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The Magistrate

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23. Argument By Hyperbole Is A Dangerous Tool, Ma'am
Thu Mar 26, 2020, 05:49 PM
Mar 2020

Used sparingly, it can make vivid a point that must be got across quickly. When resorted to habitually, people come to forget they are using a rhetorical device, and come to take the exaggerations for effect as statements of fact. Sometimes they then come to feel these 'facts' require even further hyperbolic exaggeration, and soon enough we arrive at a point where, for example, elective abortion is described as racist genocide.

It would seem that AIPAC, on the showing of what you have posted up, has crossed that line at the run and gone deep into the shadowlands. Supporters of Israel have made a bad mistake in this country by accepting the support they do from the most retrograde evangelical elements of the United States, whose actual views regarding Jews and the establishment of Israel do not bear close examination. These people are not really friends of Israel, and certainly not of Jews. By pinning their cause to these elements, people like AIPAC are turning the question of support for Israel into a partisan issue, where before it was a broadly accepted consensus. As support for Israel becomes increasingly identified with radical religious fundamentalists here, who are hostile to just about every other political and cultural bloc, the broad acceptance of the idea the United States should support Israel will fray to tatters, and AIPAC will not like the result.





If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden

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Omar is my Congresswoman, and I am seriously looking at her primary opponents - The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #1
I was disappointed in her voting showblue22 Mar 2020 #2
Yes, that was dumb, too. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #3
I Hope She Wins, Ma'am The Magistrate Mar 2020 #8
She needs to do a better job of representing her district if she's going to get my vote again. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #14
I Respect Your View, Ma'am The Magistrate Mar 2020 #15
Time wrap? question everything Mar 2020 #16
Elliot Abrams, Sir The Magistrate Mar 2020 #17
We all have our own criteria for evaluating a politician. question everything Mar 2020 #18
I Doubt They Have The Power To Do Harm, Sir The Magistrate Mar 2020 #20
It's becoming increasingly evident is that the only surviving member of the "squad" may be.... George II Mar 2020 #4
These ladies BlueIdaho Mar 2020 #5
Good. HarlanPepper Mar 2020 #6
My guess is AOC squeezes through on her primary. Blue_true Mar 2020 #21
But She Only Won With A Teeny Number Of Votes Me. Mar 2020 #27
Given what is likely to be happening at the time of that primary, Blue_true Mar 2020 #28
I Would Agree With You Me. Mar 2020 #29
The issue that you pointed out is why I think the wholefully Blue_true Mar 2020 #30
Will there even be a state primary for her to be challenged? question everything Mar 2020 #7
Go John Mason!!!! NCProgressive Mar 2020 #9
Thank you . showblue22 Mar 2020 #10
I hope all members of the "squad" NCProgressive Mar 2020 #11
+100. nt dware Mar 2020 #12
I Disagree, Sir The Magistrate Mar 2020 #13
Thank you. sheshe2 Mar 2020 #26
Wow! That's something else, isn't it? NurseJackie Mar 2020 #19
I disagree with him profoundly on AIPAC, they fucking called Dems more sinister than the ISIS Celerity Mar 2020 #22
Argument By Hyperbole Is A Dangerous Tool, Ma'am The Magistrate Mar 2020 #23
spot on Sir, as usual Celerity Mar 2020 #24
I wonder if she would respect a the result of losing a primary? Or if she would bolt tritsofme Mar 2020 #25
This will be a fun primary to follow Gothmog Mar 2020 #31
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