
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So all the news on the car radio on the way into work today is "Trump loves Hitler!!!1!!"
I hate October.
So all the news on the car radio on the way into work today is "Trump loves Hitler!!!1!!"
I hate October.
Posted by: Frank Barone at October 23, 2024 11:09 AM (+oR7L)
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Good morning good people.
Posted by: Tonypete
Why do you gotta keep insulting us, Tonypete? What'd we ever do to you?
Posted by: Tonypete
Why do you gotta keep insulting us, Tonypete? What'd we ever do to you?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 23, 2024 11:09 AM (v6JzV)
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Do the Oppression Olympics have breakdancing too?
Posted by: spindrift at October 23, 2024 11:09 AM (OguvZ)
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A reminder from a respected Thought Leader concerning the Presidential tickets, for those undecided amongst us:
"Tim Walz is the definition of what healthy masculinity looks like."
-- David Hogg
"Tim Walz is the definition of what healthy masculinity looks like."
-- David Hogg
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 23, 2024 11:09 AM (a3Q+t)
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I saw a screenshot on X someone had taken of a post on Reddit written by a self-proclaimed “witch”. She said she keeps trying to cast spells on Trump but “something around him won’t let her get through “. Hmmm. Nutso
Posted by: Jmel at October 23, 2024 11:09 AM (RWHIh)
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All her speech does is indicate to her allies that she too is an ally.
All of the correct buzzwords and terms are present.
All identifiers.
They are nothing more than signals.
All of the correct buzzwords and terms are present.
All identifiers.
They are nothing more than signals.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 23, 2024 11:10 AM (KbCG3)
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And what does "Oppression Olympics" supposed to mean?
It means we can't have one special interest group fighting another special interest group for dominance in the grievance hierarchy.
It means we can't have one special interest group fighting another special interest group for dominance in the grievance hierarchy.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 11:10 AM (xCA6C)
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>>The importance of these ideas is to help us build social movements that are not rooted in Oppression Olympics, but . . .
We must eliminate all the Oppressors via a social movement that is NOT about Oppression.
Uhhh, what?
You know what we need to bring back?
Diagramming sentences.
These people have no idea what they're saying, just stringing buzzwords and radical talking points together, that in a lot of cases contradict themselves.
We must eliminate all the Oppressors via a social movement that is NOT about Oppression.
Uhhh, what?
You know what we need to bring back?
Diagramming sentences.
These people have no idea what they're saying, just stringing buzzwords and radical talking points together, that in a lot of cases contradict themselves.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 23, 2024 11:10 AM (scDBq)
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The professor's face is clearly one that goes on the theory that a nose is all a face needs.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2024 11:08 AM (J2vNu)
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Sir!!!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2024 11:08 AM (J2vNu)
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Sir!!!
Posted by: Savinien Hercule de Cyrano de Bergerac at October 23, 2024 11:10 AM (U1w17)
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She, like all radical progressives, is calling for codifying a vindictive group-power dynamic above all else, and exacting vengeance upon the enemy during the continuous revolution.
I'm open to correction, but I believe it was at Waterloo that the commander of Napoleon's Imperial Guard said, "The Guard dies, but never surrenders."
I'd apply that to people like this shrew. "The kulaks die, but the Revolution lives!"
I'm open to correction, but I believe it was at Waterloo that the commander of Napoleon's Imperial Guard said, "The Guard dies, but never surrenders."
I'd apply that to people like this shrew. "The kulaks die, but the Revolution lives!"
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 23, 2024 11:10 AM (Q0kLU)
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I don't think we live in a similar culture today where the people will be willing to take up arms to defend...the Deep State in DC.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:03 AM (GBKbO)
Does the Deep State have enough armed agencies to take on the military?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:03 AM (GBKbO)
Does the Deep State have enough armed agencies to take on the military?
Posted by: BignJames at October 23, 2024 11:10 AM (Yj6Os)
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My go-to is, if they are being deliberately obtuse, they don't want you to know what they are doing.
Which means they plan for nothing good to happen to you.
People who do good are upfront about it. They want you to know they are doing good.
Which means they plan for nothing good to happen to you.
People who do good are upfront about it. They want you to know they are doing good.
Posted by: Just Lily at October 23, 2024 11:10 AM (vzsTb)
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All nonsensical artificial terms coined to describe non-existent or wildly distorted things. Short hand for fairly dumb people (really) who just create a fantasy alternate reality and then pretend to engage in intellectual navel-gazing about it. Hatred, ignorance, resentment, totalitarian power lust, racism, emotional or mental dysfunction, packaged as "thought" or "ideology".
One of the more distinctive and pernicious results of a society so far detached from reality, thanks to wild prosperity and security, that such vile and vapid crap can be indulged.
One of the more distinctive and pernicious results of a society so far detached from reality, thanks to wild prosperity and security, that such vile and vapid crap can be indulged.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 23, 2024 11:10 AM (GcNJ2)
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a world organized by community accountability .
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If there is one thing governments are known for throughout history, it's being accountable.
I mean, look at the accountability meted out upon the governments of the 20th century that killed over 100 million of their own citizens.
Wait.
Only one was partially held to account: The Germans.
The murderers of the other 90 million or so got off scot-free--the Russians, the Chinese, the Cambodians, etc.
And they still have advocates today of those philosophies cheerfully demanding more governments adopt more of that system.
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If there is one thing governments are known for throughout history, it's being accountable.
I mean, look at the accountability meted out upon the governments of the 20th century that killed over 100 million of their own citizens.
Wait.
Only one was partially held to account: The Germans.
The murderers of the other 90 million or so got off scot-free--the Russians, the Chinese, the Cambodians, etc.
And they still have advocates today of those philosophies cheerfully demanding more governments adopt more of that system.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 23, 2024 11:10 AM (6miZe)
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I watched that whole video and did not hear one single sentence that was reality based or even made much sense. All 100% academic fluff, for which she is doubt roundly praised.
I did notice that this womyn that wants to rearrange the world to focus on community and the collective could not take the camera off herself for even a few seconds. Some animals are much more equal than others in her Utopia.
I did notice that this womyn that wants to rearrange the world to focus on community and the collective could not take the camera off herself for even a few seconds. Some animals are much more equal than others in her Utopia.
Posted by: Ripley at October 23, 2024 11:10 AM (GUOwU)
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No more blah, blah, blah....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 23, 2024 11:11 AM (Q4IgG)
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I saw a screenshot on X someone had taken of a post on Reddit written by a self-proclaimed “witch”. She said she keeps trying to cast spells on Trump but “something around him won’t let her get through “. Hmmm. Nutso
Posted by: Jmel at October 23, 2024
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Clearly it's the mummified dragon's claw he carries in his pocket. Proof against 95% of spells. You might as well give up and go home.
Posted by: Jmel at October 23, 2024
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Clearly it's the mummified dragon's claw he carries in his pocket. Proof against 95% of spells. You might as well give up and go home.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2024 11:11 AM (J2vNu)
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@41
Basically, higher education and their jargon are indistinguishable from Oswald Bates Blatherings.
Basically, higher education and their jargon are indistinguishable from Oswald Bates Blatherings.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 23, 2024 11:11 AM (XV/Pl)
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"Tim Walz is the definition of what healthy masculinity looks like."
-- David Hogg
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 23, 2024 11:09 AM (a3Q+t)
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I'm reminded of the WWII joke that the ideal Aryan was as blond as Hitler, as slim as Goering and as manly as Goebbels.
-- David Hogg
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 23, 2024 11:09 AM (a3Q+t)
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I'm reminded of the WWII joke that the ideal Aryan was as blond as Hitler, as slim as Goering and as manly as Goebbels.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at October 23, 2024 11:12 AM (U1w17)
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I think we need a study about the genetic condition linking leftist politics and vocal fry. They seem to be highly correlated.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 11:12 AM (xCA6C)
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Wolfie, did anyone get your "Days of Wine and Roses" reference yesterday?
Posted by: creeper at October 23, 2024 11:12 AM (M6moH)
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Her: "We're gonna need to do more work on conjoining prison abolition movements and movements against militarism and for decolonization...
How can you promote "decolonization" at the same time you're promoting mass migration?
How can you promote "decolonization" at the same time you're promoting mass migration?
Posted by: Oddbob at October 23, 2024 11:12 AM (/y8xj)
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Jmel @46, that's kind of awesome to think about, actually.
Posted by: skywch at October 23, 2024 11:12 AM (uqhmb)
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Does the Deep State have enough armed agencies to take on the military?
Posted by: BignJames at October 23, 2024 11:10 AM (Yj6Os)
Large swathes of the military are armed members of the deep state. The question which keeps some people up at night is "how large".
Posted by: BignJames at October 23, 2024 11:10 AM (Yj6Os)
Large swathes of the military are armed members of the deep state. The question which keeps some people up at night is "how large".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 23, 2024 11:12 AM (ExV1e)
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Does the Deep State have enough armed agencies to take on the military?
Posted by: BignJames
Wait until deer season opens. 21 million armed individuals.
Posted by: BignJames
Wait until deer season opens. 21 million armed individuals.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 23, 2024 11:12 AM (cBeW+)
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Clearly it's the mummified dragon's claw he carries in his pocket. Proof against 95% of spells. You might as well give up and go home.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2024 11:11 AM (J2vNu)
Xi gave it to him.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2024 11:11 AM (J2vNu)
Xi gave it to him.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 23, 2024 11:12 AM (aD39U)
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Second, Hirohito spoke in an ancient, hidebound dialect that was nearly incomprehensible to his subjects.
I don't think that falls into the category of "jargon." Just old-fashioned language of the imperial court that did not have contact with the common people.
I don't think that falls into the category of "jargon." Just old-fashioned language of the imperial court that did not have contact with the common people.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 23, 2024 11:12 AM (v6JzV)
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I saw a screenshot on X someone had taken of a post on Reddit written by a self-proclaimed “witch”. She said she keeps trying to cast spells on Trump but “something around him won’t let her get through “. Hmmm. Nutso
Posted by: Jmel at October 23, 2024
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Clearly it's the mummified dragon's claw he carries in his pocket. Proof against 95% of spells. You might as well give up and go home.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2024 11:11 AM (J2vNu)
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I'm guessing "guardian angel" is beyond her understanding...
Posted by: Jmel at October 23, 2024
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Clearly it's the mummified dragon's claw he carries in his pocket. Proof against 95% of spells. You might as well give up and go home.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2024 11:11 AM (J2vNu)
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I'm guessing "guardian angel" is beyond her understanding...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 23, 2024 11:12 AM (7fElN)
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>>It means we can't have one special interest group fighting another special interest group for dominance in the grievance hierarchy.
THIS
Good luck with that -- your whole movement is based on oppression hierarchies that none of you want to acknowledge, yet keenly understand.
You know this gal will assert that her oppression is the most important, all while pretending not to. Heck, she's already made it clear by mentioning "sexualized violence."
THIS
Good luck with that -- your whole movement is based on oppression hierarchies that none of you want to acknowledge, yet keenly understand.
You know this gal will assert that her oppression is the most important, all while pretending not to. Heck, she's already made it clear by mentioning "sexualized violence."
Posted by: Lizzy at October 23, 2024 11:12 AM (scDBq)
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Donk Senate candidate showing off his firearms expertise shoots reporter.
He shot an AR-15 at a too close target and a bullet fragment ricocheted hitting a reporter.
https://is.gd/QFuU82
He shot an AR-15 at a too close target and a bullet fragment ricocheted hitting a reporter.
https://is.gd/QFuU82
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 23, 2024 11:13 AM (L/fGl)
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Sick little turd.
Posted by: Plainoldtoast at October 23, 2024 11:13 AM (ytSiK)
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to a world organized by collective and communal care and love
Also, a huge fucking pile of human skulls. Nobody believes these assholes any longer. LOL
Collective consciousness isn’t some left leaning phenom. We’ve all seen this movie before, too many times.
Also, a huge fucking pile of human skulls. Nobody believes these assholes any longer. LOL
Collective consciousness isn’t some left leaning phenom. We’ve all seen this movie before, too many times.
Posted by: Common Tater at October 23, 2024 11:13 AM (a9x7X)
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50 The professor's face is clearly one that goes on the theory that a nose is all a face needs.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2024 11:08 AM (J2vNu)
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Sir!!!
Posted by: Savinien Hercule de Cyrano de Bergerac at October 23, 2024 11:10 AM (U1w17)
I think Steve Martin told a story about filming Roxanne when he had to go into a restaurant to use the bathroom in his, um, makeup, and he had to pass by a table of working-class fellows, so he was braced for the expected comments. To his pleasant surprise, one of the workers said to him, "Why the long face?"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2024 11:08 AM (J2vNu)
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Sir!!!
Posted by: Savinien Hercule de Cyrano de Bergerac at October 23, 2024 11:10 AM (U1w17)
I think Steve Martin told a story about filming Roxanne when he had to go into a restaurant to use the bathroom in his, um, makeup, and he had to pass by a table of working-class fellows, so he was braced for the expected comments. To his pleasant surprise, one of the workers said to him, "Why the long face?"
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Certified Oppression Matrix Remediation Consultant at October 23, 2024 11:13 AM (PiwSw)
75
Saw a headline today that made me do a double take:
Police Looking for Witnesses to Assault at Party
Police Looking for Witnesses to Assault at Party
Posted by: muldoon at October 23, 2024 11:13 AM (uCfKO)
76
didn't Hirohito just walk away and fade into obscurity? I believe another thing that surprised the Japanese upon hearing his voice realized he was a very weal fairy like emperor.
Posted by: DanMan at October 23, 2024 11:13 AM (8uzBS)
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63 Her: "We're gonna need to do more work on conjoining prison abolition movements and movements against militarism and for decolonization...
How can you promote "decolonization" at the same time you're promoting mass migration?
Posted by: Oddbob at October 23, 2024 11:12 AM (/y8xj)
The whole thing is silly nonsense. Her entire premise is that it is "systems" working against people to perpetuate things that somehow these people would not be doing if it were not for these systems.
How can you promote "decolonization" at the same time you're promoting mass migration?
Posted by: Oddbob at October 23, 2024 11:12 AM (/y8xj)
The whole thing is silly nonsense. Her entire premise is that it is "systems" working against people to perpetuate things that somehow these people would not be doing if it were not for these systems.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 23, 2024 11:13 AM (KbCG3)
78
Yesterday afternoon, Michael Berry said that Liz Cheney was promised Defense Secretary in exchange for her support. Let that sink in for a moment.
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at October 23, 2024 11:13 AM (vt7xw)
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I'm open to correction, but I believe it was at Waterloo that the commander of Napoleon's Imperial Guard said, "The Guard dies, but never surrenders."
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General Cambronne.
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General Cambronne.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at October 23, 2024 11:13 AM (U1w17)
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Where does the term "ecclesiastical language" come from? A quick DDG search showed nothing. It sounds like a typical modern secularist usage. And those should be avoided. There are good reasons the Church has had to draw certain distinctions.
Note also that "cant" originally referred to the slang of those Brits who were outside the law (the original "outlaws".) Like many terms, it's been watered down, and has lost specificity. Which just leads to new terms being coined - needlessly - to replace the old.
Note also that "cant" originally referred to the slang of those Brits who were outside the law (the original "outlaws".) Like many terms, it's been watered down, and has lost specificity. Which just leads to new terms being coined - needlessly - to replace the old.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 23, 2024 11:14 AM (1bNHn)
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I saw a screenshot on X someone had taken of a post on Reddit written by a self-proclaimed “witch”. She said she keeps trying to cast spells on Trump but “something around him won’t let her get through “. Hmmm. Nutso
The Inquisition's never around when you want it.
The Inquisition's never around when you want it.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 23, 2024 11:14 AM (Q0kLU)
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Re the fascinating drama around the Japanese Emperor's capitulation speech, here are recommended movies: "Japan's Longest Day" (1967), "The Emperor in August" (2015).
Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at October 23, 2024 11:14 AM (TxBND)
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"The work will take all of us to a world where people are driven by a commitment to care for each other."
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Utopian beliefs drive mass murder instead of accomplishing stated goals.
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Utopian beliefs drive mass murder instead of accomplishing stated goals.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 23, 2024 11:14 AM (b3cMx)
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Does the Deep State have enough armed agencies and 'guest workers', along with the disloyal portion of the military, to take on the military civilian population?
Posted by: BignJames at October 23, 2024 11:10 AM
FIFY.
Posted by: BignJames at October 23, 2024 11:10 AM
FIFY.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 23, 2024 11:14 AM (a3Q+t)
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I saw a screenshot on X someone had taken of a post on Reddit written by a self-proclaimed “witch”. She said she keeps trying to cast spells on Trump but “something around him won’t let her get through “. Hmmm. Nutso
If you actually believed that you could hex someone and you actually believed that "something" was protecting him, wouldn't you figure out that you were on the wrong side of The Powers and switch to supporting him?
If you actually believed that you could hex someone and you actually believed that "something" was protecting him, wouldn't you figure out that you were on the wrong side of The Powers and switch to supporting him?
Posted by: Oddbob at October 23, 2024 11:14 AM (/y8xj)
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>>"Tim Walz is the definition of what healthy masculinity looks like."
-- David Hogg
Satire, right?
That is too perfectly on-the-nose hilarious to be real.
-- David Hogg
Satire, right?
That is too perfectly on-the-nose hilarious to be real.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 23, 2024 11:15 AM (scDBq)
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Emperor's language was indeed archaic court dialect, but the meaning got through. And even here, the (mostly ignored, by history) internal political dynamics of the leadership had an influence. There were some odd obsequious nods to the armed forces' heroism - when they were the ones who had brought ruin and death on the country - that without doubt were aimed at quelling the kind of restiveness within the military that had spawned a small abortive coup attempt literally the day before the broadcast.
But the best part, by modern standards, was the line about the war "not developing entirely to Japan's advantage". Yeah, that's one way to put it, I guess!
But the best part, by modern standards, was the line about the war "not developing entirely to Japan's advantage". Yeah, that's one way to put it, I guess!
Posted by: rhomboid at October 23, 2024 11:15 AM (GcNJ2)
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I'm open to correction, but I believe it was at Waterloo that the commander of Napoleon's Imperial Guard said, "The Guard dies, but never surrenders."
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General Cambronne.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at October 23, 2024 11:13 AM (U1w17)
Corey Hart.
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General Cambronne.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at October 23, 2024 11:13 AM (U1w17)
Corey Hart.
Posted by: spindrift at October 23, 2024 11:15 AM (OguvZ)
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When it gets down to the nut cutting, they're planning on releasing violent criminals and not prosecute murder, theft and robbery.
When it gets down to the nut cutting, they're planning on releasing violent criminals and not prosecute murder, theft and robbery.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 23, 2024 11:15 AM (EsZUh)
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Wolfie, did anyone get your "Days of Wine and Roses" reference yesterday?
Posted by: creeper at October 23, 2024
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Not that I know of. (Congrats to you!) And here we were talking about Lee Remick on the Art Thread, too.
Posted by: creeper at October 23, 2024
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Not that I know of. (Congrats to you!) And here we were talking about Lee Remick on the Art Thread, too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2024 11:15 AM (J2vNu)
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As an expert in squirrelology, I take offence at the common simile "even a blind squirrel sometimes finds a nut". Squirrels do not find nuts by sight, but by smell. In fact, before eating a nut, they sniff the nut, and if it contains a weevil, it is detected and immediately discarded. Be better.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 23, 2024 11:16 AM (pohLc)
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didn't Hirohito just walk away and fade into obscurity?
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Stayed Emperor for the rest of his life.
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Stayed Emperor for the rest of his life.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at October 23, 2024 11:16 AM (U1w17)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 23, 2024 11:16 AM (EsZUh)
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92 didn't Hirohito just walk away and fade into obscurity?
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Stayed Emperor for the rest of his life.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at October 23, 2024 11:16 AM (U1w17)
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Japan still has emperors.
The division of Godzilla movies is based on the emperors.
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Stayed Emperor for the rest of his life.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at October 23, 2024 11:16 AM (U1w17)
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Japan still has emperors.
The division of Godzilla movies is based on the emperors.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:16 AM (GBKbO)
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He's "Showa," dammit!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 23, 2024 11:16 AM (v6JzV)
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You are giving this video way too much credit. It is pure gibberish, insider, outsider, doesn't matter.
Posted by: anon2020 at October 23, 2024 11:16 AM (RqMDa)
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It's important to be aware that "abolition" no longer refers to slavery but to prisons. Any and all prisons.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 23, 2024 11:17 AM (s9EYN)
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Donk Senate candidate showing off his firearms expertise shoots reporter.
He shot an AR-15 at a too close target and a bullet fragment ricocheted hitting a reporter.
https://is.gd/QFuU82
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 23, 2024 11:13 AM (L/fGl)
Steel plates @ 7yds?....pass.
He shot an AR-15 at a too close target and a bullet fragment ricocheted hitting a reporter.
https://is.gd/QFuU82
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 23, 2024 11:13 AM (L/fGl)
Steel plates @ 7yds?....pass.
Posted by: BignJames at October 23, 2024 11:17 AM (Yj6Os)
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I'm open to correction, but I believe it was at Waterloo that the commander of Napoleon's Imperial Guard said, "The Guard dies, but never surrenders."
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Whereas what he really said was, "Merde!"
I'm open to correction, but I believe it was at Waterloo that the commander of Napoleon's Imperial Guard said, "The Guard dies, but never surrenders."
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Whereas what he really said was, "Merde!"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 23, 2024 11:17 AM (EsZUh)
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Tim Murtaugh@TimMurtaugh
NBC: Why do voters trust Trump and not you on the economy?
Harris: Well, I’ve been to Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and … what’s that other one?
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Tasmania?
NBC: Why do voters trust Trump and not you on the economy?
Harris: Well, I’ve been to Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and … what’s that other one?
