thanks!
thanks, that’s very interesting. is it really core part of a copy editors job to know the etymology/meaning in context for such a great number of commonly used words?
interesting point, but I very much doubt anyone at the NYT editorial staff would consciously make the connection to siege warfare. I think it was unintentional, and just poor wording on their part.
to be frivolously indulged in the way previous generations did, and the importance of doing it with a lover rather than a hookup is made paramount. both seem to v much denigrate hookup culture ime, and both often have slightly less pro-alcohol views as did previous generations of right and left.
and that extra marital sex is destabilizing. he did emphasise family formation which progressives maybe wouldn’t, but a lot of the rightist discourse I used to see from time to time on reddit did effectively mirror the progressive take on sex as well. it becomes an almost sacred act, not something…
I think the outcomes and the views toward the sexual revolution are largely the same tbh. I was talking to one of my Indian high school friends a few days ago, he’s a rightist, and he straight up said that the rev. was bad for men+women and that we should be having sex as part of marriage…
it’s weasel wording. either you overturn (or attempt to overturn) an election or you don’t. what on earth does “undermine” actually mean in this context? say there was fraud? half of the GOP says that, so that wouldn’t be a deviation from the norm. their editorial policy…
there was a book I read a few years ago which touched on this very topic and argued (quite convincingly) that it is a modern form of puritanism, or at least something without any real functional difference, but unfortunately I can barely remember it’s arguments, nor it’s title.
“Obviously, statistics from Gaza are subject to bias, so we can’t use them to determine when the number of dead Palestinians has reached a sufficient level.”
WASHINGTON—Saying civilian casualties were the “price of waging a war” and that so far the price had not been high enough, President Biden spoke to reporters Thursday about the conflict in Gaza ...
yes that’s a good point. I would call it a low-res mirror, and note that while intentionality differs functional outcomes can be largely similar. perhaps orthogonal would have been a better term.