Posted by: PavewayIV | Apr 27 2024 1:36 utc | 173
I suggest you drop the defensiveness and wild accusations. You’re not thinking clearly. And seeing what is not there. Labeling me a state operative / tool is delusional fantasy and ridiculous. … because I asked for evidence ? and because I see unfounded conjecture?
Evidence? Yeah you know, facts evidence credible witnesses / reports not just wild verbal projections you invented because what’s “normal” does seem normal to you as you “think” about things and arrive at your conclusions posted above. Yes I am was asking for evidence to support your “hypothesis” (in an entertaining way). That’s all. No biggy, I’m that worried about it, I was simply asking.

Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Apr 27 2024 11:17 utc | 204

(lol, dbl effing typos) I’m NOT that worried about it, (aarrgggh)

Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Apr 27 2024 11:20 utc | 206

Bbc radio 4 news reporting …
UK army boots on the ground in Gaza.
Stressing “not US”
Aparently driving aid into Gaza from the landing stage being built for food aid delivered by ship.
Paraphrasing.. if we get shot at we will do what we need to.
So whats this all about ? More trickery, for sure.
Encroaching milatary envolvement by US UK.

Posted by: Mark2 | Apr 27 2024 11:31 utc | 208

Lavrov’s Dog @ 209
Your too optamistic by far.
Time to take off ya rose tintented classes

Posted by: Mark2 | Apr 27 2024 12:26 utc | 210

Paveway IV @ 148
Thank you. Atleast one person here with an ability to do basic analysis.
I’ve been away from the computer for 16 or 18 hours and may not be caught up. But may we return to the incident of the professor, the Philosophy Department Chair. james posted scene from her arrest way upthread. Look at the total utter sangfroid of that person. Supposedly she has just witnessed a particularly brutal beating at close range. arrested for speaking to a cop near the beating. And she is cold as ice. No fear that she is next. A couple hours later she will be processed and released and giving an interview to Amy Goodman. Again she recounts tale of beating with zero emotion, zero affect. Go back to first video. The cameraman/reporter is behind police lines. He had to run a gauntlet of officers to be there. He is only there because cops want him there. In other words he is a cop. When the professor speaks to him she is resisting arrest. And the officer in charge just does not respond, does not care. And only one office in charge of this high value prisoner? When did cops ever do anything solo? They are a gang and they move in gangs. Then talking to Amy Goodman professor recounts her conversation with the arresting cop. What? In that circumstance the officer is screaming command phrases he has rehearsed in training. If he is speaking English words at all. Just as likely he is barking like a dog. But the professor is having a philosophy department chat 4 feet (her measurement) from a brutal beating in progress.
I could go on. Just for this one incident. Just in this one instance there is a mountain of BS and all here are happy with the propaganda of the day.
Does this bar have one patron who hs ever been arrested. One barfly who has been beaten? There is no reality in what we are being shown. And we are being shown. We are not witnessing.

Posted by: oldhippie | Apr 27 2024 12:32 utc | 212

Robert Martin 🇵🇸
@Robert_Martin72
·
13h
How anyone can support this racist terror organisation known as Israel is truly beyond me.
https://twitter.com/Robert_Martin72/status/1784004604029776073

Posted by: Menz | Apr 27 2024 12:43 utc | 214

Angelo Giuliano 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 安德龙
@angeloinchina
This is Ben Gvir during a confrontation related to car parking issue.
He pulled out his gun for that, like a lowlife thug.
Those are the ones running Israel.
Not civilized, racists, genocidal
https://twitter.com/angeloinchina/status/1784056029795532979

Posted by: Menz | Apr 27 2024 12:48 utc | 216

Quds News Network
@QudsNen
“We must not listen to Biden, … we must flatten all of Gaza!”
An Israeli lawyer filmed himself destroying residential homes and razing trucks and properties for amusement, which he later posted on his Facebook account, boasting about the destruction he caused in Gaza.
Meet Sergeant Sharon Ohana, an Israeli reservist who documented his daily crimes in Gaza on his Facebook account and Twitter, publicly posting pictures of torched Palestinian homes and writing genocidal statements with them.
https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1783874865994276950

Posted by: Menz | Apr 27 2024 12:54 utc | 218

219
exactly lame lame lame story
benny blanco gvir involved in inter khazharian gang rivalry dispute tis all and tis but a minor scratch.
egypt and the turk still getting paid off
haifa seems like a place for quiet enjoyment sleepy town
until haifa is on fire this is all international nazi partners in crime show
the cull goes on
watch a talk on youtube from the year 2000 by eustace mullins called
only 1 political party today the Nazis.