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Tasmania?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 23, 2024 11:17 AM (L/fGl)
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These idiots, whose only marketable skill is conning other idiots, sincerely believe they will be in charge of the new systems they advocate for.
Which is as logical as a losers picked last for kickball claiming they'll be captains on the pro soccer team if use of hands is allowed.
To put it another way: They are failures at winning under the current rules because they lack the traits of winners.
They will be just as useless under any new system.
Losers blame the rules.
Winners win regardless of the rules
Which is as logical as a losers picked last for kickball claiming they'll be captains on the pro soccer team if use of hands is allowed.
To put it another way: They are failures at winning under the current rules because they lack the traits of winners.
They will be just as useless under any new system.
Losers blame the rules.
Winners win regardless of the rules
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 23, 2024 11:18 AM (6miZe)
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My go-to is, if they are being deliberately obtuse, they don't want you to know what they are doing.
Which means they plan for nothing good to happen to you.
Posted by: Just Lily at October 23, 2024 11:10 AM
So, "We need to pass it to know what's in it." is out?
Which means they plan for nothing good to happen to you.
Posted by: Just Lily at October 23, 2024 11:10 AM
So, "We need to pass it to know what's in it." is out?
Posted by: Nancy P. (D-CA) at October 23, 2024 11:18 AM (a3Q+t)
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For a "freedom scholar" she seems imprisoned within her ideology.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 23, 2024 11:18 AM (7fElN)
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Breaking from tradition, the populist Freedom Party will not be given a chance to form a government despite winning last month’s elections.
Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen announced Tuesday that incumbent Chancellor Karl Nehammer would be granted the chance to form a new government, despite his centre-right Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) coming in second place at 26 per cent of the vote behind the Freedom Party of Austria’s (FPÖ
29 per cent.
The 80-year-old president argued that even though tradition dictates that the winner be given the first crack at forming a coalition because the other parties have ruled out working with the anti-mass migration populist party, the only option would be to provide Nehammer an opportunity to band together with left-wing parties to form a government, Kronen Zeitung reports.
Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen announced Tuesday that incumbent Chancellor Karl Nehammer would be granted the chance to form a new government, despite his centre-right Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) coming in second place at 26 per cent of the vote behind the Freedom Party of Austria’s (FPÖ
29 per cent.
The 80-year-old president argued that even though tradition dictates that the winner be given the first crack at forming a coalition because the other parties have ruled out working with the anti-mass migration populist party, the only option would be to provide Nehammer an opportunity to band together with left-wing parties to form a government, Kronen Zeitung reports.
Posted by: SMOD at October 23, 2024 11:18 AM (RHGPo)
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Greetings!
It's like a PhD candidate writing a detailed doctoral thesis about an ever more narrowly defined topic to the point where the candidate alone is the only one able to comprehend it.
It's like a PhD candidate writing a detailed doctoral thesis about an ever more narrowly defined topic to the point where the candidate alone is the only one able to comprehend it.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at October 23, 2024 11:18 AM (MeG8a)
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NBC: Why do voters trust Trump and not you on the economy?
Harris: Well, I’ve been to Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and … what’s that other one?
She said this? Out loud?
Harris: Well, I’ve been to Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and … what’s that other one?
She said this? Out loud?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 23, 2024 11:18 AM (SfhV1)
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gp, there's a *movie* about "Japan's Longest Day"?? The book is excellent and highly recommended (a joint work of historians and journalists describing the drama of Aug. 14/15 and the attempt to prevent broadcast of the surrender, and the insurrection brewing within the Army).
Will have to look it up. The other one, too.
Will have to look it up. The other one, too.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 23, 2024 11:19 AM (GcNJ2)
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Fun fact: Japan has only had one dynasty for the entirety of the imperial throne's existence: The Yamato Dynasty.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 23, 2024 11:19 AM (v6JzV)
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14 But what was the point of this ad? It's the simplified version and it's still probably pretty hard to deal with for many normals. But are normals the target? If so, this is a swing and a miss and the Marguerite Casey Foundation should fire all of its publicity people. If it's a message to fellow travelers about who the Certified Good People are, it is perhaps more effective.
One of the challenges of ecclesiastical language is that, even if you can understand it somewhat, it can still be hard to suss out the intent if you're an outsider.
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Jargon is meant to obfuscate, not clarify.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:04 AM (GBKbO)
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Simplistic. It is often true of jargon, but not always. On boats there are many words used that may be meaningless to laymen, but have clear, and needed, meanings to "insiders". As they should. Doctors also need such terminology.
This is an unhealthy egalitarianism. The notion that if there are some that don't understand, it must be an instrument of oppression. There does seem to be a tendency to veer toward Marx running through our side. It should be resisted.
One of the challenges of ecclesiastical language is that, even if you can understand it somewhat, it can still be hard to suss out the intent if you're an outsider.
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Jargon is meant to obfuscate, not clarify.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:04 AM (GBKbO)
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Simplistic. It is often true of jargon, but not always. On boats there are many words used that may be meaningless to laymen, but have clear, and needed, meanings to "insiders". As they should. Doctors also need such terminology.
This is an unhealthy egalitarianism. The notion that if there are some that don't understand, it must be an instrument of oppression. There does seem to be a tendency to veer toward Marx running through our side. It should be resisted.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 23, 2024 11:19 AM (1bNHn)
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NBC: Why do voters trust Trump and not you on the economy?
Harris: Well, I’ve been to Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and … what’s that other one?
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Tasmania?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 23, 2024 11:17 AM (L/fGl)
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District 12
Harris: Well, I’ve been to Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and … what’s that other one?
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Tasmania?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 23, 2024 11:17 AM (L/fGl)
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District 12
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 23, 2024 11:19 AM (b3cMx)
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Squirrels do not find nuts by sight, but by smell.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 23, 2024 11:16 AM
My new totem animal!
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 23, 2024 11:16 AM
My new totem animal!
Posted by: Don Lemon at October 23, 2024 11:20 AM (a3Q+t)
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107 Good to see you around, rhomboid.
Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at October 23, 2024 11:20 AM (TxBND)
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24 Her: "We're gonna need to do more work on conjoining prison abolition movements and movements against militarism and for decolonization, especially since all of these structures are already sharing technologies and strategies of sexualized violence, reproductive injustices..."
Shorter: Everyone I hate is an Oppressor that must be abolished.
Posted by: Lizzy
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Her demons are in prison or are organized militants (two facets of maximum male aggression) and she wants to set them free.
Shorter: Everyone I hate is an Oppressor that must be abolished.
Posted by: Lizzy
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Her demons are in prison or are organized militants (two facets of maximum male aggression) and she wants to set them free.
Posted by: Braenyard at October 23, 2024 11:21 AM (wSFOB)
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I think the difference between "jargon" and "cant" is that the former is a bunch of specialized terms used in a particular field, like the terminology of computers or chemistry. It's not hidden; you can look it up. "Cant" is *intended* to be opaque to those outside the in-group.
"Dialect" is a variant on an established language. It may be of small difference, so that speakers of related languages can make themselves understood, or of greater difference, so that the two dialects might as well be separate languages. ("Dialect" is also a technical term in theatre for what most people call "an accent," i.e., speaking English dialog with a Cockney or Irish dialect.)
"Dialect" is a variant on an established language. It may be of small difference, so that speakers of related languages can make themselves understood, or of greater difference, so that the two dialects might as well be separate languages. ("Dialect" is also a technical term in theatre for what most people call "an accent," i.e., speaking English dialog with a Cockney or Irish dialect.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2024 11:21 AM (J2vNu)
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Thx Joe. Watched the video. That woman's word salad is as almost as bad as Kamala's. Bigger problem is that she's a professor and fills people's brains with that crap.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 23, 2024 11:21 AM (a7PbZ)
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"NBC: Why do voters trust Trump and not you on the economy?
Harris: Well, I’ve been to Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and … what’s that other one?
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Tasmania?"
Wakanda?
Harris: Well, I’ve been to Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and … what’s that other one?
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Tasmania?"
Wakanda?
Posted by: Ripley at October 23, 2024 11:21 AM (GUOwU)
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“Unsafe target”
Battlesight zero at 15 yards, iirc is very useful and saves time when getting lots of new people and new to them rifles quickly sighted in reasonable.
It relies on a kind of optical illusion. The targets are tiny, but they are proportional to what the rifleman sees at a distance of say 100 yards. Front and rear sights can be adjusted, or if assigned a new rifle, previous settings used and see what’s what.
Of course shooting at iron with a rifle at those distances is weapons grade stupid. Any number of people should have known better.
Nobody wants to learn the basics any longer, for anything, apparently. This holds true with a lot more than Politics, or Firearm safety. I see this every fucking day.
Everybody wants to wear a flight suit, Ray Bans, and a big watch. But they don’t want to study in school and get a degree and go through flight school and theory of aeronautical hermaneutics.
Everybody wants to wear scrubs and a Stethoscope and drive a Range Rover. Bit they don’t want to go to Medical school or residency for 10 years.
Battlesight zero at 15 yards, iirc is very useful and saves time when getting lots of new people and new to them rifles quickly sighted in reasonable.
It relies on a kind of optical illusion. The targets are tiny, but they are proportional to what the rifleman sees at a distance of say 100 yards. Front and rear sights can be adjusted, or if assigned a new rifle, previous settings used and see what’s what.
Of course shooting at iron with a rifle at those distances is weapons grade stupid. Any number of people should have known better.
Nobody wants to learn the basics any longer, for anything, apparently. This holds true with a lot more than Politics, or Firearm safety. I see this every fucking day.
Everybody wants to wear a flight suit, Ray Bans, and a big watch. But they don’t want to study in school and get a degree and go through flight school and theory of aeronautical hermaneutics.
Everybody wants to wear scrubs and a Stethoscope and drive a Range Rover. Bit they don’t want to go to Medical school or residency for 10 years.
Posted by: Common Tater at October 23, 2024 11:21 AM (a9x7X)
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4 I seem to remember a reference in fiction somewhere to "thieves' cant."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Remembering HIs Own Disasters at October 23, 2024 11:01 AM (J2vNu)
Original D&D where the Thief character could speak it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Remembering HIs Own Disasters at October 23, 2024 11:01 AM (J2vNu)
Original D&D where the Thief character could speak it.
Posted by: NR Pax at October 23, 2024 11:22 AM (lXoJ5)
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You know, she might make more sense if she was wearing a string bikini and suitable footwear outside on campus in January. At least then she might focus on something useful.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 23, 2024 11:22 AM (VNX3d)
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Here's the Hirohito speech, just as a reference (starts at about 1.07):
https://tinyurl.com/4by76kep
https://tinyurl.com/4by76kep
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 23, 2024 11:22 AM (Q0kLU)
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Harris: Well, I’ve been to Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and … what’s that other one?
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She said this? Out loud?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 23, 2024 11:18 AM
She said Wisconsin. Why the long face?
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She said this? Out loud?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 23, 2024 11:18 AM
She said Wisconsin. Why the long face?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 23, 2024 11:22 AM (a3Q+t)
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92 didn't Hirohito just walk away and fade into obscurity?
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Stayed Emperor for the rest of his life.
Posted by: Captain Obvious
Buried at sea. Became an Emperor Seamount.
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Stayed Emperor for the rest of his life.
Posted by: Captain Obvious
Buried at sea. Became an Emperor Seamount.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at October 23, 2024 11:22 AM (w9Wax)
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People don't trust Kamala on the economy because she is a brain dead imbecile communist who couldn't balance a checkbook. Being a passible cocksucker isn't qualification for high office.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 23, 2024 11:22 AM (pohLc)
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Toxic Masculine Lives Matter!
Posted by: JackStraw at October 23, 2024 11:22 AM (LkLld)
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Even in the unrecognizably dumbed down, degraded, unserious America of 2024, that bit about Harris not being able to rattle off one of the names of a key electoral state - in an answer about a central issue of the campaign - is really something.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 23, 2024 11:22 AM (GcNJ2)
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Her: "We're gonna need to do more work on conjoining prison abolition movements and movements against militarism and for decolonization, especially since all of these structures are already sharing technologies and strategies of sexualized violence, reproductive injustices..."
translation: I never knew my father, and my mother never. hugged me enough
translation: I never knew my father, and my mother never. hugged me enough
Posted by: brak at October 23, 2024 11:22 AM (YoHdB)
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109 Simplistic. It is often true of jargon, but not always. On boats there are many words used that may be meaningless to laymen, but have clear, and needed, meanings to "insiders". As they should. Doctors also need such terminology.
This is an unhealthy egalitarianism. The notion that if there are some that don't understand, it must be an instrument of oppression. There does seem to be a tendency to veer toward Marx running through our side. It should be resisted.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 23, 2024 11:19 AM (1bNHn)
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There's a difference between having words for specific physical parts of things and creating a new vocabulary to describe already established things.
Like this phrase, "a world organized by community accountability". What is community accountability? Is it an actual thing? Is it some concept that we already have vocabulary for? Is it just a redress of a vague notion of something we already know? It's not "a jig on a mainmast" it'd be like calling a mainmast the "central pillar of community" or something.
This is an unhealthy egalitarianism. The notion that if there are some that don't understand, it must be an instrument of oppression. There does seem to be a tendency to veer toward Marx running through our side. It should be resisted.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 23, 2024 11:19 AM (1bNHn)
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There's a difference between having words for specific physical parts of things and creating a new vocabulary to describe already established things.
Like this phrase, "a world organized by community accountability". What is community accountability? Is it an actual thing? Is it some concept that we already have vocabulary for? Is it just a redress of a vague notion of something we already know? It's not "a jig on a mainmast" it'd be like calling a mainmast the "central pillar of community" or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:22 AM (GBKbO)
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Like an ayatollah accusing Israel of using the occult against Hamas and Hezbollah:
85 I saw a screenshot on X someone had taken of a post on Reddit written by a self-proclaimed “witch”. She said she keeps trying to cast spells on Trump but “something around him won’t let her get through “. Hmmm. Nutso
If you actually believed that you could hex someone and you actually believed that "something" was protecting him, wouldn't you figure out that you were on the wrong side of The Powers and switch to supporting him?
Posted by: Oddbob at October 23, 2024 11:14 AM (/y8xj
85 I saw a screenshot on X someone had taken of a post on Reddit written by a self-proclaimed “witch”. She said she keeps trying to cast spells on Trump but “something around him won’t let her get through “. Hmmm. Nutso
If you actually believed that you could hex someone and you actually believed that "something" was protecting him, wouldn't you figure out that you were on the wrong side of The Powers and switch to supporting him?
Posted by: Oddbob at October 23, 2024 11:14 AM (/y8xj
Posted by: 80's music fan at October 23, 2024 11:22 AM (QSrLX)
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25 TMJ have seen a handful of new release movies in a decade, but enjoyed that latest Godzilla one for all the wrong reasons. Actually it was sort of a movie, with characters and a story, unlike the classic versions, but what I am talking about were the little historical details. The ruins of Tokyo, the protagonist getting a job de-mining the waters around Japan (actual story of how the post-war Japanese navy, or JSDF, began), the resentment and of the former naval officers and men towards the war-time leadership - all quite accurate. And not central to the story, which made it all better.
Thus endeth my last comment on movies for another year or so.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 23, 2024 11:06 AM (GcNJ2)
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After both World Wars, there was a staggering amount of minesweeping needed. Most do not realize this; pop historians ignore it.
Thus endeth my last comment on movies for another year or so.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 23, 2024 11:06 AM (GcNJ2)
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After both World Wars, there was a staggering amount of minesweeping needed. Most do not realize this; pop historians ignore it.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 23, 2024 11:22 AM (1bNHn)
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I've mentioned working with a bunch of PhD's before. While their ability to deal with things like a reset microwave or parking a car are really beyond their abilities, their ability to communicate is also pretty sad.
They get so caught up in the lingo of their narrowly defined area of expertise that discussing the reason traffic was heavy during the morning commute turns into a scientific dissertation on the theory of randomness.
No, asshole, it was the idiot who ran the red light and plowed into a dump truck.
They get so caught up in the lingo of their narrowly defined area of expertise that discussing the reason traffic was heavy during the morning commute turns into a scientific dissertation on the theory of randomness.
No, asshole, it was the idiot who ran the red light and plowed into a dump truck.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 23, 2024 11:22 AM (Q4IgG)
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Mannix, maybe you are overthinking this. Sometimes gobbledygook is just gobbledygook.
I used to see stuff like this in healthcare, and part of it was a generational thing. A 55 year old middle manager would ask a 28 year old staffer to prepare some policy position summary. The junior staffer would cobble together some buzz words and content vaguely recalled from their undergrad days and the manager, not wanting to appear out of touch or dated would approve of it because it was incomprehensible to her so it must have significant meaning.
After that it became like the Emperor Has No Clothes. Nobody wanted to admit that they didn't "get" it.
I used to see stuff like this in healthcare, and part of it was a generational thing. A 55 year old middle manager would ask a 28 year old staffer to prepare some policy position summary. The junior staffer would cobble together some buzz words and content vaguely recalled from their undergrad days and the manager, not wanting to appear out of touch or dated would approve of it because it was incomprehensible to her so it must have significant meaning.
After that it became like the Emperor Has No Clothes. Nobody wanted to admit that they didn't "get" it.
Posted by: muldoon at October 23, 2024 11:23 AM (uCfKO)
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Morning.
Short version: Plain English is for sucks.
Plainer version: If they have their way we're all getting the bullet.
Short version: Plain English is for sucks.
Plainer version: If they have their way we're all getting the bullet.
Posted by: Robert at October 23, 2024 11:23 AM (BVKnc)
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Ace was all over the bullet fragment story. Insty had a screen cap of Ace's tweet.
Idiots were shooting steel with a rifle at pistol range.
Someone tweeted that it was a "Dukakis in tank" moment.
Idiots were shooting steel with a rifle at pistol range.
Someone tweeted that it was a "Dukakis in tank" moment.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 23, 2024 11:23 AM (tT6L1)
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"Tim Walz is the definition of what healthy masculinity looks like."
-- David Hogg
Tim Walz is the definition of what adult onset stage II diabetes, low Testosterone looks like."
-American Medical Association
-- David Hogg
Tim Walz is the definition of what adult onset stage II diabetes, low Testosterone looks like."
-American Medical Association
Posted by: Frank Barone at October 23, 2024 11:23 AM (+oR7L)
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Decolonization. Can we decolonize large parts of Africa and Asia from one of the worst of history's colonizers, which is Islam, or nah?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 23, 2024 11:23 AM (fs1hN)
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Simplistic. It is often true of jargon, but not always. On boats there are many words used that may be meaningless to laymen, but have clear, and needed, meanings to "insiders". As they should. Doctors also need such terminology.
This is an unhealthy egalitarianism. The notion that if there are some that don't understand, it must be an instrument of oppression. There does seem to be a tendency to veer toward Marx running through our side. It should be resisted.
Posted by: Eeyore
I don't think that specialized technical terms, which exist and are necessary in nearly every field, count as jargon.
My standard example of jargon is the business world, with its "offering synergistic, best-of-breed solutions" and what not. None of those words have any actual meaning that can't be expressed in ordinary language.
This is an unhealthy egalitarianism. The notion that if there are some that don't understand, it must be an instrument of oppression. There does seem to be a tendency to veer toward Marx running through our side. It should be resisted.
Posted by: Eeyore
I don't think that specialized technical terms, which exist and are necessary in nearly every field, count as jargon.
My standard example of jargon is the business world, with its "offering synergistic, best-of-breed solutions" and what not. None of those words have any actual meaning that can't be expressed in ordinary language.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 23, 2024 11:23 AM (v6JzV)
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Everybody wants to wear a flight suit, Ray Bans, and a big watch.
Posted by: Common Tater at October 23, 2024 11:21 AM
Weasel weeps.
Posted by: Common Tater at October 23, 2024 11:21 AM
Weasel weeps.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 23, 2024 11:23 AM (a3Q+t)
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People don't trust Kamala on the economy because she is a brain dead imbecile communist who couldn't balance a checkbook. Being a passible cocksucker isn't qualification for high office.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 23, 2024
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Objection. Assuming facts not in evidence.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 23, 2024
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Objection. Assuming facts not in evidence.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2024 11:24 AM (J2vNu)
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105 Greetings!
It's like a PhD candidate writing a detailed doctoral thesis about an ever more narrowly defined topic to the point where the candidate alone is the only one able to comprehend it.
The idiocy of their "arguments" aside, the thing that infuriates me about these people is that they destroy the good name of scholarship. People see that she's a professor, and assume she must be smart and have interesting things to say. Nothing could be farther from the truth. She's a mindless parrot, regurgitating tired tropes from the mid-1800s.
She is to scholarship as Tim Walz is to marksmanship.
It's like a PhD candidate writing a detailed doctoral thesis about an ever more narrowly defined topic to the point where the candidate alone is the only one able to comprehend it.
The idiocy of their "arguments" aside, the thing that infuriates me about these people is that they destroy the good name of scholarship. People see that she's a professor, and assume she must be smart and have interesting things to say. Nothing could be farther from the truth. She's a mindless parrot, regurgitating tired tropes from the mid-1800s.
She is to scholarship as Tim Walz is to marksmanship.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 11:24 AM (xCA6C)
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I feel like my hash is a listing for some burger joint on the NYSE.
Posted by: Robert at October 23, 2024 11:24 AM (BVKnc)
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After 37 years, I have exited the landlord business. Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, I am free at last!
Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at October 23, 2024 11:24 AM (TxBND)
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Put me in a position of power and any Major that ends in the word "Studies" will be abolished and the students will be placed into indentured servitude for five years.
