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- Tue Apr 30, 2024 4:54 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1412
- Views: 444102
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
These conspiracy theories about the student encampments are really getting bonkers. First, a relatively sane friend shared a headline about how 80% of the protesters arrested at ASU you were not university affiliates with the question "Wondering what percentage of the participants of these prot...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 2:36 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 397
- Views: 73336
Re: War in the Middle East, again
Yeah, Linguoboy, I get it, I'm a bad person because I'm not interested in supporting the cause of a movement that is calling for my murder. I would certainly be a much better person if I would look at a movement that wants to murder me, and also a lot of other people, and tell them that I'm fully o...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 12:54 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 397
- Views: 73336
Re: War in the Middle East, again
On the other hand , you get students chanting ‘burn Tel Aviv to the ground’, or the protest organiser who said ‘Zionists don’t deserve to live’. (And we all know who they mean by ‘Zionists’: the linked article makes it quite clear that they mean ‘anyone who is identifiably Jewish’.) Even in my own ...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 12:51 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1412
- Views: 444102
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
All there really is is an obligation to pay that's funded out of current revenues. The thing with the proposed alternatives is that they mainly just go to greater lengths to hide the same kind of thing. In the US or more generally? Here pensions and our equivalent of Social Security have dedicated ...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 5:27 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1412
- Views: 444102
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
Yes, exactly! If there is a problem with demographics, no matter how the pensions work, we're still going to run into the same kind of problems. There is a potential shortage of labour. That's only equivalent to a "problem with demographics" if we don't continue to improve productivity th...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 4:41 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 397
- Views: 73336
Re: War in the Middle East, again
On the other hand , you get students chanting ‘burn Tel Aviv to the ground’, or the protest organiser who said ‘Zionists don’t deserve to live’. (And we all know who they mean by ‘Zionists’: the linked article makes it quite clear that they mean ‘anyone who is identifiably Jewish’.) Even in my own ...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 2:44 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 397
- Views: 73336
Re: War in the Middle East, again
I just toured the perimeter of the encampment. There's an iron fence on the west side of it which is covered with signage. There are tables with craft materials and folks are being invited to make their own signs. A lot are just generic messages of solidarity (e.g. "Jewish Alumni for Palestine&...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 1:19 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 397
- Views: 73336
Re: War in the Middle East, again
I think we should be quite clear that this isn’t whataboutism. I fully respect people’s right to criticise Israel, as long as they in turn respect my right to argue back. But I could take protesters a lot more seriously, if they showed any sign of being as upset about the other problems in the worl...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:09 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 397
- Views: 73336
Re: War in the Middle East, again
I think you don't get it because Zionism does not mean what you think it means. Zionism is the belief that there should be a Jewish homeland at about the current location of Israel, nothing more, nothing less. C'mon, we'r all linguists here, we all know it's never this simple. This is like saying &...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 12:40 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 666
- Views: 753331
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
Went to the memorial for my stepmother, and it was pretty much what I expected: The twenty-five years she spent with my father were hardly touched on. He (and his children and grandchildren) were mentioned only in passing and only by a couple of folks and there were only a two photos of him included...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:48 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 397
- Views: 73336
Re: War in the Middle East, again
Well, illegitimacy comes down to whether you approve of it, it's often just a "hurray/boo" word (man, do those have a name?) I've seen them called "yum/yuck" words but I can't remember where (perhaps Hayakawa?). however, it doesn't stop being colonial if you think the colonialis...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:03 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 397
- Views: 73336
Re: War in the Middle East, again
(The exception to this, very depressingly, is ‘pogroms against palestinians’… it’s become abundantly clear in recent days that this is precisely what’s happened. But even here, you shouldn’t confuse ‘the Israeli state’ with ‘the current Israeli government’.) This strikes me as special pleading. May...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:14 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: English questions
- Replies: 1382
- Views: 443571
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:03 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: English questions
- Replies: 1382
- Views: 443571
Re: English questions
We mean the second syllable, even though apparently there is also variation in the third syllable (i.e. whether /oʊ/ is reduced to a schwa or not). The reduced vowel is very old school; I can't recall the last time I heard someone use it. (I myself have /ah/ for the second vowel, but I'm not a nati...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 3:23 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Seeing past your cultural worldview
- Replies: 28
- Views: 319835
Re: Seeing past your cultural worldview
All that changed when the sexual abuse scandals began to break. When would you (or your late partner) say that the scandals peaked?, and that the suspicion started to appear? When I was a child/teenager in the church, I wasn't aware about the sexual abuse scandals until the Boston Globe report in 2...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 2:29 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1412
- Views: 444102
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
This reminds me of the clear delineation between left-libertarians (e.g. anarchists and council communists) and right-"libertarians" (e.g. so-called "anarchocapitalists" and many big-L Libertarians), which really have very little in common with one another. There are plenty of f...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 11:27 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1911
- Views: 15026947
Re: Venting thread
(Speaking of which, saw a news report today with the headline that Cook County is "temporarily" unable to give out paper copies of vital records, like birth, death, and marriage certificates. I didn't even read it; I was just like, "Of course, why expect local government to fulfill i...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 11:19 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1412
- Views: 444102
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
From the Nietzsche thread: Well ok. I have never actually watched Southpark so I didn't get the reference. Pretty much everyone I know considers the show intensely bigoted and reactionary, for what it's worth. They were libertarians, but they do oppose Trump. Penn Jillette was libertarian too until ...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 11:05 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1628
Re: 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
We drove down to Southernillinois a.k.a. Little Egypt where a couple guys I know were hosting a viewing party. They had a huge backyard located on the top of a hill so we had great views of the "360° sunset". We also had a striking red flare from the bottom of the sun (which y'all probably...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 10:20 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1911
- Views: 15026947
Re: Venting thread
Sounds horrible. We have bureaucratic headaches with healthcare, though they're not typically life-threatening. This isn't life=-threatening, just terribly inconvenient. I've been using up a lot of mental energy on this that I could really use for other things. I tried calling the insurance and the...