You don't need to understand little details like words to trade in propaganda
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They know exactly what the words mean, surely? This is linguistic authentocracy. "I'm an honest bloke who doesn't understand these fancy words, unlike these effete rootless communists"
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I remember the Harry’s Place blog critiquing Richard ‘Lenin’ Seymour for using “four-dollar words” like diapason. I’d heard that term though I forgot what it meant — it’s a musical term and he was using it to describe rhetoric.
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Let's not forget that Rentoul also *teaches politics*
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They'll be begging for a short degree course with Rent-a-Tool.
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Phil Collins and Johny Rentoul are just an Ugly Rumours tribute band.Trying to get any sort of gig to make a crust. Middle of the Road-End of the Century.
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Average reading comprehension is something like 8th grade level, so anything above 10th grade level becomes in their minds gibberish. Plus it makes them mad because they have to sound the words out loud. Just a guess.
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I noticed this too. Maybe this is the week they actually gain a modicum of self awareness? Or too much to hope
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Salt of the earth. Call a spade a spade. University of Life. Down with the people. That’s me.
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They are in fact signalling their continued willingness to find people and arguments to their left unserious in exchange for money, he laboriously mansplained.
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