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14/11/2018 18:36:11
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
 
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Politics
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Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01663273
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>>I understand that there are definitions of words in the dictionary -- but that is only 1/2 of the picture. You need to put in context - and you're failing to do so.

I'm questioning your context that Trump must by lying when he says he is using a dictionary definition rather than a smeary version you insist he meant.

>> For example you're confusing the word 'nationalism' with the 1930's use of the word - and thus the word 'invasion' takes on a whole new meaning - especially considering if you take into account who said it and when it was said - -and of course where he's been saying it.

That makes no sort of sense: that nationalistic governments did bad things in the 1930s doesn't change the definition of the word "nationalist" or chain any further use of the word to the atrocities. Next you'll insist that because you once saw a person with dark skin stealing, all people with dark skins must be thieves.

>>So either you've misunderstood all of this (and seeing how you are not from here I suppose I can understand that) - or you're just making excuses to justify racist behavior -- which I doubt.

You don't need to be a carpenter to see whether a table has wobbly legs. And boy, does your argument have wobbly legs.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.
"
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
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