What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

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1 hour ago, heron said:

But you quoted mine. And, yes, you do know what the tiki brigade is … disingenuousness will only take you so far. Charlottesville wasn’t that long ago.

I don't watch Rachel Maddow, Don Lemon, or The View.  So, I'm not sure why you think I'd be that familiar with that term, or what benefit you think I'd get from saying I'm not familiar with it.

 

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1 hour ago, emtb2rn said:

I personally do not state my pronouns, but I have no issue with those who do. And I will use those pronouns. Doesn’t harm me or the country and shows respect to others wishes, which again, causes me no harm. 

And how is it dumb? Just because you don’t agree with it? Plus, that satire is very clever and scathing. I understand that it stings when your views are skewered. 

I'm not sure when or how this pronoun trend started.   But when "they" or "them" became accepted as a pronoun for one person, it became dumb, if it wasn't already.

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26 minutes ago, Beerman said:

I don't watch Rachel Maddow, Don Lemon, or The View.  So, I'm not sure why you think I'd be that familiar with that term, or what benefit you think I'd get from saying I'm not familiar with it.

 

Those aren’t the sources of the term. It’s my own, based on the Charlottesville riot. Anyone aware of that riot will get the reference. If you’re not aware, you’ve got no business posting on the subject of nazi’s or domestic terrrism.

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7 minutes ago, heron said:

Those aren’t the sources of the term. It’s my own, based on the Charlottesville riot. Anyone aware of that riot will get the reference. If you’re not aware, you’ve got no business posting on the subject of nazi’s or domestic terrrism.

Maybe if you had mentioned Charlottesville when you brought up that term, then it might have made sense.  That's if , now 4 or 5 years later, I had remembered the torches.  That's a big maybe, as I didn't take that to be a important fact within that incident. 

So, if it's your own term, that other poster was incorrect in saying I should have Googled it.

I didn't post on the subject Nazi's or domestic terrorism. 

I'll post on whatever I wish to regardless of your directive.

I'm starting to understand why many here are unable to identify Biden's cognitive decline.

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59 minutes ago, Beerman said:

I'm not sure when or how this pronoun trend started.   But when "they" or "them" became accepted as a pronoun for one person, it became dumb, if it wasn't already.

How is addressing someone, in the manner they wish to be addressed, dumb?

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21 minutes ago, chare said:

How is addressing someone, in the manner they wish to be addressed, dumb?

Let us remember that language is always changing. I remember when “Ms” was considered dumb, silly and awkward. Now … a standard option. 

Otherwise, we’d all be talking like Geoffrey Chaucer or Shakespeare. Or French.

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19 minutes ago, heron said:

Let us remember that language is always changing. I remember when “Ms” was considered dumb, silly and awkward. Now … a standard option. 

Otherwise, we’d all be talking like Geoffrey Chaucer or Shakespeare. Or French.

Profecto loquimur latine, io.

Yeah, there’s a modern colloquialism thrown in there….

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28 minutes ago, emtb2rn said:

Profecto loquimur latine, io.

Yeah, there’s a modern colloquialism thrown in there….

Not to mention Greek, German and Gaelic! Putting translator on favorites list now …

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4 hours ago, Beerman said:

I don't watch Rachel Maddow, Don Lemon, or The View.  So, I'm not sure why you think I'd be that familiar with that term, or what benefit you think I'd get from saying I'm not familiar with it.

 

What do you read?

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3 hours ago, heron said:

Let us remember that language is always changing. I remember when “Ms” was considered dumb, silly and awkward. Now … a standard option. 

Otherwise, we’d all be talking like Geoffrey Chaucer or Shakespeare. Or French.

You'll have to provide me with a better example.  One in which the common meaning was changed for no other reason but to appease a miniscule portion of the population.

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7 hours ago, Beerman said:

You'll have to provide me with a better example.  One in which the common meaning was changed for no other reason but to appease a miniscule portion of the population.

Language evolves constantly. Google it.

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16 hours ago, heron said:

“Giebbels” - aka Goebbels - was the chief propagandist of Hitler’s Nazi party, so you might begin with blond blue-eyed men as ubermenschen destined to rule the world, but only by refusing to let the Jews (among other  inferior races) replace them. Then there were the ubermenschen baby mills - aka blonde blue-eyed women - whose sole purpose was to breed more Aryans.

You mean you haven’t heard Alex Jones et. al. whine about falling fertility/birth rates among whites? Then there’s the tiki brigade chanting “Jews will not replace us”.

And Beerman:  Trump raised about hundreds of millions of dollars from donations to "stop the steal." Surprised anyone has to ask "who?".

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