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Originally Posted by silent_jay
The headaches certainly don't come from the weight of your questions ace, I just figured I'd treat your questions like you treat everyone elses, perhaps I should have used an analogy about a cartoon I watched as a child, maybe then it would have been more clear to you.
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That would actually help, I actually appreciate the effort people put into analogies. I also think they are very effective and they make communicating fun. If you have one please share.
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Is it really running away when a person knows it's pointless to continue the way things have been going?
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Look at it this way, given my personality, if you can get me to change my mind when I get entrenched, as I am now, everyone else you interact with with be like a piece of cake.
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Piling on what? You're showing examples some of which were show trials, some of which you 'think' were show trials, but the whole time, not actually listening to what anyone else is saying, you're so concerned with defending your position, you have blinders on to what anyone else is saying, that ace my friend, is why dealing with you, always ends up being pointless in the end.
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If I am missing substantial responses to the points presented, rather than complaints about me, my style, etc., perhaps I need to re-read this thread. Can you give me an example of a post that I may need to re-read?
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The point of any show trial is to obtain guilt, is that such a hard concept to understand?
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Look at it this way, I am not mainstream America, I am cutting edge. It is not that I don't understand, I don't agree - there is a difference. If Webster defines the term the way you show - can we change it? I think we should.
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You keep saying you think things through to their logical conclusion, but two pages of this thread shows otherwise, sending a message has nothing to do with it, but I guess in your world if you say it enough, it must be true...............christ I should have just stayed out of this like I said I was going to, there must be another dead horse to flog somewhere else
Neither can ace, that's the problem with this, we're using two totally different definitions of show trials, one is the correct one, and one if the 'ace thinks it's correct' one. It's hard to discuss something when the person has no idea what the definition of a show trial is.
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Yes, yes, it is all about me and my problems. I am not going to change, my style is not going to change - if you want to improve the discourse I am more than happy to stick with the substance in each post, how about it?
Was the Sddaam trial a "show trial"? Would you try Osama Bin Laden in US courts risking that he go free?
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Originally Posted by roachboy
in today's episode ace lets us in on his private language.
it's a bendy place, his private language, where words mean whatever ace says they mean.
that makes ace the decider.
sometimes he doesn't like what words come to denote.
he puts them on the witness stand and asks them lots of questions.
so mister bad word, why do you mean this thing and not that?
why?
why?
why?
why?
stop meaning this thing. mean that thing.
why?
why?
why?
why?
why?
why?
stop meaning this thing. mean that thing.
the guilt of words is determined in advance of course. but it's the theater that's important.
once he's demoralized the words with his penetrating line of questioning, he takes the bad meaning downstairs and shoots it in the head.
just like beria used to do except of course not like beria because he was a bad man. a stalinist.
bad.
after ace has shot the conventional meanings of word in the head and buried them in his basement, he replaces them with special ace-meanings that make the whole world do exactly as ace-the-decider thinks it should.
now let's return to our regularly scheduled programming in which ace works to make the term show trial mean whatever he wants it to mean.
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What do you call some of those KKK trials during Jim Crow where everyone knew they would be found innocent?
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Originally Posted by silent_jay
Hahaha, thanks rb, I needed a good chuckle this morning, been snowing here all week and that was just the laugh I needed to get through another day, and also very relevant to this thread as this is exactly what is happeneing, someone trying to replace the true definition with their own made up definition because I guess the first one didn't fit into their world.
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Like I wrote what scares me is when people are witnessing something that they think is something other than what it really is - it suggests the ease in which some can be manipulated.
When the President guaranteed a guilty verdict and execution of KSM, you thought that there is going to be a legitimate and fair trial where KSM might walk??????