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boomer crook wrote:meni se ne dopada ali mislim da je dobra. ja volim rec weird jos od kada sam je procitao u naslovu murkokove knjige weird of the white wolf kao djecarac.

zvezda je zivot wrote:ja misim da je weird kampanja dobra

Corey Robin wrote:This Walz guy, the Democratic governor of Minnesota who some have mentioned as a possible candidate for vice president, speaks my kind of language.

On one of the morning shows, Jake Tapper asked Walz why he decided to start calling Trump "weird" rather than "an existential threat to democracy," the way other Democrats and a lot of journalists and academics have been saying.

Walz's response: "It gives him [Trump] way too much power. Listen to the guy. He's talking about Hannibal Lecter and shocking sharks, whatever crazy thing pops into his mind. And I thought we just give him way too much credit. When you just ratchet down some of the scariness and just name it what it is...That is weird behavior. I don't think you call it anything else."

Exactly.

As Lewis Lapham, the longtime editor of Harper's who just died, said: "What so annoys people about the media is not its rudeness or its stupidity but its sanctimony.” That goes for the media-adjacent, too.

Though it's by no means the major problem with the fascism or authoritarianism argument, one of the problems with that argument, and part of why it never worked in quite the way people wanted it to, is that it does sound sanctimonious. Same goes for phrases like "our democracy." They're worse than cringe. They sound like a strained bid for gravitas, particularly when they come packaged as analogies to late Weimar Germany, or the language of pious frauds.

Walz gets that. I hope the rest of the party does, too.

Nim Chimpsky wrote:

boomer crook wrote:meni se ne dopada ali mislim da je dobra. ja volim rec weird jos od kada sam je procitao u naslovu murkokove knjige weird of the white wolf kao djecarac.

Sta znam, ja sam tu knjigu citao u kineskom prevodu u jaslicama pa nisam razvio takve afinitete.

Kampanja nervira republikance sto jeste dobro ali mislim da nije narocito ucinkovito. Nesto kao kad se lome kvake zbog skandiranja vcc pdr na utakmicama opozicionih klubova.