[Rhodes22-list] Politics continued - John misleader on W.E.B.DuBois

[Robert Skinner]

Herb - I'll accept your correction on the word "infer" 
with thanks, but long term occupation remains effectively
equal to colonization in my book.  We do need the oil,
don't we?

As to propaganda - Hell, Herb - don't you know a bit of 
satire when you hear it?

/Robert
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Herb Parsons wrote:
> 
> Gotta love it when folks misuse "infer"? When one makes a statement, he
> implies something. When someone hears a statement, he infers (or draws
> an inference) from that statement.
> 
> But it does sound cool, right?
> 
> Besides, when you see us colonize something, then you can talk about a
> colonial war. Otherwise, you're just spouting more propaganda.
> 
> Robert Skinner wrote:
> > Tootle wrote:
> >
> >> ...
> >> "Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and
> >> for all." [Nikita Khrushchev , February 25, 1956 20th Congress of the
> >> Communist Party]
> >>
> >> "We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is
> >> best for society." Hillary Clinton, 1993
> >>
> >
> > So, ED, I guess you mean to infer that social
> > considerations are negligible when compared to
> > individual rights.  So why are individual
> > rights being made subservient to Bush's
> > colonial wars?
> >
> > Or are you saying that the right's position is
> > anti-social?
> >
> > Or that social costs should be subordinate to
> > individual advancement?
> >
> > Or are you just repeating word games you have
> > heard from your fellow dittoheads?
> >
> > /Robert
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> Herb Parsons
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