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The Arc of a Bogus Right Wing Outrage

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(I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)9/08/2011 2:30:50 am PDT

re: #588 Obdicut

Any time anyone uses ‘left’ or ‘right’, they may mean something entirely different from the last time it was used.

But they usually don’t. What’s more, people “may” mean something entirely different each time with any terminology. Of course actual usage is always prone to error and arbitrariness.

It has no meaning except what can be understood by who the speaker is, who they are addressing, and the personal politics of that own speaker.

Politics are only meaningful among people and not independently from them such as math or physics. Yes, I knew that. No, it doesn’t prove your point.

Just as you can’t know what knife is to the left, without knowing where the viewer of that knife is.

So how do you know where the viewer of the knife is? Make references to cardinal directions and a map? What would that real life analogy to that be (totalitarianism? statism paradigm?) and why would that be superior?