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[sear]

"You have no idea who I am do you?
No."

I know more than you think. But the truth is, I neither know nor care.
I'm not here to make friends or impress anyone.
I'm here study communication, and the complexities of the public collective conscious.

" not a post will be made by you without my checking it's factuality. " #420

a) "factuality" isn't in my dictionary. But if you mean fact-check it; I'll be deeply grateful for the service sir or m'am.

b) Ironically, the apparently misspelled key word is in post #420, "420" being a slang term for cannabis. Not sure if there's a connection or not.

Again my most sincere thanks to you for your permanent commitment to verify the validity of my posts. I put a lot of effort into that myself, but welcome your assistance. Please be sure to correct any error you find.

Thanks R !!

 

[sear]

PS

" not a post will be made by you without my checking it's factuality." Rune addressing sear in post #420

EXCELLENT !!

"The first half of your post is an outright lie." R #416

Let's start there!
You already perceive some departure from truth or fact. That's half the battle right there.

Now please correct the factual error.

And again my deepest appreciation for your assistance in helping me maintain the highest possible standard.

 

[Rune]

"the Democrats.......they aren't getting the president they dreamed of......" PP #388

But the Republicans are ?!

If Trump is your dream candidate, the Republican is doomed.

Captain Obvious strikes again.

 

[Rune]

I know more than you think. But the truth is, I neither know nor care.
I'm not here to make friends or impress anyone.
I'm here study communication, and the complexities of the public collective conscious.

a) "factuality" isn't in my dictionary. But if you mean fact-check it; I'll be deeply grateful for the service sir or m'am.

b) Ironically, the apparently misspelled key word is in post #420, "420" being a slang term for cannabis. Not sure if there's a connection or not.

Again my most sincere thanks to you for your permanent commitment to verify the validity of my posts. I put a lot of effort into that myself, but welcome your assistance. Please be sure to correct any error you find.

Thanks R !!

You certainly need help.
Factuality is a word. Buy a new dictionary.

 

[Rune]

PS

EXCELLENT !!

Let's start there!
You already perceive some departure from truth or fact. That's half the battle right there.

Now please correct the factual error.

And again my deepest appreciation for your assistance in helping me maintain the highest possible standard.

Nixon ran on ending the war.
Nixon ended the War.
End of story

 

[sear]

"Nixon ran on ending the war.
Nixon ended the War.
End of story" #425

You're pretending you're correcting me. I'm not aware of having made any contrary assertion.
Instead I posted the source w/ link: http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/timeline/index4.html
that says:

March 1973
The last American combat soldiers leave South Vietnam, though military advisors and Marines, who are protecting U.S. installations, remain. For the United States, the war is officially over. Of the more than 3 million Americans who have served in the war, almost 58,000 are dead, and over 1,000 are missing in action. Some 150,000 Americans were seriously wounded.

http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/timeline/index4.html

By my math that's both after the '72 re-election, and the '73 re-inauguration.

But since you're obviously so interested in the topic, I'll add this.

To my knowledge, there was no overwhelming reason why the "peace with honor" (his term, your award) you credit Nixon with could not have been done years earlier.
If that's true, then it appears Nixon kept that bloody grinding on for years longer than necessary, simply to use the same ploy in '72 that Nixon used in '68 to win the election.
With over 58K lost, and over 100K seriously injured, I think keeping that bloodbath going for benefit of his own personal political fortunes is beyond despicable.
I know of no worse treachery in U.S. history. Not even Benedict Arnold can match that one!

PS
You're right about "factuality". Spellcheck highlights it, but AHD lists it.

If we don't win this [Vietnam] war, the Pacific Ocean will become a red sea. President Richard M. Nixon

 

[Rune]

You're pretending you're correcting me. I'm not aware of having made any contrary assertion.
Instead I posted the source w/ link: http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/timeline/index4.html
that says:

By my math that's both after the '72 re-election, and the '73 re-inauguration.

