Johnny Canuck3
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It's dogwhistle politics; if you're not a 'dog', you don't hear the whistle.
I just thought that some posters might be interested in the etymology of the phrase.
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It's dogwhistle politics; if you're not a 'dog', you don't hear the whistle.
I just thought that some posters might be interested in the etymology of the phrase.
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Of course, the other, scarier implication of their willingness to lie about something a) so trivial and b) so disproveable is what more serious things will they lie about when there isn't such clear evidence to the contrary.
Administrations have always been questionable, but this will be likely another level!
Administrations have always been questionable, but this will be likely another level!
Johnny Canuck3
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real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
What do you mean?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
so what price? Libel? well he'd not win. So what price? closed down? jailed? what a cock
bubblesmcgrath
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The phrase 'pussyfooting around' entered the American political lexicon via George Wallace, a racist Alabama politician from the Sixties.
George Wallace 1967 » Golub Photo Blog
It's a phrase that's been around a good while before that though...
First seen in print in1893 in Scribner’s Magazine..*
*Oxford English Dictionary, pussy-footed, adj., 3rd Edition, Dec 2007, Oxford University Press, accessed 25 Dec 2008 <http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50293919
Johnny Canuck3
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bubblesmcgrath
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Yes I did note that...but it is an Americanism and I don't think Palin would have used it in any other way than as such. She doesn't strike me as that subtle.
Johnny Canuck3
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Fair enough: Americans would disagree, though. e.g.
WATCH: Colbert Shreds Sarah Palin's Trump Endorsement—Offers Up His Own Palinesque Plugs
newbie
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access, scoops, maybe federal spend on public information campaigns, if they do that sort of thing in the US, lots of ways non-compliant media can be brought to heel in the news market. Buy shares in Fox.
bubblesmcgrath
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I obviously cant speak for all Americans... but as a phrase I've used it and heard it used plenty times...despite not being American.
Having said that, Palin is a politician and should probably be more aware than Joe Soap of the language she uses ....
Pickman's model
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Talking to your advertiser friends...
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By now we'd know if she could do subtle
Johnny Canuck3
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It only seems subtle if not familiar with the cultural associations. It's not subtle. It's exactly the sort of thing one would expect her to say.
bubblesmcgrath
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Yes.....I had my tongue firmly pushed into the hollow of my cheek while posting that.
brogdale
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As I said earlier, I'm prepared to bow to your local knowledge, but it does leave us with the uncomfortable truth that Palin (or whoever runs her twitter account) has put together a very clever, multi-faceted trolling message which can be defended as an innocent, common-parlance encouragement to POTUS....managing to offend/inflame the feminists whilst reaching out to the supremacists.
Nice.
Johnny Canuck3
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It's just common, garden-variety dogwhistle politics.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
As you say, on one level...but the timing of that tweet, including reference to pussy, was clearly deliberate and obvious.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
In timely (?) fashion, Verso have reproduced Poulantzas' "Fascism and Dictatorship" (1974) on their blog.
CrabbedOne
Walking sideways snippily
Allahu Akbar nice time, innit.
CrabbedOne
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Trust a kraut to be pedantic about fascist rhetoric but yes.
That speech had Bannon's Breitbartian hand all over it. A Benito Mussolini would be throwing a hissy fit at the association.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Here's how his 'press' are playing it....
Spicer accuses media of ‘false reporting’ in fiery briefing
Completely straight....account of the Trump bubble message; no questioning at all.
butchersapron
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The criticisms made of the book at the time - , the main one being abandonment of historical detail in favour of ever more abstract model building - stand up very well today. I don't think the book offers anything useful today whatsoever - not in analysing a generic fascism and certainly not in examining what's happening with the US state and capital relationships.. I remember reading it in the 8os and thinking to myself this, this is what they're all going on about as the height of historical-theoretical sophistication. That original intro is crazy. In fact, verso trying to make a point by using it today is crazy - and it's a mis-selling.
camouflage
gaslit at scale.
Don't worry, it's only CNN. If black-clad national political police were to turn up and haul them all away in buses it wouldn't be a loss to actual journalism, the 4th estate would remain unmolested.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Doesn't this sort of imply that 'the press' is on our side. It's not though is it?
Everyone is dreading the smallest terrorist incident in the US, or confrontation with China or NK.....or worst of all with Iran.
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If you marry this cancer, it's only right to be referred to as Melanoma.
Good day, sir.
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if you marry that cancer many might think that was sufficient punishment itself.If you marry this cancer, it's only right to be referred to as Melanoma.
Good day, sir.
little_legs
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As far as I know, it's still legal to file for a divorce in the US.
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