"Clinically proven" oxymorons and misnomers
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Arguably, it could work. It's a more convoluted concept, but saying "I could care less" could be considered to be more of a dismissal than not being able to care less. It suggests that, while it is possible to care less about something, it isn't even worth the effort involved in developing that level of nonchalance.The Shade said:
Why? Communism has always had dictators, however conflicting with its political ideas it may be. Chairman Mao, Lenin, Stalin.... you get the idea.Dys said:
Would you care to name a leader from an actual communist state or are you happy to assume that the names they gave themselves were not propoganda?curlycrouton said:
I can't think of a single 'communist' party that has had remotely communist ideals after they rose to power (Fuck the United states is a better example of a communist state than the USSR). You wouldn't call the peoples Democratic Republic of Korea a democracy, so why would you call the USSR or China communist? If they directly oppose communist ideals in what sense are the communists?
When something like that happens, it's called "RAS Syndrome".berethond said:
The RAS stands for 'Redundant Acronym Syndrome'.
I never relised how funny that is.Nivag said:
Also virtual reality: virtual=fake, reality=real. How can something be fake real
I hate it when people use the word "fit" to describe anybody physically attractive. It means healthy and good endurance, dammit!
In fact, I basically hate any word that has been adapted by morons to mean something completely irrelivant.
In fact, I basically hate any word that has been adapted by morons to mean something completely irrelivant.
I think it's fairly safe to say that the USSR was Communist. It's Government nationalized all productive property, put factories and railroads under strict government control, collected and rationed food, and introduced bourgeois management of industry.Dys said:
OK, so the leaders might conflict with the Communist ideal, but the nation of the USSR, and most of its people, was most certainly Communist.
It grates me pretty good when people say 'No offense, but,' before they say something to someone that they know is going to offend in several ways.
It's an annoying cop out phrase, and every person using it already knows that they mean every offense, but they don't want to put in the effort towards the impending fight/argument they just created. Assholes.
It's an annoying cop out phrase, and every person using it already knows that they mean every offense, but they don't want to put in the effort towards the impending fight/argument they just created. Assholes.
If there's a dictator it isn't communism, communism cannot exist without democracy.danskrobut said:
The system of government was very near the opposite of communism. It's less wrong to claim that Britain or the U.S.A are communist than it is to claim the USSR is, they at least have a restrained form of democracy and a level of freedom.curlycrouton said:
Claiming to be communist doesn't make you one. Like I said above, you wouldn't call the Democratic Republic of Korea a democracy, so why call the USSR communist? (I've bolded that because people seem to ignore it, and the hypocrisy is a tad annoying).danskrobut said:
A communist dictator is an oxymoron, a dictator is someone who exclusively has power over a state while a communist state is one where everyone has equal power.
*Puts on glasses*Mimsofthedawg said:
Actually, the term "gay" was originally created to mean "happy" and "carefree", so using it in that context would be incorrect.
I say something similar - I'm not being funny but... i.e."I'm not being funny but I think you've got your head firmly up your arse". Is that the same thing?Compatriot Block said:
Aw, man, that's fantastic. You should have that framed in your office.BlueMage said:
sallene said:
but you are 'AS high AS a kite, indicating how high up you are. rather than the fact you are just high (standing on a chair is high, compared to the floor)