Posted by: todd | Apr 27 2024 13:41 utc | 220

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and other international officials will be in the Saudi capital this weekend for Gaza ceasefire talks on the sidelines of a World Economic Forum meeting, the WEF’s president said on Saturday. [ . . . ]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Qatar’s prime minister, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, Egypt’s foreign minister, Oman’s crown prince and Bahraini officials will be amongst those in attendance.
____
Rather a shame that the Palestinians won’t be represented. But hardly surprising.

Posted by: malenkov | Apr 27 2024 14:27 utc | 222

Oldhippie and scorpion was right regards the strainge look about this protest, but for the wrong reasons,
Firstly….
The young student protesters arent your natural type to protest, and have no experence, no experenced leaders to show how to keep safe ectra. They are the wrong demographic (unintended pun). They are the children of rich familys paying 70,000 a term for that education.
They are also probably years behind the shared knowledge of the truth that we at MOA so often take for granted. A knowledge gifted to us by our esteemend host Barnard a giant amoung this flock.
These protesters are newly awakend give them a break, get behind them the more that join the less burdan and threat they face.
Becouse of the above they pose a much much more dangerous threat to the psychopaths.
More to follow please refrain from reply, till reading part two.

Posted by: Mark2 | Apr 27 2024 15:06 utc | 224

Part 2
So thats half the story explaing the strainge ackward look of the protest.
The other 50 % of this apperence comes from the police, administrators,israelie funded jewish lobby groups, the pscopath polititans, plus media.
The administrators weather they like it or not have been forced to oppress this truth telling protest to cover up the genicide.
Do we remember the undercover documentry by ‘electronic intafarda’ during preveous elections. And its impact on university students. Its a toxic mix curupt politic lies and learning depending on truth and reality.
The polititians have been forced to cover up their crimes like a criminal in a columbo episode. The envitable outcome delayed to the end.
The police …. trained directly or indirectly by israelie army. Trained in the art of being a psychopath, but uncomftable with the direction they are being pointed at.
The police oppress the poor and protect the rich. He who pays the piper, plus asperation.
Basicaly attacking rich kids is a total head fuck for them hence the akwardness.
Media….. jewish controled say no more.
So in my oppinion its a rightous good protest a bit amaturish but extremily powerfull and possably game changing.

Posted by: Mark2 | Apr 27 2024 15:40 utc | 226

Students in germany today
brutalized
https://twitter.com/i/status/1783939025536963029

Posted by: ld | Apr 27 2024 15:44 utc | 228

Scorpion:
The pallets of bricks in the Dallas area “BLM” (wasn’t BLM, but whatever) protests were explained a long time ago. That said, I do agree that much of what went on in the “BLM” 2020 protests was instigated from outside and infiltrated from within.
And to that point; just watch what happens this time. If the protest movement grows, the police will crack down brutally. Just like they did during the summer of 2020. If that happens, things will get….you guessed it….violent. So the old white men can start calling them “riots” again. All brought to you by the cops. And instigators/agitators/infiltrators….as with virtually every major US protest movement. Since before the FBI was a thing. Duh.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 27 2024 15:50 utc | 230

Hi James …
Ol’ lady here … protested in 60s and during 80s (antiwar)
observation:
Some who protested in the 60s now have a negative opinion of protesters against genocide … over the decades they have become comfortable …
I was born a ‘cage rattler’ … will die one.

Posted by: crone | Apr 27 2024 16:01 utc | 232

Don’t know where you’re from Aleph, but one informal meaning (out of several possible meanings) of the idiomatic phrase “begs the question” is “raises the question.”
Posted by: Mary | Apr 26 2024 20:37 utc | 14
___________
Wherever he is from, he knows English. All languages evolve, and as you say, the use of “begs the question” to mean “begs for the question” is now considered acceptable. And it can be argued that the phrase is a poor translation of its Latin source. But he is right in saying that using “begs the question” in place of “raises (or ‘begs for’) the question” is incorrect.

