someone else here pointed out a couple years ago that Cambridge and Webster's dictionaries equate the meaning of literally and figuratively. amazed me.
guess i could care less.
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guess i could care less.
I don't think Trump sympathizes with neo-Nazis. I think neo-Nazis sympathize with Trump and he welcomes their sympathy insofar as he can profit from it.
I suspect that's how Trump feels about basically all of his supporters.
djmich
Footballguy
Exactly
Similarly, I don’t think Trump especially dislikes or looks down on black people. I think he looks down on anyone not Trump and dislikes anyone that’s not a sycophant.
Alex P Keaton
Footballguy
I’m not critical of your synopsis. I literally have no idea what your point is — other than you think there is a “transgender agenda.”
Alex P Keaton
Footballguy
Yeah. This seems spot on. It’s hard to imagine welcoming the support and sympathy of neo-Nazis. But politicians often make a deal with the devil…..
You denying the existence of the political power of the lgbqt+ community and their agenda? I suppose the thousands of people cancelled and businesses closed might suggest otherwise.
(HULK)
(Smash)
If you've read my posts in the woke thread, you know I'm strongly against it.
In terms of how problematic it is compared to 1/6, it's not even a small fraction of it. I'm incredulous that you point to that while ignoring the threat to democracy. Without democracy, none of this other stuff exists.
Alex P Keaton
Footballguy
Sorry, is it an lgbqt+ agenda? Or just a trans agenda? What does the trans agenda consist of? I’m obviously not up on all this stuff.
NorvilleBarnes
Footballguy
Oh, they all share in the cancel culture. In addition the trans community has a bit more of a diabolical agenda. Pushing hormone blockers on children and coaching them on the appropriate answers to tell the doctors. Promoting dangerous and unnecessary surgeries like removing breasts, uterus, and penises of children.
the moops
Footballguy
Someone here either lied to you or these places have since changed their definitions.
Cambridge dictionary literally has the word literally as the opposite of figuratively.
Snoopy
Footballguy
Dickies
Footballguy
I know, on this forum advocating for perverted money-hungry sex-change mills stop ripping the wombs out of young children constitutes complaining.
GordonGekko
Footballguy
Direct Headline: ‘I’ve Never Met A Latinx’: Van Jones Says The Way Liberals Talk Is ‘Just Weird’
CNN’s Van Jones said Friday that Democrats were having trouble reaching middle class Americans because some of their marketing strategies were “just weird” and didn’t appeal to regular, working people....Jones spoke with “New Day” anchors John Berman and Brianna Keilar about Democratic prospects going into November’s midterm elections, and he argued that the party did not appear to have a cohesive message that was resonating with the people in the middle...
....Jones began by explaining that the Democratic Party was quickly becoming “the party of the very high and the very low,” saying that they were working so hard to please the academic elites and those at the very bottom of the food chain that the largest group — the middle — was getting lost.....
“If you pull out the working class, you’ve got people who are very well educated and very well off. Those people talk funny — Latinx? I’ve never met a Latinx. I’ve never met a BIPOC. I’ve never met — you know — all this weird stuff that these highly-educated people say, it’s bizarre. Nobody talks that was at the barber shop, the nail salon, the grocery store, the community center — but that’s how we talk now, so that’s weird.”
“And then the people who are very low down on the economic ladder need a bunch of stuff,” Jones continued. “You wind up overpromising — you know, ‘We’ve gotta give you reparations,’ to people at the bottom of the economic ladder, talking weird to appeal to people at the top of the economic ladder, and the working class walks away from you. That is the danger we’re facing.....”
By Virginia Kruta Jun 17, 2022
https://www.dailywire.com/news/ive-never-met-a-latinx-van-jones-says-the-way-liberals-talk-is-just-weird
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Who gets to decide the "correct" usage of those terms? You?
I'll keep it simple.
The majority of parents do not want their tax dollar spent in public schools in some screwed up attempt to sexualize their children or convince those kids that they are transgender or soak innocents in the idea that they were born racist and should be ashamed of that.
The majority of the working class do not want to see the cost of basic living explode while some smug idiot like Buttigieg, after taking months off the job while infants were starving from no baby formula and in the middle of a supply chain crisis, says the best thing to do is to go buy an electric car that the majority of American's can't afford.
The majority of Americans don't want our country flooded with illegal immigrants and the implied cost of drugs, crime and total tax dollar cost they create here. They also don't want career criminals and the homeless to invade the streets and take away basic civil order.
The majority of Americans find what happened in Afghanistan to be disgusting and unforgivable. Billions of our weapons, paid with our tax dollars, were left in the hands of terrorists, to kill future generations of our citizens, while the entire nation became a laughingstock around the world. What about our national security?