Posted by: NR Pax at October 23, 2024 11:24 AM (lXoJ5)
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35 I cannot believe that Joe is letting his "job" take time away from us!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:00 AM (GBKbO)
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This is outrageous! He should ignore work and do more posting, obviously.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 23, 2024 11:07 AM (b3cMx)
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At least one girl per thread.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:00 AM (GBKbO)
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This is outrageous! He should ignore work and do more posting, obviously.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 23, 2024 11:07 AM (b3cMx)
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At least one girl per thread.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 23, 2024 11:24 AM (1bNHn)
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If America finally runs out of borrowing capacity and the federal government cuts spending to the point where underwritten "educations" are shit-canned, people like this woman will have to find real work, or starve.
That will be a good day.
That will be a good day.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 23, 2024 11:25 AM (lIDVh)
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Deconstructing modalities of systemic oppression involves a holistic approach to the heuristic structures involved. Applying a peer-reviewed, evidence-based inclusive methodology, we can detect greater insights into heteronormative and BIPOC-adversarial systems or power and foster community-based responses that empower historically oppressed and marginalized people.
WHERE'S MY TENURED FACULTY JOB??
WHERE'S MY TENURED FACULTY JOB??
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Certified Oppression Matrix Remediation Consultant at October 23, 2024 11:25 AM (PiwSw)
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Thanks Joe!
Hey, I read the entire post AND watched the entire video!
I enjoyed the Japanese Emperor anecdote. Crap, the animals are beckoning.
Hey, I read the entire post AND watched the entire video!
I enjoyed the Japanese Emperor anecdote. Crap, the animals are beckoning.
Posted by: Stateless at October 23, 2024 11:25 AM (jvJvP)
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Here's the best part... I get what they're talking about, and what they want...
BUT... if I'm watching the ad... what is it I'M supposed to do, exactly ? Am I supposed to donate, or something ? If so, why isn't there any info about how to do that ?
BUT... if I'm watching the ad... what is it I'M supposed to do, exactly ? Am I supposed to donate, or something ? If so, why isn't there any info about how to do that ?
Posted by: deadrody at October 23, 2024 11:25 AM (OeYsY)
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When I hear that someone is something like a " Freedom Scholar," all that registers in my brain is-
Pernicious Asshole.
Pernicious Asshole.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 23, 2024 11:25 AM (eDfFs)
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This steel-shooting idiocy was discussed on the ONT last night. If it was indeed centerfire rifle, and a steel target at anything close to 25 feet (!!!), it is unbelievably stupid and dangerous. And well understood to be so by anyone at all familiar with rifles and steel targets.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 23, 2024 11:25 AM (GcNJ2)
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NBC: Why do voters trust Trump and not you on the economy?
Harris: Well, I’ve been to Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and … what’s that other one?
She said this? Out loud?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 23, 2024 11:18 AM (SfhV1)
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Morning, grammie. How is the Rev doing?
That aside, remember, this is not the stupidest thing Kamala has said.
Harris: Well, I’ve been to Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and … what’s that other one?
She said this? Out loud?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 23, 2024 11:18 AM (SfhV1)
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Morning, grammie. How is the Rev doing?
That aside, remember, this is not the stupidest thing Kamala has said.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 23, 2024 11:25 AM (tT6L1)
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115 Thx Joe. Watched the video. That woman's word salad is as almost as bad as Kamala's. Bigger problem is that she's a professor and fills people's brains with that crap.
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My recommendation is for her to settle down with a good man and raise lots of kids. That leaves no time for this bullshit she's trying to ruin this country with.
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My recommendation is for her to settle down with a good man and raise lots of kids. That leaves no time for this bullshit she's trying to ruin this country with.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 23, 2024 11:25 AM (fs1hN)
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Fun fact: Japan has only had one dynasty for the entirety of the imperial throne's existence: The Yamato Dynasty.
And they make a hell of a space battleship, too.
And they make a hell of a space battleship, too.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 23, 2024 11:25 AM (Q0kLU)
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40 Your mariner is a capital fellow, none better, but he is sadly given to jargon.
Posted by: Stephen Maturin at October 23, 2024 11:09 AM (U1w17)
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Why, they're almost as bad as physicians. Or naturalists.
Posted by: Stephen Maturin at October 23, 2024 11:09 AM (U1w17)
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Why, they're almost as bad as physicians. Or naturalists.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 23, 2024 11:26 AM (1bNHn)
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>>Ace was all over the bullet fragment story. Insty had a screen cap of Ace's tweet.
>>Idiots were shooting steel with a rifle at pistol range.
>>Someone tweeted that it was a "Dukakis in tank" moment.
Take another look at that photo and look where Kinzinger's glasses are while he's shooting.
>>Idiots were shooting steel with a rifle at pistol range.
>>Someone tweeted that it was a "Dukakis in tank" moment.
Take another look at that photo and look where Kinzinger's glasses are while he's shooting.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 23, 2024 11:26 AM (LkLld)
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Frontier Gibberish.
Posted by: Eromero at October 23, 2024 11:26 AM (SPSR/)
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Her: "We're gonna need to do more work on conjoining prison abolition movements and movements against militarism and for decolonization, especially since all of these structures are already sharing technologies and strategies of sexualized violence, reproductive injustices..."
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translation: I never knew my father, and my mother never. hugged me enough
Posted by: brak at October 23, 2024
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Or, "My mother talked like this and my father packed his bags and left."
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translation: I never knew my father, and my mother never. hugged me enough
Posted by: brak at October 23, 2024
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Or, "My mother talked like this and my father packed his bags and left."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2024 11:26 AM (J2vNu)
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Remember this classic word salad from the Miss Teen USA in 2007?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
Posted by: muldoon at October 23, 2024 11:26 AM (uCfKO)
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Blue Origin New Shepard launch NOW!
Posted by: pawn at October 23, 2024 11:26 AM (QB+5g)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 23, 2024 11:27 AM (v6JzV)
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Fun fact: Japan has only had one dynasty for the entirety of the imperial throne's existence: The Yamato Dynasty.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
Weird because it is called the Chrysanthemum Throne and Yamato is the term for ancient Japan.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
Weird because it is called the Chrysanthemum Throne and Yamato is the term for ancient Japan.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 23, 2024 11:27 AM (IG4Id)
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Good observations, per usual, Mannix.
I am reminded of Ayn Rand's rant on Immanuel Kant
"Kant originated the technique required to sell irrational notions to the men of a skeptical, cynical age who have formally rejected mysticism without grasping the rudiments of rationality. The technique is as follows: if you want to propagate an outrageously evil idea (based on traditionally accepted doctrines), your conclusion must be brazenly clear, but your proof unintelligible. Your proof must be so tangled a mess that it will paralyze a reader’s critical faculty—a mess of evasions, equivocations, obfuscations, circumlocutions, non sequiturs, endless sentences leading nowhere, irrelevant side issues, clauses, sub-clauses and sub-sub-clauses, a meticulously lengthy proving of the obvious, and big chunks of the arbitrary thrown in as self-evident, erudite references to sciences, to pseudo-sciences, to the never-to-be-sciences, to the untraceable and the unprovable—all of it resting on a zero: the absence of definitions. I offer in evidence the Critique of Pure Reason."
I am reminded of Ayn Rand's rant on Immanuel Kant
"Kant originated the technique required to sell irrational notions to the men of a skeptical, cynical age who have formally rejected mysticism without grasping the rudiments of rationality. The technique is as follows: if you want to propagate an outrageously evil idea (based on traditionally accepted doctrines), your conclusion must be brazenly clear, but your proof unintelligible. Your proof must be so tangled a mess that it will paralyze a reader’s critical faculty—a mess of evasions, equivocations, obfuscations, circumlocutions, non sequiturs, endless sentences leading nowhere, irrelevant side issues, clauses, sub-clauses and sub-sub-clauses, a meticulously lengthy proving of the obvious, and big chunks of the arbitrary thrown in as self-evident, erudite references to sciences, to pseudo-sciences, to the never-to-be-sciences, to the untraceable and the unprovable—all of it resting on a zero: the absence of definitions. I offer in evidence the Critique of Pure Reason."
Posted by: ShainS -- Musk May be The X-Factor in Overcoming Fraud at October 23, 2024 11:27 AM (4d+67)
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"Mannix, maybe you are overthinking this. Sometimes gobbledygook is just gobbledygook."
I think the problem isn't that there's too much nonsense. The problem is that most folks are too timid to call out obvious bullshit on the spot.
I think the problem isn't that there's too much nonsense. The problem is that most folks are too timid to call out obvious bullshit on the spot.
Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at October 23, 2024 11:27 AM (TxBND)
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51 She, like all radical progressives, is calling for codifying a vindictive group-power dynamic above all else, and exacting vengeance upon the enemy during the continuous revolution.
I'm open to correction, but I believe it was at Waterloo that the commander of Napoleon's Imperial Guard said, "The Guard dies, but never surrenders."
I'd apply that to people like this shrew. "The kulaks die, but the Revolution lives!"
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 23, 2024 11:10 AM (Q0kLU)
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He actually denied saying that, as the quote was common during his lifetime. "I did not die, and I did surrender."
I'm open to correction, but I believe it was at Waterloo that the commander of Napoleon's Imperial Guard said, "The Guard dies, but never surrenders."
I'd apply that to people like this shrew. "The kulaks die, but the Revolution lives!"
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 23, 2024 11:10 AM (Q0kLU)
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He actually denied saying that, as the quote was common during his lifetime. "I did not die, and I did surrender."
Posted by: Eeyore at October 23, 2024 11:27 AM (1bNHn)
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"My mother talked like this and my father packed his bags and left."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2024 11:26 AM (J2vNu)
He went to get a pack of cigarettes and never came back. This is why me must ban cigarettes.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2024 11:26 AM (J2vNu)
He went to get a pack of cigarettes and never came back. This is why me must ban cigarettes.
Posted by: BruceWayne at October 23, 2024 11:27 AM (CIS44)
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Hi blake! Doing well, other than the fact that Kamala is here in Wisconsin nearly every dang day, or a surrogate like Obama. Like they've latched on. All over the news, blah blah blah
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 23, 2024 11:27 AM (SfhV1)
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147 Here's the best part... I get what they're talking about, and what they want...
BUT... if I'm watching the ad... what is it I'M supposed to do, exactly ? Am I supposed to donate, or something ? If so, why isn't there any info about how to do that ?
Posted by: deadrody at October 23, 2024 11:25 AM (OeYsY)
You're supposed to see that woman as your superior.
That's all.
BUT... if I'm watching the ad... what is it I'M supposed to do, exactly ? Am I supposed to donate, or something ? If so, why isn't there any info about how to do that ?
Posted by: deadrody at October 23, 2024 11:25 AM (OeYsY)
You're supposed to see that woman as your superior.
That's all.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 23, 2024 11:28 AM (KbCG3)
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When it gets down to the nut cutting, they're planning on releasing violent criminals and not prosecute murder, theft and robbery.
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This makes their defeat easy. Just kill the Journalists. Easy Peasey.
When it gets down to the nut cutting, they're planning on releasing violent criminals and not prosecute murder, theft and robbery.
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This makes their defeat easy. Just kill the Journalists. Easy Peasey.
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 23, 2024 11:28 AM (AdHga)
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68 Second, Hirohito spoke in an ancient, hidebound dialect that was nearly incomprehensible to his subjects.
I don't think that falls into the category of "jargon." Just old-fashioned language of the imperial court that did not have contact with the common people.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 23, 2024 11:12 AM (v6JzV)
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Watch it, you're sounding too rational for class warfare.
I don't think that falls into the category of "jargon." Just old-fashioned language of the imperial court that did not have contact with the common people.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 23, 2024 11:12 AM (v6JzV)
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Watch it, you're sounding too rational for class warfare.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 23, 2024 11:29 AM (1bNHn)
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115 Thx Joe. Watched the video. That woman's word salad is as almost as bad as Kamala's. Bigger problem is that she's a professor and fills people's brains with that crap.
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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It is very reminiscent of Weird Al Yankovic's - Mission Statement.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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It is very reminiscent of Weird Al Yankovic's - Mission Statement.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4
Posted by: Braenyard at October 23, 2024 11:29 AM (wSFOB)
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"My mother talked like this and my father packed his bags and left."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2024
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He went to get a pack of cigarettes and never came back. This is why me must ban cigarettes.
Posted by: BruceWayne at October 23, 2024
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"Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack.
I went out for a ride and I never went back."
( -- Even Springsteen can find a bit of truth in his lyrics now and then)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2024
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He went to get a pack of cigarettes and never came back. This is why me must ban cigarettes.
Posted by: BruceWayne at October 23, 2024
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"Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack.
I went out for a ride and I never went back."
( -- Even Springsteen can find a bit of truth in his lyrics now and then)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2024 11:29 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: muldoon at October 23, 2024 11:30 AM (uCfKO)
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Whereas what he really said was, "Merde!"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
The Atlantic claimed . . .
Trump volunteered to pay for the funeral of a murdered soldier.
But when the bill came, he became angry. “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f--king Mexican!” He turned to his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and issued an order: “Don’t pay it!”
Eye witness Ben Williamson told themTrump “absolutely did not say that.” The Atlantic amended their report to include that he “didn’t hear Trump say it.”
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
The Atlantic claimed . . .
Trump volunteered to pay for the funeral of a murdered soldier.
But when the bill came, he became angry. “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f--king Mexican!” He turned to his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and issued an order: “Don’t pay it!”
Eye witness Ben Williamson told themTrump “absolutely did not say that.” The Atlantic amended their report to include that he “didn’t hear Trump say it.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 23, 2024 11:30 AM (L/fGl)
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The Inquisition's never around when you want it.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 23, 2024 11:14 AM
It always shows up when you least expect it.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 23, 2024 11:14 AM
It always shows up when you least expect it.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 23, 2024 11:30 AM (ZANHd)
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I think the problem isn't that there's too much nonsense. The problem is that most folks are too timid to call out obvious bullshit on the spot.
Fortunately, that is not a problem on this here site.
Fortunately, that is not a problem on this here site.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 11:31 AM (xCA6C)
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That was a good one, Wolfus. "Wine and Roses" was great, albeit a real downer.
Posted by: creeper at October 23, 2024 11:31 AM (M6moH)
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Eeyore, yep, the Kaijo Jietai (Japan's Naval Self-Defense Force) got its start de-mining. The US mining of Japanese waters was incredibly extensive. If anyone visits Kure (Japan's Annapolis, and Brooklyn Navy Yard, rolled into one) - not far from Hiroshima - I highly recommend the JNSDF museum right across from the battleship Yamato museum. Good exhibition on the post-war start of the JNSDF.
Only operation since then that was similar was the mining of Haiphong during Vietnam. It worked, too (absolute panic in the North's leadership, Soviets unable to counter it). But of course the results were frittered away in a fairly complicated story.
Only operation since then that was similar was the mining of Haiphong during Vietnam. It worked, too (absolute panic in the North's leadership, Soviets unable to counter it). But of course the results were frittered away in a fairly complicated story.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 23, 2024 11:31 AM (GcNJ2)
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Squirrels. It always looked sketchy to me, they will be pawing through the snow even on the coldest days, looking for …. something. How many calories expended, versus found. Obviously it pencils out, or they would be dead. I suspect it is nervous energy, or wishful thinking. Once in a while I’ll check the cupboards to see if any goodies are there that I forgot about.
Too bad humans can’t grow fur for the Wintertime! That would be handy.
Too bad humans can’t grow fur for the Wintertime! That would be handy.
Posted by: Common Tater at October 23, 2024 11:31 AM (a9x7X)
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FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 11:31 AM (+sD5M)
Posted by: Philosophy Department, University of Wollomolloo at October 23, 2024 11:32 AM (U1w17)
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When I saw Mannix posted a video starring a female I eagerly expected something far different than what I got. Even after I turned off the sound, it did not improve.
He should title it the "Admiral Akbar Prize Video"
He should title it the "Admiral Akbar Prize Video"
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 23, 2024 11:32 AM (lIDVh)
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Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 23, 2024 11:30 AM (ZANHd)
Hey, RMBS - I've got a long file I have to transcribe right now, but how was Texas?
Hey, RMBS - I've got a long file I have to transcribe right now, but how was Texas?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 23, 2024 11:32 AM (Q0kLU)
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That quoted section. Following that and living that mindset will be the death of society as a whole.
There will be no exceptionalism. There will be no innovation. There will be no one to fix anything.
They are the end of civilization.
There will be no exceptionalism. There will be no innovation. There will be no one to fix anything.
They are the end of civilization.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 11:32 AM (+sD5M)
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from Wikipedia:
In monetary policy of the United States, the term Fedspeak (also known as Greenspeak) is what Alan Blinder called "a turgid dialect of English" used by Federal Reserve Board chairs in making wordy, vague, and ambiguous statements.[1][2] The strategy, which was used most prominently by Alan Greenspan, was used to prevent financial markets from overreacting to the chairman's remarks.[3][4] The coinage is an intentional parallel to Newspeak.[5]
Fedspeak when used by Alan Greenspan is often called Greenspeak. An alternative definition of Greenspeak is "the coded and careful language employed by U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan."[6]
In monetary policy of the United States, the term Fedspeak (also known as Greenspeak) is what Alan Blinder called "a turgid dialect of English" used by Federal Reserve Board chairs in making wordy, vague, and ambiguous statements.[1][2] The strategy, which was used most prominently by Alan Greenspan, was used to prevent financial markets from overreacting to the chairman's remarks.[3][4] The coinage is an intentional parallel to Newspeak.[5]
Fedspeak when used by Alan Greenspan is often called Greenspeak. An alternative definition of Greenspeak is "the coded and careful language employed by U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan."[6]
Posted by: Kindltot at October 23, 2024 11:33 AM (D7oie)
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heard Kamala is coming to Texas this weekend to campaign with Allred? Why? Do they really think Texas is in play this year?
Posted by: IC - #FJB at October 23, 2024 11:33 AM (DJ7uY)
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try being in the ER all night!
Posted by: ... at October 23, 2024 05:38 AM (hmOfI)
Just saw this in the tech thread. Hope all is well.
Posted by: ... at October 23, 2024 05:38 AM (hmOfI)
Just saw this in the tech thread. Hope all is well.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 23, 2024 11:33 AM (i24o9)
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Here's the conversation we need.
Us: "You're fool of bullshit!"
Her...rolling her eyes: "Some people aren't intelligent enough to understand my words."
Us: "We've just defunded all your institutions throughout the country. However, with your intellect and the value you bring, you are going to thrive more than ever under that oppressive system you were in....
You go girl!"
Us: "You're fool of bullshit!"
Her...rolling her eyes: "Some people aren't intelligent enough to understand my words."
Us: "We've just defunded all your institutions throughout the country. However, with your intellect and the value you bring, you are going to thrive more than ever under that oppressive system you were in....
You go girl!"
Posted by: Stateless at October 23, 2024 11:33 AM (jvJvP)
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>>> And this is the simplified version, the version dumbed down for broadcast to the rubes. Many of you reading this understand it. Many of you don't. This is hard to parse - in excerpt as above, and in totality - if you don't have at least loose familiarity with Postmodern language and concepts. This is what they took to the public, though. It's the best they can do. They can't break free from their ecclesiastical language.
To quote the Gen alpha youths:
She has no skibidi rizz. She's a total beta.
Every group creates language to mark them as special and above others. Even eleven year olds with brainrot.
To quote the Gen alpha youths:
She has no skibidi rizz. She's a total beta.
Every group creates language to mark them as special and above others. Even eleven year olds with brainrot.
Posted by: LizLem at October 23, 2024 11:34 AM (QAK8m)
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Like an ayatollah accusing Israel of using the occult against Hamas and Hezbollah:
I thought of that while writing that comment. If it's Allah's will that Israel keeps kicking your ass, maybe you're not as tuned into Allah as you think you are. Or maybe Allah is a fraud from the get-go. But somehow that never occurs to them. It all has a very Old Testament vibe to it.
I thought of that while writing that comment. If it's Allah's will that Israel keeps kicking your ass, maybe you're not as tuned into Allah as you think you are. Or maybe Allah is a fraud from the get-go. But somehow that never occurs to them. It all has a very Old Testament vibe to it.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 23, 2024 11:34 AM (/y8xj)
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Hey, RMBS - I've got a long file I have to transcribe right now, but how was Texas?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 23, 2024 11:32 AM (Q0kLU)
I think his mom was responsible for that incredibly horrific bacon bread for which I'm desperate for the recipie.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 23, 2024 11:32 AM (Q0kLU)
I think his mom was responsible for that incredibly horrific bacon bread for which I'm desperate for the recipie.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 11:34 AM (+sD5M)
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In monetary policy of the United States, the term Fedspeak (also known as Greenspeak) is what Alan Blinder called "a turgid dialect of English" used by Federal Reserve Board chairs in making wordy, vague, and ambiguous statements.[1][2] The strategy, which was used most prominently by Alan Greenspan, was used to prevent financial markets from overreacting to the chairman's remarks.
In light of the utter CF with which you've saddled us and our posterity, perhaps try the other approach and be clear.
In light of the utter CF with which you've saddled us and our posterity, perhaps try the other approach and be clear.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 11:34 AM (xCA6C)
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That was a good one, Wolfus. "Wine and Roses" was great, albeit a real downer.
Posted by: creeper at October 23, 2024
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It was, true. But both leads gave truly great performances. During the last scene, where Joe Clay is tucking his daughter in after his still-a-drunk wife Kirsten has left, that is no longer Jack Lemmon on the screen, but the character Joe Clay. And Lee Remick is superb as well.
I do hope no one ever tries to remake it.
Posted by: creeper at October 23, 2024
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It was, true. But both leads gave truly great performances. During the last scene, where Joe Clay is tucking his daughter in after his still-a-drunk wife Kirsten has left, that is no longer Jack Lemmon on the screen, but the character Joe Clay. And Lee Remick is superb as well.