Posted by: Gene Poole | Apr 27 2024 16:12 utc | 234

When the powers that be start railing on the college kids, they are defending atrocities like this: https://folkpotpourri.com/another-imminent-threat-to-the-idf-eliminated/

Posted by: Ozark Grandpa | Apr 27 2024 16:16 utc | 236

this is a comment from unz. / it is a missing piece for me to understand why things have been heating up this way. There are a lot of boiling frogs:
” Bibi’s hysteria must be seen in the context of the fact that the CIA has lost its free release cards. This happened when UNCAC (December 2005) and UNTOC (2003) came into force. The CIA fought tooth and nail while the conventions were being drafted, but lost its impunity for serious crimes and corruption.
The CIA is illegal under US law. The CIA keeps the Americans in the dark, but the entire civilized world knows it.
United Nations Convention against Corruption Abbreviation: UNACA Entry into force:14 December 2005, in accordance with article 68(1)United Nations
Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols Thereto Abbreviation: UNTOC Entry into force: 29 September 2003, in accordance with article 38
The CIA’s response was to get various bastards and bitches to justify emergency repressive measures at home and crimes abroad. Unfortunately for them, they got their asses kicked in Ukraine. Russia can decapitate the CIA at will.
And now Izzie’s top CIA henchmen were getting their asses kicked. While he committed genocide, an unjustified apolitical crime, the US veto cannot save him. That’s why Bibi is so desperate to censor Jus Cogens in the US. He is the CIA’s poster child for genocide. The CIA shares responsibility for the crimes of its secret agent Bibi. So they have to sacrifice Bibi. And he knows it.”
Honestly there are some parts i don’t fully understand but these two conventions are important. There are no other tools to organise a peaceful living together on the same beautiful planet earth…

Posted by: swiss | Apr 27 2024 16:21 utc | 238

I plan to attend the local protest in support of Palestine today.
I do believe that numbers matter and the elite are watching and understand this is bigger than Occupy.
Protesters are more of the thousands of cuts necessary to take down the God Of Mammon bully….and its working

Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 27 2024 16:31 utc | 240

The cops at these protests earn an extremly good wage as we know, you can bet their own kids are at university or will be going their. A genralisation i know. But.

Posted by: Mark2 | Apr 27 2024 17:09 utc | 242

233 – I was at the London protest. I noted a small attempt at a counter-demonstration by about 30 people with Israeli flags. There was a police cordon in front of them, but it is the first time I have seen them allowed on the same street as pro-Palestinian protesters. I am wondering whether they hoped someone would throw something at the Zionists, or otherwise violently react, and that might result in a scuffle justifying the banning of protests. Which some figures in Britain have been calling for, so far ineffectually.

Posted by: Waldorf | Apr 27 2024 17:20 utc | 244

protest in Germany
wow
https://twitter.com/i/status/1783939025536963029

Posted by: ld | Apr 27 2024 17:29 utc | 246

The usual realistic and fresh commentary by former israeli Gilad Atzmon on his Telegram channel:
“As you all know I am monitoring Israeli media 24/7. I in particular am interested in Israeli right media for 3 main reasons: 1. Jewish politics is naturally right wing oriented due to the fact that Jewishness is ethnocentric, race oriented, Judaism is a volk religion and in Israel it is also expansionist. 2. The Israeli right is by far the most forceful factor in Israeli politics and Israeli self perception. 3. The Israeli right is ideologically motivated but is also attached to the grim Israeli reality. The Israeli right wing media accepts that Israel may come to its end.
Today I listened to Israeli leading Arabist academic prof Moti Keidar. Keidar made a few points that are worthy of your attention. He argued that the USA has pretty much finished its role in Israeli history and Israel better seek a collaboration with the rising superpower namely China.
This idea isn’t new. Those who who insist that Israel is a Western colonial force often struggle to explain which is the ‘mother state’ of the Jewish settler colonial.
One sophisticated way to resolve this problem is to accepts that the Jewish State has adopted replaceable ‘surrogate mothers.’ These mothers are dropped once they stop providing needs of the rising nation. In 1917 it was the British Empire. From 1948 -1967 it was France. Since 1967 it was the USA. And now when the USA is about to implode into itself, China is the next ‘Golden Medina.’ In support of his argument Prof. Keidar stated: ‘China is good, they don’t have antisemitism’. This is probably true, my answer to Keidar is? Just give them time.
Keidar also made another very good point. We have only two options to survive in the region: 1. to be in a constant never ending war 2. to sustain our power of deterrence constantly. This observation sums up the Israeli attitude. Both imply terrorising the region either by war or by the threat of a war. As I have been mentioning repeatedly recently, while the military philosopher Carl von Clausewitz suggested that ’war is the continuation of politics by other means’, in the Jewish State, politics is the continuation of war by every possible means…”

