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OMG MSNBC (Original Post) montanacowboy Sep 2020 OP
OMG i JUST SAW IT AND IT JUST SUNK IN. vapor2 Sep 2020 #1
Me too.. HipChick Sep 2020 #4
I know I felt myself reading it montanacowboy Sep 2020 #5
Brian Williams didn't say "pussies" but referred to it as a word "from the world of felines." The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2020 #2
Andreas Mitchell said "pussies" earlier today. Dream Girl Sep 2020 #9
It's ok to call a person a pussy but you can't refer to a person's pussy. Funtatlaguy Sep 2020 #24
Such times as we live in Hekate Sep 2020 #3
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 sarcasmo Sep 2020 #6
We live in a golden age Mme. Defarge Sep 2020 #7
I cuss so much I wouldn't have noticed it. Nevilledog Sep 2020 #8
Swearing is wrong. LuckyCharms Sep 2020 #10
Dinghy. Nevilledog Sep 2020 #11
God does not exist I_UndergroundPanther Sep 2020 #13
I never cussed so much as I have in the last 4 years. NoRoadUntravelled Sep 2020 #12
I've had years of practice, but I'm getting more creative. Nevilledog Sep 2020 #14
I'm getting less creative. LuckyCharms Sep 2020 #18
Did you just call me a horse veranda??? REPORTING. Nevilledog Sep 2020 #20
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.... LuckyCharms Sep 2020 #21
I save mine... mbusby Sep 2020 #15
and days that end in y Maru Kitteh Sep 2020 #25
its about time MFM008 Sep 2020 #16
As my AA Studies professor taught, when you mask a word, pu**ies, for example, it reduces its power. TheBlackAdder Sep 2020 #17
I learned to cuss playing football in high school. Elwood P Dowd Sep 2020 #19
Hope those generals are watching. Cracklin Charlie Sep 2020 #22
You can't censor a mass murderer when hes revealing BootinUp Sep 2020 #23
Chris Hayes had the whole thing on too. Bayard Sep 2020 #26

montanacowboy

(6,082 posts)
5. I know I felt myself reading it
Wed Sep 9, 2020, 11:19 PM
Sep 2020

and it didn't sink in right away that they didn't asterisk out the words.

 

Dream Girl

(5,111 posts)
9. Andreas Mitchell said "pussies" earlier today.
Wed Sep 9, 2020, 11:26 PM
Sep 2020

I was quite shocked. She just jumped right in there. It kind of put her in a different light.

LuckyCharms

(17,425 posts)
18. I'm getting less creative.
Wed Sep 9, 2020, 11:45 PM
Sep 2020

I used to be able to think up some real good ones, but now when I get upset at someone, I can't come up with anything hard hitting, and usually just stammer out something nonsensical...

"Oh yeah? Oh yeah?...You fucking....you ffff...you fucking horse veranda"!

TheBlackAdder

(28,183 posts)
17. As my AA Studies professor taught, when you mask a word, pu**ies, for example, it reduces its power.
Wed Sep 9, 2020, 11:44 PM
Sep 2020

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There is a slight decoding process that takes a millisecond in the brain, but that process also reduces the impact of the word and provides cover for the person using it. While the N-word is off limits to non-AA people, he professed that AA people should use the word in its raw form when calling out an abuser of it, without masking, to convey the full impact and harshness of the word to drive its impact to the reader.

One of the reasons why pussies and fucking are shocking to see written out, is that, we are conditioned now not to see them in our provincial society, and now when we do see the words written out--it's shocking and has impact. MSNBC's act of using the words drives that impact home and shows the coarseness of this president.

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Elwood P Dowd

(11,443 posts)
19. I learned to cuss playing football in high school.
Wed Sep 9, 2020, 11:47 PM
Sep 2020

You can't hear it in the stands, but there is a ton of "cussin" going on in a football game. Got way worse after being drafted into the US Army. When I sent letters home to my parents, I would sometime end them with FTA or FTW. They stood for Fuck The Army and Fuck The War. When mother asked my dad what that meant he said "You don't wanna' know".

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
22. Hope those generals are watching.
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 12:11 AM
Sep 2020

Can nobody take this damn guy down a peg?

I have about friggin had it up to here with our criminal president. Enough!

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