I do hope no one ever tries to remake it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2024 11:34 AM (J2vNu)
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heard Kamala is coming to Texas this weekend to campaign with Allred? Why? Do they really think Texas is in play this year?
Posted by: IC - #FJB at October 23, 2024 11:33 AM (DJ7uY)
Is Kinzinger coming for a photo shoot with guns?
Posted by: IC - #FJB at October 23, 2024 11:33 AM (DJ7uY)
Is Kinzinger coming for a photo shoot with guns?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 23, 2024 11:35 AM (VNX3d)
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As thought from content and reading comments, have hear that what Kamaunist word salad does there are others who basically do as well. Maybe some is a person wants to use roundabout speech and confusing lines to make them sound brilliant.
Posted by: Skip at October 23, 2024 11:35 AM (iFTH3)
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184 heard Kamala is coming to Texas this weekend to campaign with Allred? Why? Do they really think Texas is in play this year?
Posted by: IC - #FJB at October 23, 2024 11:33 AM (DJ7uY)
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Texas is not in play this year.
Texas is not going to be close.
Allred is going to lose to Cruz. Cruz is probably going to get his biggest electoral victory of his senate career (only, like, 5 points, but still).
At best, the move is to try and squeeze a few more dollars from donors with the delusion that Texas is in play. Democrats have thought Texas has been in play for more than a decade, and it always fails them. Nominating Kamala by casting off Biden undemocratically is not going to save the Texas Democrats.
Posted by: IC - #FJB at October 23, 2024 11:33 AM (DJ7uY)
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Texas is not in play this year.
Texas is not going to be close.
Allred is going to lose to Cruz. Cruz is probably going to get his biggest electoral victory of his senate career (only, like, 5 points, but still).
At best, the move is to try and squeeze a few more dollars from donors with the delusion that Texas is in play. Democrats have thought Texas has been in play for more than a decade, and it always fails them. Nominating Kamala by casting off Biden undemocratically is not going to save the Texas Democrats.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:35 AM (GBKbO)
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By the by...
The Japanese emperor's de-godification plays an ancillary though important background event for a major character in my novel, " Wearing the Cat".
If you're up for a rollicking picaresque novel with some interesting historical roots in the mix, dive on in.
The Japanese emperor's de-godification plays an ancillary though important background event for a major character in my novel, " Wearing the Cat".
If you're up for a rollicking picaresque novel with some interesting historical roots in the mix, dive on in.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 23, 2024 11:35 AM (eDfFs)
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Hey, RMBS - I've got a long file I have to transcribe right now, but how was Texas?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
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I'm not RMBS, but going to butt in and say it was incredibly awesome, and we all would've loved to see you there.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
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I'm not RMBS, but going to butt in and say it was incredibly awesome, and we all would've loved to see you there.
Posted by: screaming in digital at October 23, 2024 11:36 AM (JIkaw)
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What it means is that all these left wing endowments need to have their tax free status pulled and have the shit taxed out of them.
This is all political.
This is all political.
Posted by: Black JEM at October 23, 2024 11:36 AM (GZYu7)
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To criticize gobbledygook is to empower the very same oppressional structures that have lead to the very violence inherent in cisheteropatriarchial normantivity. Furthermore...
*looks at watch*
LUNCHTIME!
*looks at watch*
LUNCHTIME!
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Adjunct Professor of Gobbledygook Studies at October 23, 2024 11:36 AM (PiwSw)
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>>>University of Illinois (Chicago) professor of Gobbledygook, Gender, and Women's Studies and Global Asian Studies
You had me at gobbledygook.
Ain't nobody got time for that.
You had me at gobbledygook.
Ain't nobody got time for that.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 23, 2024 11:36 AM (i24o9)
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Looks like Bezos' Penis Rocket landed OK.
Posted by: spindrift at October 23, 2024 11:36 AM (OguvZ)
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"heard Kamala is coming to Texas this weekend to campaign with Allred? Why? Do they really think Texas is in play this year?
Posted by: IC - #FJB"
Maybe her mission has been downgraded from winning the presidency to saving some congressional seats.
Posted by: IC - #FJB"
Maybe her mission has been downgraded from winning the presidency to saving some congressional seats.
Posted by: Ripley at October 23, 2024 11:37 AM (GUOwU)
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Allred is no Beto.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 23, 2024 11:37 AM (a3Q+t)
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169 115 Thx Joe. Watched the video. That woman's word salad is as almost as bad as Kamala's. Bigger problem is that she's a professor and fills people's brains with that crap.
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Mainly trust fund babies. The heyday of DEI is done and most of the gender studies, race studies, etc. are producing graduates with no jobs, etc.
As colleges continue to close and enrollment is dropping, these are not attractive majors for people that want a job after graduating.
And an AWFL from a middle to upper class background is the antithesis of a revolutionary--it takes someone willing to kill and be killed on the behalf of a cause.
The folks in academia by and large ain't them and using insular language by and large prevents the development of effective rhetoric to reach out to those who can.
Essentially, these people are scribes of the current moment of leftism, not the vanguard of the proletariat as they believe themselves to be.
Dealt with enough of them and drones during my career.
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Mainly trust fund babies. The heyday of DEI is done and most of the gender studies, race studies, etc. are producing graduates with no jobs, etc.
As colleges continue to close and enrollment is dropping, these are not attractive majors for people that want a job after graduating.
And an AWFL from a middle to upper class background is the antithesis of a revolutionary--it takes someone willing to kill and be killed on the behalf of a cause.
The folks in academia by and large ain't them and using insular language by and large prevents the development of effective rhetoric to reach out to those who can.
Essentially, these people are scribes of the current moment of leftism, not the vanguard of the proletariat as they believe themselves to be.
Dealt with enough of them and drones during my career.
Posted by: whig at October 23, 2024 11:37 AM (ctrM5)
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118 4 I seem to remember a reference in fiction somewhere to "thieves' cant."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Remembering HIs Own Disasters at October 23, 2024 11:01 AM (J2vNu)
Original D&D where the Thief character could speak it.
Posted by: NR Pax at October 23, 2024 11:22 AM (lXoJ5)
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I have a book "Rhymes of the Canting Crew" giving an account of how it developed and how it was used. Don't know where it is, though. Many of our books are still unpacked from the move in 2020.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Remembering HIs Own Disasters at October 23, 2024 11:01 AM (J2vNu)
Original D&D where the Thief character could speak it.
Posted by: NR Pax at October 23, 2024 11:22 AM (lXoJ5)
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I have a book "Rhymes of the Canting Crew" giving an account of how it developed and how it was used. Don't know where it is, though. Many of our books are still unpacked from the move in 2020.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 23, 2024 11:37 AM (1bNHn)
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Rule of thumb: If they cannot explain what they are saying in plain, workaday English, they don't what you to know what they are saying, because, obviously, you won't like it.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 23, 2024 11:37 AM (pohLc)
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201 Maybe her mission has been downgraded from winning the presidency to saving some congressional seats.
Posted by: Ripley at October 23, 2024 11:37 AM (GUOwU)
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Today is the second day in a row where she's doing no campaigning.
I think there's a solid chance that she herself has given up.
Posted by: Ripley at October 23, 2024 11:37 AM (GUOwU)
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Today is the second day in a row where she's doing no campaigning.
I think there's a solid chance that she herself has given up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:37 AM (GBKbO)
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I'm not RMBS, but going to butt in and say it was incredibly awesome, and we all would've loved to see you there.
Posted by: screaming in digital at October 23, 2024 11:36 AM (JIkaw)
Heh. She's womansplaining you.
Posted by: screaming in digital at October 23, 2024 11:36 AM (JIkaw)
Heh. She's womansplaining you.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 11:37 AM (+sD5M)
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Essentially, these people are scribes of the current moment of leftism, not the vanguard of the proletariat as they believe themselves to be.
Nicely put.
Nicely put.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 11:38 AM (xCA6C)
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Maybe her mission has been downgraded from winning the presidency to saving some congressional seats.
Posted by: Ripley
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Senate seats most likely. Thing is, it is showing desperation for Allred too as Tester and Sherrod Brown probably don't want Harris/Walz anywhere around them. That might include Casey in PA as well.
Posted by: Ripley
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Senate seats most likely. Thing is, it is showing desperation for Allred too as Tester and Sherrod Brown probably don't want Harris/Walz anywhere around them. That might include Casey in PA as well.
Posted by: whig at October 23, 2024 11:38 AM (ctrM5)
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Allred is no Beto.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 23, 2024 11:37 AM (a3Q+t)
He's yet to try and make his wife eat one of her children's poop.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 23, 2024 11:37 AM (a3Q+t)
He's yet to try and make his wife eat one of her children's poop.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 11:38 AM (+sD5M)
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I am glad I am not the only one who instantly thought "gobbledygook."
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 23, 2024 11:38 AM (i24o9)
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I didn’t watch all of the video. Just enough to verify that Nadine is in no way ‘hot’.
Yes, that’s some genuine academic frontier gibberish.
Yes, that’s some genuine academic frontier gibberish.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 23, 2024 11:38 AM (jbnUc)
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Hey, it's Snow Leopard Day! Snow leopards is the best leopards!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at October 23, 2024 11:38 AM (U1w17)
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Yamato, tomato, potato, let's eat.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 23, 2024 11:38 AM (L/fGl)
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123 People don't trust Kamala on the economy because she is a brain dead imbecile communist who couldn't balance a checkbook. Being a passible cocksucker isn't qualification for high office.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 23, 2024 11:22 AM (pohLc)
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At least that's one talent she has that Hillary lacked. Give credit where credit is due.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 23, 2024 11:22 AM (pohLc)
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At least that's one talent she has that Hillary lacked. Give credit where credit is due.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 23, 2024 11:38 AM (1bNHn)
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Heh. She's womansplaining you.
Posted by: Sponge
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Oof. I was trying to encourage MP4 to show up next time! Dammit. Sorry MP4.
Posted by: Sponge
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Oof. I was trying to encourage MP4 to show up next time! Dammit. Sorry MP4.
Posted by: screaming in digital at October 23, 2024 11:39 AM (JIkaw)
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Nominating Kamala by casting off Biden undemocratically is not going to save the Texas Democrats.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:35 AM (GBKbO)
The Bush cartel hardest hit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:35 AM (GBKbO)
The Bush cartel hardest hit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 11:39 AM (+sD5M)
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I think Kamala's campaign has always been about saving down ballot seats.
And I don't think it's working.
And I don't think it's working.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 23, 2024 11:39 AM (tT6L1)
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Hey, RMBS - I've got a long file I have to transcribe right now, but how was Texas?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 23, 2024 11:32 AM (Q0kLU)
MP4 do you have an Office 365 subscription? Word has transcription built in. (no I don't sell it working on a project)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 23, 2024 11:32 AM (Q0kLU)
MP4 do you have an Office 365 subscription? Word has transcription built in. (no I don't sell it working on a project)
Posted by: blaster at October 23, 2024 11:39 AM (xhfG9)
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Looks like Bezos' Penis Rocket landed OK.
Posted by: spindrift at October 23, 2024 11:36 AM (OguvZ)
I'm waiting for the wind to shift on one of these launches, and the capsule to land in Mexico. Do you think they have their passports and visas on board? Enough money for the federales, banditos, and cartels for safe return passage?
Posted by: spindrift at October 23, 2024 11:36 AM (OguvZ)
I'm waiting for the wind to shift on one of these launches, and the capsule to land in Mexico. Do you think they have their passports and visas on board? Enough money for the federales, banditos, and cartels for safe return passage?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 23, 2024 11:39 AM (VNX3d)
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At least that's one talent she has that Hillary lacked. Give credit where credit is due.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 23, 2024 11:38 AM (1bNHn)
Confirmed.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 23, 2024 11:38 AM (1bNHn)
Confirmed.
Posted by: Bill Clinton at October 23, 2024 11:39 AM (PiwSw)
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217 Nominating Kamala by casting off Biden undemocratically is not going to save the Texas Democrats.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:35 AM (GBKbO)
The Bush cartel hardest hit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 11:39 AM (+sD5M)
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Going after Paxton and failing probably hurt them far more than anything Democrats did.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:35 AM (GBKbO)
The Bush cartel hardest hit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 11:39 AM (+sD5M)
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Going after Paxton and failing probably hurt them far more than anything Democrats did.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:40 AM (GBKbO)
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To criticize gobbledygook is to empower the very same oppressional structures that have lead to the very violence inherent in cisheteropatriarchial normantivity. Furthermore...
*looks at watch*
LUNCHTIME!
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Adjunct Professor of Gobbledygook Studies at October 23, 2024
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On the contrary, that would be the cisnormative term that has fallen out of fashion. Today's term is "period of refectory assimilation."
*looks at watch*
LUNCHTIME!
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Adjunct Professor of Gobbledygook Studies at October 23, 2024
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On the contrary, that would be the cisnormative term that has fallen out of fashion. Today's term is "period of refectory assimilation."
Posted by: The Lady Prof in the Video at October 23, 2024 11:40 AM (J2vNu)
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The Bush cartel hardest hit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 11:39 AM (+sD5M)
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You've got Bushies and we've got McCaniacs. Pestilential doesn't even scratch the surface of what I think of those people.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 11:39 AM (+sD5M)
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You've got Bushies and we've got McCaniacs. Pestilential doesn't even scratch the surface of what I think of those people.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 23, 2024 11:40 AM (tT6L1)
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Oof. I was trying to encourage MP4 to show up next time! Dammit. Sorry MP4.
Posted by: screaming in digital at October 23, 2024 11:39 AM (JIkaw)
I'm kidding.
It would be great to have him come down. The wonderfulness of what it is can be very, very positive.
I can say, my wife is better off for having been there this year. The vibes were amazing.
Posted by: screaming in digital at October 23, 2024 11:39 AM (JIkaw)
I'm kidding.
It would be great to have him come down. The wonderfulness of what it is can be very, very positive.
I can say, my wife is better off for having been there this year. The vibes were amazing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 11:40 AM (+sD5M)
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Allred is no Beto.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 23, 2024 11:37 AM (a3Q+t)
He doesn't even skateboard!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 23, 2024 11:37 AM (a3Q+t)
He doesn't even skateboard!
Posted by: BruceWayne at October 23, 2024 11:40 AM (CIS44)
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I drove a Dodge Dynasty once. It was OK, kinda boxy, and only had a three-speed tranny. Despite the name Dynasty, it was only built 1988-93.
Posted by: Emperor Jones at October 23, 2024 11:40 AM (nS6qG)
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heard Kamala is coming to Texas this weekend to campaign with Allred? Why? Do they really think Texas is in play this year?
Posted by: IC - #FJB at October 23, 2024 11:33 AM (DJ7uY
Conclusion:she's given up, and is trying to save the down ballot candidates.
That, or she's an idiot. Your call.
Posted by: IC - #FJB at October 23, 2024 11:33 AM (DJ7uY
Conclusion:she's given up, and is trying to save the down ballot candidates.
That, or she's an idiot. Your call.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 23, 2024 11:40 AM (pWgGF)
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I'm not RMBS, but going to butt in and say it was incredibly awesome, and we all would've loved to see you there.
Posted by: screaming in digital at October 23, 2024 11:36 AM (JIkaw)
Heh. She's womansplaining you.
Posted by: Sponge
Womansplaining = Wife Speak
Posted by: screaming in digital at October 23, 2024 11:36 AM (JIkaw)
Heh. She's womansplaining you.
Posted by: Sponge
Womansplaining = Wife Speak
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 23, 2024 11:40 AM (cBeW+)
Posted by: illiniwek at October 23, 2024 11:40 AM (Cus5s)
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You've got Bushies and we've got McCaniacs. Pestilential doesn't even scratch the surface of what I think of those people.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 23, 2024 11:40 AM (tT6L1)
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The abomination of desolation, maybe?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 23, 2024 11:40 AM (tT6L1)
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The abomination of desolation, maybe?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at October 23, 2024 11:41 AM (U1w17)
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Going after Paxton and failing probably hurt them far more than anything Democrats did.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:40 AM (GBKbO)
And it was EPIC.
Going after Paxton and failing probably hurt them far more than anything Democrats did.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:40 AM (GBKbO)
And it was EPIC.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 11:41 AM (+sD5M)
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218 I think Kamala's campaign has always been about saving down ballot seats.
And I don't think it's working.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 23, 2024 11:39 AM (tT6L1)
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Well, if Biden cornered the powers that forced him out by setting the stage for Kamala to replace him, then the objective of saving down ballot by getting rid of Biden was tanked the second Biden's people sent out that second letter.
She wasn't the most unpopular VP in history because the media hadn't fluffed her enough.
And I don't think it's working.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 23, 2024 11:39 AM (tT6L1)
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Well, if Biden cornered the powers that forced him out by setting the stage for Kamala to replace him, then the objective of saving down ballot by getting rid of Biden was tanked the second Biden's people sent out that second letter.
She wasn't the most unpopular VP in history because the media hadn't fluffed her enough.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:41 AM (GBKbO)
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Posted by: screaming in digital at October 23, 2024 11:36 AM
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Heh. She's womansplaining you.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 11:37 AM
In this instance, librariansplaining* is probably a more precise, accurate, and correct description.
* Always delivered in a soft, barely-above-a-whisper, yet alluring voice.
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Heh. She's womansplaining you.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 11:37 AM
In this instance, librariansplaining* is probably a more precise, accurate, and correct description.
* Always delivered in a soft, barely-above-a-whisper, yet alluring voice.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 23, 2024 11:41 AM (a3Q+t)
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Do they really think Texas is in play this year?
Posted by: IC - #FJB at October 23, 2024 11:33 AM (DJ7uY)
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I try not to be a pessimist, but while Ted Cruz is a fine fellow it doesn't translate into general electoral affection.
Do they really think Texas is in play this year?
Posted by: IC - #FJB at October 23, 2024 11:33 AM (DJ7uY)
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I try not to be a pessimist, but while Ted Cruz is a fine fellow it doesn't translate into general electoral affection.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 23, 2024 11:41 AM (EsZUh)
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You know what we need to bring back?
Diagramming sentences.
These people have no idea what they're saying, just stringing buzzwords and radical talking points together, that in a lot of cases contradict themselves.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 23, 2024 11:10 AM (scDBq)
on the ONE hand i absolutely abhor this idea.
at the same time, my son has never done this and it seems like something all people should know. even if you forget the majority of it after a while.
but anyone speaking or writing for a living should know these things.
Diagramming sentences.
These people have no idea what they're saying, just stringing buzzwords and radical talking points together, that in a lot of cases contradict themselves.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 23, 2024 11:10 AM (scDBq)
on the ONE hand i absolutely abhor this idea.
at the same time, my son has never done this and it seems like something all people should know. even if you forget the majority of it after a while.
but anyone speaking or writing for a living should know these things.
Posted by: SturmToddler at October 23, 2024 11:41 AM (v6XNT)
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Conclusion:she's given up, and is trying to save the down ballot candidates.
That, or she's an idiot. Your call.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
Yes.
That, or she's an idiot. Your call.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
Yes.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 23, 2024 11:41 AM (cBeW+)
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184 heard Kamala is coming to Texas this weekend to campaign with Allred? Why? Do they really think Texas is in play this year?
Posted by: IC - #FJB
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Lot of blue money in big cities.
Posted by: IC - #FJB
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Lot of blue money in big cities.
Posted by: Braenyard at October 23, 2024 11:41 AM (wSFOB)
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Society has placed a real premium on being an 'expert.'
So much so that people like the woman up top there can literally make shit up on the fly, toss around made up words and breathlessly opine on shit that makes zero sense.
And people swoon at the intelligentsia going on there.
Tell me again, who's the rube here?
So much so that people like the woman up top there can literally make shit up on the fly, toss around made up words and breathlessly opine on shit that makes zero sense.
And people swoon at the intelligentsia going on there.
Tell me again, who's the rube here?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 23, 2024 11:41 AM (Q4IgG)
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"The heyday of DEI is done" Hope you're correct.
Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at October 23, 2024 11:41 AM (TxBND)
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I think there's a solid chance that she herself has given up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:37 AM (GBKbO)
After the whole Molly Shannon skit, I think she just lives for irony.
After 2 weeks of getting the whole of the Left to message that Trump is "exhausted" and doesn't have stamina, she is taking a day or so off.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:37 AM (GBKbO)
After the whole Molly Shannon skit, I think she just lives for irony.
After 2 weeks of getting the whole of the Left to message that Trump is "exhausted" and doesn't have stamina, she is taking a day or so off.
Posted by: blaster at October 23, 2024 11:41 AM (xhfG9)
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TJM, I thought the campaign announced she was "prepping for interviews" on her "off days" this week. Though jaw-dropping in itself, this is even more amazing contrasted with her opponent, who is more energetic and does more on the campaign trail than probably the last 5 presidential candidates of both parties, combined.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 23, 2024 11:41 AM (GcNJ2)
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When the Occupation force showed up the Japanese soldiers stationed on the side of the roads turned their backs on the troop trucks . At first they thought it was an insult until they were told that the Japanese turned away as a matter of respect to their conquerors . Similar to not looking superiors in the eyes.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 23, 2024 11:41 AM (ndoNK)
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Maybe Kamala fired her campaign manager and she literally doesn't know what to do or where to go.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Adjunct Professor of Gobbledygook Studies at October 23, 2024 11:41 AM (PiwSw)
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The Texas Dims are sllllooowwly learning that weird feces-offering, skateboarding soy boys or some goons hag prancing around in pink sneakers is not the way to appeal to Texas voters.
Allred strictly going by lookism is a step in the right direction however he's just another lying Democrat stuffed with loony ideas. That dog won't hunt.
Allred strictly going by lookism is a step in the right direction however he's just another lying Democrat stuffed with loony ideas. That dog won't hunt.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 23, 2024 11:42 AM (eDfFs)
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206 201 Maybe her mission has been downgraded from winning the presidency to saving some congressional seats.