Posted by: The deadly tribe | Apr 27 2024 18:03 utc | 248

Posted by: juliania | Apr 27 2024 14:35 utc | 223
I am nonplussed by Paveway’s analysis, strongly doubt it is correct…..
Instead, praise them; stand back if you must, but praise them.

I would still like to know why Soros-funded groups are sponsoring this and supplying all the tents. Yes, the students may be sincere etc. but there are always many layers and levels in the mix. For example, their sincere zeal also makes them easy to exploit in order to help usher in a police state.

Posted by: scorpion | Apr 27 2024 18:12 utc | 250

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Apr 27 2024 18:08 utc | 249
exactly
It is almost as if they are pissed at the protests and are doing their best to present students as dumb and their efforts fake. And of course the stupid faculty wasting their careers on some george soros stunt is also part of the fake events.
I must say I am disappointed in those whose viewpoints I valued. They could not be better tools for Israel than any Hazbara troll creating doubt from within.
My sidebar has shrunk considerably.

Posted by: ld | Apr 27 2024 18:24 utc | 252

Imagine the hope that palistinans must feel now when they here about these protests.
Hope that finaly, finaly the world just might be waking up, all to late, and yet in their presant horrendus situation any straw or hope is worth grasping. With that in mind, this debate is a forgone conclusion.
Unless of course if the nay sayers have a better plan.

Posted by: Mark2 | Apr 27 2024 18:33 utc | 254

Whether Soros is funding the student protests is of entirely academic (pun intended) interests.
What matters is that the students are doing the right thing, and for the right reason besides.
Hmm, I wonder if a usually sensible commenter here has been a victim of nick theft…

Posted by: malenkov | Apr 27 2024 18:37 utc | 256

7 October completely derailed Israel, and there will be no going back to before, obviously. Who would have believed that the same Israel that conquered the Gaza Strip in a day in 1956 and again in 1967 wouldn’t be able to reoccupy more than a small bit of it even after almost seven months? Israel’s first real failure to show its “full spectrum dominance” in its region was its inability to quell Hizbullah in 2006, but in that case no territory was at issue, and it was against Lebanese, not Palestinians. But now the Palestinians have done it to Israel as well, so no wonder the Israelis are freaking out. If Israel really has the upper hand, why are Israelis and Zionist so downcast, and Palestinians so triumphant? And the fallout from the truly big event, the biggest since the establishment of the State of Israel, is still in the pipeline and is just going to continue and continue.
But the big fallout from it is in the so-called West, especially the US. As rightly stated by Aleph_Null | Apr 26 2024 14:48 utc | 112, “For PTB this is getting very scary, far beyond Gaza, because ultimately these actions call out the deep-seated illegitimacy of an entire system — a global hegemon incapable of stopping genocide, because the blood of martyrs is an essential lubricant. Ultimately, these actions are revolutionary for the world.”
And, quoting Caitlin Johnstone about the powers-that-be:
“They’re frantically scrambling to try to remedy this PR crisis they’ve created for themselves, but everything they’ve tried so far has been a pathetic failure that has only made things worse for them, turning an entire generation into wide awake radicals whose bright young eyes will never, ever unsee what they have seen.”
Who would have ever thought that the most oppressed and marginalized group in the world, the Gazan Palestinians, could have catalyzed such an upheaval?

