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Post by millring on Mar 9, 2024 16:41:42 GMT -5
Unanimous doesn't sound very contorted.
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Post by james on Mar 9, 2024 17:17:14 GMT -5
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Post by Cornflake on Mar 9, 2024 18:20:33 GMT -5
That's good, James. .
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Post by james on Mar 9, 2024 18:39:21 GMT -5
One of my favourite US lawsplainers Don and always free to read to boot!
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Post by jdd2 on Mar 9, 2024 19:13:54 GMT -5
A new one:
shufti -- 1940s (originally military slang): from Arabic šāfa ‘try to see’. Or -- shufti is in origin the Arabic word šufti, meaning “have you seen?”, and comes from the verb šāf “to see”.
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Post by james on Mar 9, 2024 19:38:30 GMT -5
My new word of the day,from an article I linked was 'irenic'. "Aiming or aimed at peace".
I have always thought of a 'shufti' as a quick look at something. Picked up I think from my mum. It sounds quite satisfying with a northern English accent. Not so common these days but I like it. Thanks for the etymology
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Post by Cornflake on Mar 9, 2024 20:51:22 GMT -5
"One of my favourite US lawsplainers Don and always free to read to boot!"
I litigated constitutional issues for a living and I tend vainly to assume I don't need no 'splainin.' But I do. Sometimes somebody offers some useful analysis I hadn't thought of.
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Post by millring on Mar 10, 2024 7:11:03 GMT -5
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Post by Marshall on Mar 10, 2024 8:05:34 GMT -5
Just what is an ass hat anyway?
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Mar 10, 2024 10:44:22 GMT -5
Just what is an ass hat anyway? See “Trump”. Mike
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Post by millring on Mar 10, 2024 10:51:46 GMT -5
No, I mean, like, when you guys do the name calling.
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Post by Dub on Mar 10, 2024 11:05:11 GMT -5
Just what is an ass hat anyway? The American Heritage Dictionary defines asshat as A contemptible or detestable person. 3 Signs You Know an Ass Hat
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Post by Russell Letson on Mar 10, 2024 11:30:53 GMT -5
The etymological entry here is interesting--I just assumed it was a semi-euphemism for "asshole." www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/asshatThough there is the example of the transformed Bottom to suggest an older association.
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Post by Cornflake on Mar 10, 2024 13:05:00 GMT -5
A Times writer said the other day something that I'd been thinking for some time: that Trump didn't cause the sharp division we see in our society these days. Trump just glommed on to dissatisfaction that already existed. If it hadn't been Trump, it would have been someone else. If Trump were to disappear tomorrow, that dissatisfaction will still be there. And there's a lot about it that I just can't understand, try as I might.
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Post by Marshall on Mar 10, 2024 13:50:22 GMT -5
Unanimous doesn't sound very contorted. You’re right.
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Post by Marshall on Mar 10, 2024 13:51:15 GMT -5
No, I mean, like, when you guys do the name calling. “Millring, Millring, Millring!”
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Post by millring on Mar 13, 2024 5:01:50 GMT -5
A Times writer said the other day something that I'd been thinking for some time: that Trump didn't cause the sharp division we see in our society these days. Trump just glommed on to dissatisfaction that already existed. If it hadn't been Trump, it would have been someone else. If Trump were to disappear tomorrow, that dissatisfaction will still be there. And there's a lot about it that I just can't understand, try as I might. These acts (like those of the Colorado court) demonstrate a profound distrust to the point of undermining the very democracy they claim to be saving. And all just to get rid of a candidate who has no chance of winning. He already lost to the same candidate -- a candidate who is the most popularly elected president in the history of presidential elections -- eclipsing President Obama by a count that would amount to the entire population of a major American city. Unless one believes that he didn't actually win that election or garner that many votes, then there is no chance a failed Trump could defeat him this time. Yet, it is those who claim they fear the loss of democracy to the boogeyman of "Authoritarianism" are doing their authoritarian best to un-democratically remove him from the ballot. There's nothing left to elect Trump. If it feels like there's nothing left there anymore, it's because there's nothing left there anymore. And as for more recent history: It's easy to forget that no real conservative (certainly none I know or remember) was for Trump in the early part of the 2016 campaign. He won the primary for these reasons: 1. The linked article describes the crumbling coalition that was the Republican Party at the time. 2. The truer conservatives each felt they were the banner carriers for the differing legs of the stool (as per the extremely unflattering article that paints the movement as a liberal would see it)...but all that did was divide the primary voters so effectively away from creating an actual conservative candidate, that Trump just walked right down the middle of the gauntlet. 3. The press -- being Democrat -- wanted a Trump candidacy and they did everything in the estimable power to make sure that it happened. Why did they want a Trump candidacy (since they so obviously hate the man and have since done everything in their power to destroy the man)? Because in 2016 they saw his candidacy as a joke -- and they actually feared the real candidates and the chances Clinton might have against any one of them. But Trump never was a conservative. He was a quick enough study to learn conservative as a second language, but he never was conservative. But in 2016 MANY conservatives did not vote for him. But by 2020 they changed their minds and did vote for him. But the change of mind wasn't because Trump had proven conservative. It was because Trump became the only means by which a person could express a vote against the steam roller that has been the Press/Woke/Narrative ("mostly peaceful" protests burning down American cities, "Your children will die of covid" -- including an Indiana Department of Health television campaign that said exactly that, and watching as people were being forced to accept sexual dysphoria -- not as a sad and lamentable condition to try to help, but rather a thing to celebrate and promote in school children) that they were watching disbelievingly on TV every night. The legs are gone. The stool is gone. And it's not waiting in some other room or under the table where it can be retrieved. It's out in the backyard burn pile. www.fusionaier.org/post/in-a-post-conservative-world-fusionism-is-an-anachronism?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&fbclid=IwAR2rxSjMSOgf4YXMt8B2ZXV6GcNnmt4F60ToBrzMZW6lMFZ_spfFvt_PjEQ
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Post by John B on Mar 13, 2024 7:06:58 GMT -5
Yet reality doesn't always follow a well-reasoned argument.
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Post by Marshall on Mar 13, 2024 8:28:28 GMT -5
These acts (like those of the Colorado court) demonstrate a profound distrust to the point of undermining the very democracy they claim to be saving. . . , But Trump never was a conservative. He was a quick enough study to learn conservative as a second language, but he never was conservative. But in 2016 MANY conservatives did not vote for him. But by 2020 they changed their minds and did vote for him. But the change of mind wasn't because Trump had proven conservative. It was because Trump became the only means by which a person could express a vote against the steam roller that has been the Press/Woke/Narrative ("mostly peaceful" protests burning down American cities, "Your children will die of covid" -- including an Indiana Department of Health television campaign that said exactly that, and watching as people were being forced to accept sexual dysphoria -- not as a sad and lamentable condition to try to help, but rather a thing to celebrate and promote in school children) that they were watching disbelievingly on TV every night. Yeah. I hear you. I don't think there are many people who vote for Trump that actually like him or his beliefs. It's just that he's a junkyard dog that will strike a blow (however crude) against what they believe is the "status quo" that doesn't value their beliefs.
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Post by Marshall on Mar 13, 2024 8:33:48 GMT -5
Along those lines, I think the "remove Trump from the ballot" initiatives have all been stupid and doomed to failure from the start. In fact they do the opposite of what they set out to do. They legitimize Trump's persecution complex. They accentuate the fact that the status quo will do most anything to maintain it's dominance.
Ugly stuff.
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