It’s a trap!
Sorry, I uh… thought this door led to the gents’. 'scuse me.
Wow, it’s that empty classroom feeling…I think I’ll write insulting things on the chalkboard before I leave…
scratch scratch scratch scratch
Well, I can’t REALLY be a neo-con, because I was never a liberal in the first place.
That IS the definition of “Neo-con,” you know- someone who WAS a leftist in the Sixties, but moved right in the Seventies of Eighties.
Of course, “neo-con” has somehow become an all-purpose epithet to be thrown at any hawkish advisor or policy-maker in the Bush White House. Ironic, really, because there are VERY few genuine neocons there! Virtually all of the most prominent neocons (from WiIlliam Kristol on down) were John McCain backers!
Astiepoo, why are you posting in modern English? Given your attitudes regarding language, you should restrict yourself to the language of Beowulf.
Believe it or not, the definitions of words change.
Are girls automatically female?
According to you, no. The word “girl” originally meant any child between infancy and puberty. Thus, all boys are girls, according to you.
Dog poo (hmm… how appropriately that came out!), you ARE aware that words actually MEAN things, aren’t you?
Yes, unfortunately, over time, if millions and millions of dolts misuse a word often enough that it becomes common usage, their mistake will work its way into the dictionary. If enough dim bulbs keep saying “ain’t” long enough, “ain’t” becomes a real word. If enough nitwits keep mispronouncing “chaise longue” as “Chayz lownj,” that becomes the “correct” pronunciation.
And if enough people of your intellect keep using “neocon” to mean “any Republican I don’t like,” that will become the standard definition.
It doesn’t change the fact that people who use the word that way are woefully ignorant. There is NO valid definition of “neocon” that can possibly be stretched to include Donald Rumsfeld. No knowledgeable person would even try.
unilateral = Any action liberals don’t like.
regressive = Any program liberals don’t like.
neocon = Any conservative liberals don’t like.
I can’t think of any words that conservatives have invented and or managed to turn into insults with no real definition. I’m sure there are some.
(Some would argue that liberal itself is such a word. I would disagree :))
Admiral Akbar? Is that you?
Why are you still using modern English?
Why are you not using the correct meanings and grammar of English? All of modern english is wrong, according to you. The words all mean the wrong things, and the grammar is totally wrong.
Why are you using modern English? Modern English is the product of millenia of mistakes. You must use pure original English or as close as you can get. Until you address me in the language of Beowulf, you only expose yourself over and over to the charge of hypocrite, hypocrite, hypocrite.
Wow. I’ve been brutally misreading my Op/Ed pieces, I guess. I thought “Neocon” referred to the new generation of hipper, younger, primarily Fiscal Conservatives, rather than the hoary old-money and bible-thumping Social Conservatives of decades past.
In any event, I’ve never heard it as a derisive term from the left! (Well, except insofar as labeling anyone as a “conservative” is derisive, just as conservatives labeling people as “liberals” is deemed derisive.) Granted, there does always seem to be more than the usual amount of resentment implied there (i.e., “These guys are young and smart … why the hell are they on the other team?”).
I’ve always seen Neo-con defined as Republicans who don’t mind bigger goverments and arent isolationist.
I’ve always heard it as a derisive term from the right.
From the Xtain Sci Mon:
Neocon 101
http://search.csmonitor.com/specials/neocon/neocon101.html
Maybe them hippies took “Turn Turn Turn” too much to heart.
I ain’t seeing that as fair. What, you want folks to use amn’t? How would you go about pronouncing it? Ain’t is a respectable solution and serves a perfectly reasonable function, the contracted form of “am not”.
The fact that it has been badly misused as if it were also a contraction for “are not” and “is not” is no reason to subject it to such cavalier dismissal. I’ve been dragged to staff meetings where I had to listen to cow-orkers proclaim that “myself and George reconfigured the routers on the second floor” or “the vice president then spoke with Arlene and I about the new proposal” but that’s no reason to toss out “I” and “myself”.
As sad as the following is, it’s completely true:
Every time I see the word neo-con, I think that they’ve unveiled a new faction of Transformer. :smack: