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Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts)
Sat Sep 4, 2021, 10:21 PM Sep 2021

I have found a phrase that turns radical GOP in a knot!

GOP backed Sharia law. They hate it and will twist themselves into a knot trying to make the new Texas law sound like not a religious backed thing. Oh,it's been fun to watch!

Things I find and do to stay entertained these days.

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I have found a phrase that turns radical GOP in a knot! (Original Post) Lady Freedom Returns Sep 2021 OP
Here's another trigger, they serve Mammon. blm Sep 2021 #1
Oh! Going to have to use that! Lady Freedom Returns Sep 2021 #2
BTW... Lady Freedom Returns Sep 2021 #7
American gammon serving Mammon, if you will. Celerity Sep 2021 #15
Heheh blm Sep 2021 #18
Further Gammon enlightenment Myrddin Sep 2021 #23
I was just yesterday thinking I needed to come up with some sort of saying or brewens Sep 2021 #3
! Marcuse Sep 2021 #14
"TexaSharia" lastlib Sep 2021 #20
I have a live one right now! Lady Freedom Returns Sep 2021 #4
Ask him about the Golden Calf LeftInTX Sep 2021 #5
Going on the list. Lady Freedom Returns Sep 2021 #9
Do you wanna share the link? LeftInTX Sep 2021 #10
Started fighting with this guy here but we have been fighting on many CNN channels. Lady Freedom Returns Sep 2021 #12
Live on eh? Is it an evanpedical Christian? I think they might like that one. :) n/t brewens Sep 2021 #21
Who is the sheeple? multigraincracker Sep 2021 #24
Yeah and... druidity33 Sep 2021 #26
👍 Joinfortmill Sep 2021 #6
It's reproductive slavery and should be outlawed by the 13th Amendment. LonePirate Sep 2021 #8
We got into that when he opened it up with... Lady Freedom Returns Sep 2021 #11
It's shitty because sharia actually allows abortion more than this Texas law does. We don't need to WhiskeyGrinder Sep 2021 #13
I think the idea is NJCher Sep 2021 #22
I understand the reasoning behind it, and it's still shitty. It implies that our culture can't WhiskeyGrinder Sep 2021 #27
No, i don't think you understand it NJCher Sep 2021 #28
There is no comparison. Aussie105 Sep 2021 #16
The GQP is proud of this law. Lady Freedom Returns Sep 2021 #17
I no longer can say the Republican Party they are now the American Taliban kimbutgar Sep 2021 #19
Texas Stasi - Informing on friends and neighbors. GoneOffShore Sep 2021 #25
Yep. And the GQP of Texas don't see it or don't care. Lady Freedom Returns Sep 2021 #29

Celerity

(43,107 posts)
15. American gammon serving Mammon, if you will.
Sat Sep 4, 2021, 11:14 PM
Sep 2021


for the non Brits here:

Gammon is a pejorative popularised in British political culture since around 2012. The term refers in particular to the colour of a person's flushed face when expressing their strong opinions, as compared to the type of pork of the same name. It is defined in this context by the Oxford English Dictionary as "various parasynthetic adjectives referring to particularly reddish or florid complexions". In 2018, it became particularly known as a term to describe either those on the political right or those who supported Brexit.

brewens

(13,538 posts)
3. I was just yesterday thinking I needed to come up with some sort of saying or
Sat Sep 4, 2021, 10:27 PM
Sep 2021

term tying it to Sharia law. Too bad Sharia law isn't something that rhymes with Texas. I didn't come up with anything yet.

Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts)
4. I have a live one right now!
Sat Sep 4, 2021, 10:37 PM
Sep 2021

On YouTube of all sites. Feed me some more to throw at them! Da. Dada. Da! I'm loving it!

Haven't felt so much like my younger self for a while now.

Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts)
9. Going on the list.
Sat Sep 4, 2021, 10:53 PM
Sep 2021

This guy is digging himself deeper and deeper!
Hitting with everything. He has tried to hit me with stuff and sent it right back to him.

Think he's tiering out tho. I still got it.( insert evil laugh here)

druidity33

(6,445 posts)
26. Yeah and...
Sun Sep 5, 2021, 06:58 AM
Sep 2021

in the end what does the Shepherd do with the sheep? He's not just hangin' out with them for fun..... or is he? Dum da dum dummmm...

Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts)
11. We got into that when he opened it up with...
Sat Sep 4, 2021, 10:58 PM
Sep 2021

The 2nt ammendment. With Texas letting people carry guns in public now.
I swear he has put the virtual version of the "Kick Me" sign on himself.

WhiskeyGrinder

(22,307 posts)
13. It's shitty because sharia actually allows abortion more than this Texas law does. We don't need to
Sat Sep 4, 2021, 11:04 PM
Sep 2021

use Islamic terms to describe the 100% white-supermacist Christian fuckery going on. Doing so is bigoted and obscures the real issue.

NJCher

(35,619 posts)
22. I think the idea is
Sun Sep 5, 2021, 01:18 AM
Sep 2021

To use a term that enrages them or compares them to something the Texiban loathes. It is not, therefore, bigotry. It is using the offender’s prejudices against them.

Turning it right back at them.

WhiskeyGrinder

(22,307 posts)
27. I understand the reasoning behind it, and it's still shitty. It implies that our culture can't
Sun Sep 5, 2021, 07:19 AM
Sep 2021

possibly come up with oppressive policies, so we have to use terms from other cultures, when in fact oppression of the marginalized is the legacy of this nation. If your goal is to piss people off, try it -- it makes them angrier than being called inaccurate names, because it's the truth.

NJCher

(35,619 posts)
28. No, i don't think you understand it
Sun Sep 5, 2021, 08:42 AM
Sep 2021

Your explanation rests on a supposition that can’t possibly be proven. It cannot be proven because you are assuming you know what’s in another person’s mind. You do not know that nor should you assume you do. See attribution theory for that explanation.

What I am referring to is targeted communication. One adjusts one’s message to the audience. I do not, for example, go into a class of fourth graders and use polysyllabic words. In this case, and my comment was confined to this case only, she used a term specific to the argument. It means something to that person because it is within the frame of reference of the topic.

This seems to be another point of confusion for you. You have conflated the use of such a term in one situation with the larger argument. You jump to the conclusion that everyone is doing this and then, of course, you pass your moral judgment that “this is wrong.” This, IMO, is what makes the left come off as sanctimonious. It does nothing to advance our cause, and as such, hinders it.

Aussie105

(5,332 posts)
16. There is no comparison.
Sat Sep 4, 2021, 11:19 PM
Sep 2021

Texas is inventing it's own Hell-on-Earth for it's inhabitants.

Put the blame squarely where it belongs.

Now, I'm going back to designing the only solution to Texan studs who feel sex should be free and easy and without responsibility and consequences, and young impressionable Texan females who make it all just too easy . . . CHASTITY BELTS!

And why not? If Texas is going back to the Middle Ages, a time period appropriate solution is called for.

Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts)
17. The GQP is proud of this law.
Sat Sep 4, 2021, 11:29 PM
Sep 2021

You can point out all the wrong with this law forever, they will not care.

Point out the simulations it has to something that hate is the only way to get them to think about it.

kimbutgar

(21,055 posts)
19. I no longer can say the Republican Party they are now the American Taliban
Sat Sep 4, 2021, 11:52 PM
Sep 2021

With Donald bin trumpian as the right leader who caused the January 6th attacks on USA’s democracy.

Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts)
29. Yep. And the GQP of Texas don't see it or don't care.
Sun Sep 5, 2021, 10:17 AM
Sep 2021

What little GOP left are to scared to say anything. Those who do gets ostracized.

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