Oh, I forgot the 'clear and present danger' doctrine that Hitler invoked after the 'Night of the long Knives' and that has also been a tool of abuse by US governments.
The Nazis never officially abolished or even changed the Weimar constitution. Elections still took place (with of course only one party on the ballot) etc.
Hitler ruled through the Enabling Act of 1933. Although this law was in violation of the constitution, it was passed (like its lesser known pre-Hitler predecessors) with majorities that would have been sufficient to change the constitution itself, so legal theory at the time considered such laws as legitimate.
In the US SCOTUS has in essence declared that Nixon's 'if the president does it, it means it is not illegal' is the law of the land (of course with the stated caveat that SCOTUS can and will revoke the doctrine the moment POTUS is not of the 'movement'*) and also made clear that it sees itself as the Vaticanum I pope free to ignore any tradition or holy scripture based on 'because I say so'**. No need to change the quaint piece of paper. Btw the Bible His Orangeness promotes and that Oklahoma has just made a mandatory school textbook leaves out most of the amendments with the given reason that those were not approved by the founders themselves and are thus of no interest.
*when I hear that, it automatically triggers original Nazi soundbytes about the "Bewegung"
**this included an official interpretation that the pope could order people to commit sins because obedience to the pope was more important than abstaining from sinning.
It's improbable that 'bought the farm' comes from here but it's the literary illustration of it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Much_Land_Does_a_Man_Need%3F
"buying the farm" sound more American to me. Although 'farmer' as a term already existed in the Middle Ages (yeoman farmer), one is more accustomed to 'peasant', and 'farm' sounds more USian. I guess 'farm(er)' has the connotation of 'free' while peasant implies 'tenant'. Iirc* the yeomanry was 'agriculturalists' actually owning their land but not being noble while a peasant was dependent on (of?) a landlord.
"(etwas) bis zur Vergasung (tun)" (to do something up to the gassing)
It means to (have to) do something beyond the point where it gets really annoying/cumbersome/intolerable, e.g. having to work overtime constantly or a sports trainer or PE teacher forcing yet another round around the stadium (and then another, and another...)
Originating from WW1 and popular in the inter-war years. Since WW2 there is a taboo because most people assume it is referring to the holocaust. But it is still used, often unthinkingly.
Granted, being in a single family dwelling would tend to avoid that scenario.
No guarantee. These guys (and the police too) get addresses wrong all the time and will not listen (let alone admit fault). There is also a tendency to leave the place crashed and the pets shot. And don't try home defense or you'll join the pets.
This reminded me of how way back when I was a kid “Made in Japan” meant cheap and shoddy. Now it is more likely to mean “made well”–I suppose because of the Japanese cars that hit the US market at about the time I reached the car buying stage.
Same with Germany in the 19th century. When Bismarck asked how German wares were estimated on the Philadelphia exhibition in 1876, he got the three word answer "billig und schlecht" (cheap and bad).
I propose the Dynamit Nobel Piece Prize consisting of a gilded bottle of nitroglycerine and a bundle of dynamite sticks ornated with Swarovski crystals in a carrying bag woven from gun cotton with a printed inscription in garish lettering about "booming again with bursting energy". [Of course it will not actually contain chemical explosives]
One thing is for sure, no matter what the results of the next election: His Orangeness will cry fraud and try to overturn those parts he does not like. Iirc he already tries to persuade courts to forbid gerrymandering in blue states while allowing it in red ones. His campaign to have voting by mail declared illegal will also play a part (even if the courts do not agree).
I'd say the word 'autism' stems from the same root as the original Greek 'idiot', i.e. a self-centered person and loner who does not take part in communal activities. Epicureans were almost by definition idiots in the original sense, since they kept out of politics etc.
But man is a zoon politikon, a 'political animal', and thus being 'idiotic' or 'autistic' was seen as abnormal and - again in typical human fashion - of course stupid.
Kennedy (is it allowed to call him a moron*? ;-) ) sticks to that peiorative understanding.
*or moran in the meme
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/get-a-brain-morans
It would be that very sense of realism that would make him persona non grata in the current GOP.
