tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post2924365335848955358..comments2024-03-28T08:51:18.908-04:00Comments on the daily howler: THE UPPER-CLASS COGNITION FILES: A tale of two faltering states of cognition!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger96125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-34279885676198366212019-09-30T01:23:33.246-04:002019-09-30T01:23:33.246-04:00
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I never e...deadrat fooled me by posting as Maria. <br />I never even thought it might be deadrat, because "Maria" didn't pretend Somerby doesn't repeat nonsensical Right-wing memes on his blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-61949037033210072162019-09-21T21:41:08.208-04:002019-09-21T21:41:08.208-04:00So you say, 5:31P=6:30P=8:08P, so you say.
And yo...So you say, 5:31P=6:30P=8:08P, so you say.<br /><br />And you think I need to calm down? It is to laugh.<br /><br />Get back to trolling. You need the practice.deadrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02828198094140822987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-14237998156168796432019-09-21T20:08:10.926-04:002019-09-21T20:08:10.926-04:00deadrat, 6:30 was not me. Calm down, and get back ...deadrat, 6:30 was not me. Calm down, and get back to carrying water for TDH, just as TDH does for Trump. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-32361200502165074162019-09-21T19:47:34.392-04:002019-09-21T19:47:34.392-04:00Ooh! I've been promoted to amanuensis! After 5...Ooh! I've been promoted to amanuensis! After 5 years, Somerby gives me a brush.<br /><br />(Oh, @5:31, it's considered bad form to cheer your comment with another comment.)deadrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02828198094140822987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-59277246834098029632019-09-21T18:30:00.049-04:002019-09-21T18:30:00.049-04:005:31,
Bingo!5:31,<br />Bingo!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-64543462883850556242019-09-21T17:44:39.858-04:002019-09-21T17:44:39.858-04:00Somerby should get out of the business altogether....Somerby should get out of the business altogether. Prager and Ben Shapiro work the Right-wing blog idiocy better than he does.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-78209249513193265672019-09-21T17:32:52.803-04:002019-09-21T17:32:52.803-04:00'Sort of like trying to figure out who Somerby...'Sort of like trying to figure out who Somerby likes and why'<br /><br />Somerby likes Trump and Moore, because he spends all his time defending them gallantly. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-82739346542608440062019-09-21T17:31:14.565-04:002019-09-21T17:31:14.565-04:00Somerby is a concern troll, pretending to be conce...Somerby is a concern troll, pretending to be concerned about liberals, while attacking them. And defending Moore and Trump. <br /><br />Hence, Somerby is a troll, as is his amanuensis deadrat. Somerby wants Trump to win. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-18479452225293407422019-09-21T17:25:41.894-04:002019-09-21T17:25:41.894-04:00Then you don't know what a troll is. And neith...Then you don't know what a troll is. And neither does any of the claque who agrees with you.deadrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02828198094140822987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-78718471001803507532019-09-21T17:24:24.662-04:002019-09-21T17:24:24.662-04:00Sorry, @10:13A, I'm confused. "Just like ...Sorry, @10:13A, I'm confused. "Just like the 1619 Project" means using race as the sole and overriding lens for viewing the US." How does that apply to the question the moderator asked Biden? deadrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02828198094140822987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-55825926044993334022019-09-21T17:19:55.100-04:002019-09-21T17:19:55.100-04:00We get it that you don't do implication.
But ...<i>We get it that you don't do implication.</i><br /><br />But I do. Every time I use a nickname to reply to Anonymi whose comments I find ignorant, I’m implying my contempt for their position as well as their lack of courtesy in not using a nym. And I think those commenters have no trouble spotting the implication.<br /><br />Every time TDH talks about his conversations with “future anthropologists,” I know that he’s not referring to actual anthropologists. I understand that it’s an implication that liberal discourse is tribal in its adherence to favored narratives.<br /><br />But what I am loath to do is to read a transcript and rely on my judgments of what’s implied, in other words on my inferences. Especially in the absence of other evidence, and most especially when my inferences match my biases. This is a stance I recommend to everyone.<br /><br /><i>If the question asks about race relations,… then the answer must be taken in the context of the question. What follows is "about" race.</i><br /><br />I’m on board with that. Our disagreement will be over what “about race” means. My judgment is that Biden was deflecting, i.e., he chose to answer the question he wanted to hear instead of the one he was asked. We all do this with uncomfortable questions, politicians are generally masters of this technique, and there’s no more uncomfortable issue in the US than race. This stance allows all sorts of reasonable — and mostly unflattering — inferences about Joe Biden but requires the understanding that he was talking about what he was talking about, however disingenuously.<br /><br />If I understand you correctly, “about race” means that we must interpret the words of Biden’s actual answer (which don’t match those of the question) as code that allows us to align answer with question. In other words, when Biden says “poor people” he actually means “black people” by implication. But this means that Biden must be saying, if not believing, that the X-Million Word Gap and low-literacy parenting are problems restricted to black households.<br /><br />I’m suspicious of mind reading when it leads to such nonsensical conclusions and particularly when I’m not disposed to the person who’s mind I’m considering. On the issue of race, I think Biden was a profile in political cowardice back in the day.<br /><br /><i>Too literal, as usual. If you actually functioned the way you comment, you would have misunderstandings with nearly everyone you spoke with, all day long.</i><br /><br />Not to mention routinely getting punched in the nose. But of course I don’t have such misunderstandings with most people I speak to for the very reason that I don’t speak to people the way I comment here. And I don’t need to. I have many nonverbal cues from my interlocutors, and in many instances history with them. And, of course, if I find myself unsure of what others really mean, I can ask them what they really mean.<br /><br />None of this applies to this blog or its commentariat, so I infer with caution (or try to), and I urge others to do the same.<br /><br /><i>That's why I think this is a deliberate trolling ploy.</i><br /><br />It’s certainly deliberate, as it takes considerable practice to lay aside one’s treasured judgments. And perhaps we have different definitions of what a troll is and does. Some here call someone a troll if he’s taken an adamant opposing position, and especially if he’s impolite. For me, a troll is someone who provides nothing more than contrariness simply to provoke. Like Mao, our Village Troll. Do you honestly find me the equivalent of Mao?<br />deadrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02828198094140822987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-21122595023753634062019-09-21T13:21:52.303-04:002019-09-21T13:21:52.303-04:0011:34
Typo: Your entire comment.
