I just saw the following signature on Daily Kos:
It is no accident that Liberty and Liberal are the same word.
Uh...actually...I hate to burst your bubble, but...they're not the same word. On the other hand, the fact that you don't realize the difference may explain why you're commenting on one of the most hate-tastic blogs the left has to offer.
(No, I'm not giving that b@stard a link. Go find it yourself if you must.)
Posted by CD on December 6, 2004 02:29 AMThey must be confusing classical liberalism with their version of it...what they like to term "progressivism".
After all, how about the position of many of these liberals towards the liberation of ~50 million (Iraq + Afghanistan) by the US Military?
Posted by: jaws at December 6, 2004 11:40 AMWhy don't you pick the person who runs the website, a person who makes a direct comment to you, or a person of authority, in order to generlize liberals arguements. I mean i can go get a religeous dumb comment from some random blogger any minute.
Posted by: tyler newman at December 7, 2004 01:49 AMTyler, a couple points...
1) I wasn't "generlizing" liberal "arguements." I was merely poking fun at a signature line that I found amusing. If you have a problem with that, tough luck.
2) You'll probably find that people take your comments more seriously after you LEARN TO FREAKIN' SPELL!
I'm glad I could be of assistance. Please go away now.
Yeah, I'd have an easier time responding to Tyler if I had any idea what he was saying.
Posted by: Army NCO Guy at December 7, 2004 08:11 AMUgh, your blacklist is all screwed up, and I can't explain this monosyllabically enough to get past the filter. Liberal and liberty are indeed the same word. Feel free to look them up on the Oxford English Dictionary or the Online Etymology Dictionary. Both are available from your school's website:
http://libwww.syr.edu/research/internet/linguistics/dictionaries.htm
In fact, the etymology of liberty even says "see liberal."
If you want comments, don't blacklist the word 'free' and everything containing '.fr'. Do you know what regular expressions are? I'd suggest reading about them and then deleting all the horrible horrible rules that probably exist in your mt-blacklist config. No, they aren't your fault, but mt-blacklist (or whatever spam filter you're using) does very stupid things, like adding whole domains to the blacklist. That would be fine, except that it then interprets the domains as regular expressions, and you end up losing a *lot* of comments. For example, if you block 'something.ru', it will block any comment with the word 'republican' in it...
Love & (en)Light,
Rowan
Rowan, first of all, there's a difference between words that have similar origins and words that are the same. Have you ever visited the Statue of Liberal? Or perhaps met a liberty arts major?
Second, mu.nu hosts dozens of individual blogs, and I don't control the blacklist, so don't bitch to me about it. Thank you.
Posted by: CD at December 13, 2004 01:27 AMOh come on. Clearly they're not the same actual word. 'is' and 'are' are not the same word, either. You're skewing the (somewhat funny) meaning of this signature, though: the two words carry the same principle meaning.
Posted by: Rowan at December 13, 2004 03:26 PMI think you just refuted your own argument.
Posted by: CD at December 13, 2004 03:45 PM