Posted by: Ripley at October 23, 2024 11:37 AM (GUOwU)
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Today is the second day in a row where she's doing no campaigning.
I think there's a solid chance that she herself has given up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:37 AM (GBKbO)
Kamala's campaign is like when you have dinner plans but don't want to go and the other person calls you to cancel.
Posted by: Ripley at October 23, 2024 11:37 AM (GUOwU)
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Today is the second day in a row where she's doing no campaigning.
I think there's a solid chance that she herself has given up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:37 AM (GBKbO)
Kamala's campaign is like when you have dinner plans but don't want to go and the other person calls you to cancel.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 23, 2024 11:42 AM (KbCG3)
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127 109 Simplistic. ....
Posted by: Eeyore at October 23, 2024 11:19 AM (1bNHn)
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There's a difference between having words for specific physical parts of things and creating a new vocabulary to describe already established things.
Like this phrase, "a world organized by community accountability". What is community accountability? Is it an actual thing? Is it some concept that we already have vocabulary for? Is it just a redress of a vague notion of something we already know? It's not "a jig on a mainmast" it'd be like calling a mainmast the "central pillar of community" or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:22 AM (GBKbO)
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Sure, gobbledygook is a problem. But what you said above is, I repeat, simplistic. The trouble is language clearly intended to hide one's meaning.
And, BTW, trying to limit useful jargon to "specific physical parts of things" shows a level of crude materialism that is one of the causes of the problem.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 23, 2024 11:19 AM (1bNHn)
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There's a difference between having words for specific physical parts of things and creating a new vocabulary to describe already established things.
Like this phrase, "a world organized by community accountability". What is community accountability? Is it an actual thing? Is it some concept that we already have vocabulary for? Is it just a redress of a vague notion of something we already know? It's not "a jig on a mainmast" it'd be like calling a mainmast the "central pillar of community" or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:22 AM (GBKbO)
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Sure, gobbledygook is a problem. But what you said above is, I repeat, simplistic. The trouble is language clearly intended to hide one's meaning.
And, BTW, trying to limit useful jargon to "specific physical parts of things" shows a level of crude materialism that is one of the causes of the problem.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 23, 2024 11:42 AM (1bNHn)
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I can say, my wife is better off for having been there this year. The vibes were amazing.
Posted by: Sponge
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And we are all better off for seeing both of you as well!
Love the Horde.
Posted by: Sponge
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And we are all better off for seeing both of you as well!
Love the Horde.
Posted by: screaming in digital at October 23, 2024 11:42 AM (JIkaw)
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235 I try not to be a pessimist, but while Ted Cruz is a fine fellow it doesn't translate into general electoral affection.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 23, 2024 11:41 AM (EsZUh)
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He has regularly won by smaller margins that almost any other statewide Republican in the state of Texas on the same ballot.
He's just not as popular in the state as someone like Cornyn for some reason. Cornyn seems to regularly win by more than 10. Cruz usually by less than 5. Of course, his last race, Cruz was against Beto who got 9 figures in Hollywood cash to prop up his campaign.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 23, 2024 11:41 AM (EsZUh)
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He has regularly won by smaller margins that almost any other statewide Republican in the state of Texas on the same ballot.
He's just not as popular in the state as someone like Cornyn for some reason. Cornyn seems to regularly win by more than 10. Cruz usually by less than 5. Of course, his last race, Cruz was against Beto who got 9 figures in Hollywood cash to prop up his campaign.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:43 AM (GBKbO)
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Hey, RMBS - I've got a long file I have to transcribe right now, but how was Texas?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 23, 2024 11:32 AM
TX was great. A good time had by all. We laughed, we cried, we karaoked (and by we, there, I mean not me).
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 23, 2024 11:32 AM
TX was great. A good time had by all. We laughed, we cried, we karaoked (and by we, there, I mean not me).
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 23, 2024 11:43 AM (ZANHd)
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Despite the name Dynasty, it was only built 1988-93.
Posted by: Emperor Jones at October 23, 2024
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It matured early, and gave birth to the Dodge Intrepid.
Posted by: Emperor Jones at October 23, 2024
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It matured early, and gave birth to the Dodge Intrepid.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2024 11:43 AM (J2vNu)
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Drudge has become unreadable. They are spewing every anti-Trump lie and smear available. The TDS is at MSNBC levels. I am going to have to abandon it altogether.
Posted by: Ripley at October 23, 2024 11:43 AM (GUOwU)
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Please let this from the GatewayPundit be true. Please!
Bill Gates Ordered to Stand Trial in Netherlands in November Over COVID Vaccine Injury Claims — Ordered to Pay Legal Costs as Dutch Court Dismisses Jurisdiction Claim
Bill Gates Ordered to Stand Trial in Netherlands in November Over COVID Vaccine Injury Claims — Ordered to Pay Legal Costs as Dutch Court Dismisses Jurisdiction Claim
Posted by: Stateless at October 23, 2024 11:43 AM (jvJvP)
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242 TJM, I thought the campaign announced she was "prepping for interviews" on her "off days" this week. Though jaw-dropping in itself, this is even more amazing contrasted with her opponent, who is more energetic and does more on the campaign trail than probably the last 5 presidential candidates of both parties, combined.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 23, 2024 11:41 AM (GcNJ2)
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It's a dumb excuse, and I think everyone knows it's a dumb excuse.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 23, 2024 11:41 AM (GcNJ2)
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It's a dumb excuse, and I think everyone knows it's a dumb excuse.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:43 AM (GBKbO)
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I think his mom was responsible for that incredibly horrific bacon bread for which I'm desperate for the recipie.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 11:34 AM
Actually, that was the Range Babe's doing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 11:34 AM
Actually, that was the Range Babe's doing.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 23, 2024 11:44 AM (ZANHd)
Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at October 23, 2024 11:44 AM (TxBND)
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If your campaign is so in the shitter you think Kamala might help you, you are really, quite sincerely, fooked.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 23, 2024 11:44 AM (pohLc)
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Oppression Olympics:
Broad jump, Pole vault, Breast stroke, Butt-erfly, 8-man crew, 2-man Boobsled, Team handball, Bi-athlon, and other suchlike as.
Broad jump, Pole vault, Breast stroke, Butt-erfly, 8-man crew, 2-man Boobsled, Team handball, Bi-athlon, and other suchlike as.
Posted by: muldoon at October 23, 2024 11:44 AM (uCfKO)
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I try not to be a pessimist, but while Ted Cruz is a fine fellow it doesn't translate into general electoral affection.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 23, 2024 11:41 AM (EsZUh)
Perception is stronger than the truth and it doesn't help that many on the Right, including here , rag on Cruz any chance they get.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 23, 2024 11:41 AM (EsZUh)
Perception is stronger than the truth and it doesn't help that many on the Right, including here , rag on Cruz any chance they get.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 23, 2024 11:44 AM (ndoNK)
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"The heyday of DEI is done" Hope you're correct.
Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at October 23, 2024 11:41 AM (TxBND)
They'll just change the acronym and pop up elsewhere...whack-a-mole.
Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at October 23, 2024 11:41 AM (TxBND)
They'll just change the acronym and pop up elsewhere...whack-a-mole.
Posted by: BignJames at October 23, 2024 11:44 AM (Yj6Os)
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>>> Mainly trust fund babies. The heyday of DEI is done and most of the gender studies, race studies, etc. are producing graduates with no jobs, etc.
Man, I hope so. But an ad I saw today used the phrase "Hispanic or Latine," Latine being the new version of Latinx, since that word went over like a lead balloon in the Latino community.
So for intellectuals, they may finally abandon DEI virtue sig along one day, but only kicking and screaming.
Man, I hope so. But an ad I saw today used the phrase "Hispanic or Latine," Latine being the new version of Latinx, since that word went over like a lead balloon in the Latino community.
So for intellectuals, they may finally abandon DEI virtue sig along one day, but only kicking and screaming.
Posted by: LizLem at October 23, 2024 11:45 AM (QAK8m)
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I can say, my wife is better off for having been there this year. The vibes were amazing.
Posted by: Sponge
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And we are all better off for seeing both of you as well!
Love the Horde.
Posted by: screaming in digital at October 23, 2024 11:42 AM
Yeah...what SiD said.
Posted by: Sponge
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And we are all better off for seeing both of you as well!
Love the Horde.
Posted by: screaming in digital at October 23, 2024 11:42 AM
Yeah...what SiD said.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 23, 2024 11:45 AM (ZANHd)
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259 Perception is stronger than the truth and it doesn't help that many on the Right, including here , rag on Cruz any chance they get.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 23, 2024 11:44 AM (ndoNK)
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I'll rag on any politician of any stripe at any time.
Politicians are gutter trash definitionally and should be regarded as such.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 23, 2024 11:44 AM (ndoNK)
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I'll rag on any politician of any stripe at any time.
Politicians are gutter trash definitionally and should be regarded as such.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:45 AM (GBKbO)
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And, BTW, trying to limit useful jargon to "specific physical parts of things" shows a level of crude materialism that is one of the causes of the problem.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 23, 2024 11:42 AM
Indeed. (.)(.)
Posted by: Eeyore at October 23, 2024 11:42 AM
Indeed. (.)(.)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 23, 2024 11:45 AM (a3Q+t)
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Speaking of super geniuses . . .
Obama says he doesn’t understand how our nation became so toxic and divided (for real)
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Yeah, that's a head scratcher all right.
Obama says he doesn’t understand how our nation became so toxic and divided (for real)
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Yeah, that's a head scratcher all right.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 23, 2024 11:45 AM (L/fGl)
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"Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack.
I went out for a ride and I never went back."
( -- Even Springsteen can find a bit of truth in his lyrics now and then)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Springsteen's original manager, Mike Appel, gave an interesting interview that you might be able to dig up on the internet if you are interested. Appel thought that the pastiche of the Wall of Sound in Born to Run could have made Springsteen an interesting artist. But, Appel realized that Springsteen wanted to be a star more than he cared about being a musician. Red diaper baby and rock critic, Jon Landau sensed the differences between manager and pounced causing Springsteen to dump Appel and allow Landau to replace him.
The crappy politics of Springsteen came from tutelage by Landau and an artist willing to debase his art so that it appealed to all the right people that held positions in the music and entertainment industry.
Thus, a much darker turn to Springsteen's music from the first couple of albums.
I went out for a ride and I never went back."
( -- Even Springsteen can find a bit of truth in his lyrics now and then)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Springsteen's original manager, Mike Appel, gave an interesting interview that you might be able to dig up on the internet if you are interested. Appel thought that the pastiche of the Wall of Sound in Born to Run could have made Springsteen an interesting artist. But, Appel realized that Springsteen wanted to be a star more than he cared about being a musician. Red diaper baby and rock critic, Jon Landau sensed the differences between manager and pounced causing Springsteen to dump Appel and allow Landau to replace him.
The crappy politics of Springsteen came from tutelage by Landau and an artist willing to debase his art so that it appealed to all the right people that held positions in the music and entertainment industry.
Thus, a much darker turn to Springsteen's music from the first couple of albums.
Posted by: whig at October 23, 2024 11:45 AM (ctrM5)
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>>CNN's Clarissa Ward Team Held Captive by Militia in Darfur Released After 48 Hours
Probably released because Ward annoyed the shit out of militia members
Probably released because Ward annoyed the shit out of militia members
Posted by: one hour sober at October 23, 2024 11:45 AM (Y1sOo)
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I just watched Tulsi Gabbard who spoke at a Trump rally in Greensboro NC last night and announced that she is joining the Republican party. Great video of her announcement.
https://tinyurl.com/rxp2zp6n
Posted by: Cheri at October 23, 2024 11:04 AM (oiNtH)
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Nice. Just heard that clip on radio.
The Republican party has now primarily become the party of the common, working, and forgotten man & woman.
Courtesy of a liberal NYC billionaire ...
https://tinyurl.com/rxp2zp6n
Posted by: Cheri at October 23, 2024 11:04 AM (oiNtH)
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Nice. Just heard that clip on radio.
The Republican party has now primarily become the party of the common, working, and forgotten man & woman.
Courtesy of a liberal NYC billionaire ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Musk May be The X-Factor in Overcoming Fraud at October 23, 2024 11:46 AM (kEjR6)
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Her Majesty was once on the same Southwest flight as Ted Cruz. She said he was friendly, approachable (she got a picture with him) and waited his turn in line like everyone not named Sheila Jackson Lee.
Her Majesty was once on the same Southwest flight as Ted Cruz. She said he was friendly, approachable (she got a picture with him) and waited his turn in line like everyone not named Sheila Jackson Lee.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 23, 2024 11:46 AM (EsZUh)
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And we are all better off for seeing both of you as well!
Love the Horde.
Posted by: screaming in digital at October 23, 2024 11:42 AM (JIkaw)
She had her blood test this morning, as she does every Wednesday. She came home this morning afterwards, instead of heading to work as normal.
She was teary eyed. I asked what was wrong and she said an older lady told her "I see you every week and you're dressed in your work clothes and look like this is just another day." She was wearing a hat as she's lost her hair as well and is going through stage 4 lung cancer. "I just wanted to tell you you're my hero. You don't cover your head and just look like it doesn't affect you one bit."
She cried some more......I would too if that was something I did.
And we are all better off for seeing both of you as well!
Love the Horde.
Posted by: screaming in digital at October 23, 2024 11:42 AM (JIkaw)
She had her blood test this morning, as she does every Wednesday. She came home this morning afterwards, instead of heading to work as normal.
She was teary eyed. I asked what was wrong and she said an older lady told her "I see you every week and you're dressed in your work clothes and look like this is just another day." She was wearing a hat as she's lost her hair as well and is going through stage 4 lung cancer. "I just wanted to tell you you're my hero. You don't cover your head and just look like it doesn't affect you one bit."
She cried some more......I would too if that was something I did.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 11:46 AM (+sD5M)
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In this instance, librariansplaining* is probably a more precise, accurate, and correct description.
* Always delivered in a soft, barely-above-a-whisper, yet alluring voice.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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... while glaring over the librarian glasses...
I'm a former cataloger. I have been known to catsplain LC classification and subject headings to unsuspecting undergraduates or reference librarians asking an innocent question. There's a reason why they keep us in the back room.
In this instance, librariansplaining* is probably a more precise, accurate, and correct description.
* Always delivered in a soft, barely-above-a-whisper, yet alluring voice.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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... while glaring over the librarian glasses...
I'm a former cataloger. I have been known to catsplain LC classification and subject headings to unsuspecting undergraduates or reference librarians asking an innocent question. There's a reason why they keep us in the back room.
Posted by: screaming in digital at October 23, 2024 11:46 AM (JIkaw)
Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at October 23, 2024 11:46 AM (OUMaO)
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267 >>CNN's Clarissa Ward Team Held Captive by Militia in Darfur Released After 48 Hours
Probably released because Ward annoyed the shit out of militia members
Posted by: one hour sober at October 23, 2024 11:45 AM (Y1sOo)
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So, Clarissa explains it all?
Probably released because Ward annoyed the shit out of militia members
Posted by: one hour sober at October 23, 2024 11:45 AM (Y1sOo)
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So, Clarissa explains it all?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:46 AM (GBKbO)
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In this instance, librariansplaining* is probably a more precise, accurate, and correct description.
* Always delivered in a soft, barely-above-a-whisper, yet alluring voice.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 23, 2024
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If we'd had more librarians who looked like Barbara Feldon or Jan Smithers, I'd have thought about going into that field me own self.
* Always delivered in a soft, barely-above-a-whisper, yet alluring voice.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 23, 2024
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If we'd had more librarians who looked like Barbara Feldon or Jan Smithers, I'd have thought about going into that field me own self.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2024 11:46 AM (J2vNu)
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136 Simplistic. It is often true of jargon, but not always. On boats there are many words used that may be meaningless to laymen, but have clear, and needed, meanings to "insiders". As they should. Doctors also need such terminology.
This is an unhealthy egalitarianism. The notion that if there are some that don't understand, it must be an instrument of oppression. There does seem to be a tendency to veer toward Marx running through our side. It should be resisted.
Posted by: Eeyore
I don't think that specialized technical terms, which exist and are necessary in nearly every field, count as jargon.
My standard example of jargon is the business world, with its "offering synergistic, best-of-breed solutions" and what not. None of those words have any actual meaning that can't be expressed in ordinary language.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 23, 2024 11:23 AM (v6JzV)
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But the meaning you reject is exactly the primary meaning of "jargon". Look it up. The trouble is throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
This is an unhealthy egalitarianism. The notion that if there are some that don't understand, it must be an instrument of oppression. There does seem to be a tendency to veer toward Marx running through our side. It should be resisted.
Posted by: Eeyore
I don't think that specialized technical terms, which exist and are necessary in nearly every field, count as jargon.
My standard example of jargon is the business world, with its "offering synergistic, best-of-breed solutions" and what not. None of those words have any actual meaning that can't be expressed in ordinary language.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 23, 2024 11:23 AM (v6JzV)
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But the meaning you reject is exactly the primary meaning of "jargon". Look it up. The trouble is throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 23, 2024 11:46 AM (1bNHn)
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Allred strictly going by lookism is a step in the right direction however he's just another lying Democrat stuffed with loony ideas. That dog won't hunt.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 23, 2024 11:42 AM (eDfFs)
He is married to a white woman, isn't he? Don't think the sista's are going to like that too much. Looks wise, he is perfect for the Dems.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 23, 2024 11:42 AM (eDfFs)
He is married to a white woman, isn't he? Don't think the sista's are going to like that too much. Looks wise, he is perfect for the Dems.
Posted by: IC - #FJB at October 23, 2024 11:46 AM (DJ7uY)
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195 By the by...
The Japanese emperor's de-godification plays an ancillary though important background event for a major character in my novel, " Wearing the Cat".
If you're up for a rollicking picaresque novel with some interesting historical roots in the mix, dive on in.
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Looks interesting.
The Japanese emperor's de-godification plays an ancillary though important background event for a major character in my novel, " Wearing the Cat".
If you're up for a rollicking picaresque novel with some interesting historical roots in the mix, dive on in.
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Looks interesting.
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 23, 2024 11:46 AM (AdHga)
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In light of the utter CF with which you've saddled us and our posterity, perhaps try the other approach and be clear.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 11:34 AM (xCA6C)
Apparently that was Yellen's approach
It hans't done us much good, either.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 11:34 AM (xCA6C)
Apparently that was Yellen's approach
It hans't done us much good, either.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 23, 2024 11:46 AM (D7oie)
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Obama says he doesn’t understand how our nation became so toxic and divided (for real)
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Look in a mirror, piss artist.
Obama says he doesn’t understand how our nation became so toxic and divided (for real)
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Look in a mirror, piss artist.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 23, 2024 11:46 AM (EsZUh)
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The heyday of DEI is done and most of the gender studies, race studies, etc. are producing graduates with no jobs, etc.
Not when companies will still hire unqualified people with a magical degree in ANYTHING over a competent person without a degree.
Not when companies will still hire unqualified people with a magical degree in ANYTHING over a competent person without a degree.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 23, 2024 11:47 AM (cBeW+)
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Perception is stronger than the truth and it doesn't help that many on the Right, including here , rag on Cruz any chance they get.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 23, 2024 11:44 AM (ndoNK)
yeah, and that is too bad. Coming from CA, I am overjoyed to have him as my senator. its a stratospheric upgrade.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 23, 2024 11:44 AM (ndoNK)
yeah, and that is too bad. Coming from CA, I am overjoyed to have him as my senator. its a stratospheric upgrade.
Posted by: IC - #FJB at October 23, 2024 11:47 AM (DJ7uY)
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Actually, that was the Range Babe's doing.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 23, 2024 11:44 AM (ZANHd)
I'mma beat up the foo that told me those lies!!!
Actually, that was the Range Babe's doing.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 23, 2024 11:44 AM (ZANHd)
I'mma beat up the foo that told me those lies!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 11:47 AM (+sD5M)
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... while glaring over the librarian glasses...
I'm a former cataloger. I have been known to catsplain LC classification and subject headings to unsuspecting undergraduates or reference librarians asking an innocent question. There's a reason why they keep us in the back room.
Posted by: screaming in digital at October 23, 2024 11:46 AM
Kinky...
I'm a former cataloger. I have been known to catsplain LC classification and subject headings to unsuspecting undergraduates or reference librarians asking an innocent question. There's a reason why they keep us in the back room.
Posted by: screaming in digital at October 23, 2024 11:46 AM
Kinky...
Posted by: Hedley Lamar at October 23, 2024 11:48 AM (ZANHd)
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‘ She said she keeps trying to cast spells on Trump but “something around him won’t let her get through’
One could have a lot of fun at the expense of someone this half-witted.
‘ She said she keeps trying to cast spells on Trump but “something around him won’t let her get through’
One could have a lot of fun at the expense of someone this half-witted.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 23, 2024 11:48 AM (jbnUc)
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Probably released because Ward annoyed the shit out of militia members
Posted by: one hour sober at October 23, 2024 11:45 AM
He was hard on the Beaver many evenings.
Posted by: one hour sober at October 23, 2024 11:45 AM
He was hard on the Beaver many evenings.
Posted by: June at October 23, 2024 11:48 AM (a3Q+t)
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MP4 do you have an Office 365 subscription? Word has transcription built in. (no I don't sell it working on a project)
Posted by: blaster at October 23, 2024 11:39 AM (xhfG9)
No, I don't. I have to use the software my company uses.
Posted by: blaster at October 23, 2024 11:39 AM (xhfG9)
No, I don't. I have to use the software my company uses.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 23, 2024 11:48 AM (Q0kLU)
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279
Obama says he doesn’t understand how our nation became so toxic and divided (for real)
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Look in a mirror, piss artist.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 23, 2024 11:46 AM (EsZUh)
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He's either a dithering idiot or deeply dishonest. The idea that the oppressor/oppressed dynamic can't divide nations and increase tensions is so ridiculous you'd have be literally retarded or just straight up lying to not make the connection.
