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In reply to the discussion: Why I won't join in with the cheering that Trump is "Guilty" of "Rape". [View all]Ocelot II
(130,649 posts)13. "When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said... 'it means just what I choose it to mean
neither more nor less.
The question is, said Alice, whether you can make words mean so many different things.
The question is, said Humpty Dumpty, which is to be master thats all.
You can choose to assign whatever meaning you want, but if we are shouting from the rooftops that we are the people who value the law, shouldn't we care about what words mean in the context of the law, not just what we want them to mean?
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Why I won't join in with the cheering that Trump is "Guilty" of "Rape". [View all]
brooklynite
May 2023
OP
There are different ways to get the whole salami. One is one slice at a time. We're getting the ...
marble falls
May 2023
#2
He is not officially a *convicted* sexual abuser. He's a *liable* sexual abuser.
Ocelot II
May 2023
#8
"When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said... 'it means just what I choose it to mean
Ocelot II
May 2023
#13
Agreed. But some of us are sticklers about accuracy, and some of us aren't
Hugh_Lebowski
May 2023
#15