But since you're obviously so interested in the topic, I'll add this.

To my knowledge, there was no overwhelming reason why the "peace with honor" (his term, your award) you credit Nixon with could not have been done years earlier.
If that's true, then it appears Nixon kept that bloody grinding on for years longer than necessary, simply to use the same ploy in '72 that Nixon used in '68 to win the election.
With over 58K lost, and over 100K seriously injured, I think keeping that bloodbath going for benefit of his own personal political fortunes is beyond despicable.
I know of no worse treachery in U.S. history. Not even Benedict Arnold can match that one!

PS
You're right about "factuality". Spellcheck highlights it, but AHD lists it.

Kudos for admitting you are wrong about factuality. That goes along way to defining your character and I release you from my promise to troll you.

May I commend to your attention the Office of the Historian of the United States?
Perhaps if you are openminded you will see a different version. I understand that you have personal feelings which may have led you to a slight bias.

 

[sear]

"Kudos for admitting you are wrong about factuality." #427

a) Was I wrong? If so please quote me.

b) My comment was it wasn't in my dictionary. It still isn't, and still highlights in spell-check, underlined in red. I could add it to spell-check "dictionary" (that's the name Firefox calls it), but am not in the mood right now.

I hope you'll re-think fact-checking me. It's potentially quite helpful in keeping the record straight, or setting the record straight.

 

[Rune]

a) Was I wrong? If so please quote me.

b) My comment was it wasn't in my dictionary. It still isn't, and still highlights in spell-check, underlined in red. I could add it to spell-check "dictionary" (that's the name Firefox calls it), but am not in the mood right now.

I hope you'll re-think fact-checking me. It's potentially quite helpful in keeping the record straight, or setting the record straight.

It is a word in The Oxford, the Webster and seven other dictionaries that I am aware of.
Even if it were not, my usage of it should not have been maligned by you simply because coinage is the only source of our ever expanding language.

What was your Plato comment again?

You want my help?
Start by leaving the poster's name intact when quoting someone.
This happens to be a free speech forum but most of the forums will ban you for editing quotes.
Here you are just making your own posts harder to read.
Rather surprising behavior for someone who anecdotally claims to be a good comunicator.

 

[sear]

"It is a word in The Oxford, the Webster and seven other dictionaries that I am aware of."

Ah.
Just as I thought.

"Even if it were not, my usage of it should not have been maligned by you"

I didn't malign it.
I reported that it wasn't in my dictionary. That remains true, EVEN THOUGH IT REMAINS IN ALL THE OTHERS YOU MENTIONED!

What was your Plato comment again?

"Only the dead have seen the end of war." Plato

"You want my help?
Start by leaving the poster's name intact when quoting someone.
This happens to be a free speech forum but most of the forums will ban you for editing quotes.
Here you are just making your own posts harder to read.
Rather surprising behavior for someone who anecdotally claims to be a good comunicator."

Thanks.
The problem is, reductio ad absurdum.

If I'm referencing a brief Bible passage, must I quote the entire Bible? The wasted bandwidth would be enormous and pointless.
Instead, a CONCISE quotation adds precision. It lets the reader know EXACTLY which specific idea is being addressed.

And I've been using concise quotations for decades, since the previous millennium, and the complaints are few and far between.

"Precision & clarity in the use of language leads to precision & clarity of thought." G. Gordon Liddy

I'm w/ Liddy on this one. Clarity of thought leads to clarity of speech, and vice versa.

But I appreciate the constructive intent of your suggestion none the less. I just don't want you to presume me ungrateful, just because I don't follow that particular suggestion.

 

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You're going back to Vietnam?

Why is it that you have never complained about Iraq, but posted dozens of times about the 4 lives lost in Benghazi?

Dear asshole; the four lives lost in Benghazi were civilian and occurred due to incompetence and gross negligence. Liberals have to be the dumbest assholes on the planet.

