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Nick

Nick

My name is Nick
Sep 21, 2001
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AngryMetalsmith said:
I've read that Trump is the leading favorite among the GOP.

Seriously, what is wrong with these people ?
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See Westy's graph. The only people saying that work for Trump, or are named Trump.
Someone on the news called DT out on that "fact" with the current poll stats and teh Donald had nothing to say. He's playing the "if you say it long enough people will start to believe it" game.
 
syadasti

syadasti

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So, when I hear someone say that they want to take their country back, I cannot help but look at the person making that statement and wonder, which country do they want? The one that used police to bust up unions? The one that made lynchings a celebratory outing? The one that preached a woman should be happy staying home, raising the kids and catering to her husband's every whim? The one where homosexuals hid their sexual orientation from all but their closest confidantes out of fear their careers and lives would be destroyed, and that they would be disowned by their families? The one where black people could not eat in the same restaurants at which white people ate, or drink from the same water fountains, or attend the same schools or live in the same neighborhoods or ....
I don't want my country back. I want a better country. One that truly provides liberty and justice for all people. And I certainly don't want a country where anyone can discriminate against anyone else of whom they do disapprove and escape liability for that immoral and otherwise unlawful act under any pretext, be it freedom of religion, racial superiority or traditional values.
I never want to go back to the country that existed when I was born. The one that exists now needs far too much improvement as it is.
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Jm_

Jm_

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Putin and Trump just might get us in nuclear war if Trump is elected, but both of them in a UFC match would be pretty entertaining I'd wager...
 
syadasti

syadasti

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Fake Republican patriotism:

In 2004, a group called the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth spent millions of dollars attacking the military service of John Kerry, who was then the Democratic nominee for president. The group claimed that Kerry lied about his service and was awarded military honors he didn’t deserve. The basis for these claims were definitively proven false, but the group carried on with their campaign anyway. (The claims were first published in a book by Jerome Corsi, who would later gain fame for insisting that Obama had a fake birth certificate and was not born in the United States.)
After the campaign Jeb Bush, then Governor of Florida, sent a letter to George Day — a member of the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth who appeared in television advertisements trashing Kerry. Day said Kerry, a recipient of the Silver Star and three Purple Hearts, would “go down in history sometime as the Benedict Arnold of 1971.” In his letter, Bush thanks Day and the “other Swifties” for their “support of my brother in his re-elecction.” “I simply cannot express in words how much I value their willingness to stand up against John Kerry,” Bush wrote.
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But when the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth falsely attacked John Kerry, Perry supported their efforts. As the Swift Boat controversy simmered in August 2004, Perry said that “there’s a lot of questions” about Kerry’s military service and called on him to release all his military records.
The Republican Party swiftly condemned Donald Trump’s comments on McCain. But in 2004, the Republican Party repeatedly refused to condemn the Swift Boat ads, which were financed by major donors to the Republican Party. The group was also advised by individuals with close ties to the Bush campaign and the Republican Party. At the Republican National Convention in 2004, many delegates showed up with “Purple Heart” bandages as a way to support the Swift Boat advertisements and mock Kerry.
On Republican who did condemn the Swift Boat ads was John McCain, although he later campaigned alongside George Day. On Sunday, Kerry blasted Trump’s attacks on McCain.
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Sandro

Sandro

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Nov 12, 2006
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kidwoo said:
Tomasis has given new meaning to "found in translation"

Pretty much half the reason I still come on this site.
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He probably could write crystal clear, perfectly comprehensible and boring sentences, but I'd wager that he is a Walter Benjamin acolyte and is performing what he would call a "liberation of imprisoned language".

For what does a literary work “say”? What does it communicate? It “tells very little to those who understand it. Its essential quality is not statement or the imparting of information - hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations. But do we not generally regard as the essential substance of a literary work what it contains in addition to information - as even a poor translator will admit - the unfathomable, the mysterious, the “poetic,” something that a translator can reproduce only if he is also a poet? This, actually, is the cause of another characteristic of inferior translation, which consequently we may define as the inaccurate transmission of an inessential content.

Walter Benjamin - The task of the translator
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Anyway, it sure is funny how the Republican party can come up with more ridiculous candidates every year. Where do you go after Palin and Trump? Ted Nugent?
 
tomasis7

tomasis7

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Sandro hit the nail on the head. I have look into intertextuality more for my art writing project. Re Walter's writing style, I quote

Susan Sontag said that in Walter Benjamin's writing, sentences did not originate ordinarily, do not progress into one another, and delineate no obvious line of reasoning, as if each sentence "had to say everything, before the inward gaze of total concentration dissolved the subject before his eyes", a "freeze-frame baroque" style of writing and cogitation. "His major essays seem to end just in time, before they self-destruct".


However, Koan in Zenbuddhism been one of my interests as well. Obviously the common language is used as order-words, utterance, hardly a tool of communication.
 
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Beef Supreme

Beef Supreme

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Oct 29, 2010
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stevew said:
if only they had john stewarts writers they might even be a little bit smug.
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It's hard to be smug when you are spewing pure bile which is why the whole meme is funny. Bill O'reily and others have done plenty of pieces with the same message and plenty of smugness if you are just looking for smugness. Now if you are looking for smug humor, you won't find that. They don't have writers like John Stewart's because conservatives aren't intentionally funny.
 
tomasis7

tomasis7

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political correctness :D

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"You've called women you don't like fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals," she said.
He answered by joking that he only said that about actress Rosie O'Donnell and stating that political correctness was one of the country's biggest problems.
"I don't have time for total political correctness," he said.
In the hours after the debate, he took to Twitter to criticise the moderators."
 
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