yes, of course, but you equating the Repugs and Dems is a classic false equivalence.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marcus Bryant
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yes, of course, but you equating the Repugs and Dems is a classic false equivalence.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marcus Bryant
Your view of Democrats as somehow not a major part of the same American political establishment in your grand VRWC conspiracy is amusing. If there's anything false, it's the false choice you present between the D's and the R's.
So do I. Finally got around to reading it.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarrinS
Really?Quote:
Originally Posted by ElNono
What about the part where he says "certain type of red-blooded red-state student?" Is he talking about a 1:10 conservative, or a 1:1,000,000 type of conservative? I think for article impact, it should matter to how many cherries he picked before selecting the one he wanted.
That is that "Macbeth" reference about? So what, to get certain types of degrees, English classes are required. Have to show you can put together understandable material. Who's complying about this? First I heard. Is it only the "certain type?" Why doesn't he accurately reflect the larger pictures. Instructors wasting students time and money with their agendas outside the course material?
Referencing Richard Weaver... My God... that's an almost 400 year old idea. Times were different, and to my understanding he does not accurately express why the people came to "the new land." It is long winded tripe.
The guy has to stretch to a incorrect account to make Dione a Titanides. He uses Sir James George Frazer writings, in which Fraziers reference was the Hesiod. The translation of that part reads: "Theia and Rhea, Themis and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys." Dione isn't in that list of Titanides. What else is wrong about the quoted material? Anyone who studied mythology knows Dione was a goddess. Not a Titanide.
I find it rather stupid how he refers to the English culture, applying it to the "American." Settlers to the new world came here to get away from that European style of rule.
We didn't jettison the "better part" of the European experience. We jettisoned the worse parts. Now liberals are truing to bring much of it back.
LOL...Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_deux
Only a leftist sees charging someone less as looting. Proves you have the attitude that all wealth belongs to the elitists, and we get to keep what they allow us too.
Intriguing point, but nearly devoid of distinguishing info.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wild Cobra
Can you flesh this out a little bit? What are the good parts and what are the bad parts?
"Only a leftist sees charging someone less as looting."
Walker is looting tax returns with corp tax break for $120M, creating a crisis to beat on public sector workers.
How many $Ms of that $120M goes into Kock Bros WI companies?
Ever read the "Declaration of Independence?" That sums up some of those bad European values rather well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Winehole23
The UCA Christian Taliban want to go back to Old Europe's amalgam of State + Church power and social domination, eg, replacing the Constitution with the Ten Commandments.
Maybe he speaks that way.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarrinS
Actually, MB, after reading the article itself, it appeared to me that the headliner got it a bit backwards.
Maybe I was reading it wrong, but it seemed to me that the author, for all his occasionally tortured language and obtuse syntax, was actually claiming that that Americans were anti-European, both in their development and defining identities.
I mean, really, how shocking is it for someone to notice that Americans rebelled against a major European power with the help of another major European power, and then defined themselves by conquering a continent's worth of natives, along with some colonials from yet a third European power?
Each wave of westward-heading Americans proved willing to move on from wherever their families had been to a new place. Why?
How many of our forefathers fled success to start over somewhere new?
Isn't it kind of human nature to say "I'd rather be different than all those people that I left anyway?"
Don't the experiences and skills required to 'make it' someplace new imbed themselves into defining characteristics and personalities of the people who have moved away from an established order?
Is this author's point worth making?
The Declaration of Independence relates more specifically to England than to Europe in general (and yet still more dimly to Western Civ so-called) but that's a totally valid point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wild Cobra
England was not the only country in Europe people left for a better life. Europe was filled with oppression.Quote:
Originally Posted by Winehole23