I’m a bit worried; this is the sort of dogwhistle that makes people (especially those who believe the Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion) look at Jews…
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I would agree that there is an untapped market for anti-Trump anti-semites out there to be softened on Trump.
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So are we headed for a dismal future where every subtype of thing someone doesn’t like is called the “alt-something”?
Ugh, there’s celery in this. I’m sick of this alt-vegetable.
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If this abuse of the ‘alt-’ prefix leads to its demise, I’m okay with that–so long as what’s currently referred to as the ‘alt-right’ is recognized and referred to by what it truly is: a basket of racists, xenophobes, nationalists, para-fascists, and other assorted assholes.
The press could be leading the meta-discussion in this regard but instead they seem to mindlessly adopt whatever neologisms are fed to them by those who are professional manipulators of this country’s lexicon.
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alt-logisms.
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Alt also implies “not really a”.
Ketchup is an alt-vegetable.
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“But by the way, did you notice how poorly several of them were dressed as well? It is a syndrome. There is no question, there is a disease associated with the notion that a bunch of women would wear bad-looking white pantsuits in solidarity with Hillary Clinton to celebrate her loss. You cannot get that weird.”
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Tomato is the original alt-vegetable, but there has been a rise the even more extreme alt-fruit movement led by avacado.
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There are splits in the left between pragmatists, idealists, etc., though the problem is that these rifts need to get healed enough that despite disagreements we can engage in collective action toward shared goals, and terms like “alt-left” are divisive at a time when we should not be playing at that bullshit.
Greenwald’s sometimes labeled as alt-left, but he’s not a leftist, he’s a nitwit libertarian (he even gives talks at CATO), and the left shares so few goals with the libertarians that they should just go DIAF, with Greenwald at the top of the pyre.
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I used to roll my eyes at the silly semantics of people saying “don’t call tomatoes vegetables! They’re botanically a fruit!” Yeah, yeah.
Then I had some tomato preserves – just red tomatoes, sugar, and pectin – and, yep. They’re just big honkin’ berries.
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I went down a well thanks to this thread and found out coconut was indeed a fruit after being told it was not.
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Huh. According to loc.gov, coconut can be a fruit, a nut, or a seed, depending on how loose your definitions are. I never knew that…
(I will post a link later, I’m trying the “reply by e-mail” thing.)
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Here’s the link:
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Pwned!
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