The majority of Americans don't want "culture wars" involving pronouns and whom plays what sports when every day people worry about their kid's mental health from all those lockdowns, the cost of food and the cost of gasoline and the out of control pricing of basic housing.
There's an endless list of failures and scandal coming from the same Party and the same administration and the same imbeciles holding current power.
"Label" them how you like, the every day working class are angry and the chickens are coming home to roost.
When you talk about "labels", you sound like every other disconnected Limousine Liberal who pushes some fringe issue and tries to ignore the rank and file citizen then attempts to run over the core material working class needs of our society - Food on the table. A roof over your head. Safety for your children.
You talk about "ignorance" while the wealthy "elite" like a Pelosi spits in the face of the working class. And your biggest gripe is "labels"?
Here's a simple label - The same political Party keeps pushing public policy and behavior and elected officials who keep doing and saying idiotic things that make it easier for America's children to die.
"To scare other folks" - Are you insane? Of course people should be scared. They don't know if Putin will launch nukes. They don't know if a tottering old racist in charge who can't walk up a flight of stairs will launch nukes. There's a worldwide pandemic. Inflation is going out of control. No one is sure they are safe anymore walking down the streets, lest some no bail career criminal murders them or they are caught in a mass shooting. The cost of living makes people worry that they will soon be homeless. The lines to food banks are growing by the day. The entire world around us is in chaos as well. The media is openly lying to everyone and they don't seem to care that everyone knows. No one knows what the impact of all this social media and these lockdowns did to all these young children here. The list is endless.
You think every day working class people are only scared because of 'labels'? Is that what you are pushing here?
Terrorists around the globe who want to destroy our way of life - "We want to crush the United States and see it burn!"
The American radical left and the core of the establishment Democrats - "Hold my beer"
Van Jones is talking about people just like you.
Dinsy Ejotuz
Footballguy
The thing you quoted literally points out that two quarters of negative GDP isn't the definition of a recession.
Unless you mean that right-wing trolls are going to insist that a recession be defined differently to make sure there's a recession on Biden's watch?
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NorvilleBarnes
Footballguy
Correct. That was the point of posting it.
From Forbes:
In 1974, economist Julius Shiskin came up with a few rules of thumb to define a recession: The most popular was two consecutive quarters of declining GDP.
This was the rule I've most frequently heard in the past.
Manster
Footballguy
I would say racist is the most glaring example. That's the leftist go-to when someone isn't in agreement with them, whether they are racist, or not.
The Commish
Footballguy
"racist" is the other side of the "I can't make a cogent argument so I'm going to name call" coin from "communist, socialist, marxist".
NorvilleBarnes
Footballguy
The Left (of which you do NOT belong) are now changing the definition of the word . . . "definition". LINK
Captain Cranks
Footballguy
What is "Tell me you fall for fake right wing propaganda without saying it directly," Alex.
NorvilleBarnes
Footballguy
AAABatteries
Footballguy
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
That is a very biased way of seeing things. Racist is a term thrown out like candy at anyone and everyone who professes conservative ideas. Groomer is a used in a very specific way for people who are sexualizing young children and trying to get them to adopt sexual identities at an age where
kids barely understand what sex even is.
Groomer is a term which has really struck the nerve in the LBGT+ community because it effectively characterizes their agenda. So much so that Twitter has started to permaban people for using it. The anti-free speech fascist have long taken over our big tech monopoly speech platforms.
Of course all this platform cares about is one protest which got out of control and caused an inconvenience. That is somehow a continuing threat to our freedoms. We will ignore the actual elimination of freedom of speech which is occurring on the most massive basis ever seen in this country. We only need to be concerned about some guy who stole a coat rack or sprayed some bear spray. Those guys are the real threat to us. Our most fundamental freedoms be damned.
FairWarning
Footballguy
I do see racist used by the right also against the left, but it doesn’t have near the effect.
That is because the left has been empowered to be racists and use every derogatory means to dehumanize conservatives because conservatives are the embodiment of the white male oppressors and using clearly bigoted rhetoric against oppressors is not bigotted. Dehumanizing white people is not only perfectly OK, it is encouraged.
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KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Gotta say, I didn't miss this stuff in the last week. Hopefully others had a similar week away from this place, and the ignore function is better on these new boards.
Ignoring reality is the easiest way to avoiding the truth. Leftists are righteous and any criticism must be silenced . Conservatives are evil and must be punished.
Fortunately this forum has not given into all the Leftists attempts to silence the opposition, so you must resort to ignoring.
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