😂😂 Yeah, ok. So when they say it, it's true. They're "election-affirmers" (my phone actually prompted election-deniers! 😒) The bullshit is seeping out of their skin!
Journalistic fraud is the same character flaw as election fraud, so it's expected that those who support election cheating would also cheat the language. Hippocrisy is just a tactic. Flawed character is not new. It's fundamental human nature. What is new in the increasing tolerance for it. The entire purpose of society is to moderate those character flaws. If that fails, society fails and civilization will collapse.
I prefer that civilization does not collapse, and will fight to punish those who seek it. But I'm prepared to deal with the collapse of civilization.
I think all media should come with entry and exit polls like the Munk Debates so The Party would have to know what people actually think of them. Or they would at least be forced to acknowledge that their readership consists exclusively of apparatchiks.
Simple! It worked for the definition of "Vaccine". Why not try it on any other word that presents an inconvenience to the prevailing powers that be? (rhetorical question)
Try "racism", which went from the obvious definition of "hating people based on their race" to "hating people based on their race, while having 'institutional power', which we have conveniently bounded such that it only matches 'being white'". That's been at least 10 years. I'm sure if I spent time thinking about it, I could find examples from 20, 30, possibly even 40 or 50 years ago, though I'm not quite old enough to recall the latter two personally.
No doubt it did; but in the case of racism, and so many other "isms" in today's ever expanding common vernacular, new "definitions" have been created only in terms and by means of their social construct. Whereas the definition of "Vaccine" was actually and literally rewritten for use in the medical and scientific literature in order to accommodate what can only otherwise be defined as "Gene Therapy".
And besides... didn't you know... only white people can be racists... all others are justified in their hatred of all white people, and by extension all men, by their perception (real or perceived) of having been victimized. (That was "tongue in cheek" so hard that it actually stuck for a moment... LMAO!)
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Well said, M. Sim. Thank you.
I'd rather be accused of Election Denial, than Election Thievery.
“Election-deniers” isn’t so vague a term after all. Put an S on the front of the first word and suddenly it all makes sense.
"cast doubt on secure-election systems"
Fully logical.
How long ago was it "racist" was purposefully made to mean "white"? 50 years?
😂😂 Yeah, ok. So when they say it, it's true. They're "election-affirmers" (my phone actually prompted election-deniers! 😒) The bullshit is seeping out of their skin!
Journalistic fraud is the same character flaw as election fraud, so it's expected that those who support election cheating would also cheat the language. Hippocrisy is just a tactic. Flawed character is not new. It's fundamental human nature. What is new in the increasing tolerance for it. The entire purpose of society is to moderate those character flaws. If that fails, society fails and civilization will collapse.
I prefer that civilization does not collapse, and will fight to punish those who seek it. But I'm prepared to deal with the collapse of civilization.
Well. **That's** bold.
Or to put it another way, "Because Fuck You, That's Why".
I’d say this is some bullshit, but as it turns out, “bullshit” is actually “a delightful holiday spread, best served with a soft cheese”.
Writing this one down.
(Although, I *might* have heard it before!)
If that’s so, I apologize to whomever my subconscious stole it from!
Ha! No worries! It's a great joke and whoever thought of it first deserves to be plagiarized.
I think all media should come with entry and exit polls like the Munk Debates so The Party would have to know what people actually think of them. Or they would at least be forced to acknowledge that their readership consists exclusively of apparatchiks.
the media and the left have every weapon they need to fix this racist county
I guess it is "time" to continue ignoring their despicable games
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
Antivaxxer
Conspiracy theorist
"Election denier"
Is name calling.
Sticks and stones might break my bones but names can never hurt me.
Can we talk?
Election denier is, like antivaxxer and conspiracy theorist, an accusation. It has no fact based definition.
And *all* accusations are opinions.
Exactly. Even when an accusation is proven "in the opinion of the court," it might be later changed.
Simple! It worked for the definition of "Vaccine". Why not try it on any other word that presents an inconvenience to the prevailing powers that be? (rhetorical question)
It started **way** before "vaccine".
Try "racism", which went from the obvious definition of "hating people based on their race" to "hating people based on their race, while having 'institutional power', which we have conveniently bounded such that it only matches 'being white'". That's been at least 10 years. I'm sure if I spent time thinking about it, I could find examples from 20, 30, possibly even 40 or 50 years ago, though I'm not quite old enough to recall the latter two personally.
No doubt it did; but in the case of racism, and so many other "isms" in today's ever expanding common vernacular, new "definitions" have been created only in terms and by means of their social construct. Whereas the definition of "Vaccine" was actually and literally rewritten for use in the medical and scientific literature in order to accommodate what can only otherwise be defined as "Gene Therapy".
And besides... didn't you know... only white people can be racists... all others are justified in their hatred of all white people, and by extension all men, by their perception (real or perceived) of having been victimized. (That was "tongue in cheek" so hard that it actually stuck for a moment... LMAO!)
The corrupters of language will be hanged.
After a fair trial, of course.
I say we should dispense with the trials for the sake of expediency.
Eh, we'll just redefine them. ;)
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Oh. Wow. BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
I **swear** that I typed that just to reference the old meme, before I saw that you actually write... "Dave's Newsletter".
Well, I guess that's the first time I've ever said that and then actually been able to! :D
About a year ago, I noticed that the definition of misleading had changed to "factually true but practically inconvenient."
I think that same definition applies to "misinformation".
What's the opposite of "Pravda"? If there's an "Official Truth" then there must also be "Official Falsehoods" as well...