Yeah see bum and fanny are children's words, and "root" is roughly the same as "screw". They're not in any way offensive. They're just liable to be funny.
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Yeah see bum and fanny are children's words, and "root" is roughly the same as "screw". They're not in any way offensive. They're just liable to be funny.
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I'm not making any equivalency, thats your straw man. I'm just laughing at the hypocrisy of Democrats complaining about nepotism. I see nothing equivalent about the roles of Ivanka and Hillary in their respective administrations. Trump didn't put her in charge of 'reforming' health care.
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8 pages of discussion and my main take away from this was her real mistake was saying the word in the wrong accent.
You're right, Hillary and Ivanka are not equivalent. Hillary was the First Lady, a real position of minor import, with a history of minor import. Her doing things was expected and normal. Ivanka, on the other hand, is just a random daughter of a political figure who has somehow inserted herself into the actual governing part of the government where she has no business being. This would be true of any offspring of a political figure in a democracy, but is especially true of Ivanka because of her flagrant violation of the Emoluments Clause and general lack of any qualifications or competency.
It's really not that hard to suss out.
It's really not that hard to suss out.
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The rest is just a rationalization for nepotism when Democrats are doing it... But what other first lady was put in charge of designing the health care system?
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If you are too stupid to find the false equivalence yourself, ask a third time.
No, it isn't. I detest Ivanka Trump, but it's not okay to use that word.
Since it's considered vulgar to some demographics, I would not want to cause any negative reactions on the parts of the Australian/New Zealand-based members here (I'm unsure if the offending word is a problem for New Zealand folks).
1. I'm not American.
2. The word is not "fanny."
3. "Fanny" has two connotations for Canadians: One's backside, and it's an old-fashioned woman's name that I would be very surprised if anyone uses nowadays, given the other connotations.
I read it; the word is not on that list.
Ivanka Trump is not married to her father. Melania Trump is married to him. Therefore, since Melania is not incapacitated, she should be the one carrying out the duties of the First Lady. Ivanka should not be doing that.
I said it was a sexual term from the Australian point of view. From the North American point of view it's a completely harmless word with no sexual connotation whatsoever (that I'm aware of; who knows what urban/internet slang has come up with in the last couple of decades).
The kid needs a whole floor and 5 staff?
One to cook, two to clean, and two whose job it is to polish all the gold fixtures, I guess.
She posted a photo taken in the Oval Office, of herself seated in the president's chair, flanked by Trump on one side and Justin Trudeau on the other. It didn't go over well in Canada, for a variety of reasons, both from Trudeau-haters and from those of us who think she hasn't earned the right to sit in that chair even for a cutesy photo-op.
FYI, the only context in which I have ever used the word "dick/Dick" has been when referring to a male by his name, ie. Dick Sargent, Dick York, or the phrase "Tom, Dick, and Harry".
I have never used it to refer to male genitalia or as a pejorative term.
You might extend the same courtesy to women with the c-word.
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Nah, that was her horoscopist
she might have run some of the WH celebrations/dinners, but I dont think she was involved much with policy
I didn't ask you a first time
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http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/25/media/joy-reid-msnbc-host-wayback-machine/index.html
Interesting... Joy isn't homophobic, she was hacked!
I demand MSNBC fire her
Interesting... Joy isn't homophobic, she was hacked!
I demand MSNBC fire her
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I was of course stating my own personal opinion here ;-) I nevertheless hold that this personalization of politics is not a good thing.
There are more than two sides to each topic. It‘s interesting that you instantly call a discussion on the content partisan. It needn‘t be. Maybe I‘m just used too much to civil discourse resulting in a compromise? While the tone has become harsher even here, we do still discuss the details of a proposed law and that is what Democracy is about for me.
But I‘m getting off topic
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Like a bunch of morons responding to that tweet, you too fail at reading comprehension.
The exact nature of the configuration of the guns used to regularly murder children in the US is completely immaterial to the fact that kids are regularly being murdered.
You know this. Why the hell am I bothering to spell it out for you?
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Did Hillary have a permanent top security clearance, granted by explicit order of the president and not through proper FBI channels? Unless she did, there is no hypocrisy.
The issue isn't that Ivanka is doing stuff, it's that she has full access to state secrets independent of anything her father might tell her, zero experience in proper handling and use of state secrets, and zero accountability for anything she does with them.
Hillary was charged with producing something that had to pass Congress. It didn't involve anything classified, let alone top secret, and as you recall both her and Bill were fully accountable to the public for the end result. The two situations simply aren't comparable, so please come up with a better response than this silly whataboutism (Narrator: he didn't come up with a better response than silly whataboutism).
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Because that person clearly has no idea what he's talking about and just made that tweet for cheap upvotes.
Plus, does he really suggest that Americans are not also offended by children being shot by guns of any kind? How intellectually challenged would that person have to be if he truly believed that?
It's silly in every regard.
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I was really disappointed that she apologized. I guess it satisfies executives who threatened to cancel her show if she didn't do it?
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I really do, that's why I opened this thread. I detest social media, don't own twitter or facebook account, and never understand the urge of the people to daily comment on anything that happened that day. If you spend too much of your life analyzing others it shows you don't have much life. But sometimes something really vile happens and one can't help but to protest at least here, on gaming forums.
The truth is -- your words define you. Any insult you utter describe you, the offender, the user of the vulgar slur, not the target of your insults. You call immigrants animals -- you define yourself as an animal. You call an innocent person a racist -- you define yourself as reverse racist. You call another woman c-word -- you define yourself, you lower the bar beyond Marianas Trench, you hurt the cause of immigrants, you insult the taste and values of your audience, and you give an ammunition to the very people you fight against -- who can now say: look, double standards! The other side is as bad as they say we are.
The worst form of evil is not the obvious evil. It's moral relativism and the opinion that -- "nothing is really good or bad". Nothing really matters. Who cares, blah, blah, blah. Evil by itself cannot accomplish much, but with the help of the appalling attitude I am witnessing at this very forums, at this very place, which of course has very limited representation and diversity -- but still -- this kind of attitude and reaction truly allows all the bad things to propagate and prevail. This is something beyond sad and disappointing, it is alarming.
c-word is absolutely the most vile and sacrilegious thing you can say about any female human being
. It is not a vulgar term for any vagina, far from it. It alludes to the particular organ which was not taken care of in months, is in the state of complete neglect and emits profound stench, and your entire humanity and femininity is reduced to this description. It is absolutely sacrilegious and offends all women when used in public. It should be only reserved for the bedroom, between consenting adults, to spice up the feeling of intense intimacy and, for some, enhance psychological aspect of the sexual impulse. Married mother of 3 Samantha Bee is welcome to reverberate this word while with actor Jason Jones, in their bedroom, but not on cable, in front of spectator public and against another married mother of 3, regardless of her status or what her politics is.
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Getting off topic is probably cool, since as you said the topic for seven pages has basically been derivation and usage of a swear word and that could reasonably be described as beaten to death.
I'm curious where I called a discussion on the content partisan? It would almost certainly be partisan, since the OP basically brought us the number one hot topic from the giant echo chambers of the right, but my reference to the gathering of the partisan clans was in a much different context that I thought was clear. Let me try again.
This is a forum. It's a forum which, at root, sprang from a computer game. I don't come here "for the education," nor do I come here for the opportunity to work out a path to political compromise in hopes that it will spread to the nation at large. I find these ideas grandiose, maybe even absurdly so. We went off on the tangent about the word instead of the content because it was more fun than just letting our handful of right wing shills drag us into their endless false equivalency games.
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