Imo that also killed the reelection of the elder Bush (pragmatists don't get canonized, in particular if they blaspheme against the party saint).
Well, they used to canonize Reagan, although the real St.Ronnie (as vile as many of his policies were) would be hunted out of the party these days as a RINO. It was and still is blasphemous to tell that he raised taxes (12 times iirc) when he realized that his initial tax cuts would have led straight to national bankruptcy.
Until now none but my first comment (as announced) went into moderation, and I just entered name and email address without opening any account.
I did not click the box "save my name..."
One youtube commenter succinctly put my thoughts on the current RW adulation of Kirk into just 5 words: "They found their Horst Wessel."
And their renewed attempts to blame George Soros for everything conjured up another name: Emmanuel Goldstein. The Orbanization (pun unavoidable) of the US is rapidly succeeding.
I noticed that in the archive the post on proving citizenship when faced with ICE seems to be missing.
I wanted to post this from maddowblog there but found all comments sections closed before thw whole site got reduced to just the blog header.
* A U.S. citizen detained by ICE for three days tells his story: “George Retes is a 25-year-old U.S. Army veteran who served a tour in Iraq. On July 10, while on his way to work as a security guard at a Southern California cannabis farm, he was detained by federal immigration agents, despite telling them that he is an American citizen and that his wallet and identification were in his nearby car, Retes told me. While arresting him, the agents knelt on his back and his neck, he said, making it difficult for him to breathe. Held in a jail cell for three days and nights, he was not allowed to make a phone call, see an attorney, appear before a judge, or take a shower to wash off pepper spray and tear gas that the agents had used, according to the Institute for Justice, a public-interest law firm that is representing Retes.”
Btw, how do tags work here? Still >/>?
*Comment archive for non-registered commenters assembled by email address as provided.
On “Where are the 5 words?”
Oh, I forgot the 'clear and present danger' doctrine that Hitler invoked after the 'Night of the long Knives' and that has also been a tool of abuse by US governments.
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The Nazis never officially abolished or even changed the Weimar constitution. Elections still took place (with of course only one party on the ballot) etc.
Hitler ruled through the Enabling Act of 1933. Although this law was in violation of the constitution, it was passed (like its lesser known pre-Hitler predecessors) with majorities that would have been sufficient to change the constitution itself, so legal theory at the time considered such laws as legitimate.
In the US SCOTUS has in essence declared that Nixon's 'if the president does it, it means it is not illegal' is the law of the land (of course with the stated caveat that SCOTUS can and will revoke the doctrine the moment POTUS is not of the 'movement'*) and also made clear that it sees itself as the Vaticanum I pope free to ignore any tradition or holy scripture based on 'because I say so'**. No need to change the quaint piece of paper. Btw the Bible His Orangeness promotes and that Oklahoma has just made a mandatory school textbook leaves out most of the amendments with the given reason that those were not approved by the founders themselves and are thus of no interest.
*when I hear that, it automatically triggers original Nazi soundbytes about the "Bewegung"
**this included an official interpretation that the pope could order people to commit sins because obedience to the pope was more important than abstaining from sinning.
On “WTF moments at cultural borders”
It's improbable that 'bought the farm' comes from here but it's the literary illustration of it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Much_Land_Does_a_Man_Need%3F
On “The DIY party”
Quite an old one that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_homini_lupus
On “WTF moments at cultural borders”
"buying the farm" sound more American to me. Although 'farmer' as a term already existed in the Middle Ages (yeoman farmer), one is more accustomed to 'peasant', and 'farm' sounds more USian. I guess 'farm(er)' has the connotation of 'free' while peasant implies 'tenant'. Iirc* the yeomanry was 'agriculturalists' actually owning their land but not being noble while a peasant was dependent on (of?) a landlord.
*too lazy to look it up
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Is the phrase American in origin?
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In German one bites the grass instead of the dust before watching the radish from below (no pushing up daisies)
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"(etwas) bis zur Vergasung (tun)" (to do something up to the gassing)
It means to (have to) do something beyond the point where it gets really annoying/cumbersome/intolerable, e.g. having to work overtime constantly or a sports trainer or PE teacher forcing yet another round around the stadium (and then another, and another...)
