First, the theme here is that responsible media constantly pumps up regressive messages by using their regressive preferred terms.
1) Not ‘right’. There is nothing right about them. They are far wrong, not far ‘right’ Right also means correct, and that supports their lies while trying to counter t…
First, the theme here is that responsible media constantly pumps up regressive messages by using their regressive preferred terms.
1) Not ‘right’. There is nothing right about them. They are far wrong, not far ‘right’ Right also means correct, and that supports their lies while trying to counter those lies.
2) Not ‘conservative.’. To conserve is to preserve. Progressives and liberals want to preserve human rights, preserve women's rights, preserve voting rights, preserve free and open research and inquiry, and preserve the prosperity we and our forbears have achieved, among many other worthy aspects of life in the United States that are worth fighting for. Confederates are not ‘conservative.’ Nazis are not ‘conservative.’ The klan is not ‘conservative.’ Kleptocrats are not either. We have to use more definitive words in each case.
3) Lies are *not* theories! Theory is as close to a sacred word in my secular world as it gets. Conspiracy lies are *not* theories! Not even conjecture, they don’t pass the smell test! Not hypothesis, not thesis, *not* theory!
A bit late, throwing it in, 3 things:
First, the theme here is that responsible media constantly pumps up regressive messages by using their regressive preferred terms.
1) Not ‘right’. There is nothing right about them. They are far wrong, not far ‘right’ Right also means correct, and that supports their lies while trying to counter those lies.
2) Not ‘conservative.’. To conserve is to preserve. Progressives and liberals want to preserve human rights, preserve women's rights, preserve voting rights, preserve free and open research and inquiry, and preserve the prosperity we and our forbears have achieved, among many other worthy aspects of life in the United States that are worth fighting for. Confederates are not ‘conservative.’ Nazis are not ‘conservative.’ The klan is not ‘conservative.’ Kleptocrats are not either. We have to use more definitive words in each case.
3) Lies are *not* theories! Theory is as close to a sacred word in my secular world as it gets. Conspiracy lies are *not* theories! Not even conjecture, they don’t pass the smell test! Not hypothesis, not thesis, *not* theory!
Convention? Past time to be unconventional.
best luck to US, b.rad
ps keep well as can be, Thom