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Post by t-bob on Jun 13, 2018 23:39:11 GMT -5
George Lakoff—retired UC-Berkeley Prof of Cognitive Science and Linguistics—recently spoke and gave us these guidelines for resisting the government:
1. Don't use the chief executive's name.
2. Remember that this is a regime and he's not acting alone.
3. Don't argue with those who support him--it doesn't work.
4. Focus on his policies, not his orangeness and mental state.
5. Keep your message positive—they want the country to be angry and fearful.
6. No more helpless/hopeless talk.
7. Support artists and the arts.
8. Be careful not to spread fake news. Check it first.
9. Take care of yourself and your community.
10. Resist!
(Please copy/paste this into a new post if you want to share it.
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Post by aquaduct on Jun 14, 2018 5:43:32 GMT -5
George Lakoff—retired UC-Berkeley Prof of Cognitive Science and Linguistics—recently spoke and gave us these guidelines for resisting the government: 1. Don't use the chief executive's name. 2. Remember that this is a regime and he's not acting alone. 3. Don't argue with those who support him--it doesn't work. 4. Focus on his policies, not his orangeness and mental state. 5. Keep your message positive—they want the country to be angry and fearful. 6. No more helpless/hopeless talk. 7. Support artists and the arts. 8. Be careful not to spread fake news. Check it first. 9. Take care of yourself and your community. 10. Resist! (Please copy/paste this into a new post if you want to share it. Wow! That's only 2 years and a couple billion or so late. But at least they've given up the "hide under the bed and pee yourself like a little girl" part of the whole platform. |
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Post by brucemacneill on Jun 14, 2018 5:50:31 GMT -5
#5 is a laugh.
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Post by millring on Jun 14, 2018 5:55:00 GMT -5
2. Remember that this is a regime and he's not acting alone.
When tea party types said anything close to that kind of thing they were "conspiracy theorists".
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Post by coachdoc on Jun 14, 2018 6:31:48 GMT -5
I don't know. It's all conspiracy. Whenever a group gets together, plans how to advance its goals and achieve political power, isn't that at least loosely conspiracy. They conspire to win?
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Post by theevan on Jun 14, 2018 6:36:24 GMT -5
Trump is the Inspector Gadget of politicians.
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Post by aquaduct on Jun 14, 2018 7:15:32 GMT -5
I don't know. It's all conspiracy. Whenever a group gets together, plans how to advance its goals and achieve political power, isn't that at least loosely conspiracy. They conspire to win? True. But a conspiracy usually assumes a degree of stealth. Trump is the loudest conspiracy in history. |
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Post by coachdoc on Jun 14, 2018 8:37:38 GMT -5
I don't know. It's all conspiracy. Whenever a group gets together, plans how to advance its goals and achieve political power, isn't that at least loosely conspiracy. They conspire to win? True. But a conspiracy usually assumes a degree of stealth. Trump is the loudest conspiracy in history. True dat. |
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Post by millring on Jun 14, 2018 8:41:46 GMT -5
I have trouble believing that even the average Democrat doesn't believe that list isn't kooky. I can't believe the average Democrat is nearly that apocalyptic in their thinking.
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Post by james on Jun 14, 2018 9:42:55 GMT -5
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Post by aquaduct on Jun 14, 2018 9:53:57 GMT -5
Yeah, I thought it smelled bad. Horse shit left to rot for a year and a half. Glad I didn't step in it. |
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Post by Russell Letson on Jun 14, 2018 10:09:38 GMT -5
2. Remember that this is a regime and he's not acting alone. When tea party types said anything close to that kind of thing they were "conspiracy theorists". 1) That's not conspiratorial thinking, it's a recognition that an administration, even one with a lying, paradigm-stretching bully in charge, is a a governing group, perhaps a coalition--which most regimes are. If it takes a village to raise a kid, it takes a regime to run a country. "Regime" is not a conspiracy-theorist term. ("Deep state" is.) 2) There were plenty of actual conspiracy theorists among the Tea Partiers. Also grumps and cranks and the merely pissed-off. It was (and is) a movement based on being dissatisfied. I'm a fairly ordinary Democrat, and I don't find the list (which is, per James' post, not really Lakoff's but an internet omnium-gatherum) kooky so much as miscellaneous and rather feel-goody. Certainly not apocalyptic, per #s 4, 6, and 9. |
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Post by Dub on Jun 14, 2018 11:59:53 GMT -5
Once again Russell speaks for me.
Now if I could just get him to do the guitar playing for me.
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Post by amanajoe on Jun 14, 2018 12:15:24 GMT -5
True. But a conspiracy usually assumes a degree of stealth. Trump is the loudest conspiracy in history. True dat. True dat? You've gotten a lot more "street" since we last met. |
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Post by Russell Letson on Jun 14, 2018 12:17:52 GMT -5
Now if I could just get him to do the guitar playing for me. Isn't that what's called "leveling down"? But if we change "for" to "with," then the answer is "any time." (I'll try to keep up.) |
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Post by Marshall on Jun 14, 2018 13:05:41 GMT -5
 Foul on Flake and Russell: Illegal insertion of guitar related talk in a political thread. |
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Post by coachdoc on Jun 14, 2018 14:20:47 GMT -5
Foul on Flake and Russell: Illegal insertion of guitar related talk in a political thread. And fingerstyle at that. |
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