DanC

Truly some headscratchingly bonkers responses over there, and plenty of kickback accusing me of weaponizing words myself. I'm happy to acknowledge in the article and elsewhere that we all encode our biases through language, but there's got to be some kind of shared reality we can agree on, surely?

Weaponizing Words: How the Trump Administration Used Language to Distort the Truth in Minnesota Government and media organisations used the power of words to shift moral responsibility for the ICE killings, argues linguist Dan Clayton

I wonder what it was about this piece for @bylinetimes.bsky.social that caused so many MAGA middle managers on LinkedIn (!) to lose their minds. Won't somebody think of the poor ICE agents?!
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#OtD 4 Feb 1924 175 @IWW members took on the Ku Klux Klan in Greenville, Maine, after KKK tried to threaten union organisers: "We are going to stick, and if the Klan wants to start something, the IWW are going to finish it". More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/tag/iww/

This popped up on my Kobo this morning so I must have pre-ordered it. Looking forward to reading it now as it's even more pertinent than ever.

I've seen the video of the Sisters playing there but none of the others.

Snivelling little shits. I hope their comeuppance is righteous and distressing.

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Waccoe right now.

His denials aren't really helping either, especially when his (or Grok's) syntax tells us the opposite of what he thinks he's saying...
"Nobody has fought harder for full release of the Epstein files and prosecutions of those who abused children more than I did..."

“Antifa is not an organization. Antifascism is a natural response to state terror. Antifascist action belongs to the people. Anyone can do it... Every day this goes on, DHS creates thousands of new antifascists.”—Riley (an anonymous antifascist researcher)

Missed the end of the Chelsea vs West Ham game but you've got to feel sorry for those 'ammers 😂😂

Lol beat me to it.

Genuinely hard to believe that a man who dresses like Joseph Goebbels would have animus towards anyone of the Jewish faith.

Fair play, we all have our off days 😂

You're going to wheel Nmecha in from the hospital yourself, Doc?

Srebrenica was an early parting of the ways, his antifa views solidified that and now the Epstein stuff is the final nail in the coffin. Fuck Noam Chomsky.

Media misuse of 'hard-right' label risks normalising extremist views, study says | King's College London The study warns loose terminology in reporting can blur the line between conservatism and extremism

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Not only 'Money' in her name but the name of the most exclusive banking family in the UK in the double barrel 😂

'Melania' propaganda film poster defaced with graffiti reading "Eva Braun."

'Melania' propaganda film poster defaced with graffiti reading "My husband fucks kids."

'Melania' propaganda film poster defaced brown paint.

'Melania' propaganda film poster defaced with graffiti reading "...Is in the Epstein FIles."

Seems like its going well.

Apparently went on to become the father of a future POTUS.

Oh man, so many to choose from.

I'm all in favour of degrees that allow us to study how societies evolve. Trouble is, I'm sure there are many who would say those - media & cultural studies, anthropology, linguistics, archaeology - are 'pointless'!

If the relationship to language is social, and if there is a machine that abstracts our language only to re-inscribe it, then that relationship-to-language becomes a “thing” — a manufactured commodity —that overshadows our relationship to language as a participatory social activity

If you can't change his mind then no one will.

Weaponizing Words: How the Trump Administration Used Language to Distort the Truth in Minnesota Government and media organisations used the power of words to shift moral responsibility for the ICE killings, argues linguist Dan Clayton

I've tried to translate some of what I was feeling and thinking about the recent events in Minneapolis into something a bit more analytical.
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I think we all are. What an erotic description.

Fundraising emails, I suspect.

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They're champions of the working class, I'll have you know!

Fuck. This.