The judges would also have accepted: "From the people who brought you 'speech is violence', 'violence is speech', and 'silence is violence'."
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The judges would also have accepted: "Weapons of mass destruction are weapons that kill thousands or millions with one use. One who is so childishly irresponsible as to confuse the deaths of a few with the deaths of millions, is one who will shrug off the deaths of millions."
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The judges would also have accepted: "Fuck that fucking guy, fuck him right in the nose."
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Wait, so, er, Saddam had weapons of mass destruction?
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WMD = nuclear/chem/bio. Period. Saddam had old stockpiles of chemical weapons (from the Iran-Iraq war) and some biowarfare labs that may not have produced anything. Some of the chemical weapons showed up later in Syria.
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Yes, but I’m making the point that we’ve gone so far around the rhetoric wheel that he’s retroactively endorsing Donald Rumsfeld
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ohhhhhh right, good point!
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Did you just try to sound smart while saying “words r dum”?
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I'm surrounded by these types in academia, whether in my discipline or others in the humanities. Completely disconnected from the physical. I'm good with words....but they are toys. You have to connect with the physical or you will float away.
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A life spent creating nothing but words in the expectation that they will be obeyed is a life prone to the same peculiar sort of madness which has afflicted kings and aristocrats throughout history.
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The amount of time and energy that elements on the left have spent arguing that slight marketing changes in their talking points was all that was needed to get Americans to support fully automated luxury gay space communism is baffling.
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Part of the blame rests on George Lakoff, who's been dishonoring his own work in linguistics with this kind of snake oil. But it's also a major theme of humanities education since the 70s.
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Yeah, though I'd actually forgotten the title and author, Lakoff's book ("Whose Freedom?") was the first time* I'd seen the argument presented without any artifice, just an explicit notion that changing the frame changes the reality. *My mother's book club was reading it.
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Dude's deal since the 90s has been "the eeeevil conservatives are using mass mind control, so it's incumbent on us good progressives to use mass mind control". But he's not even good at the black arts.
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His strict father vs. 'nurturant parent' model is just embarassing.
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Just came across this, which absolutely roasts Lakoff (and articulates a lot of my own problems with him).https://newrepublic.com/article/77730/block-metaphor-steven-pinker-whose-freedom-george-lakoff …
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