Originating from WW1 and popular in the inter-war years. Since WW2 there is a taboo because most people assume it is referring to the holocaust. But it is still used, often unthinkingly.
On “Citizenship”
Granted, being in a single family dwelling would tend to avoid that scenario.
No guarantee. These guys (and the police too) get addresses wrong all the time and will not listen (let alone admit fault). There is also a tendency to leave the place crashed and the pets shot. And don't try home defense or you'll join the pets.
On “Japan unleashed”
This reminded me of how way back when I was a kid “Made in Japan” meant cheap and shoddy. Now it is more likely to mean “made well”–I suppose because of the Japanese cars that hit the US market at about the time I reached the car buying stage.
Same with Germany in the 19th century. When Bismarck asked how German wares were estimated on the Philadelphia exhibition in 1876, he got the three word answer "billig und schlecht" (cheap and bad).
On “Where are the 5 words?”
I propose the Dynamit Nobel Piece Prize consisting of a gilded bottle of nitroglycerine and a bundle of dynamite sticks ornated with Swarovski crystals in a carrying bag woven from gun cotton with a printed inscription in garish lettering about "booming again with bursting energy". [Of course it will not actually contain chemical explosives]
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One thing is for sure, no matter what the results of the next election: His Orangeness will cry fraud and try to overturn those parts he does not like. Iirc he already tries to persuade courts to forbid gerrymandering in blue states while allowing it in red ones. His campaign to have voting by mail declared illegal will also play a part (even if the courts do not agree).
On “Un morceau de blog”
I'd say the word 'autism' stems from the same root as the original Greek 'idiot', i.e. a self-centered person and loner who does not take part in communal activities. Epicureans were almost by definition idiots in the original sense, since they kept out of politics etc.
But man is a zoon politikon, a 'political animal', and thus being 'idiotic' or 'autistic' was seen as abnormal and - again in typical human fashion - of course stupid.
Kennedy (is it allowed to call him a moron*? ;-) ) sticks to that peiorative understanding.
*or moran in the meme
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/get-a-brain-morans
On “Precursors”
It would be that very sense of realism that would make him persona non grata in the current GOP.
Imo that also killed the reelection of the elder Bush (pragmatists don't get canonized, in particular if they blaspheme against the party saint).
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Well, they used to canonize Reagan, although the real St.Ronnie (as vile as many of his policies were) would be hunted out of the party these days as a RINO. It was and still is blasphemous to tell that he raised taxes (12 times iirc) when he realized that his initial tax cuts would have led straight to national bankruptcy.
On “Notes about commenting”
Until now none but my first comment (as announced) went into moderation, and I just entered name and email address without opening any account.
I did not click the box "save my name..."
On “Kuzushi and Charlie Kirk”
One youtube commenter succinctly put my thoughts on the current RW adulation of Kirk into just 5 words: "They found their Horst Wessel."
And their renewed attempts to blame George Soros for everything conjured up another name: Emmanuel Goldstein. The Orbanization (pun unavoidable) of the US is rapidly succeeding.
On “Excelsior!”
Iirc it was the post right before "What to do?" but the wayback machine's last entry is for Aug 23, and it was later than that
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Hi!
Fortunately lj still had my email adress.
I noticed that in the archive the post on proving citizenship when faced with ICE seems to be missing.
I wanted to post this from maddowblog there but found all comments sections closed before thw whole site got reduced to just the blog header.
* A U.S. citizen detained by ICE for three days tells his story: “George Retes is a 25-year-old U.S. Army veteran who served a tour in Iraq. On July 10, while on his way to work as a security guard at a Southern California cannabis farm, he was detained by federal immigration agents, despite telling them that he is an American citizen and that his wallet and identification were in his nearby car, Retes told me. While arresting him, the agents knelt on his back and his neck, he said, making it difficult for him to breathe. Held in a jail cell for three days and nights, he was not allowed to make a phone call, see an attorney, appear before a judge, or take a shower to wash off pepper spray and tear gas that the agents had used, according to the Institute for Justice, a public-interest law firm that is representing Retes.”
Btw, how do tags work here? Still >/>?
*Comment archive for non-registered commenters assembled by email address as provided.