confanity

100398 pts ยท January 11, 2014


Culturally Jewish. Knows stuff about words. Ivory tower scholar. Punster. Noun phrase.

You forget how rampant antisemitism is in the West. There are plenty of people here who will harass Jews on the street, and then defend themselves by shouting catchphrases about "Zionism."

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It isn't really a hypothesis. He's just giving a vacuous quote for people who want to promulgate the idea that Hamas and Hezbollah somehow aren't terrorists.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Fortunately, that's not the main message here. Cook here seems to mainly be interested in trying to get you believe that Hamas and Hezbollah aren't really terrorist groups, despite the insane numbers of Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians, etc. they've killed without any involvement by Israel whatsoever.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I like the lesson in how one small comment that's ostensibly about journalism can be used to whitewash the crimes of well-known terrorist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I feel like more people need to pay attention the difference between *instinct* (genetic programming) and things like *impulse* or *unthinking habitual motion*.

2 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 4

How about instead of ranting online like the people in the post did, you go and study those languages and *make* them budge by inventing and popularizing a new way to express things?

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Yes, very often! But then some idiot comes along and tries to turn the fun of e.g. comparative linguistics into a stupid aggressive pissing contest, like they did in this post. And then some other idiot comes along and attacks me for suggesting that we should just enjoy things instead of *hating*.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

Thank you for sharing your wisdom. I see so much now. :D

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Did you miss the part of the picture where she's smoking? Last I checked, nicotine was a neurotoxin and all of the particulates in smoke can case a vast panoply of ugly diseases, e.g. mouth cancer.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0