I don't count George in those ranks--he's a good egg. But there is an element, once marginal, recently in power, that believes that a thing needs to be hated, then destroyed before it can be changed.
Thanks, Howard Zinn. And Karl, and Carter, and Grace Lee Boggs, natch.)
Cheers, James Arthur
John Larkin sees honest reporting about climate change as "leftist propaganda". In reality the BBC is a bit too committed to "balanced reporting" and not as good as it ought to be at getting the basic facts straight.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
John Larkin expects the news sources to share his tilt, which includes believing what James Arthur tells him.
Fox is a Murdoch-owned right-wing source. James Arthur may feel that it isn't right enough, but less rabid observers do differ.
When Trump indulges in juvenile reality bashing all day long, reality does tend to bash back.
It presumably has quite a lot to chose from.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
I'm not sure who started the name calling and demonizing. The left points to Newt Gingrich as the start. My guess is that it has always has gone on at some level. (Does it matter? ... some old saying; fix the problem, not the blame.)
I can sit in the local tavern and discuss politics with the local rednecks, they know I'm "mostly liberal". It's mostly a civil affair.
George H.
Grin, my spleeing sucks... (And my fingers can get ahead of themselves...) When I was young I had two separate vocabularies, One was written and the other spoken. It was always very amusing to find the same word in each "vocabulary". Almost always I was mis-pronouncing (in my head) the word in my written vocabulary.
George H.
Perhaps you can get a fellowship under the Kellyanne:
-- Grizzly H.
I never learned to type, and my spelling is erratic. Word and Thunderbird flag my spelling errors, so my official docs are correct. I don't bother to spell-check casual stuff, like newsgroup posts, and ignore fatheaded net-cops who harp on spelling.
Until fairly recently in history, there were no standards for spelling in English, and people survived. Texting kids don't bother to spell correctly, and often mis-spell on purpose. We may be swinging back towards free-form spelling. I sometimes make up words, just for fun.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc lunatic fringe electronics
Millenials aren't much interested in communication but that doesn't make communication unimportant.
Den tirsdag den 7. februar 2017 kl. 17.44.10 UTC+1 skrev John Larkin:
it takes more time to read stuff that isn't spelled correctly, because you have to read the letters and guess rather than recognize the word as a "picture"
George's "I can barley stand" is not hard to understand. English structure has lots of redundancy.
If you're not a native English speaker, resolving ambiguities may be more difficult.
Hey, it's only a newsgroup.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
But communicating is all they do! Walking, driving, working, they are always talking or texting or Facebooking. I interviewed one young guy who texted all through the interview.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
Nope, theyre a bunch of gay asswipes who dont even know what liberal means.
Julian, You are too kind >:-}
Liberal: Contraction for "Village Idiot with Communist Leanings" ...Jim Thompson
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Thinking outside the box... producing elegant solutions.
Some of them may be gay, but getting work at the BBC means beating out a lot of competition. They all know exactly what liberal means - and how it means different things to different demographics.
Since Julian Barnes seems to be an AI experiment that is busy failing the Turing test, he's not - strictly speaking - a member of any human population.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
Jim-out-of-touch-with-reality-Thompson clearly doesn't know that liberal originally meant "in favour of free trade". Oddly enough, that would mean that Donald Trump isn't a liberal.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
With each other. There in their own bubble, just like the leftists (not much difference, actually).
Krw hasn't noticed that everybody mainly communicates within their own bubble.
The bubbles over-lap, and - on average - it takes you six links to to get to any bubble anywhere on the planet, if you can persuade a string of people in the intervening bubbles to take you seriously, which isn't easy.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
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