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The Trump era should be called the Age of Banality

I like Xelor's threads.
His threads, along with google, help me improve my vocabulary.
Just today, I used the word "scintillating" in a post.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
All of these weak abusive poorly formed inferior uneducated but too dim to know it creeps we have running around today.

We used to be better, and we must be better again.
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How do you think "we" should educate them. When was it better. How does your education compete with "theirs?"
 
armycowboy said:
How do you think "we" should educate them. When was it better. How does your education compete with "theirs?"
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Is this a student/teacher relationship we have here do you figure?

What is in this for me?
 
armycowboy said:
Answer or not it's up to you. I'm a retired Army Master Sergeant. I give a **** what you think.
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So then this gets curiouser and curiouser.....why then are you asking me not one but three questions?
 
Hawkeye10 said:
You have used the wrong definition for listening, which should have been obvious to you but sadly was not.
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From wikipedia:

"According to Oxford Dictionary, Listening is to give your attention to sound or action. When listening, you are hearing what others are saying, and trying to understand what it means."

Listen, as a verb, means to give one's attention to a sound or sounds. Your post #14 accused someone of not listening to something he doesn't agree with. If he hasn't listened, he wouldn't KNOW whether or not he agreed with it. Get it?

Refusing to believe something you don't agree with, refusing to accept something you don't agree with, those statements make sense.
 
Idiometer said:
From wikipedia:

"According to Oxford Dictionary, Listening is to give your attention to sound or action. When listening, you are hearing what others are saying, and trying to understand what it means."

Listen, as a verb, means to give one's attention to a sound or sounds. Your post #14 accused someone of not listening to something he doesn't agree with. If he hasn't listened, he wouldn't KNOW whether or not he agreed with it. Get it?

Refusing to believe something you don't agree with, refusing to accept something you don't agree with, those statements make sense.
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I am wondering why you are picking fights because you dont like how the word listening was used by another member.

I am getting the idea that I am not as bored as you are tonight.
 
Xelor said:
I have the television on in the background and periodically hear someone make a remark that strikes me as among incredibly banal.

Just now I head someone say, "Trump is very good at labelling," and cite Trump's calling Marco Rubio "Little Marco." Um, that's a quality that just about any 14 year-old is every bit as adept as is Trump. How much ingenuity does it take for an over-six-feet-tall person to conjure calling a 5'9" tall person "little?" And as goes fabricating names that have no particular basis in fact, well, that takes even less erudition.

How have we come to become a nation wherein gravitas, prescience and perspicacity are so rare we laud the banal?
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Trump is , BY FAR...the MOST COLORFUL POTUS we have ever had.

It's not like he was a "community organizer" (speaking of banal) before his election,, either.


Get real.
 
Moderate Right said:
The left are the ones who label. You know, calling the other side racists, bigots, misogynists, and deplorables?
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But those aren't cute little made up little demeaning nicknames, those are real things with authentic meanings that are pertinent to everything Trump represents to his base and they love it.
 
Grokmaster said:
Trump is , BY FAR...the MOST COLORFUL POTUS we have ever had.

It's not like he was a "community organizer" (speaking of banal) before his election,, either.


Get real.
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You say colorful like its a good thing.

He is a multi-time failed businessman who has managed to do a great job of shielding his assets from the consequences of his ineptitude....and that statement should come with the caveat that he himself probably did do even that. That may be the one time he actually managed to hire the best.
 
Xelor said:
I have the television on in the background and periodically hear someone make a remark that strikes me as among incredibly banal.

Just now I head someone say, "Trump is very good at labelling," and cite Trump's calling Marco Rubio "Little Marco." Um, that's a quality that just about any 14 year-old is every bit as adept as is Trump. How much ingenuity does it take for an over-six-feet-tall person to conjure calling a 5'9" tall person "little?" And as goes fabricating names that have no particular basis in fact, well, that takes even less erudition.

How have we come to become a nation wherein gravitas, prescience and perspicacity are so rare we laud the banal?
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Modern humans are becoming less civil as they become less godly.
 
Moderate Right said:
The left are the ones who label. You know, calling the other side racists, bigots, misogynists, and deplorables?
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I agree. We should just call Rep. Steven King a "true Republican" and leave it at that.
 
CaughtInThe said:
he's just a high school punk who never grew up because of his daddy's money.
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He used to be much more articulate. This is from 30 years ago:

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I find it very concerning when I compare that to one of his speeches now, even the SOTU speech. I just don't think he's all there anymore.
 
Idiometer said:
He used to be much more articulate. This is from 30 years ago:

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I find it very concerning when I compare that to one of his speeches now, even the SOTU speech. I just don't think he's all there anymore.
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It's funny that Rush and Hannity lied so much about Hillary's health and (sure enough) it's Trump who looks like he's losing it.
 
As one poster said to me, define pollution.
 
srexob715 said:
We also label murderers and thieves and they get upset about just as much as you do! LMAO!
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And germany was full of nazis until you asked them individually and then none were.
 
It ought to be known as the era of caustic political division and moral malignancy, coupled with hollow theocratic advances.
 
Xelor said:
I have the television on in the background and periodically hear someone make a remark that strikes me as among incredibly banal.

Just now I head someone say, "Trump is very good at labelling," and cite Trump's calling Marco Rubio "Little Marco." Um, that's a quality that just about any 14 year-old is every bit as adept as is Trump. How much ingenuity does it take for an over-six-feet-tall person to conjure calling a 5'9" tall person "little?" And as goes fabricating names that have no particular basis in fact, well, that takes even less erudition.

How have we come to become a nation wherein gravitas, prescience and perspicacity are so rare we laud the banal?
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Yes, we have reached that point, even before Trump took office. Our mainstream media conditions our public perception exactly as you have described--we focus on the banal and the trivia, much more concerned with political scandal than with matters of substance.

Rather than concern ourselves with infrastructure failure or endless war brought under fraud or the need to overthrow certain regimes, we concern ourselves with the size of Trumps hands or Nancy Pelosi's gaffes.

Social media has certainly made matters worse.
 
marke said:
Modern humans are becoming less civil as they become less godly.
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I'm not sure what that has to do with increasingly rarefied discursive gravitas, prescience and perspicacity's concomitance with lauding banality, but TY for offering an answer.
 
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