 

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Yes.
"A prudent question is one half of wisdom." William James

Hillary's the bad guy! She killed half a dozen or so in Benghazi!

It is sad that Republicans are so unpatriotic that they prioritize their party above their nation.

For conservative patriots like me, the nation comes first. So you know I'm not a Republican.

^Another leftist moron who parrots the idiot talking points he has been gullibly fed.

 

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I'd love to see where any liberal on here called them "freedom fighters." Damn, are you an idiot.

Yes, PMP - I condemn the terrorists. As well as the buffoon who you voted for, who rushed us into an unnecessary war.

There you go again with that asinine "rushed into an unnecessary war" meme again. Liberals are the dumbest most dishonest hypocrites on the planet.

Yep; only in liberal dumbfuck land is rushing a year long process and requiring the majority votes of Congress. Moron.

 

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I was discussing the personality issues that resulted in Iraq I and then Iraq II and how Trumps desire to be popular might affect his decision making.

You guys love to use the "look at the shinny object" technique in political discussion.

Wrong shit-for-brains, this is what you were doing:

I do wish liberals weren't such dishonest and hypocritical assholes.

 

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What the FUCK are you talking about?

I was against Vietnam and think it was one of the crimes of the century. I don't start threads on it because it was FIFTY YEARS AGO. Iraq only recently ended, and we're still dealing w/ the fallout from Bush's big mistake.

You incomprehensible liar. How dare you call me a hypocrite.

Wow; a lying leftist hypocrite calling others hypocrites. Damned funny bullshit here.

 

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It's burned all the time.

Who cares?

 

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Can you idiots do ANYTHING but lie?

Says the lying leftist hypocrite. I suggest you buy a mirror shit-for-brains.

 

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#337

Insurgents resisting a foreign military occupier* aren't freedom fighters?

Educate me.

If a foreign invader began to occupy the United States of America for the stated purpose of "regime change", you think I wouldn't buy a gun and go help expel or exterminate them?
And just what do you suppose I'd be fighting for, if not for freedom to retain our Constitutional republic?

That's the way it is for U.S. here.
Why should it be any different for them there? If insurgents aren't freedom fighters, what are they?

* Whatever anyone believed then, we know now the Bush administration's casus belli was bogus. And for the Iraqis that believed that then would have had rational reason to resist the militaristic occupier.

Nothing more moronic than the tried leftist meme about if AmeriKa were invaded. Dear leftist morons who have a pea sized brain; these "insurgents" aren't freedom fighters by any stretch of the clueless imagination. They are terrorists trying to usurp the rule of law and imprison people under sharia dictatorships.

Morons.

 

[Truth Detector]

HE was short term popular? Really?

How many unnecessary wars did he start?

How many American soldiers were killed in those wars?

Liberals seem to love to parrot the asinine leftist talking points they are gullibly fed. There you go again; looking like a moron.

 

[sear]

"Nothing more moronic than the tried leftist meme about if AmeriKa were invaded. " TD

Thank you TD, for observing that I'm not more moronic than the tried (sic) leftist meme about if AmeriKa (sic) were invaded."

But of course, you are all ways right. And since you so rightly point out U.S. national defense is 100% extraneous, we should immediately disband all branches of active and reserve military in the U.S. and sell off our weapons to our enemies.
What could possibly go wrong ?!
Thank gosh we have wise and visionary patriots like TD to remind us that the U.S. military is completely extraneous; and that U.S. nation defense is simply a waste of U.S. resources.

"Should an act of expression be a crime?"

There are forms of English that have been criminal, since before the U.S. Founding.
- Libel
- slander
- perjury

but there are more.
It's illegal to advocate the violent overthrow of the United States federal government.
It's illegal to express death threats against a currently serving U.S. president.

"No right is absolute. Conversely, no government authority is absolute." lawyer, law Professor and former ACLU head Nadine Strossen