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William Farrar's avatar

you had me until you used the word genocide.

Why” Let me quote Greg Olear https://gregolear.substack.com/p/sunday-pages-inside-the-whale

The firehose-of-shit, accuse-them-of-what-we-do strategy pioneered by Joseph Goebbels and employed by Steve Bannon, by Donald Trump, by Stephen Miller, by Speaker Mike Johnson, by Elon Musk, has, I think, the same aim. By appropriating the very words we need to articulate their crimes, the MAGA are trying to make it impossible for us to call them out. They have linguistically neutered our denunciations. They call Hillary Clinton a pedophile, which is a vile lie; but it has the affect of making the word pedophile meaningless, so when an actual pedophile comes along, and is almost invariably a MAGA Republican, the label has all the power of “I know you are but what am I.” We can’t call what Trump did with the Russians collusion, because he has blown that word apart. Any honest attempt to audit the election results will necessitate the use of terms like rigging and cheating and stolen, and the Trumpists have used them so much as to drain them of all literality. And, sadly, we have compared so many people to Hitler, and spoken so often of Nazis, that Trump’s own, very real Hitlerian tendencies are largely ignored by the press, and real Nazis have come from Germany to kiss the ring at Mar-a-Lago with impunity.

Do you get that? The word genocide is thrown around so much that is meaningless. Especially when it is not the the official policy of Israel, but it is the official policy of Putin, but I don’t see anyone talking about the Ukrainian Genocide, much less the Saudi and UAE backed Genocide in Sudan.

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tecolote42's avatar

The Tarantula Antidefamation League strongly objects to any association with that thing you call Miller. We suggest you hire our friends, the pigeons, to drop calling cards on happy boy's head and shoulders at the moment of his inauguration. White splats should show up nicely in photos.

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