Language suggestion: Say PIRATE-ization not "privatization"

It's not about private investors making a great corporation. It is about private investors using our PUBLIC money, syphoning it off into their own profit centers, and leaving us with nothing.

It's PIRATIZATION.

I don't know how we are going to protect what we have

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I like, matey!!!

It's not mine, it's something I heard, but I am passing it along.

will you all say prejudice instead of racism please? There is only one race of humans.

I wrote a column about this several years ago called "It's Piratize, Not Privatize"

http://www.democrats.us/editorial/lyon031705.shtml

And proud to say I, too, am passing that one on! We should all start repeating it and repeating it and repeating it - infusing our conversation with it so that soon enough, in other people's minds and ears, it becomes, in effect, a truism. It's how others who hear it repeatedly from us start to think of it. It should be as common a usage as "tax relief" which subconsciously and ever so subtly teaches you that taxes themselves are something bad - something you need "relief" from. "Death panels." Shit! ANYTHING attached to the word "death" becomes literally deathly. Derivatives of "freedom" are great words, positive words, words about something that's good and desirable. Notice how the bad guys attach them to stuff THEY like and want, all the time. "Free market." "Liberty University" - oh for the love of God!!! Same for "family." "Family values." "Family research council." It's WORD MANIPULATION. And the more clever it is (as "piratization" CERTAINLY is), the easier and more strongly it'll stick in the mind. Like an earworm! Like that excruciatingly catchy tune you just heard for the first time, but go on singing for the entire rest of the day.

AND WE NEED TO DO THAT, TOO. WITH BELLS ON AND CANNONS BLAZING!!!

Nikki, your post is not just a post. It's a public service!

In this case, PIRACY is precisely what it is! Let's all call it what it is. Once we paint it that way, others will see it that way. And as frank luntz would endorse, repetition is everything. It starts to take on a life of its own after just a little while. It goes viral. The bad guys do this like breathing. That's EXACTLY what WE need to do, too.

And any time any one of us comes up with some catchy slogan - THIS is an ideal place to post it. More people will see it and maybe start using it. I heard an absolute knock-me-on-my-ass one the other day:

"Politics is like driving. If you want to go forward, you shift to 'D'. If you want to go backward, you shift to 'R'."

I had one personal experience that really amazed me and proved all this to me. Back during the days of dread, I started referring bush's national security advisor/secretary of state/backstage girl as Contradicta. Back when she'd done something that proved how utterly idiotic she was/is (one of a series of things), I called my congressman about it - I think it was when we were demanding that she testify before the 9/11 Commission which she was refusing to do. And I referred to her, in conversation with the staffer who took my call, as Contradicta. I believe I remember a chuckle on the other end of the phone. I also called a random couple of other congresspeople (Hey, don't forget those TOLL FREE Capitol Hill switchboard numbers! Do two or three calls in one sitting, if you have a few spare minutes!) and used that reference there, too. The next week, I called in again about the same issue because she was still dragging her heels, and referred to her as Contradicta. It might have been the same staffer I'd talked to originally because he chuckled again. He said "Contradicta! That's GREAT! I've heard that before! I think some constituent called that in, like, about a week ago." I said "yeah, that would be me. I'm the one who said that - I guess, to you?" He said "yeah! Contradicta! It's awesome! It's all over the Hill now!"

If you come up with something clever, it'll catch on. 'Cause it'll make a strong impression on YOU and be easy to remember, and if it did that to you, it'll most likely do that to the next person who hears it, also. And when that person repeats it... etc. Besides, if it's that clever that it becomes that memorable, the person repeating it will FEEL clever just for having said it.

Great article. I haven't seen you around a lot lately.

Nikki, it can't be said often enough - HOW IMPORTANT THIS IS!!!!

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This is the Holy Grail - this kind of psy-ops campaign - to manipulate the language so WE can manipulate the public perception. We have so much ground to make up because many of us saw progress being made and figured things were gonna be okay, so the worst is over and the coast is clear and, well, people will just understand and appreciate the facts and do the correct thing for their fellow Americans, won't they?

Well, NO, they WON'T. Because when they're barraged day after day, hour after hour, minute after minute, by assholes with hugely powerful microphones and megaphones and pulpits and platforms and soap boxes from which to shout their poison and mayhem and stupidity and selfishness and short-sightedness, and they've been encouraged from the get-go by some fat loud ass telling them "you don't even HAVE to think! I'LL do the thinking FOR you!" then this is what we get. A tidal wave of fucking stupidity and arrogance and selfishness and insensitivity and now, downright meanness, too. We have a LOT of catching up to do, and when these ideas are put forward, they need to be given LOTS of boosts!

stuff like that works

Sam Seder likes to use ''Ray-publicans,'' if you know what I mean (say it fast)

glad to see others using it.

i'm not claiming credit, i probably saw it on du years ago.

nt

Thanks for the kick.

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Talk like a pirate!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6701579

We're talking about language manipulation. One of our own, Class Warrior, is PARTICULARLY good at it, and needs our help to do even more.

Just thought I'd spread the word. We need our tools and our weapons and our equipment. BUT we ALSO need our well-trained troops to put those tools and weapons and equipment to good and effective use.

Besides, it's a good excuse for another KICK for THIS Most Important Thread!!!