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  • (Score: 1) by hemocyanin on Wednesday April 14 2021, @06:21AM (6 children)

    by hemocyanin (186) on Wednesday April 14 2021, @06:21AM (#1137324) Journal

    I spent half an hour searching for why it is called "Ur-" -- what the hell does he have against ancient civilizations?

  • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Wednesday April 14 2021, @06:27AM (2 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday April 14 2021, @06:27AM (#1137329) Journal

    German, you fucking uneducated American Conservative! I expect crap like this from the ignorant moran uneducated Runaway, but you seriously are unaware so such terms as Urquell? Also a brand of original Pils from Bohemia. Tell me, hemo, that you do not pronouce "Nepal" as "nipple", and "Bhutan" as "button", like our also uneducated Former Guy? Why are Americans not embarrassed to demonstrate how stupid they are? Any other nation's citizens would be asshamed to be so ignorant.

    • (Score: 1) by hemocyanin on Wednesday April 14 2021, @07:10AM (1 child)

      by hemocyanin (186) on Wednesday April 14 2021, @07:10AM (#1137339) Journal

      Well I"m not German. But thanks for the hint. https://www.etymonline.com/word/ur- [etymonline.com]

      • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday April 14 2021, @08:33AM

        by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday April 14 2021, @08:33AM (#1137357) Journal

        If you are going to be a Nazi, you are going to have to learn the language! Of course, the Nazi language seems to be English now, except when Richard Spencer refers to the "luggenpresse", or Pat Buchanan addresses a National Republican Convention. (For you younglings, or Boomers with memory loss, it was Molly Ivins of Texas that wrote "Pat Buchanan's Speech Sounded Better in the Original German". [theraucousrooster.com]

        And conservatives, even faux reformed liberals as Hemonyacin here, think that they are abused by the left? He is a sample of what Molly used to dish out to Texas conservatives on a regular basis, when they were just starting to go insane.

        Electoral Campaigns, Politics, Satire
        Pat Buchanan’s Speech Sounded Better in the Original German – Molly Ivins on the 1992 G.O.P. Convention
        by Christopher Fisher • August 31, 2020

        Still regularly seeking refuge from the present in the past, I found myself thinking about the roots of today’s GOP again, and a time when it seemed that Republicans were already beginning to get a little wacky and out of touch with the American people, the 1992 Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas.

        Who better to cover that convention than Molly Ivins, who had an unparalleled way with words regarding the endlessly entertaining politics of Texas, which has often been said to be like America, but on steroids.

        No journalist ever covered the Bush family with such joy and tender loving care as Ivins. Read her coverage of the ’92 RNC below, first in the September 4, 1992 Texas Observer, and then in the September 14, 1992 Nation magazine.

        For more on Molly Ivins, check out the 2019 film, Raise Hell: the Life and Times of Molly Ivins.

        by Molly Ivins

        Texas Observer

        September 4, 1992

        Houston

                  I thought Patrick Buchanan’s speech was chock-full o’ dandy ideas. Religious warfare, for example. Due to the unfortunate historical luck of our nation having been founded well after the Reformation and the Inquisition and all that good stuff, we’ve never had religious warfare in this country, and just think of all we’ve missed.

                  Mass slaughter in the name of God, killing for Christ, pogroms, the ambience of Northern Ireland and Lebanon, tons of fun. Cultural cleansing. There’s another knacky notion. Why should the Bosnians have all the fun? We could have a cleansing of our very own right here at home.

                  I especially liked Buchanan’s program for the inner cities – M16s. That was the Battle of Stalingrad portion of the speech, you recall, in which we retake our cities block by block from these people who have somehow infiltrated their own country.

                  That Buchanan’s story of the young National Guardsmen who saved the home for the elderly from mob menace turned out not to be true is of no importance to me.

                  We here at the Republican convention approach truth in a larky spirit, with imagination, flexibility and insouciance. We never consider hypocrisy at all. That is why Patrick Buchanan was able to call Bill Clinton, who suffered an acute crisis of conscience over the war in Vietnam and then signed up for the draft lottery anyway, a draft dodger.

        There is more at the link above, if your treasonous draft-dodging slime-sucking lime lizard soul can stand such truthful barbs from a true liberal. We all miss Molly.

        Mit (der) Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.

        Aus/von: Die Jungfrau von Orleans, III,6 / Talbot [friedrich-schiller-archiv.de]

        Outside of Nazis, there is a lot of German culture, art, and even philosophy. You excuse for not being aware of it is pathetic. I recommend you be modded down.

        Don't be a Runaway, hemo. It is beneath you.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 14 2021, @06:39AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 14 2021, @06:39AM (#1137332)

    Less than a minute, and the definition was in the search result summaries. Now we see the quality of dat boomer brain.

    • (Score: 1) by hemocyanin on Wednesday April 14 2021, @07:07AM (1 child)

      by hemocyanin (186) on Wednesday April 14 2021, @07:07AM (#1137338) Journal

      Care to enlighten me? Because all I found was "ur-fascism" without a definition for "ur".

      • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday April 14 2021, @08:15AM

        by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday April 14 2021, @08:15AM (#1137355) Journal

        Do you even know who Umberto Eco was? First and foremost a philosopher, but also the only philosopher since Plato who could competently write fiction. You may have heard of some of his work, even in translation, like "The Name of the Rose" (also made into a movie, with Sean Connery), and "Foucault's Pendulum", an epic take down of new age conspiracy theories. But Americans are geographically challenged, and only mercenarily literate. So continue with the whining over people who are more learned and intelligent than you modding you down for being stupid and spreading ignorance and fear, and loathing. Hunter S. Thompson would not approve, hemo, nor would George Carlin. Nor Will Rogers or Andy Kaufman.