Sure, maybe you could crtl-z on computers in 1981, but the Brookhaven National Laboratory debuted Tennis For Two in 1958, therefore video games are Antifa!
Why not? Do you think that new metaphors never get invented in the English language, or that “internet gamers” are somehow intrinsically disqualified from inventing them?
How far back do you think we have to go in the history of technology before metaphorical expressions derived from that technology “qualify” as actual metaphors? Is “hitting the reset button” a legitimate metaphor, for example? “Swiping left” on a suggestion to imply rejecting it? “Dialing it back” to imply reducing the intensity of an attitude or discussion?
Sure I do. I am not necessarily guaranteed to be right in my take on what others are thinking or saying, but I am certainly entitled to express what my take on the subject is.
Frankly, if you weren’t doing such a lousy job of explaining what you mean by your statements in this thread, I wouldn’t have to try to fill in the gaps. But when you resort to gnomic absurdities like “Control Z is not a metaphor”, then all we’re left with is our own best attempts to interpret what you could possibly think that that means.
Why? What is that meant to prove?
So, in your world the Voting Rights Act of 1965 never happened? “Literacy tests” specifically intended to prevent black people from voting never existed? Republicans haven’t been going around for decades trying to suppress voting by blacks and lower-income people who tend to vote Democrat? And these efforts haven’t been ratcheted up to a shocking extent after 2020?
Or maybe you’d like to explain to us just what part of this is “blatantly false”.
Just that random internet rants, like the cited article, have no value, in terms of rational discourse.
The thing about facts is that they don’t change on the basis of the “value” you assign to the person reporting them.
I haven’t seen very many facts in this thread.
Then perhaps you should consult an optician.
That’s a convenient way to avoid dealing with arguments you don’t know how to refute.
Oh, for pity’s sake. Here, for example, is a “Today Explained” podcast on Vox.com, by CBC/NPR political commentator Sean Rameswaram, that uses “Control-Z” as a political metaphor for “undoing” Trump policies, in exactly the same way as the linked article does:
Because what do those third-world brown people understand about democracy and global politics, huh?
For those who aren’t so determinedly closed-minded about viewpoints from elsewhere in the world, Indi Samarajiva (the author of that still-not-particularly-left-wing “stupid coup” essay) is a Canadian-born, US-raised political commentator who now lives in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He is a frequent commentator on political topics for both Canadian and US public radio.
FFS, D_Anconia, do I have to do all the work of researching and explaining things for you while you just snap out denials of things you don’t like hearing?
Oh, well, if it’s on VOX it must be true!
I think that’s a “Yes”, @Kimstu.
You don’t have to agree that the claim about Biden’s “Control-Z” policy is true, but presumably you now understand that it IS an actual metaphor.
If you don’t, just say so, because I can find lots of other examples of mainstream news using the “Control-Z” metaphor in exactly the same way.
Let’s get down to brass tacks. Do you really believe that our “democracy was founded in 1965 by black people”?
Yeah, I figured. Oh well, as long as I’m being D_Anconia’s unpaid research assistant, here’s another mainstream media example of the “Control-Z” metaphor to represent a political reset or “undo”.
St. Joseph News-Press, 2013:
In the sense that universal adult suffrage did not exist in this country until the passage of the Voting Rights Act, and that it was mass protests by African-Americans such as MLK that provided the impetus for the passage of that law, along with public outrage at the murder of black voting rights activists in the South by white supremacists around the same time, then yes.
Which is the exact meaning the author intended.
If “democracy” means true universal suffrage and equality before the law, then yeah, that’s about when the US got it. (And although it was not solely Black Americans who brought about that progress, they were its key movers and the people who sacrificed most for it. so yeah, it’s fair to give them the “founder” label.)
If “democracy” can just mean a system of government with legally entrenched white supremacy where (most) white men have effective suffrage and there’s no legally recognized hereditary governing aristocracy, then US “democracy” goes back to the country’s original separation from the British Empire in the 18th century.
We can argue about which of those definitions we consider a more valid interpretation of the term “democracy”, but so far you seem to prefer simply to mindlessly deny that the former definition can possibly exist or have meaning.
No. You don’t get to control the terminology here.
I’ve seen that tactic and I’m not going to let it go when it is used anymore.
The quote specifically says “your democracy” tho, and the democracy we live in is different than the one that existed prior to 1965. So the quote is accurate.
Fivethirtyeight has a bit of a different take as to why there was an upsurge in firearms purchases during 2020. And it’s not because of Democrats buying guns for protection. Quite the opposite, in fact.
Put more plainly, thousands of guns purchased in 2020 were almost immediately used in crimes — some as soon as a day after their sale.
“Overall, I think we can say that the gun sale surge may have contributed to a surge in crime,” said Julia Schleimer, a researcher in the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis, after reviewing the ATF’s data.