Music Video: 'I Hate Republicans'

[davinxtk]

Oh yeah, that must be it. That's exactly the problem.

This place never runs out of two-bit smart-asses, does it?

[Zhukov]

9/11 deserved to be a major part of history because it was one.

I'm just being dialectical about this. You can argue that 3000 US citizens are as important as 3000 Sudanese citizens. It doesn't matter. Sudan isn't the major capitalist power of our time.

[Helm]

I don't dissagree with your point, I'd just like to point out that the usage of the word 'dialectic' here seems a bit misplaced, really. Not that anyone else notices.

[Zhukov]

I actually meant to say I was being a determinist about this. No edit.

Yeah, I didn't think anyone would notice. :/

[davinxtk]

Originally Posted by Zhukov

9/11 deserved to be a major part of history because it was one.

I'm just being dialectical about this. You can argue that 3000 US citizens are as important as 3000 Sudanese citizens. It doesn't matter. Sudan isn't the major capitalist power of our time.

Zhukov, I'm not saying it wasn't important, I'm saying it was blown phenominally out of porportion. I was making the same point of things being blown out of porportion as Blanco was. And I didn't even disagree with his point in the first place, I was just making a glib remark about historical perspective and the way things get exaggerated.

[davinxtk]

And, in fact, either word fits the context but would give a completely different meaning to your sentence, each appropriate.

[Zhukov]

I was going to explain it using a dialectic method, but I couldn't be bothered so I fessed up.

I'm saying it was blown phenominally out of porportion.

As long as you realise that it needed to, and was always going to get blown out of proportion...

[davinxtk]

I can see 'needed to' in the context of bitchslapping Afghanistan, but everything that followed that is where the exaggeration becomes next to unnecessary.