The disorienting, and dangerous, appropriation of language.

[berg80]

"The Patriots are getting upset" bumpersticker...

OMG why do libs have to lie and make up things to go off on a TDS whiney rant?

In the end, Trump would announce that two and two made five, and you would believe it.

 

[berg80]

Sure there is a look at the blm riots dems supported the destruction of local businesses and did nothing.

There is no evidence for that assertion.

 

[Michelle420]

There is no evidence for that assertion.

The blm riots are my evidence I don't expect you to admit your side does anything wrong just like you don't expect trump supporters to think Donald did anything wrong. And guess where that kind of closed-mindedness gets voters?

Your reply will again be a parrot saying you see no evidence, you will repeat that sentence as a response to anything I say Which means you are closed off to your own beliefs.

So it's a wash.

 

[MinTrut]

I saw a car strewn with right wing bumper stickers the other day. One of which said "The Patriots are getting upset." The other stickers made it clear the reference was not to the football team. It was to traitors who want to be thought of as patriots. Calling yourself a patriot when in fact you favor insurrection is delusional.....and disorienting. The line from 1984.........
“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.”......comes to mind. So does MAGA.

From the beginning of Trumpery we were told the pictures we saw of the inauguration did not reflect reality. If you wanted to know what was real you had to listen to an inveterate liar. "What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what is happening." Don would have us believe liars are truth tellers. No wonder he spent so much time being interviewed on Faux.

Now he wants us to believe orchestrating a plan to steal the election by having, in part, the VP accept fake slates of electors rather than the ones representing the votes of the people is covered by the 1st A. Huh?

Orwell despised a lot of words. He wrote a whole essay on them in 1946. Titled “Politics and the English Language,” the essay takes aim at all of Orwell’s pet hatreds: excessive use of Latinate instead of Anglo-Saxon words; unwarranted use of the passive voice; mixed metaphors; clichés; and the phrase “not un-,” as in “it is not unlikely that Trump will seek office in 2024 if not barred from doing so.” (Redundant, fumes Orwell. Just say, “It’s likely.”)

But what Orwell is particularly angry about is imprecise language, and language that conceals rather than clarifies. Which, for him, includes most political language. “Political language,” he writes, “is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

For this reason, Orwell argues, politicians are particularly given to lazy, sloppy rhetoric, filled with meaningless buzzwords and clichés. Political language, he says, muffles the sense of what is being communicated, which is so often indefensible, with an overlay of righteous justification. And as a result, those who get caught up in this style of speech — both its speakers and its listeners — find their ability to think caught and shaped by their impoverished language. They are no longer able to recognize a lie as a lie and a murder as a murder because the language in which they speak is so vague as to allow them to consider a lie an alternative fact and a murder a tragic yet unavoidable accident.
https://www.vox.com/culture/2223319...-english-language-josh-hawley-donald-trump-jr

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/th...ther-works/politics-and-the-english-language/

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(I’d have replied above using words, but they seem to trigger the OP...)

 

[blackhawk]

 

[martybegan]

It was only a matter of time before deflection was invoked.

What deflection? You are being called out for using the classic leftist tactic of accusing your opponent of using your go to tactic.

The left has been abusing the English language since the 60's. Now SJW's have added doublethink requirements to the rape of the language.

You can't just say women can have penises, you have to BELIEVE women can have penises, and there have always been women with penises.

 

[berg80]

What deflection? You are being called out for using the classic leftist tactic of accusing your opponent of using your go to tactic.

The left has been abusing the English language since the 60's. Now SJW's have added doublethink requirements to the rape of the language.

You can't just say women can have penises, you have to BELIEVE women can have penises, and there have always been women with penises.

There is no comparison to the roughly 70% of self identified Repubs who still believe the Big Lie.

 

[martybegan]

There is no comparison to the roughly 70% of self identified Repubs who still believe the Big Lie.

That's opinion, not language. You call it the big lie and cherry pick the worst accusations to tarnish those like me who still think ballot harvesting occurred and may have changed the results.

 

[Billiejeens]

There is no comparison to the roughly 70% of self identified Repubs who still believe the Big Lie.

Everyone saw the fraud of unverifiable mail-in ballots.
It doesn't suit your needs, so you pretend that you didn't see it and are simply delusional,
did see it, but don't care, or don't have the mental acumen to understand it.

It could be any of those.

 

[berg80]

That's opinion, not language. You call it the big lie and cherry pick the worst accusations to tarnish those like me who still think ballot harvesting occurred and may have changed the results.

Equivocation doesn't change your belief in the Big Lie.........which is the belief the the election was not legitimately won by Biden.

 

[Billiejeens]

Equivocation doesn't change your belief in the Big Lie.........which is the belief the the election was not legitimately won by Biden.

No one thinks that Biden won.
Some just don't care.

 

[berg80]

Everyone saw the fraud of unverifiable mail-in ballots.
It doesn't suit your needs, so you pretend that you didn't see it and are simply delusional,
did see it, but don't care, or don't have the mental acumen to understand it.

It could be any of those.

For those of you who still believe in the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on millions of gullible Americans nothing will ever convince you of the con you've adopted. You embarrass yourselves every time you remind those grounded in reality of it.

 

[Billiejeens]

For those of you who still believe in the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on millions of gullible Americans nothing will ever convince you of the con you've adopted. You embarrass yourselves every time you remind those grounded in reality of it.

Have you noticed that no one believes you to be a serious poster?

 

[SeaMajor7]

For those of you who still believe in the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on millions of gullible Americans nothing will ever convince you of the con you've adopted. You embarrass yourselves every time you remind those grounded in reality of it.

"These are not the droids you are looking for."
waves hand

 

[martybegan]

Equivocation doesn't change your belief in the Big Lie.........which is the belief the the election was not legitimately won by Biden.

that's one OPINION of the 2020 election, mine is there was something wrong with it, but it can't be proven...yet.

Not abuse of language like the left is doing.

 

[berg80]

No one thinks that Biden won.
Some just don't care.

The majority knows Biden won. Because he did.

 

[berg80]

that's one OPINION of the 2020 election, mine is there was something wrong with it, but it can't be proven...yet.

Not abuse of language like the left is doing.

That qualifies as superstition.

 

[martybegan]

That qualifies as superstition.

It's an opinion, again not abuse of language.

The only abuser of language is the left these days.

Men Can menstruate.

 

[berg80]

Have you noticed that no one believes you to be a serious poster?

Have you noticed there is no proof for anything you write?

 

[Billiejeens]

that's one OPINION of the 2020 election, mine is there was something wrong with it, but it can't be proven...yet.

Not abuse of language like the left is doing.

What was wrong with it was PROVEN, in real time.
Swings states changed the way that mail in ballots were handled, without LEAGALLY CHANGING the way mail in ballots were handled.
We all saw the machinations as they occurred.
Entities within a state changed the way that they were going to handle the ballots.
Those entities didn't have the authority to do that, yet no one was able to stop them.
The second that unverifiable ballots were mixed in with verified ones, the steal was on.
No legal way to decide which ones were legit and which ones were not.