Leroy11:34<br /><br />Typo: Your entire comment.<br /><br />LeroyLeroyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02021120389394278239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-36421977387815579072019-09-21T12:29:14.909-04:002019-09-21T12:29:14.909-04:00Mao's bosses (the Establishment) are afraid if...Mao's bosses (the Establishment) are afraid if Warren gets elected, there won't be enough in the Treasury to give to them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-25345911614683041892019-09-21T11:40:23.449-04:002019-09-21T11:40:23.449-04:00You could draw this same graph with Warren and DNA...You could draw this same graph with Warren and DNA/Indian stories (scandal) versus Biden and coverage of his programs and plans (issue) -- oh, wait, he doesn't have any.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-92191703758927233562019-09-21T11:35:58.150-04:002019-09-21T11:35:58.150-04:00typo: male candidates should be "female candi...typo: male candidates should be "female candidates", obviouslyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-25512850682460519412019-09-21T11:34:41.045-04:002019-09-21T11:34:41.045-04:00Here is another example of the kind of thing an ac...Here is another example of the kind of thing an actual media critic would focus upon, this time from Lawyers, Guns & Money blog:<br /><br />http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2019/09/this-is-excellent-news-for-donald-trump<br /><br />Notice the ongoing difference in focus between candidates the NY Times likes and ones they don't like. Then you have to ask, where does the decision about how to cover a candidate come from? Is this a corporate decision or did the various and sundry writers and editors at the NY Times just decide they loved Trump and hated Hillary?<br /><br />Sort of like trying to figure out who Somerby likes and why, when he won't talk about any of the male candidates the way he talks about lovely old Joe Biden or lovable Bernie and his lovable arm waving.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-72573346687501508842019-09-21T11:14:20.363-04:002019-09-21T11:14:20.363-04:00As a foreign reporter visiting the US I was stunne...<b>As a foreign reporter visiting the US I was stunned by Trump's press conference</b><br /><br /><em>But watching a full presidential Trump press conference while visiting the US this week I realised how much the reporting of Trump necessarily edits and parses his words, to force it into sequential paragraphs or impose meaning where it is difficult to detect.<br /><br />…<br /><br />I’d understood the dilemma of normalising Trump’s ideas and policies – the racism, misogyny and demonisation of the free press. But watching just one press conference from Otay Mesa helped me understand how the process of reporting about this president can mask and normalise his full and alarming incoherence.</em><br /><br />https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/20/as-a-foreign-reporter-visiting-the-us-i-was-stunned-by-trumps-press-conference<br /><br />The political press in this country have been allowing Donald J Chickenshit, Acting President, to bluff his way through his entire presidency, and have been aiding and abetting him every day in normalizing his foul foul insanity.mmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-10621354657811718162019-09-21T11:13:48.167-04:002019-09-21T11:13:48.167-04:00I don’t have anything meaningful to add to this co...I don’t have anything meaningful to add to this conversation. But I will say, I enjoyed Bob’s essay. Would that mainstream opinion writers, like Blow, had his discernment. I learned a bit of history concerning the efforts to which some have aspired, in the attempt to make a difference in the task of educating our citizens, that I’d not been aware of.<br /><br />Sure am glad that there are commenters like deadrat, (The Queen of Romania, ha ha!) Cmike (local historian) and others who’re able to enhance the historical narratives. mm as well adds some spice, and often has insightful posts on current events. There are others as well, Dr. T comes to mind, sometimes even anons, I just wish they’d give themselves a handle.<br /><br />In short, between Bob’s posts and the replies of the intelligent commentariat, I sure get my money’s worth in the reading. <br /><br />Leroy<br /><br /><br /><br />Leroyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02021120389394278239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-88647631612535449412019-09-21T10:26:25.312-04:002019-09-21T10:26:25.312-04:00You are the troll here, deadrat. Many of us agree ...You are the troll here, deadrat. Many of us agree with this statement.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-13387777610084144112019-09-21T10:13:46.337-04:002019-09-21T10:13:46.337-04:00Just like the question the moderator asked him, wh...Just like the question the moderator asked him, which was about race, not poverty. It was about racial inequality in schools. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com