Posted by: Cabe | Apr 27 2024 18:39 utc | 258

You could use a chill pill.
@ Mary | Apr 27 2024 12:46 utc | 215
Maybe some prescription is required to understand your post here, or maybe I need to ask my doctor to up my current dosage…
I virtually never play grammar nazi around here, or anywhere, because people hate it, or else respond in nearly Dadaist counter-rationality like your post 215. But since Bill shook his spear, English has been a decently expressive language. My favorite novelists (such as Anthony Trollope) tend to be more than a hundred years old — a long enough temporal throw to get a sense of how the language changes in time. Nothing wrong with it, so long as the change doesn’t restrict freedom of expression, by losing expressiveness.
In France they sense that the natural direction for a language to evolve is straight into the slime, where nobody understands anybody because precise expression is practically impossible. For this reason, France has always been dedicated to defending their great language from deterioration.
In English, practically everyone says “at the end of the day” to mean something else, even though it’s the most annoying cliche available, and can cause confusion. That’s an example of the English language falling apart, as when a pseudo-literary geriatric blowhard proves ignorant or heedless of correct English enough to issue “begs the question” when “raises the question” is clearly meant. (See your Modern English Usage or Modern American Usage — people who care about the language enough to defend it from deterioration are with me on “begs the question”.)

the issue
is that which issues
from the orifice of the oracle at issue

This note is my chill-pill gift to you, Mary.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Apr 27 2024 18:46 utc | 260

malenkov @256
I swear I wondered the same thing. Maybe alcohol involved?

Posted by: Ozark Grandpa | Apr 27 2024 18:51 utc | 262

This explains a lot: https://folkpotpourri.com/we-are-sold-out/

Posted by: Ozark Grandpa | Apr 27 2024 18:58 utc | 264

a plan a conspiracy lockstep ask a nazi solution
eustace mullins 20 years ago
only one party today the nazi party
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7AHaHHpFHc

Posted by: todd | Apr 27 2024 19:08 utc | 266

“Houthis” – Ansarallah… more guts than Russia/China put together:
https://www.rt.com/news/596681-us-drone-downed-yemen/
“Another $30 million US drone destroyed off Yemen’s coast – CBS”
“Military officials say the US Air Force has lost a total of three MQ-9 Reaper UAVs in the region since November”
“The US has lost yet another $30 million MQ-9 Reaper drone off the coast of Yemen, CBS News reported on Friday, citing Pentagon officials. While an investigation into the crash is still being conducted, Houthi rebels have taken responsibility for shooting down the aircraft.
Previously, the US had lost another two Reapers to the Iranian-linked militants; one was downed in November and another was destroyed in February.
Yahya Saree, a spokesman for the Iran-linked group, also claimed on Saturday that the militants had targeted the “British oil ship Andromeda Star” in the Red Sea with naval missiles and landed a direct hit.”

Posted by: Trubind1 | Apr 27 2024 19:18 utc | 268

GREAT article on the crisis at Columbia. Exceptionally good info.
https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-279-columbia-universitys?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2X8_hNHPhiL8-yBIO6DYM5Ro_i6fBF9kBuZhbebEjDr5Ce0lNfHZvgJj4_aem_AdZ7f-ofpDpbF0TeHQg7p8NWQ6c7-HCCoq_G6EvYArJHwoX2MwfPm0fq9s9ja3wZdY_2kYcccpIdW6uPJ0xR1sBt

Posted by: JAB | Apr 27 2024 19:42 utc | 270

crone@267. absolutely! “all protests are infiltrated.”
the wildfire currently sweeping empire, particularly its american campuses, carries a greater explosive potential than the french revolution (which debate continues regarding its triggers & beneficiaries). as you highlight it is imperative we stay alert whilst being swept up. we are after all carrying humanity’s promise & survival in our hearts tempered well with a crone’s wise eye.

Posted by: emersonreturn | Apr 27 2024 19:45 utc | 272

Watched a bit of video of a police sniper on a rooftop overlooking one of the university protests. I guess those ‘anti semites’ are going to learn ‘democracy’ American style.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 27 2024 20:01 utc | 274

The cameraman/reporter is behind police lines. He had to run a gauntlet of officers to be there. He is only there because cops want him there. In other words he is a cop.
Posted by: oldhippie | Apr 27 2024 12:32 utc | 212
regarding
oldhippie@105 aka ‘Old white man’ (lol) – Agree with your comment that the current batch of protests do not seem organic, at least to some degree. In fact, there’s something really odd about them. I wouldn’t go so far as to say they’re staged, but the certainly seem ‘managed’.
Posted by: PavewayIV | Apr 26 2024 20:46 utc | 148
——————-
Um, I think this is silly irrational and/or paranoid conspiratorial. eg one simple point is there are no “police lines” in these situations. police and protesters are all mixed in together. Just Look at the other videos showing broader scenes. It’s not like the 68 democrat convention with police lines, or in selma, or BLM street battles.
most of the videos, there are tons to me show police losing their composure self-control acting like complete jerks. and so what if the Professor is “cool and collected” – it happens. She didn’t seem calm when thrown to the ground and her face on the cement. she was screaming.
I don’t get these kinds of “perspectives” here now of all of this is made up pretend and not genuine protesters acting in good faith against genocide …. yes against GENOCIDE in Gaza. But you are saying the protests are Fake?
I think may be you guys are way too jaded. Or looking for problems that don’t exist when you don;t have all the facts evidence perspectives in front of you .. iow cherrypicking a few pieces from a jigsaw puzzle and claiming you can see the whole story? I think you’re overstepping a lot.

Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Apr 27 2024 20:21 utc | 276

@ ld | Apr 27 2024 16:50 utc | 241
kudos to you id! and to your other posts too..
@ crone | Apr 27 2024 19:09 utc | 267
exactly… thanks..

Posted by: james | Apr 27 2024 20:23 utc | 278

In britain at the start of the protests the polaitians were trying to force the police to arrest people with a palistinane flag or for shouting sloguns, the police realised to do so was pointless due to the numbers involved. They the police refused , humilyating the guv. The politians had failed to present the march as violent and supporting terrorist.
I hope this present protest go’s that way, but US cops look a bit nasty.
Its a static protest, talk talk talk to those cops win them over.

Posted by: Mark2 | Apr 27 2024 20:29 utc | 280

Someone suggests the protests are not organic and suddenly people agree Soros must be behind them? What happened to Iran-backed? Or Putin? There is this thing called social media which makes it possible for anyone to be behind anything. That was the explanation behind Arab spring when it took place. I mean the first Arab spring (which then got hijacked to anti-Assad ends). This must be Arab spring 2.0. we are witnessing now.

Posted by: Jonathan W | Apr 27 2024 20:36 utc | 282

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 27 2024 15:46 utc | 229
Possibly a bit harsh (I can be too over these matters) but I can hear where you’re coming from and why. The responses perspectives you’re speaking to do come across as unhinged and unfounded to me too. It just does not FIT the Gestalt of what is and has been leading up to now.
AND RE-
I am still hoping against hope that Russia and China truly do believe what they say and that the cancer of this phony-bologna money system in the west needs to go.
Until then, it looks like nothing will change. But I will pray for a new dark age.
Posted by: NemesisCalling | Apr 27 2024 15:41 utc | 227
Good comment all of it, I’m with you here. I’m not hopeful but still hoping anyway.

Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Apr 27 2024 20:39 utc | 284

John @ 277
Thanks John that means alot to me. Much respect.
Lavrovs dog @ 279
Glad you took it as it was ment, a bit of humour like that is a powerfull tool.
I noticed your dispair (i share it) so hoped my comment would make you smile.
But dont anyone think its all a joke to me.
My humour was based on the truth….
You got two choices from what i can see protest like hell or have your counrty blown up with a nucular bomb any day now.
Im with lavrovs dog, he’s human amd showed it.
We all do.
United we stand.

Posted by: Mark2 | Apr 27 2024 20:47 utc | 286

English has been a decently expressive language.
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Apr 27 2024 18:46 utc | 260
No, sorry but your are far wrose than a Grammar Nazi here.
Your perspectives are twisted out of reality. English is and has always been a “dog’s breakfast”
English is a Bastard Child unsupervised and out of control, and always was.
English is a Mongrel Dog of Ill Repute!
English has developed in Organic ways since the beginning.
Saxon, old English is German not English at all – throw in Old Norse, Anglo-Norman French, then modern French Greek Latin and Celtic it’s a soup of competing versions — then you have dialects and versions across the Commonwealth of nations – then there is the Amercian’s and they’re speical version of Bastardized English.
Your mischaracterizing Metaphors with Grammar and Meaning.
“at the end of the day” yes it;s a “cliche” but it’s also a Metaphor where the meanign goes beyiond the words used. Saying it’s a cliche is itself a cliche! 🙂
IOW Your version of Linguistics is off kilter.
Your Rules are Oppressive and Nonsensical.
Begging the question DOES NOT EQUATE with BEGS the Question and how that phrase is actually used.
It is NOT a Grammar issue … it;s an organic democratic use of the language by people who use the language in different regions all over the world …. you cannot fight this. Argue about apostrophe’s instead – you’ll have better luck – (did you see what I did there? (Grin) because that IS Grammar. (smile)
Lastly, you are being anal retentive and creating a mountain out of an ant hill.
The English Language changes every year, since who knows when. (smile)
Breathe, let it go. It’s really no big deal.
And despite my responses or how they come across it’s no big deal for me either. I’m being lighthearted and humorous about the whole thing (despite how what say might be taken / or misunderstood / or misconstrued – for English is a right Irrational Bitch of a Language with No real Rules.)
It is the People’s Language actually. The People who use it decide what it means and how to use it. Dictionaries and Thesaurus are always trying to catch up and never do.
Cheers LD 😉

Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Apr 27 2024 21:15 utc | 288

Huge apologies for breaking my own self-imposed rule of no OT comments.
I’ll try to do better. I mean it.
Bugger! LD

Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Apr 27 2024 21:24 utc | 290

Meron base Hezbollah rocket and guided missiles, a larger attack. Click through to channel homepage and translate for updates on that:
https://t.me/Sohaibpress/53226

Posted by: Ornot | Apr 27 2024 21:36 utc | 292

Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 27 2024 21:07 utc | 287
Thanks very much, psychohistorian.

Posted by: juliania | Apr 27 2024 22:52 utc | 294

@Lavrov’s Dog | Apr 27 2024 21:15 utc | 288
“The meaning of a word is how it is used.” Wittgenstein

Posted by: Don Firineach | Apr 27 2024 23:21 utc | 296

malenkov | Apr 27 2024 14:27 utc | 222
*** Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and other international officials will be in the Saudi capital this weekend for Gaza ceasefire talks on the sidelines of a World Economic Forum meeting, the WEF’s president said on Saturday. [ . . . ]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Qatar’s prime minister, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, Egypt’s foreign minister, Oman’s crown prince and Bahraini officials will be amongst those in attendance.
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Rather a shame that the Palestinians won’t be represented. But hardly surprising.***
See how they “normalise” the existence of the WEF?
The real issue is not whether someone there *allegedly* represents the Palestinians…
The important point is that *nobody* there legitimately “represents” any population (as in general public, anywhere) at all.
Yet it is a supra-national *invitation* forum which devises, sets and coordinates agendas to be *imposed* (overtly or covertly) by politicians, Oligarchs, financial spivs and bureaucrats throughout much of the world.
WEF and related agency agendas as extreme as could be … but (thanks to the collaboration of traitors in governance and corrupt mass-media) mostly unaccountable till it is to late, or intended to be impossible to reverse.
So the Palestinians aren’t represented at the WEF — but the fact is that neither are you, or me, or anyone else outwith the globalist Overclass and its high-ranking bought and/or ideologically cancerous servants.

Posted by: Cynic | Apr 27 2024 23:39 utc | 298

I must say I am disappointed in those whose viewpoints I valued. They could not be better tools for Israel than any Hazbara troll creating doubt from within.
@ ld | Apr 27 2024 18:24 utc | 252
How many old friends have you lost? I mean in the real world, not out here in cybertopia. My favorite nephew, and my favorite niece, are no longer on speaking terms because the weight of lightspeed history in 2024 shatters our previous ideas about who we are, who each other are. Estrangement seems to epidemic. Hearts breaking left and right.
I don’t know what to do about my (adult) nephew and niece (and neither does anyone). These are very serious, intimate hurts and I wish I had some way to offer healing. I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one carrying around this kind of heartbreak on physical planet Earth. For my own reference, to settle myself like a cup of chamomile tea, I recall Albert Schweitzer’s advice along the path of wisdom: sometimes valuable truths can be found, even in the writings of those who often go astray.
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Apr 27 2024 19:06 utc | 265
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Yes, you are not the only one and i appreciate your transparency because at the micro level, the three major crisis of this decade, the Covid war, the Ukraine war, the Gaza war have all been military driven psychological lie operations that divide people along ideological lines with a devastating result on interpersonal relationships and the social glue that holds societies together.
Maybe easier to say that propaganda lies destroy relationships and in my case the damage was done in 2020 with the covid war.
Those that bought the lies back then bought the lies of the Ukraine/Nato proxy war on Russia and are buying the lies of Israel’s right to defend itself by committing genocide.
Thanks for your post Aleph.

Posted by: simon crow | Apr 28 2024 0:06 utc | 300