Honestly, I lean towards the former. I think Obama is book-smart, able to regurgitate things his professors said to him with ease, but he hasn't been challenged intellectually in decades and no longer has the mental muscles to actually form argument.
Obama says he doesn’t understand how our nation became so toxic and divided (for real)
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Look in a mirror, piss artist.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 23, 2024 11:46 AM (EsZUh)
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He's either a dithering idiot or deeply dishonest. The idea that the oppressor/oppressed dynamic can't divide nations and increase tensions is so ridiculous you'd have be literally retarded or just straight up lying to not make the connection.
Honestly, I lean towards the former. I think Obama is book-smart, able to regurgitate things his professors said to him with ease, but he hasn't been challenged intellectually in decades and no longer has the mental muscles to actually form argument.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:48 AM (GBKbO)
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So for intellectuals, they may finally abandon DEI virtue sig along one day, but only kicking and screaming.
Posted by: LizLem
Only when there's a new hotness virtue to signal. They can't do otherwise.
Posted by: LizLem
Only when there's a new hotness virtue to signal. They can't do otherwise.
Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at October 23, 2024 11:48 AM (OUMaO)
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Emperor Hirohito I to was willing to kill every last Japanese woman and child to avoid being charged with war crimes. They were literally training girls to fight with sharpened sticks and preparing for a Stalingrad seige while the atomic bombs dropped.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 23, 2024 11:48 AM (wBaIH)
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A Canadian Navy WWII vet told me about the anti-war sentiment in Quebec and how it angered the Anglo population. Seems the Quebecers didn't want to serve, and argued that they could be of more use working in the factories, while the Anglos fought the krauts, and died.
The joke in the Royal Canadian Navy was that the Quebecers' motto was "Give us the tools, and we'll lick 'em!" The double-entendre was popularly assumed to be lost on the French-speakers.
The joke in the Royal Canadian Navy was that the Quebecers' motto was "Give us the tools, and we'll lick 'em!" The double-entendre was popularly assumed to be lost on the French-speakers.
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at October 23, 2024 11:48 AM (gfztU)
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I'll rag on any politician of any stripe at any time.
Politicians are gutter trash definitionally and should be regarded as such.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:45 AM (GBKbO)
Great strategy. Haven't heard you call Trump gutter trash.
Politicians are gutter trash definitionally and should be regarded as such.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:45 AM (GBKbO)
Great strategy. Haven't heard you call Trump gutter trash.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 23, 2024 11:48 AM (ndoNK)
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The heyday of DEI is done and most of the gender studies, race studies, etc. are producing graduates with no jobs, etc.
Not when companies will still hire unqualified people with a magical degree in ANYTHING over a competent person without a degree.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 23, 2024 11:47 AM (cBeW+)
I'm surprised DEI isn't a Fed agency/cabinet post.
Not when companies will still hire unqualified people with a magical degree in ANYTHING over a competent person without a degree.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 23, 2024 11:47 AM (cBeW+)
I'm surprised DEI isn't a Fed agency/cabinet post.
Posted by: BignJames at October 23, 2024 11:48 AM (Yj6Os)
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Man, I hope so. But an ad I saw today used the phrase "Hispanic or Latine," Latine being the new version of Latinx, since that word went over like a lead balloon in the Latino community.
So for intellectuals, they may finally abandon DEI virtue sig along one day, but only kicking and screaming.
Posted by: LizLem
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Clerisy (religious like of true believers) movements are riven by internal disputes that are only significant to outsiders based on how petty and stupid those disagreements are.
Purity spirals are common unless stopped by someone or some institution within the clerisy community with enough clout to impose a peace.
If a clerisy actually has secular power beyond its community, it usually results in a bloodbath until the purists are eliminated one way or another from power.
So for intellectuals, they may finally abandon DEI virtue sig along one day, but only kicking and screaming.
Posted by: LizLem
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Clerisy (religious like of true believers) movements are riven by internal disputes that are only significant to outsiders based on how petty and stupid those disagreements are.
Purity spirals are common unless stopped by someone or some institution within the clerisy community with enough clout to impose a peace.
If a clerisy actually has secular power beyond its community, it usually results in a bloodbath until the purists are eliminated one way or another from power.
Posted by: whig at October 23, 2024 11:49 AM (ctrM5)
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I'mma beat up the foo that told me those lies!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 11:47 AM
I'll have to check and see if she ever gave me that recipe. If not, maybe I can get her to share that on the Food Thread some Sunday.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 11:47 AM
I'll have to check and see if she ever gave me that recipe. If not, maybe I can get her to share that on the Food Thread some Sunday.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 23, 2024 11:49 AM (ZANHd)
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Great strategy. Haven't heard you call Trump gutter trash.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 23, 2024 11:48 AM (ndoNK)
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Trump is gutter trash.
They're all gutter trash.
Great strategy. Haven't heard you call Trump gutter trash.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 23, 2024 11:48 AM (ndoNK)
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Trump is gutter trash.
They're all gutter trash.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:49 AM (GBKbO)
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The crappy politics of Springsteen came from tutelage by Landau and an artist willing to debase his art so that it appealed to all the right people that held positions in the music and entertainment industry.
Thus, a much darker turn to Springsteen's music from the first couple of albums.
Posted by: whig at October 23, 2024
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All I know is that he wrote a couple of good songs ("Fire" and "This Little Girl") for other people, and whenever I hear something of his he's either mumbling or screaming. That cleans me all up with Monsieur Springsteen.
Thus, a much darker turn to Springsteen's music from the first couple of albums.
Posted by: whig at October 23, 2024
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All I know is that he wrote a couple of good songs ("Fire" and "This Little Girl") for other people, and whenever I hear something of his he's either mumbling or screaming. That cleans me all up with Monsieur Springsteen.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2024 11:49 AM (J2vNu)
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Formal language is not 'jargon'.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 23, 2024 11:49 AM (IG4Id)
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I'm a former cataloger. I have been known to catsplain LC classification and subject headings to unsuspecting undergraduates or reference librarians asking an innocent question. There's a reason why they keep us in the back room.
Posted by: screaming in digital at October 23, 2024 11:46 AM (JIkaw)
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Yeah, well, if it's a guy, your accent probably held them captive and they didn't really mind all that much.
Posted by: screaming in digital at October 23, 2024 11:46 AM (JIkaw)
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Yeah, well, if it's a guy, your accent probably held them captive and they didn't really mind all that much.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 23, 2024 11:50 AM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 23, 2024 11:50 AM (L/fGl)
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I'll have to check and see if she ever gave me that recipe. If not, maybe I can get her to share that on the Food Thread some Sunday.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 23, 2024 11:49 AM (ZANHd)
That would be great. I'm not nearly fat enough yet.
I'll have to check and see if she ever gave me that recipe. If not, maybe I can get her to share that on the Food Thread some Sunday.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 23, 2024 11:49 AM (ZANHd)
That would be great. I'm not nearly fat enough yet.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 11:50 AM (+sD5M)
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If a clerisy actually has secular power beyond its community, it usually results in a bloodbath until the purists are eliminated one way or another from power.
Posted by: whig at October 23, 2024 11:49 AM (ctrM5)
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When the Stalinists were shooting the Trotskyites, ordinary Russians were still being sent off to the Gulag.
If a clerisy actually has secular power beyond its community, it usually results in a bloodbath until the purists are eliminated one way or another from power.
Posted by: whig at October 23, 2024 11:49 AM (ctrM5)
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When the Stalinists were shooting the Trotskyites, ordinary Russians were still being sent off to the Gulag.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 23, 2024 11:50 AM (EsZUh)
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>>> 218 I think Kamala's campaign has always been about saving down ballot seats
And I don't think it's working.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 23, 2024 11:39 AM (tT6L1)
This was pelosi's chief concern, that a weak dem candidate will cost them the house. It's why she worked so hard in the shadows to backstab Biden and get him out. If all of it's in vain, and they ditched the pedo ice cream licker just to have Kamala sink them, I'll laugh so hard!
And I don't think it's working.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 23, 2024 11:39 AM (tT6L1)
This was pelosi's chief concern, that a weak dem candidate will cost them the house. It's why she worked so hard in the shadows to backstab Biden and get him out. If all of it's in vain, and they ditched the pedo ice cream licker just to have Kamala sink them, I'll laugh so hard!
Posted by: LizLem at October 23, 2024 11:50 AM (QAK8m)
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295 Concur.
Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at October 23, 2024 11:51 AM (TxBND)
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I can simplify it even further: As quickly as we can, we want to put our boot on your neck.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at October 23, 2024 11:51 AM (g8Ew8)
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What's a Global Asian?
Posted by: Ciampino - It's time that esoteric subjects get vetted at October 23, 2024 11:51 AM (i0xsb)
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Purely anecdotal but there are still lines at the polling place on the third day of early voting. Usually by the second or third day of early voting the lines are gone and there is no waiting. While talking to the lady who scans your DL into the system she told me that she has never seen it like this before. Whatever else happens this is not going to be a low turnout election at least here in Texas, early voting numbers are up almost across the board over 2020 and 2016.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 23, 2024 11:51 AM (QNSds)
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I think it's a given that Kamala is a babbling idiot, but her campaign staff has got to share some of the blame for this horrifically stupid campaign. Apparently it's a bad mixture of Kamala loyalists, Biden holdovers and Dems who have been around. The campaign looks like a Rube Goldberg device that is designed not to work
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 23, 2024 11:51 AM (a7PbZ)
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303 295 Concur.
Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at October 23, 2024 11:51 AM (TxBND)
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None of these people in government or who want to be in government are my friends. They're not my family.
They deserve nothing but distrust and antagonism at all times.
Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at October 23, 2024 11:51 AM (TxBND)
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None of these people in government or who want to be in government are my friends. They're not my family.
They deserve nothing but distrust and antagonism at all times.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:52 AM (GBKbO)
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oh, yay! ad playing before starting the stream on the talk radio station i listen to at work tells me about all the hard work southern california edison is doing to insulate their frickin' wires to mitigate wildfire risk.
we are living in the future.
we are living in the future.
Posted by: anachronda at October 23, 2024 11:52 AM (sGtp+)
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Yeah, well, if it's a guy, your accent probably held them captive and they didn't really mind all that much.
Posted by: blake
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What accent???!
I've got a three-meeting pileup, y'all, catch you later.
Posted by: blake
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What accent???!
I've got a three-meeting pileup, y'all, catch you later.
Posted by: screaming in digital at October 23, 2024 11:52 AM (JIkaw)
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Not when companies will still hire unqualified people with a magical degree in ANYTHING over a competent person without a degree.
Posted by: rickb223
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Depends, quite a few industries don't care much about degrees. Others do. Professional licensing and sticky occupational rules in states and localities are partly to blame.
Labor economics is a fascinating field but a lot of it is counter intuitive to normal supply and demand economics.
Posted by: rickb223
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Depends, quite a few industries don't care much about degrees. Others do. Professional licensing and sticky occupational rules in states and localities are partly to blame.
Labor economics is a fascinating field but a lot of it is counter intuitive to normal supply and demand economics.
Posted by: whig at October 23, 2024 11:52 AM (ctrM5)
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It's pretty much the opposite of 'jargon.'
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 23, 2024 11:52 AM (IG4Id)
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He's either a dithering idiot or deeply dishonest. The idea that the oppressor/oppressed dynamic can't divide nations and increase tensions is so ridiculous you'd have be literally retarded or just straight up lying to not make the connection.
Honestly, I lean towards the former. I think Obama is book-smart, able to regurgitate things his professors said to him with ease, but he hasn't been challenged intellectually in decades and no longer has the mental muscles to actually form argument.
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Making you smell his glove excites him.
Honestly, I lean towards the former. I think Obama is book-smart, able to regurgitate things his professors said to him with ease, but he hasn't been challenged intellectually in decades and no longer has the mental muscles to actually form argument.
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Making you smell his glove excites him.
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 23, 2024 11:52 AM (AdHga)
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What's a Global Asian?
Posted by: Ciampino - It's time that esoteric subjects get vetted at October 23, 2024
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Ancient Chinese Secret -- Calgon!
Posted by: Ciampino - It's time that esoteric subjects get vetted at October 23, 2024
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Ancient Chinese Secret -- Calgon!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2024 11:52 AM (J2vNu)
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If the goal is to save down-ticket Dems, the best thing would be to lock Kammie up someplace she can't hear the dogs barking.
If the goal is to save down-ticket Dems, the best thing would be to lock Kammie up someplace she can't hear the dogs barking.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 23, 2024 11:52 AM (EsZUh)
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I think it's a given that Kamala is a babbling idiot, but her campaign staff has got to share some of the blame for this horrifically stupid campaign. Apparently it's a bad mixture of Kamala loyalists, Biden holdovers and Dems who have been around. The campaign looks like a Rube Goldberg device that is designed not to work
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 23, 2024 11:51 AM (a7PbZ)
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I believe Kamala's shrieking harpy outbursts drove off anyone who was competent, leaving only the third string young know-nothings.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 23, 2024 11:51 AM (a7PbZ)
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I believe Kamala's shrieking harpy outbursts drove off anyone who was competent, leaving only the third string young know-nothings.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 23, 2024 11:53 AM (tT6L1)
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Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:49 AM (GBKbO)
Again great strategy. I'll just say that I don't believe everyone in office is gutter trash. Both Trump and Cruz have given up big bucks to serve the country.
Trump is literally putting his life on the line also .
Again great strategy. I'll just say that I don't believe everyone in office is gutter trash. Both Trump and Cruz have given up big bucks to serve the country.
Trump is literally putting his life on the line also .
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 23, 2024 11:53 AM (ndoNK)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 23, 2024 11:53 AM (L/fGl)
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"One of the challenges of ecclesiastical language is that, even if you can understand it somewhat, it can still be hard to suss out the intent if you're an outsider."
As in Canada ... the lie of massive Indians buried by churches (or whatever). Now they want to make it illegal to expose the lie.
Orwell calls it Newspeak ... Ministry of Truth. Flowery descriptions of actually totalitarian truths. They do want the velvet glove of deception, but Garland and Wray are ready with the iron fist as needed.
As in Canada ... the lie of massive Indians buried by churches (or whatever). Now they want to make it illegal to expose the lie.
Orwell calls it Newspeak ... Ministry of Truth. Flowery descriptions of actually totalitarian truths. They do want the velvet glove of deception, but Garland and Wray are ready with the iron fist as needed.
Posted by: illiniwek at October 23, 2024 11:53 AM (Cus5s)
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heard Kamala is coming to Texas this weekend to campaign with Allred? Why? Do they really think Texas is in play this year?
Posted by: IC - #FJB at October 23, 2024 11:33 AM (DJ7uY)
Have you visited the I-35 corridor recently?
Posted by: IC - #FJB at October 23, 2024 11:33 AM (DJ7uY)
Have you visited the I-35 corridor recently?
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at October 23, 2024 11:54 AM (g8Ew8)
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If the goal is to save down-ticket Dems, the best thing would be to lock Kammie up someplace she can't hear the dogs barking.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 23, 2024 11:52 AM (EsZUh)
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I think the ultimate issue is how they got rid of Biden. He won the primary. They cleared the decks for him (like pretty much every primary for an incumbent president ever).
And then they pushed him out. No one thinks that Biden did it voluntarily.
It doesn't matter who you put up there in that instance, the Democrat brand suffered a massive blow that it may never be able to get back from...well at least through the end of this cycle.
If the goal is to save down-ticket Dems, the best thing would be to lock Kammie up someplace she can't hear the dogs barking.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 23, 2024 11:52 AM (EsZUh)
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I think the ultimate issue is how they got rid of Biden. He won the primary. They cleared the decks for him (like pretty much every primary for an incumbent president ever).
And then they pushed him out. No one thinks that Biden did it voluntarily.
It doesn't matter who you put up there in that instance, the Democrat brand suffered a massive blow that it may never be able to get back from...well at least through the end of this cycle.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 11:54 AM (GBKbO)
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This was pelosi's chief concern, that a weak dem candidate will cost them the house. It's why she worked so hard in the shadows to backstab Biden and get him out. If all of it's in vain, and they ditched the pedo ice cream licker just to have Kamala sink them, I'll laugh so hard!
You can kind of understand her thinking. Biden was going down bigly, and taking the House with him. That was a given, so why not try a Hail Mary with Kamala? How much worse could she do? It seems they may find out.
You can kind of understand her thinking. Biden was going down bigly, and taking the House with him. That was a given, so why not try a Hail Mary with Kamala? How much worse could she do? It seems they may find out.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 11:54 AM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 23, 2024 11:54 AM (EsZUh)
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Funny thing is that gender is a made up construct pertaining to grammar so what garbage is she teaching that isn't language? Should definitely not use any tax money.
Posted by: Ciampino - It's time that esoteric subjects get externally vetted at October 23, 2024 11:54 AM (i0xsb)
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Everybody wants to wear scrubs and a Stethoscope and drive a Range Rover. Bit they don’t want to go to Medical school or residency for 10 years.
Posted by: Common Tater
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Pediatric Cardiology-ing be hard, Yo!
/Chelsea Clinton
Posted by: Common Tater
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Pediatric Cardiology-ing be hard, Yo!
/Chelsea Clinton
Posted by: muldoon at October 23, 2024 11:54 AM (uCfKO)
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308 Don't invest them with sympathy. Don't worship them. They are tools. When they bend or break, discard them.
Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at October 23, 2024 11:55 AM (TxBND)
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This incomprehensibility is often quite beneficial for the group that engages in it. Cant - or argot, or "academic language," or "ecclesiastical language" - serves its purpose. It's a group marker and fluency with it implies membership. To those outside, it's "duckspeak." The insiders can scheme openly in specialized language, keep out the riff raff and - crucially - have the riff raff ignore them
Yes. This is rampant in our teacher education system, and to me it feels like a strategy to exclude anyone outside the education system from teaching our children, like parents or other knowledgeable people who might present facts without the approved flavor and context.
And of course it's ubiquitous in academia.
Yes. This is rampant in our teacher education system, and to me it feels like a strategy to exclude anyone outside the education system from teaching our children, like parents or other knowledgeable people who might present facts without the approved flavor and context.
And of course it's ubiquitous in academia.
Posted by: Emmie at October 23, 2024 11:55 AM (9b91n)
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307 I think it's a given that Kamala is a babbling idiot, but her campaign staff has got to share some of the blame for this horrifically stupid campaign. Apparently it's a bad mixture of Kamala loyalists, Biden holdovers and Dems who have been around. The campaign looks like a Rube Goldberg device that is designed not to work
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 23, 2024 11:51 AM (a7PbZ)
The most glaring thing her campaign has shown is that they do not know how to speak to people outside of their bubble.
They are so walled off that they can only speak to the caricatures of what they believe the average human being to be.
And they're not even close.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 23, 2024 11:51 AM (a7PbZ)
The most glaring thing her campaign has shown is that they do not know how to speak to people outside of their bubble.
They are so walled off that they can only speak to the caricatures of what they believe the average human being to be.
And they're not even close.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 23, 2024 11:55 AM (KbCG3)
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I think it's a given that Kamala is a babbling idiot, but her campaign staff has got to share some[/s take all of the blame for this horrifically stupid campaign. Apparently it's a bad mixture of Kamala loyalists, Biden holdovers and Dems who have been around. The campaign looks like a Rube Goldberg device that is designed not to work position her for success.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 23, 2024 11:51 AM
Suggested edit.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 23, 2024 11:51 AM
Suggested edit.
Posted by: Kamala! at October 23, 2024 11:55 AM (a3Q+t)
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MP4, you were missed (and mentioned many times).
Posted by: creeper at October 23, 2024 11:56 AM (M6moH)
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Sponge, that's lovely. Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: LizLem at October 23, 2024 11:56 AM (QAK8m)
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But Kammie's campaign staff is stupider than her, if such can be imagined.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 23, 2024 11:54 AM (EsZUh)
Smart people don't want to work for a stupid boss. That's why Elon attracts the best and Kamala attracts the dumbest.
But Kammie's campaign staff is stupider than her, if such can be imagined.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 23, 2024 11:54 AM (EsZUh)
Smart people don't want to work for a stupid boss. That's why Elon attracts the best and Kamala attracts the dumbest.
Posted by: IC - #FJB at October 23, 2024 11:56 AM (DJ7uY)
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Every so often I'd sit in a faculty meeting at the local university where I don't teach anymore, except for when I need bier money, and listen to the real progs. Other then likening it t the sounds that the adults make in a Charlie Brown cartoon, yes, it's just like mentioned at the top...academic language. And if the meeting lasts long enough (and you can stay awake) the participants begin to try and outdo each other. It becomes a competition.
And they don't appreciate it when someone laughs.
And they don't appreciate it when someone laughs.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 23, 2024 11:56 AM (W/lyH)
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>>>After 2 weeks of getting the whole of the Left to message that Trump is "exhausted" and doesn't have stamina, she is taking a day or so off.
Posted by: blaster
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Trump did a 30 minute interview with Tyrus just before he did the Al Smith dinner. He's got such an open schedule.\
Posted by: blaster
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Trump did a 30 minute interview with Tyrus just before he did the Al Smith dinner. He's got such an open schedule.\
Posted by: Braenyard at October 23, 2024 11:56 AM (wSFOB)
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"One of the challenges of ecclesiastical language is that, even if you can understand it somewhat, it can still be hard to suss out the intent if you're an outsider."
Also makes it hard to know when to kneel and when to stand up. And what verse you're on in the closing hymn.
Also makes it hard to know when to kneel and when to stand up. And what verse you're on in the closing hymn.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 23, 2024 11:56 AM (SfhV1)
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Former director of LGBTQ advocacy group files lawsuit claiming she was fired by racist conservatives ... within an LGBTQ organization 🤔
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Yeah, QWERTY groups are known hotbeds of radical conservatism.
