just an aside.... where are you from???? some country that historically just slices heads of nonconformists/disbelievers???
come to America and learn to swim in actual water. It's scarier than sand. But still, sometimes people drown in sand. And other stuff. One day there was a school tour of a salt pile, climbing around on it, when the automatic screw for feeding the bagger kicked on, and sucked her under. They stopped the screw mechanism, but couldn't dig her out in time. Drowned in salt. Might be the origin of the term "getting screwed" too, whaddya think. Automatic stuff isn't human.
I think US libs are taking a step back palling around with folks who still don't get the drift of Western culture, which emerged from perhaps the darkest age in human history, where "the Divine Right of Kings" and "Primus nuptum" were pretty convincing slogans like the ones used today by Leftwing mobs raging through the 'net, burning books and deleting history, trying to purify the past and photo-shop the future.
Of course, I won't really say conservatives are more enlightened. But perhaps they do it all backwards... glorifying the past and hiding from the future..... oh yeah, and burning what books have not been burned yet.
Probably you really laugh a bit when trying to find rhetoric to snare me with...… but I dance like a butterfly and sting like a bee..... or imagine I do.
The foundations of modern Western civilization are woven outta people who fought, died, and still won some few elements of human dignity and liberty, digging with bare fingers into castle stone until the damn castles crumbled. Maybe never really finished the job. But will never quit trying.
It takes a thousand screaming ninnies to go up in flames before we find one Jean du Arc, a thousand knuckleheaded jocks taking bribes from royals in the secret night, throwing battles to the Lords in the light of day, to find one Braveheart.
But in the end, the nattering naybobs of negativism and the twittering troglodytes of totalitarianism, just don't have a case. People will be free.
/politicaldictionary.com/words/nattering-nabobs-of-negativism/
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nattering nabobs of negativism
A phrase used by Vice President Spiro Agnew to refer to the members of the media with whom he had a very acrimonious relationship.
Said Agnew while speaking to the California Republican state convention on September 11, 1970: “In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club — the ‘hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.'”
While the phrase is generally attributed to Agnew, it was actually written by White House speechwriter William Safire.
Will Bunch: “The words that William Safire penned and that Spiro Agnew mouthed actually had enormous impact that has lasted until this day. They helped foster among conservatives and the folks that Nixon called ‘the silent majority’ a growing mistrust of the mainstream media, a mistrust that grew over two generations into a form of hatred. It also started a dangerous spiral of events — journalists started bending backwards to kowtow to their conservative critics, beginning in the time of Reagan, an ill-advised shift that did not win back a single reader or viewer on the right. Instead, it caused a lot of folks on the left and even the center to wonder why the national media had stopped doing its job, stopped questioning authority.”
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I am a good swimmer, and a good skater too. And I shoot straight. Being related close enough to globalists might help me escape being taken too seriously when playing devil's advocate sometimes, but it also makes my nattering incomprehensible to some.
It takes a real moron to believe it will help some cause to cut me down to size. But then moronic causes like purifying public forums do attract morons. Even rich morons.
And that Will Bunch's expansive moralizations over the wisdom of media hacks is about as self-serving as any conceited bonehead. "question authority" was a sixties phrase owned by potheads too smart to care for their neurons, too stupid to think for themselves. Don't care much, more like.
The media in this country has been owned, compromised, prostituted probably from the days of King George III. Throw a hunk of meat over the wall, and you can pilfer the goods of the palace while our media snarls over a whiff of blood.