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We use a lot of euphemisms in political and social discussion in this country. This thread is dedicated to ending that, by calling things what they truly SHOULD be called.
examples:
"Neoconservatism" should be called "Neomilitarism".
"Free Trade" should be called "Market Colonialism".
"The Department of Defense" should ONCE AGAIN be called "The Department of War".
"Pro-business economics" should be called "Submission to Extortion".
"Privatization" should be called "Graft".
"The Immigration Act of 1924" should be called "The Jewish Exclusion Act" or "The Holocaust Enabling Act".
add your entries to this list below.
JEB
(4,748 posts)fizzgig
(24,146 posts)but yours works just as well
JEB
(4,748 posts)JEB
(4,748 posts)JEB
(4,748 posts)JEB
(4,748 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)The Roux Comes First
(1,299 posts)never mind discharging them, let alone using them to commit murder
is terrorism, plain and simple
The Roux Comes First
(1,299 posts)(what a crock!)
is pro-business, anti-labor to hell with regulations and the little guy a la Rand
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)also War Department, until 1949.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)BTW, who's the guy with the stylin' 'do on that stamp? Looks like Ike with a perm.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)I guess I skipped over the "once again" part.
Anyway, the guy on the 30-cent War Department stamp is, if you can believe it, Alexander Hamilton.
http://www.1847usa.com/Officials-War.htm
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Burr shot Hamilton for using up the last can of spray mousse!
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)could also be called "The Japanese Exclusion Act"
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)The real point, though, was to keep the U.S. a "Northern European Protestant" nation-and the arrival of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe(and, to a far lesser degree, Southern European Catholics, especially Italians) was seen, by the "nativists" of the 1920's, as the greatest challenge to that form of American "national identity". had the Act not been passed, most of the Jewish population of Europe would likely have immigrated to our country(making Hitler's insane project impossible), and we'd have been a far better nation for it. To some degree(not all, but some)post-World War II U.S. support for Zionism was driven by vestiges of the 1920's obsession with keeping the Jewish population of the U.S. as small as possible.
As we approach the centennial of the passage of the Act, we need to remind this country that the blood of Hitler's victims, to a very large degree, is on the hands of the U.S. Congress.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)with at least one influential Japanese newspaper calling it "The Senates Declaration of War" on Japan:
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5077/
lapfog_1
(29,201 posts)Kennah
(14,265 posts)A net catches something that's falling. When you're falling, if you happen to hit the rope, and happen to be strong enough to grab hold and hang 'on, then you're good.
Rod Beauvex
(564 posts)Tea Party Republicans should be called Republicans.
Calling them the Tea Party just legitimizes them and deflects blame from the real enemy.
malaise
(268,997 posts)ReTHUGs because they are Republican thugs
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)RKP5637
(67,108 posts)xchrom
(108,903 posts)raccoon
(31,110 posts)sort.
It was not a revolution in the sense of changing the social structure.
Afterwards, instead of rich white British men being at the top of the food chain, rich white American men were.
Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]A 90% chance of rain means the same as a 10% chance:
It might rain and it might not.[/center][/font][hr]
raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,705 posts)RKP5637
(67,108 posts)Maedhros
(10,007 posts)nilesobek
(1,423 posts)Precision guided munitions = stone age bombing campaign. Moderate pressure = torture.