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Yeah, QWERTY groups are known hotbeds of radical conservatism.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 23, 2024 11:56 AM (L/fGl)
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The most glaring thing her campaign has shown is that they do not know how to speak to people outside of their bubble.
I disagree. They CAN speak to people outside their bubble, but they choose not to, so as to set themselves apart.
The most glaring thing her campaign has shown is that they do not know how to speak to people outside of their bubble.
I disagree. They CAN speak to people outside their bubble, but they choose not to, so as to set themselves apart.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 11:56 AM (xCA6C)
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> None of these people in government or who want to be in government are my friends. They're not my family.
They deserve nothing but distrust and antagonism at all times.
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All true. The reason they're in politics is that they were too stupid to end up in academia.
Well, most of 'em anyway.
They deserve nothing but distrust and antagonism at all times.
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All true. The reason they're in politics is that they were too stupid to end up in academia.
Well, most of 'em anyway.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 23, 2024 11:56 AM (Q4IgG)
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Sponge, that's lovely. Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: LizLem at October 23, 2024 11:56 AM (QAK8m)
My pleasure. It's just an extension of the feelings of love and caring she received at the TxMoMe as well.
Posted by: LizLem at October 23, 2024 11:56 AM (QAK8m)
My pleasure. It's just an extension of the feelings of love and caring she received at the TxMoMe as well.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 11:57 AM (+sD5M)
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If these "Freedom Scholars" eventually win the revolution, my only wish is to live long enough to see them find out what happens when useful idiots are no longer useful.
Posted by: Chuck C at October 23, 2024 11:57 AM (yOPBE)
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I think it's a given that Kamala is a babbling idiot, but her campaign staff has got to share some take all of the blame for this horrifically stupid campaign. Apparently it's a bad mixture of Kamala loyalists, Biden holdovers and Dems who have been around. The campaign looks like a Rube Goldberg device that is designed not to work position her for success.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 23, 2024 11:51 AM
Corrected suggested edit.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 23, 2024 11:51 AM
Corrected suggested edit.
Posted by: Kamala! at October 23, 2024 11:57 AM (a3Q+t)
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I disagree. They CAN speak to people outside their bubble, but they choose not to, so as to set themselves apart.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 11:56 AM (xCA6C)
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They speak AT people outside their bubble.
I disagree. They CAN speak to people outside their bubble, but they choose not to, so as to set themselves apart.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 11:56 AM (xCA6C)
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They speak AT people outside their bubble.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 23, 2024 11:57 AM (EsZUh)
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He has regularly won by smaller margins that almost any other statewide Republican in the state of Texas on the same ballot.
"Ted is a very smart young man but seems to be unwilling to work to his potential."
-- every one of Cruz's elementary school teachers
"Ted is a very smart young man but seems to be unwilling to work to his potential."
-- every one of Cruz's elementary school teachers
Posted by: Oddbob at October 23, 2024 11:57 AM (/y8xj)
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Every so often I'd sit in a faculty meeting at the local university where I don't teach anymore, except for when I need bier money, and listen to the real progs. Other then likening it t the sounds that the adults make in a Charlie Brown cartoon, yes, it's just like mentioned at the top...academic language. And if the meeting lasts long enough (and you can stay awake) the participants begin to try and outdo each other. It becomes a competition.
And they don't appreciate it when someone laughs.
As much as they pretend not to understand the common argot, I guarantee you every one of them would understand if you started making the wanking motion while they're pontificating.
And they don't appreciate it when someone laughs.
As much as they pretend not to understand the common argot, I guarantee you every one of them would understand if you started making the wanking motion while they're pontificating.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 11:58 AM (xCA6C)
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The most glaring thing her campaign has shown is that they do not know how to speak to people outside of their bubble.
I disagree. They CAN speak to people outside their bubble, but they choose not to, so as to set themselves apart.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 11:56 AM (xCA6C)
I disagree.
Look at the Dudes for Kamala ad. It seems written by a long lost tribe who had only heard stories about men.
The most glaring thing her campaign has shown is that they do not know how to speak to people outside of their bubble.
I disagree. They CAN speak to people outside their bubble, but they choose not to, so as to set themselves apart.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 11:56 AM (xCA6C)
I disagree.
Look at the Dudes for Kamala ad. It seems written by a long lost tribe who had only heard stories about men.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 23, 2024 11:58 AM (KbCG3)
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292 The heyday of DEI is done and most of the gender studies, race studies, etc. are producing graduates with no jobs, etc.
Not when companies will still hire unqualified people with a magical degree in ANYTHING over a competent person without a degree.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 23, 2024 11:47 AM (cBeW+)
I'm surprised DEI isn't a Fed agency/cabinet post.
Posted by: BignJames at October 23, 2024 11:48 AM (Yj6Os
It will be if President Trump is cheated out of the election, or otherwise ‘eliminated’.
Not when companies will still hire unqualified people with a magical degree in ANYTHING over a competent person without a degree.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 23, 2024 11:47 AM (cBeW+)
I'm surprised DEI isn't a Fed agency/cabinet post.
Posted by: BignJames at October 23, 2024 11:48 AM (Yj6Os
It will be if President Trump is cheated out of the election, or otherwise ‘eliminated’.
Posted by: Eromero at October 23, 2024 11:58 AM (9RiiM)
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When the Stalinists were shooting the Trotskyites, ordinary Russians were still being sent off to the Gulag.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Part of it was that Russia has always had one form or another of autocratic leadership and the serfs by and large were used to being treated with violence by their landlords. Something similar with the French nobility, and the king in pre-revolutionary France. Revolutions failed in more industrialized nations (other than imposed from beyond) which is a critical failure of Marx that both Lenin and Mao felt necessary to address in their own tedious way.
People and cultures are not widgets and part of how each regime decays is in rough accordance with the population within.
I think decentralization and perhaps a breakup of the US is more likely than something like Stalinist Russia. The old hands used to violence are predominately to the right in this country and the process in which leftists came to power in the West is more similar to a coup than a revolution. It is not broadly based among the population.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Part of it was that Russia has always had one form or another of autocratic leadership and the serfs by and large were used to being treated with violence by their landlords. Something similar with the French nobility, and the king in pre-revolutionary France. Revolutions failed in more industrialized nations (other than imposed from beyond) which is a critical failure of Marx that both Lenin and Mao felt necessary to address in their own tedious way.
People and cultures are not widgets and part of how each regime decays is in rough accordance with the population within.
I think decentralization and perhaps a breakup of the US is more likely than something like Stalinist Russia. The old hands used to violence are predominately to the right in this country and the process in which leftists came to power in the West is more similar to a coup than a revolution. It is not broadly based among the population.
Posted by: whig at October 23, 2024 11:58 AM (ctrM5)
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That's why Elon attracts the best and Kamala attracts the dumbest.
Posted by: IC - #FJB
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He's so funny. He tells potentials, if you don't want to work extra hard don't apply.
Posted by: IC - #FJB
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He's so funny. He tells potentials, if you don't want to work extra hard don't apply.
Posted by: Braenyard at October 23, 2024 11:58 AM (wSFOB)
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Arizona officials say it may take nearly 2 weeks to count the ballots in Maricopa County
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They have only so many fingers.
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They have only so many fingers.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 23, 2024 11:59 AM (L/fGl)
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Hey, RMBS - I've got a long file I have to transcribe right now, but how was Texas?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 23, 2024 11:32 AM
Nearly forgot...nurse was greeted on your behalf in the manner requested.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 23, 2024 11:32 AM
Nearly forgot...nurse was greeted on your behalf in the manner requested.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 23, 2024 11:59 AM (ZANHd)
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Remember the all-female pilots and crew that performed the flyover at the Super Bowl in 2023 which all the corporate media went all gaga over?
One was the pilot who likely flew into the mountain in Washington state last week.
One was the pilot who likely flew into the mountain in Washington state last week.
Posted by: one hour sober at October 23, 2024 11:59 AM (Y1sOo)
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"I think it's a given that Kamala is a babbling idiot, but her campaign staff has got to share some of the blame for this horrifically stupid campaign. Apparently it's a bad mixture of Kamala loyalists, Biden holdovers and Dems who have been around. The campaign looks like a Rube Goldberg device that is designed not to work
Posted by: Smell the Glove"
They should have had her rehearse endlessly coherent answers with semi-specific proposals to the half-dozen or so questions she would ever face, even in friendly interviews. They couldn't even do that. It was always meandering, word salads and generalities about being middle class and lots of Trump hate.
It doesn't seem like that would have been that hard.
Posted by: Smell the Glove"
They should have had her rehearse endlessly coherent answers with semi-specific proposals to the half-dozen or so questions she would ever face, even in friendly interviews. They couldn't even do that. It was always meandering, word salads and generalities about being middle class and lots of Trump hate.
It doesn't seem like that would have been that hard.
Posted by: Ripley at October 23, 2024 11:59 AM (GUOwU)
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Arizona officials say it may take nearly 2 weeks to count the ballots in Maricopa County
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They have only so many fingers.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame
The Count can only count so fast.
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They have only so many fingers.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame
The Count can only count so fast.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 23, 2024 11:59 AM (VNX3d)
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Look at the Dudes for Kamala ad. It seems written by a long lost tribe who had only heard stories about men.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 23, 2024 11:58 AM (KbCG3)
But that one dude was wearing a flannel shirt and sitting on a truck tailgate!
Look at the Dudes for Kamala ad. It seems written by a long lost tribe who had only heard stories about men.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 23, 2024 11:58 AM (KbCG3)
But that one dude was wearing a flannel shirt and sitting on a truck tailgate!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 11:59 AM (+sD5M)
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I disagree. They CAN speak to people outside their bubble, but they choose not to, so as to set themselves apart.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 11:56 AM (xCA6C)
I disagree.
Look at the Dudes for Kamala ad. It seems written by a long lost tribe who had only heard stories about men.
They did that because what good little progtard wants to be the first to say "yeah, why don't we try not talking like a bunch of twee fags, and just talk like men"?
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 11:56 AM (xCA6C)
I disagree.
Look at the Dudes for Kamala ad. It seems written by a long lost tribe who had only heard stories about men.
They did that because what good little progtard wants to be the first to say "yeah, why don't we try not talking like a bunch of twee fags, and just talk like men"?
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 12:00 PM (xCA6C)
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Lol. Harris commercial on Detroit CBS.
"I will bring down the cost of groceries!"
If only she had the power to do that now. Or if onky she knew someone...
"I will bring down the cost of groceries!"
If only she had the power to do that now. Or if onky she knew someone...
Posted by: Stateless at October 23, 2024 12:00 PM (jvJvP)
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Perception is stronger than the truth and it doesn't help that many on the Right, including here , rag on Cruz any chance they get.
When Rand Paul was a new senator he held a filibuster over something Harry Reid was pushing. Ted Cruz stepped in to give RP a break and he testified about his successful trial in the World Court defending the death penalty issued to several gang members that gang raped and killed a couple of young girls in Houston. That was one of the most mesmerizing orations I have ever heard.
When Rand Paul was a new senator he held a filibuster over something Harry Reid was pushing. Ted Cruz stepped in to give RP a break and he testified about his successful trial in the World Court defending the death penalty issued to several gang members that gang raped and killed a couple of young girls in Houston. That was one of the most mesmerizing orations I have ever heard.
Posted by: DanMan at October 23, 2024 12:00 PM (8uzBS)
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He's so funny. He tells potentials, if you don't want to work extra hard don't apply.
Posted by: Braenyard at October 23, 2024 11:58 AM (wSFOB)
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"The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords." - F. E. Smith
He's so funny. He tells potentials, if you don't want to work extra hard don't apply.
Posted by: Braenyard at October 23, 2024 11:58 AM (wSFOB)
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"The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords." - F. E. Smith
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 23, 2024 12:01 PM (EsZUh)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 12:01 PM (+sD5M)
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The Revolution must continue forever, because every new recruit wants their personal turn to break shit.
Posted by: XTC at October 23, 2024 12:01 PM (UnA8+)
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355 I disagree. They CAN speak to people outside their bubble, but they choose not to, so as to set themselves apart.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 11:56 AM (xCA6C)
I disagree.
Look at the Dudes for Kamala ad. It seems written by a long lost tribe who had only heard stories about men.
They did that because what good little progtard wants to be the first to say "yeah, why don't we try not talking like a bunch of twee fags, and just talk like men"?
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 12:00 PM (xCA6C)
I counter that they can't talk like men. They really have no idea what non-liberals are into or why.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 11:56 AM (xCA6C)
I disagree.
Look at the Dudes for Kamala ad. It seems written by a long lost tribe who had only heard stories about men.
They did that because what good little progtard wants to be the first to say "yeah, why don't we try not talking like a bunch of twee fags, and just talk like men"?
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 12:00 PM (xCA6C)
I counter that they can't talk like men. They really have no idea what non-liberals are into or why.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 23, 2024 12:01 PM (KbCG3)
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When I saw Mannix posted a video starring a female I eagerly expected something far different than what I got. Even after I turned off the sound, it did not improve.
He should title it the "Admiral Akbar Prize Video"
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 23, 2024 11:32 AM (lIDVh)
Yeah. Me too.
Looks like she has nice hooters though.
He should title it the "Admiral Akbar Prize Video"
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 23, 2024 11:32 AM (lIDVh)
Yeah. Me too.
Looks like she has nice hooters though.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 23, 2024 12:01 PM (W/lyH)
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357 When Rand Paul was a new senator he held a filibuster over something Harry Reid was pushing. Ted Cruz stepped in to give RP a break and he testified about his successful trial in the World Court defending the death penalty issued to several gang members that gang raped and killed a couple of young girls in Houston. That was one of the most mesmerizing orations I have ever heard.
Posted by: DanMan at October 23, 2024 12:00 PM (8uzBS)
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When he was running for president in 2016, I went to see him give a speech on the USS Yorktown in Charleston Harbor.
The first ten minutes was the history of the Yorktown as a naval vessel from the Revolution, and it was captivating. He's a good speaker.
He just has enemies within the GOPe in TX.
Posted by: DanMan at October 23, 2024 12:00 PM (8uzBS)
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When he was running for president in 2016, I went to see him give a speech on the USS Yorktown in Charleston Harbor.
The first ten minutes was the history of the Yorktown as a naval vessel from the Revolution, and it was captivating. He's a good speaker.
He just has enemies within the GOPe in TX.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 23, 2024 12:02 PM (GBKbO)
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"I will bring down the cost of groceries!"
If only she had the power to do that now. Or if onky she knew someone...
Posted by: Stateless at October 23, 2024 12:00 PM (jvJvP)
And the fact that the Dem voters can't see that or don't care saddens me.
"I will bring down the cost of groceries!"
If only she had the power to do that now. Or if onky she knew someone...
Posted by: Stateless at October 23, 2024 12:00 PM (jvJvP)
And the fact that the Dem voters can't see that or don't care saddens me.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 12:02 PM (+sD5M)
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333 Every so often I'd sit in a faculty meeting at the local university where I don't teach anymore, except for when I need bier money, and listen to the real progs. Other then likening it t the sounds that the adults make in a Charlie Brown cartoon, yes, it's just like mentioned at the top...academic language. And if the meeting lasts long enough (and you can stay awake) the participants begin to try and outdo each other. It becomes a competition.
And they don't appreciate it when someone laughs.
Posted by: Diogenes
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I miss the students, I do not miss faculty meetings filled with dreary minutiae and ours were mainly announcements of administration above us of whatever their new policy du jour was. Had little if nothing to do with actual education of students but rather positioning our administrative leaders for success.
Committee meetings were often worse (trivial process related stuff) but hiring committees and tenure and promotion committee meetings were where the knives came out.
And they don't appreciate it when someone laughs.
Posted by: Diogenes
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I miss the students, I do not miss faculty meetings filled with dreary minutiae and ours were mainly announcements of administration above us of whatever their new policy du jour was. Had little if nothing to do with actual education of students but rather positioning our administrative leaders for success.
Committee meetings were often worse (trivial process related stuff) but hiring committees and tenure and promotion committee meetings were where the knives came out.
Posted by: whig at October 23, 2024 12:02 PM (ctrM5)
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They did that because what good little progtard wants to be the first to say "yeah, why don't we try not talking like a bunch of twee fags, and just talk like men"?
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 12:00 PM (xCA6C)
I counter that they can't talk like men. They really have no idea what non-liberals are into or why.
Well, you talk like a fag and your s***'s all retarded.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 12:00 PM (xCA6C)
I counter that they can't talk like men. They really have no idea what non-liberals are into or why.
Well, you talk like a fag and your s***'s all retarded.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 12:02 PM (xCA6C)
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Looks like she has nice hooters though.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 23, 2024 12:01 PM
Rule 1 exists for a reason.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 23, 2024 12:01 PM
Rule 1 exists for a reason.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 23, 2024 12:02 PM (ZANHd)
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Remember the all-female pilots and crew that performed the flyover at the Super Bowl in 2023 which all the corporate media went all gaga over?
One was the pilot who likely flew into the mountain in Washington state last week.
Posted by: one hour sober at October 23, 2024 11:59 AM (Y1sOo)
Hey! Mountains can spring up out of nowhere. Sneaky bastards they are.
One was the pilot who likely flew into the mountain in Washington state last week.
Posted by: one hour sober at October 23, 2024 11:59 AM (Y1sOo)
Hey! Mountains can spring up out of nowhere. Sneaky bastards they are.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at October 23, 2024 12:03 PM (g8Ew8)
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"Ted is a very smart young man but seems to be unwilling to work to his potential."
-- every one of Cruz's elementary school teachers
Posted by: Oddbob at October 23, 2024 11:57 AM (/y8xj)
Also repeated at every parent teacher conference my Mom ever attended. I fucking hated that. I wanted teacher to tell them I was just dumb, and get them off my back.
-- every one of Cruz's elementary school teachers
Posted by: Oddbob at October 23, 2024 11:57 AM (/y8xj)
Also repeated at every parent teacher conference my Mom ever attended. I fucking hated that. I wanted teacher to tell them I was just dumb, and get them off my back.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 23, 2024 12:03 PM (pohLc)
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Smoke another bowl, Man.
Posted by: torabora at October 23, 2024 12:03 PM (0Gnoc)
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366 They did that because what good little progtard wants to be the first to say "yeah, why don't we try not talking like a bunch of twee fags, and just talk like men"?
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 12:00 PM (xCA6C)
I counter that they can't talk like men. They really have no idea what non-liberals are into or why.
Well, you talk like a fag and your s***'s all retarded.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 12:02 PM (xCA6C)
Ha, love the mixed use of the bleep button there.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 12:00 PM (xCA6C)
I counter that they can't talk like men. They really have no idea what non-liberals are into or why.
Well, you talk like a fag and your s***'s all retarded.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 12:02 PM (xCA6C)
Ha, love the mixed use of the bleep button there.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 23, 2024 12:03 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 23, 2024 12:03 PM (L/fGl)
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Well, it's started. Little #2 has asked his first girl to a dance. He's 9.
She said yes, because, let's face it, he's a catch.
Dude was on cloud 9 last night, like he'd just conquered Mt. Everest, split the atom, and landed on the moon all in one afternoon.
She said yes, because, let's face it, he's a catch.
Dude was on cloud 9 last night, like he'd just conquered Mt. Everest, split the atom, and landed on the moon all in one afternoon.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 23, 2024 12:03 PM (i24o9)
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This kind of speech can be found everywhere people wish to be in an elite class. It's code. It's intended to elevate the speaker above his audience rather than communicate with it.
It's a power trip.
Rampant throughout academia -- natch. Especially in the more useless studies that could never hold their own as serious subjects if their purveyors spoke plainly. But it's also threaded through scientific and medical communities. Having a communication barrier that protects "special institutional knowledge" from the rabble ensures they never figure out that the experts are taking their best guess much of the time.
It's a power trip.
Rampant throughout academia -- natch. Especially in the more useless studies that could never hold their own as serious subjects if their purveyors spoke plainly. But it's also threaded through scientific and medical communities. Having a communication barrier that protects "special institutional knowledge" from the rabble ensures they never figure out that the experts are taking their best guess much of the time.
Posted by: red speck at October 23, 2024 12:04 PM (0Id0S)
375
She cried some more......I would too if that was something I did.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 11:46 AM (+sD5M)
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Then secure their masculinity occasionally cry.
Prayers for you, the wifey, and yours Sponge.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 11:46 AM (+sD5M)
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Then secure their masculinity occasionally cry.
Prayers for you, the wifey, and yours Sponge.
Posted by: ShainS -- Musk May be The X-Factor in Overcoming Fraud at October 23, 2024 12:04 PM (0KEn0)
376
Well, it's started. Little #2 has asked his first girl to a dance. He's 9.
She said yes, because, let's face it, he's a catch.
Dude was on cloud 9 last night, like he'd just conquered Mt. Everest, split the atom, and landed on the moon all in one afternoon.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 23, 2024 12:03 PM
Awwww....
She said yes, because, let's face it, he's a catch.
Dude was on cloud 9 last night, like he'd just conquered Mt. Everest, split the atom, and landed on the moon all in one afternoon.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 23, 2024 12:03 PM
Awwww....
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 23, 2024 12:04 PM (ZANHd)
377
Uh oh.
FDA recalls thousands of bottles of common antidepressant over cancer risk 😬
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
That's depressing.
