Originally Posted by Derwood

can we stop with the "b-b-but you did it to Bush!" retort? It doesn't justify any current behavior

Originally Posted by The_Dunedan

No, what I want is for sauce to be applied to both rabid goose and distempered gander equally.



It's not so much a misreading as a deliberate misrepresentation. A classic tactic of many collectivists is to force an incorrect definition, position, or context into/onto someone and then force them to defend it, while denying that the person's -actual- definition, position, or context is relevant, cogent, coherent, or even extant. It's a refined version of "So Senator, have you stopped beating your wife?" and is especially popular among collectivist brainwashers with captive audiences dependant upon them and their whims for grades, jobs, and promotions. You run into this kind of thing most predictably from the Left at Universities, and the Right in the military and in business.



I don't know if you have/did or not, and frankly couldn't be paid to care. Since collectivists are so comfortable dealing with, judging, and assigning blame to people based upon group membership rather than actual actions taken or words uttered, I decided to speak your language. I see this hasn't made it any easier for me to be understood. Pity.



Since you replied directly to my post (both sequentially and thematically), used the singular personal pronoun "you" without any collective modifier (y'all) or indicator of collectivity (you all, you guys, you lot, etc), yes. As you say, context.

Part of the contextual/metacultural problem is also the fact that, as a collectivist, you personally seem to view a group of individuals as an individual and feel comfortable addressing and dealing with them as such. I as an individualist do not. This has a linguistic reflection.



As opposed to "bushco," "bushworld," and "bushitler," which I saw bandied freely here and even used myself on occaision?



Yes, and people called Bush a faschist Christian-reconstructionist chimpanzee, and were against anything he did.

Pardon me if I cannot see the difference between a kick in the teeth and a punch in the balls. Both hurt a lot, neither will improve my luck with the ladies, and neither were probably my idea.