The Strange Politics of Peter Thiel, Trump’s Most Unlikely Supporter

Re:The Strange Politics of Peter Thiel, Trump’s Most Unlikel... by winter_blue on Thursday July 21, 2016 @03:12PM (#12139267)

I completely and utterly disagree with you; language and word choice matters a lot: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/06/wol...

There is a lot of implied sub-communication that comes with word choice in human languages. Only an idiot or a robot would take everything by its literal meaning.

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Re:The Strange Politics of Peter Thiel, Trump’s Most Unlikel... by douche on Thursday July 21, 2016 @03:40PM (#12139461)

We'll agree to disagree. The linked article is a pretty load of horse-hockey, in my opinion.

If everyone is free to redefine words to mean whatever they damn well please, then it is impossible to have clear, effective discussions, because you get wound up wrangling about definitions - as we do habitually here, talking past each other.

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Re:The Strange Politics of Peter Thiel, Trump’s Most Unlikel... by winter_blue on Friday July 22, 2016 @09:18AM (#12143301)

I know you don't agree, but to make my point further, this great article just came out today: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/why-demo...

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