FDA recalls thousands of bottles of common antidepressant over cancer risk 😬
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
That's depressing.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 23, 2024 12:04 PM (cBeW+)
378
FDA recalls thousands of bottles of common antidepressant over cancer risk 😬
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 23, 2024 12:03 PM (L/fGl)
Good. Maybe less frogs will become gay.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 23, 2024 12:03 PM (L/fGl)
Good. Maybe less frogs will become gay.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 12:04 PM (+sD5M)
379
Every so often I'd sit in a faculty meeting at the local university where I don't teach anymore, except for when I need bier money, and listen to the real progs. Other then likening it t the sounds that the adults make in a Charlie Brown cartoon, yes, it's just like mentioned at the top...academic language. And if the meeting lasts long enough (and you can stay awake) the participants begin to try and outdo each other. It becomes a competition.
*
And they don't appreciate it when someone laughs.
As much as they pretend not to understand the common argot, I guarantee you every one of them would understand if you started making the wanking motion while they're pontificating.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024
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The difference between an academic faculty meeting and a kindergarten class?
Naps.
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And they don't appreciate it when someone laughs.
As much as they pretend not to understand the common argot, I guarantee you every one of them would understand if you started making the wanking motion while they're pontificating.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024
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The difference between an academic faculty meeting and a kindergarten class?
Naps.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2024 12:05 PM (J2vNu)
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Dude was on cloud 9 last night, like he'd just conquered Mt. Everest, split the atom, and landed on the moon all in one afternoon.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 23, 2024 12:03 PM
Ease into the part where she rips out his heart and shits on it.
Dude was on cloud 9 last night, like he'd just conquered Mt. Everest, split the atom, and landed on the moon all in one afternoon.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 23, 2024 12:03 PM
Ease into the part where she rips out his heart and shits on it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 12:05 PM (+sD5M)
Posted by: ShainS -- Musk May be The X-Factor in Overcoming Fraud at October 23, 2024 12:05 PM (0KEn0)
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373 Well, it's started. Little #2 has asked his first girl to a dance. He's 9.
She said yes, because, let's face it, he's a catch.
Dude was on cloud 9 last night, like he'd just conquered Mt. Everest, split the atom, and landed on the moon all in one afternoon.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 23, 2024 12:03 PM (i24o9)
Make it so he never forgets that feeling. He put himself out there and it paid off. Will serve him well over his dating life.
She said yes, because, let's face it, he's a catch.
Dude was on cloud 9 last night, like he'd just conquered Mt. Everest, split the atom, and landed on the moon all in one afternoon.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 23, 2024 12:03 PM (i24o9)
Make it so he never forgets that feeling. He put himself out there and it paid off. Will serve him well over his dating life.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 23, 2024 12:05 PM (KbCG3)
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I miss the students, I do not miss faculty meetings filled with dreary minutiae and ours were mainly announcements of administration above us of whatever their new policy du jour was. Had little if nothing to do with actual education of students but rather positioning our administrative leaders for success.
Committee meetings were often worse (trivial process related stuff) but hiring committees and tenure and promotion committee meetings were where the knives came out.
Posted by: whig at October 23, 2024 12:02 PM (ctrM5)
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I miss the students too.
I was teaching mainly 300-400 level stuff, so the students were in it to finish and were interested. I was always amazed at the quality of work they could do...IF...they had the tools and understanding to do it.
Committee meetings were often worse (trivial process related stuff) but hiring committees and tenure and promotion committee meetings were where the knives came out.
Posted by: whig at October 23, 2024 12:02 PM (ctrM5)
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I miss the students too.
I was teaching mainly 300-400 level stuff, so the students were in it to finish and were interested. I was always amazed at the quality of work they could do...IF...they had the tools and understanding to do it.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 23, 2024 12:05 PM (W/lyH)
384
"Ted is a very smart young man but seems to be unwilling to work to his potential."
-- every one of Cruz's elementary school teachers
Posted by: Oddbob at October 23, 2024 11:57 AM (/y8xj)
Also repeated at every parent teacher conference my Mom ever attended. I fucking hated that. I wanted teacher to tell them I was just dumb, and get them off my back.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 23, 2024 12:03 PM (pohLc)
Seems like an admission of fault on the teacher's part. And this is one of the main reasons we chose to homeschool, so we could find that challenging point rather than have them taught to the lowest common denominator, which is typically drug and abuse homes, sadly.
-- every one of Cruz's elementary school teachers
Posted by: Oddbob at October 23, 2024 11:57 AM (/y8xj)
Also repeated at every parent teacher conference my Mom ever attended. I fucking hated that. I wanted teacher to tell them I was just dumb, and get them off my back.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 23, 2024 12:03 PM (pohLc)
Seems like an admission of fault on the teacher's part. And this is one of the main reasons we chose to homeschool, so we could find that challenging point rather than have them taught to the lowest common denominator, which is typically drug and abuse homes, sadly.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 23, 2024 12:06 PM (i24o9)
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361 I counter that they can't talk like men. They really have no idea what non-liberals are into or why.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 23, 2024 12:01 PM (KbCG3)
The closest a leftist male can get to talking like a man is screaming about killing people.
But even then, he's not doing it for the right reasons.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 23, 2024 12:01 PM (KbCG3)
The closest a leftist male can get to talking like a man is screaming about killing people.
But even then, he's not doing it for the right reasons.
Posted by: XTC at October 23, 2024 12:06 PM (UnA8+)
386
Then secure their masculinity occasionally cry.
Prayers for you, the wifey, and yours Sponge.
Posted by: ShainS -- Musk May be The X-Factor in Overcoming Fraud at October 23, 2024 12:04 PM (0KEn0)
I haven't since I was a kid. I shed a tear occasionally, but I haven't cried in decades. It's a sign of weakness, damnit!
and thank you.
We sure need it lately.
Prayers for you, the wifey, and yours Sponge.
Posted by: ShainS -- Musk May be The X-Factor in Overcoming Fraud at October 23, 2024 12:04 PM (0KEn0)
I haven't since I was a kid. I shed a tear occasionally, but I haven't cried in decades. It's a sign of weakness, damnit!
and thank you.
We sure need it lately.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 12:06 PM (+sD5M)
387
But that one dude was wearing a flannel shirt and sitting on a truck tailgate!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 11:59 AM (+sD5M)
Is that the one who loves to braid his wife and her boyfriend's daughter's hair?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 11:59 AM (+sD5M)
Is that the one who loves to braid his wife and her boyfriend's daughter's hair?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 23, 2024 12:07 PM (aD39U)
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Make it so he never forgets that feeling. He put himself out there and it paid off. Will serve him well over his dating life.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 23, 2024 12:05 PM (KbCG3)
Yep. He was all wanting to brag to his friends today. I had to reign that in a bit and teach appreciation for the outcome and what he has been given.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 23, 2024 12:05 PM (KbCG3)
Yep. He was all wanting to brag to his friends today. I had to reign that in a bit and teach appreciation for the outcome and what he has been given.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 23, 2024 12:07 PM (i24o9)
389
How can you promote "decolonization" at the same time you're promoting mass migration?
Posted by: Oddbob
You think "decolonization" mean "removing non-native persons from a place they've invaded".
The them, "decolonization" means "replacing all pale-skinned persons everywhere with persons of a darker hue, even where the pale faces are the indigenes."
Because all white people are colonizers, by definition, therefore anywhere they exist has been colonized by them, at the expense of brown people, who are, by definition, not colonizers.
Posted by: Oddbob
You think "decolonization" mean "removing non-native persons from a place they've invaded".
The them, "decolonization" means "replacing all pale-skinned persons everywhere with persons of a darker hue, even where the pale faces are the indigenes."
Because all white people are colonizers, by definition, therefore anywhere they exist has been colonized by them, at the expense of brown people, who are, by definition, not colonizers.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 23, 2024 12:07 PM (hB7mE)
390
Jargon by non-word people - ie doctors and sailors and computer technicians - exists to clarify.
Jargon by word people exists to obscure.
Jargon by word people exists to obscure.
Posted by: blaster at October 23, 2024 12:07 PM (xhfG9)
391
All my teacher comments said that dagny is not patient with others, has an attitude problem, and is sarcastic.
Posted by: dagny, first of her name at October 23, 2024 12:07 PM (slJFB)
392
The obvious rejoinder to such people is, "Don't want to sound like a dick or nothing, but ahh ... says on your chart that you're fucked up. Ahh, you talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded."
Posted by: red speck at October 23, 2024 12:07 PM (0Id0S)
393
The first ten minutes was the history of the Yorktown as a naval vessel from the Revolution, and it was captivating. He's a good speaker.
He just has enemies within the GOPe in TX.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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He circumvented the desired candidate of the Bush faction in TX politics to get his Senate seat.
DeMint did something similar in SC and was never forgiven for it.
There is a lot of rot in red states and that is because the grifters aka moderate and left wings of those parties are there to service donors and personal petty grift via land, investments, etc.
GOPe types seize the state party as a conduit to prevent candidates challenging those machines. They do so via control of money, campaign personnel, and outright rigging of primary elections (splitting the primary vote is a favored tactic or renting votes from Dem fixers is another).
He just has enemies within the GOPe in TX.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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He circumvented the desired candidate of the Bush faction in TX politics to get his Senate seat.
DeMint did something similar in SC and was never forgiven for it.
There is a lot of rot in red states and that is because the grifters aka moderate and left wings of those parties are there to service donors and personal petty grift via land, investments, etc.
GOPe types seize the state party as a conduit to prevent candidates challenging those machines. They do so via control of money, campaign personnel, and outright rigging of primary elections (splitting the primary vote is a favored tactic or renting votes from Dem fixers is another).
Posted by: whig at October 23, 2024 12:07 PM (ctrM5)
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It's amusing to hear her babbling about reducing fear while walking around downtown Chicago - a place where fear of crime has been skyrocketing.
As for your point about language, Orwell made the same point back in the 1940s, in his essay "Politics and the English Language". This essay should be required reading for all students, everywhere.
As for your point about language, Orwell made the same point back in the 1940s, in his essay "Politics and the English Language". This essay should be required reading for all students, everywhere.
Posted by: Nemo at October 23, 2024 12:08 PM (S6ArX)
395
Is that the one who loves to braid his wife and her boyfriend's daughter's hair?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 23, 2024 12:07 PM (aD39U)
Don't remember what he said, I only remember him sitting there with his hand on his hip and talking like a man who's tongue has caressed another man's ball sack.
Is that the one who loves to braid his wife and her boyfriend's daughter's hair?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 23, 2024 12:07 PM (aD39U)
Don't remember what he said, I only remember him sitting there with his hand on his hip and talking like a man who's tongue has caressed another man's ball sack.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 12:08 PM (+sD5M)
396
And they don't appreciate it when someone laughs.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 23, 2024 11:56 AM (W/lyH)
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Once when I was sitting in remotely on a video hook-up for a problem case conference, amidst the pontificating and arrogance of the heart surgeons and the interventional cardiologists I played an audio file of "Sad Trombone". Wah-wa-waaaah It seemed to come out of nowhere and the rank and file attendees cracked up. It's good to pop a pompous balloon on occasion.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 23, 2024 11:56 AM (W/lyH)
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Once when I was sitting in remotely on a video hook-up for a problem case conference, amidst the pontificating and arrogance of the heart surgeons and the interventional cardiologists I played an audio file of "Sad Trombone". Wah-wa-waaaah It seemed to come out of nowhere and the rank and file attendees cracked up. It's good to pop a pompous balloon on occasion.
Posted by: muldoon at October 23, 2024 12:08 PM (uCfKO)
397
Well, it's started. Little #2 has asked his first girl to a dance. He's 9.
She said yes, because, let's face it, he's a catch.
Dude was on cloud 9 last night, like he'd just conquered Mt. Everest, split the atom, and landed on the moon all in one afternoon.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 23, 2024 12:03 PM
Awwww....
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 23, 2024 12:04 PM (ZANHd)
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Wait until he gets his hands on the car keys.
She said yes, because, let's face it, he's a catch.
Dude was on cloud 9 last night, like he'd just conquered Mt. Everest, split the atom, and landed on the moon all in one afternoon.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 23, 2024 12:03 PM
Awwww....
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 23, 2024 12:04 PM (ZANHd)
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Wait until he gets his hands on the car keys.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 23, 2024 12:08 PM (W/lyH)
398
Ease into the part where she rips out his heart and shits on it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 12:05 PM (+sD5M)
I'll let that come. I blamed his Mom for chicks having that effect on us.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 12:05 PM (+sD5M)
I'll let that come. I blamed his Mom for chicks having that effect on us.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 23, 2024 12:09 PM (i24o9)
399
Jargon by non-word people - ie doctors and sailors and computer technicians - exists to clarify.
Jargon by word people exists to obscure.
Posted by: blaster at October 23, 2024 12:07 PM (xhfG9)
this is true.
Dazzle them with your brilliance or baffle 'em with your bullshit.
Jargon by word people exists to obscure.
Posted by: blaster at October 23, 2024 12:07 PM (xhfG9)
this is true.
Dazzle them with your brilliance or baffle 'em with your bullshit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 12:09 PM (+sD5M)
400
Noodus ace whistleblowing
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2024 12:09 PM (J2vNu)
401
There is a lot of rot in red states and that is because the grifters aka moderate and left wings of those parties are there to service donors and personal petty grift via land, investments, etc.
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This was Sarah Palin's problem in Alaska.
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This was Sarah Palin's problem in Alaska.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at October 23, 2024 12:09 PM (U1w17)
402
New one: Whistleblower: The Harris-Biden Administration is Paying NGOs to Fly Unaccompanied Minor Children Around, Knowing They're Being Sexually Trafficked
Posted by: Archimedes at October 23, 2024 12:10 PM (xCA6C)
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I'll let that come. I blamed his Mom for chicks having that effect on us.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 23, 2024 12:09 PM (i24o9)
Does it show that my dating life as a yute was utter shit?
I'll let that come. I blamed his Mom for chicks having that effect on us.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 23, 2024 12:09 PM (i24o9)
Does it show that my dating life as a yute was utter shit?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 12:10 PM (+sD5M)
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333 Every so often I'd sit in a faculty meeting at the local university where I don't teach anymore, except for when I need bier money, and listen to the real progs.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 23, 2024 11:56 AM (W/lyH)
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Bier money? How many funerals do you have to pay for?
Posted by: Diogenes at October 23, 2024 11:56 AM (W/lyH)
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Bier money? How many funerals do you have to pay for?
Posted by: Eeyore at October 23, 2024 12:10 PM (1bNHn)
405
Does it show that my dating life as a yute was utter shit?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 12:10 PM (+sD5M)
Mine too. But no need for him to appreciate that prospectively.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 23, 2024 12:10 PM (+sD5M)
Mine too. But no need for him to appreciate that prospectively.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 23, 2024 12:11 PM (i24o9)
406
The difference between an academic faculty meeting and a kindergarten class?
Naps.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2024 12:05 PM (J2vNu)
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The senior faculty at Unseen University would dispute this, but they are currently all taking a noontime siesta.
Naps.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 23, 2024 12:05 PM (J2vNu)
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The senior faculty at Unseen University would dispute this, but they are currently all taking a noontime siesta.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 23, 2024 12:12 PM (7fElN)
407
Ease into the part where she rips out his heart and shits on it.
***********
I'm pretty sure there is a code for that.
Ease into the part where she rips out his heart and shits on it.
***********
I'm pretty sure there is a code for that.
Posted by: muldoon at October 23, 2024 12:12 PM (uCfKO)
408
I miss the students too.
I was teaching mainly 300-400 level stuff, so the students were in it to finish and were interested. I was always amazed at the quality of work they could do...IF...they had the tools and understanding to do it.
Posted by: Diogenes
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I taught pretty much everything from the survey courses, to the capstone courses and some graduate classes mixed in there.
Teaching to me is like jazz, it is the interplay between instructor and a particular group of students that is important. Many of my students had never actually dealt with something outside of the traditional wheelhouse of leftist cant of K-12 and a lot of college education. Some were born counter revolutionaries. Teaching the different mixes of students required finesse and playing off their reactions. Used a lot of simulations, readings from original sources instead of textbooks, etc. in my bag of tricks.
One on one, mentoring for the capstone seminar class where they were required to have both a research paper and presentation of findings. I had them do the presentation as a job interview type situation.
I was teaching mainly 300-400 level stuff, so the students were in it to finish and were interested. I was always amazed at the quality of work they could do...IF...they had the tools and understanding to do it.
Posted by: Diogenes
======
I taught pretty much everything from the survey courses, to the capstone courses and some graduate classes mixed in there.
Teaching to me is like jazz, it is the interplay between instructor and a particular group of students that is important. Many of my students had never actually dealt with something outside of the traditional wheelhouse of leftist cant of K-12 and a lot of college education. Some were born counter revolutionaries. Teaching the different mixes of students required finesse and playing off their reactions. Used a lot of simulations, readings from original sources instead of textbooks, etc. in my bag of tricks.
One on one, mentoring for the capstone seminar class where they were required to have both a research paper and presentation of findings. I had them do the presentation as a job interview type situation.
Posted by: whig at October 23, 2024 12:14 PM (ctrM5)
409
Seems like an admission of fault on the teacher's part.
There is some of that but seriously, where would Cruz be if he were out there kicking ass and taking names with Trump's energy instead of just delivering gotcha lines in committee hearings that only a handful of obsessives watch on Youtube. People like Beto and Allred would be specks in his rearview mirror.
There is some of that but seriously, where would Cruz be if he were out there kicking ass and taking names with Trump's energy instead of just delivering gotcha lines in committee hearings that only a handful of obsessives watch on Youtube. People like Beto and Allred would be specks in his rearview mirror.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 23, 2024 12:15 PM (/y8xj)
410
At the twilight of her life, when asked what impact did the nonsense, she taught all those years, achieve for her fellow men (I apologize for that last word), she'll have nothing to show for it, unlike a STEM prof who can point to past students who have invented/built/cured/etc., or an English prof who wrote great novels or poems, and a film-maker who entertained countless others. Also music.
Posted by: Ciampino - It's time that esoteric subjects get canceled at October 23, 2024 12:15 PM (i0xsb)
411
Any man who cries should be punched in the face repeatedly until he stops crying.
With the possible exception of his dog dying.
But even then, it depends on if that's something his father would have punched him for crying at.
With the possible exception of his dog dying.
But even then, it depends on if that's something his father would have punched him for crying at.
Posted by: XTC at October 23, 2024 12:16 PM (UnA8+)
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>>> I think the ultimate issue is how they got rid of Biden. He won the primary. They cleared the decks for him (like pretty much every primary for an incumbent president ever).And then they pushed him out... Democrat brand suffered a massive blow that it may never be able to get back from...well at least through the end of this cycle.
The Blocked and Reported podcast is hosted by two liberals who were cancelled for daring to do real journalism. They shine a light on other cancelings, and the absurdity of modern wokism in media, literature, gaming, etc.
(The Jewish guy co-host was cancelled for daring to report actual negative, inconvenient facts about the trans community and trans child surgeries, using facts. Can't be allowed!)
I like their takes, but sometimes they are still libs. They had a semi heated debate on whether or not the DNC's system of anointing a candidate instead of democratically voting for one was, well, democratic, and if it makes liberals hypocrites. (The guy co-host thinks it's kosher, the lesbian lady co-host thinks it's gross.) I was reminded of how badly Bernie was treated, and how dems just pretend it was fine, everything was fine, and memory holed it.
The Blocked and Reported podcast is hosted by two liberals who were cancelled for daring to do real journalism. They shine a light on other cancelings, and the absurdity of modern wokism in media, literature, gaming, etc.
(The Jewish guy co-host was cancelled for daring to report actual negative, inconvenient facts about the trans community and trans child surgeries, using facts. Can't be allowed!)
I like their takes, but sometimes they are still libs. They had a semi heated debate on whether or not the DNC's system of anointing a candidate instead of democratically voting for one was, well, democratic, and if it makes liberals hypocrites. (The guy co-host thinks it's kosher, the lesbian lady co-host thinks it's gross.) I was reminded of how badly Bernie was treated, and how dems just pretend it was fine, everything was fine, and memory holed it.
Posted by: LizLem at October 23, 2024 12:16 PM (QAK8m)
413
I'm beginning to think we've reached the silly portion of the campaign.
Watch: Jon Stewart Shuts Down Tim Walz For Comparing Dick Cheney To Taylor Swift
Watch: Jon Stewart Shuts Down Tim Walz For Comparing Dick Cheney To Taylor Swift
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 23, 2024 12:19 PM (L/fGl)
414
Why is no one willing to discuss Koine?
Posted by: Kindltot at October 23, 2024 12:30 PM (D7oie)
415
I didn't know UPS was commie owned. Noted.
Posted by: SamIam at October 23, 2024 12:31 PM (oasF3)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 23, 2024 12:31 PM (D7oie)
417
Not incomprehensible at all. Usual Marxist crap!
Posted by: TE at October 23, 2024 12:35 PM (FJo+L)
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The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.
Posted by: Dodd at October 23, 2024 01:30 PM (a5LZW)
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)) Hot girls are waiting for you on -- www.Nu21.eu
Posted by: Liona at October 23, 2024 01:33 PM (EK2FU)
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Well, in case you were wondering where the Camel Harris gets her word salads, look no further.
Posted by: Ralph at October 23, 2024 01:59 PM (TysyT)
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From the sidebar, Duran Duran is going to be at The Borgata on the 26th.
So get your tickets before they are gone.
Also, this is more than likely the last time you will have an opportunity to see them, ever again.
So get your tickets before they are gone.
Also, this is more than likely the last time you will have an opportunity to see them, ever again.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 23, 2024 01:59 PM (XV/Pl)
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For the love of God, I hope Kamala doesn't learn the word "conjoining."
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 23, 2024 02:24 PM (w6EFb)
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Reminds me of the line from a Tom Lehrer song:
"We all hate poverty, war, and injustice....
...unlike the rest of you squares!"
"We all hate poverty, war, and injustice....
...unlike the rest of you squares!"
Posted by: Will at October 23, 2024 02:37 PM (ehq/d)
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