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Wed Aug-11-10 04:29 PM
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"Thrown under the bus" = most over-used term ever |
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fucking ever! It's like a shortcut to thinking.
look, if people disagree with you, you are not under a bus, you are being disagreed with. If you are grossly out-numbered, you are not being bullied, you're just out-numbered.
can we get over playing the victim card every five minutes? -like it doesn't reinforce every nasty stereotype of Liberals that the RW tries to put out there?
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Wed Aug-11-10 04:31 PM
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1. 'can we get over playing the victim card every five minutes' - as arrogant as Gibbs. nt |
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Wed Aug-11-10 04:31 PM
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Wed Aug-11-10 04:31 PM
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3. Now "thrown under the bus" has been thrown under the bus. |
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When will the madness end??
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Wed Aug-11-10 04:32 PM
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"Get over playing the victim!!!!" |
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Every five minutes!!!!!
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Wed Aug-11-10 04:32 PM
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Wed Aug-11-10 04:33 PM
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9. Can a meme be thrown under a bus while simultaneously jumping a shark? |
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Wed Aug-11-10 04:32 PM
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4. Unrec for arrogance and condescension. |
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Wed Aug-11-10 04:36 PM
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Wed Aug-11-10 04:32 PM
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5. I don't know why some people hate the idiom so much |
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If you were arguing that the term is misused, I would understand. But you claim it's "overused," as if there's a limit to the number of times one could use a term or phrase.
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Wed Aug-11-10 04:32 PM
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6. Your concern is noted. nt |
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Wed Aug-11-10 04:33 PM
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8. I don't know, "playing the victim card" is pretty close. nt |
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Wed Aug-11-10 04:35 PM
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10. That phrase has jumped the shark |
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Not that I'm the cliche police or anything.
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Wed Aug-11-10 04:36 PM
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12. Then how come it's so crowded under here I have asphalt under my fingernails? |
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Wed Aug-11-10 04:38 PM
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13. you're right..we should go back to the classics |
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like...kicked in the nuts
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Wed Aug-11-10 04:41 PM
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Wed Aug-11-10 04:45 PM
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15. Yet another round of "Poutrage Bingo"! |
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Wed Aug-11-10 04:47 PM
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17. flypaper poutrage bingo |
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by those desperately hoping for a REAL BIG PURGE
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Wed Aug-11-10 04:52 PM
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19. You said it, brother! |
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I said that to someone earlier.
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Wed Aug-11-10 04:47 PM
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18. I call dibs on pony and whining! |
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Wed Aug-11-10 04:53 PM
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20. I already got President Palin, just an FYI |
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Wed Aug-11-10 07:26 PM
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24. all these thread recs! |
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Wed Aug-11-10 07:27 PM
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Wed Aug-11-10 04:47 PM
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16. Yeah ... we really need to think outside the box. |
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Wed Aug-11-10 05:01 PM
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21. "At the end of the day..." |
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Wed Aug-11-10 05:06 PM
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22. I can't remember how long it's been but... |
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someone on DU mentioned this phrase in a similar thread. From then on, I heard this phrase EVERYWHERE! On the radio, on nearly every tv show, just frickin' everywhere!
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Wed Aug-11-10 07:29 PM
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28. At the end of the day, the bottom line is, you're with us or against us. |
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Wed Aug-11-10 05:18 PM
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23. It's the left's version of 'policies rammed down our throats' |
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Those who dislike Obama picked up on it during the primaries (from Jeremiah Wright, if I recall) and have been using it ever since. This is not to say that its use is limited to Obama's primary opponents, it has caught on with others in the meantime.
I don't care for this victimology either, no matter what part of the political spectrum it comes from. Ultimately, it's a loser strategy which marks the complainer as a failure - whether it's the GOP on economic policies or a constituency on the left not getting what it had hoped for.
Political promises have no value, that's why they are broken so often. A promise is not a contract. The way to get results as a political activist is to hold out for a commit that will have to be defended. If you don't get a specific policy that a candidate sticks to even after being attacked by the opposition, then you got nothing. The best way to get such a policy commitment is to give the candidate a way to sell it to the electorate as a net gain for the country in general. Moral arguments and the like are generally only as good as the popularity of the assumptions they rest on.
So a policy of 'Do X because it's the right thing to do' is more likely to fail - if we haven't done X yet, it's quite possible that a large part, perhaps even a majority, does not actually believe in X. If that is the case then you're stuck, because making a good argument requires agreement about the underlying facts. It's more effictive to focus on 'why X will make us all better off' even if that is not too important to you as an advocate.
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Wed Aug-11-10 07:27 PM
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25. If the shoe fits... nt |
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Wed Aug-11-10 07:27 PM
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27. Nah - "Truth To Power" takes that award |
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