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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 30 2020, @02:21AM (11 children)
Covid will still be around screwing things up and Biden will probably launch the US-Iran war.
A lot of the fallout from this shit year is still going to be flying off the rotary impellor.
Crazy anti-Biden righties* will replace the crazy anti-Trump lefties, so not much change there. More screaming, less crying. Meh.
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* interesting - the spellchecker is fine with "lefties" but objects to "righties".
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 30 2020, @05:30AM (1 child)
It'll apparently be Obama's third term, and he loves Iran but hates Israel. Harris will fall in line. Biden will fall and break his hip.
I'd be more concerned about the ever-rising flood of jobs to China, thus finishing-off the middle class, faster than CA and NY could do it. Buy American... at least if you can find anything.
I don't have a lot, and I don't have a lot of greed, either. Sometimes you have to stand back and look at your place in the universe... but first start in your own neighborhood.
(Score: -1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 31 2020, @04:11PM
You say that like an Obama third term might somehow magically be a good thing, even though his first two were disasters - even he admitted his own H1N1 disaster, when he put Sleepy Joe in charge of telling everybody not to worry about it. Imagine how Joe would handle something like this Chinese virus! If the Supreme Court doesn't wake up soon, 2021 will be an absolute Hilaria-sized bust.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday December 30 2020, @02:06PM
Language change is slow, and the the factions that need to be patronised (it is a description that diminishes them, rather than presenting them as something to revere or fear) have indeed been around for vastly different lengths of time. Sad pathetic righties are relatively recent, in all the countries I have any experience with, and I remember loony-lefties from the UK back in Thatcher's time, so that's over 3 decades head start.
Of course, describing them in patronising terms doesn't mean that they aren't potentially dangerous, it's just that sometimes othering righties as jack-booted nazis actually encourages them! You do have to chose how you other outgroups carefully depending on context. I mean, you'd hate to be the one carrying the banner that says "they're lazy and milk our welfare system" when the rest of the mob is carrying "they's tekkin our jurbs" ones, wouldn't you?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 30 2020, @09:33PM
More likely the US-Iran-Syria-Russia-Turkey-Iraq war. Establishment Joe has his marching orders. China will be virtually unscathed by the conflict, so they are in better condition than ever to declare themselves a Supah Powah!!
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 31 2020, @08:53AM (5 children)
Probably because "lefty" to refer to left-handed people has been used more often and for longer than "righty" has been used to refer to right-handed people.
(Score: 3, Funny) by DECbot on Friday January 01 2021, @06:11AM (4 children)
I refuse to acknowledge "righty as a word unless its natural counterpart "wrongy" is included too. "Lefty" is obviously the unnatural counterpart as left-handedness is so unnatural.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday January 05 2021, @06:34AM (1 child)
You forgot "bendy" (opposite of right = straight) , "skewy/leany" (opposite of right = upright) and "oppressy" (the opposite of right = a specific freedom).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Tuesday January 05 2021, @06:55AM
I like the sound of "oppressy." It would be entertaining to hear the news actors use it in their reporting.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 2) by meisterister on Sunday January 10 2021, @03:03AM (1 child)
Then allow us to use the newspeak constructions "unlefty", "doubleunlefty", or "doubleplusunlefty" to clarify this egregious fault in language!
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(Score: 2) by DECbot on Wednesday January 13 2021, @02:37AM
I doubleplusnotfault you thinks.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 1) by Ingar on Wednesday January 06 2021, @12:34PM
Categorically worse than 2020, that way I can be pleasantly surprised if something nice happens.