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Trump’s Orwellian Erasure of Women
#41
(13-05-2025, 09:27 AM)zqwerty Wrote: So what do you do with those that choose to flaunt commonsense rules to protect the majority?
I think you meant flout commonsense rules...flaunt means to ostentatiously display.
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#42
Yes that is the word I was looking for at the time but chose as I did because of spelling and also people who won't vaccinate do seem to flaunt the commonsense rules and are aware that they are.

flaunty
ˈflȯn--tē
ˈflän-
adjective
Flaunt vs. Flout: Usage Guide

Although the "treat contemptuously" sense of flaunt undoubtedly arose from confusion with flout, the contexts in which it appears cannot be called substandard.
meting out punishment to the occasional mavericks who operate rigged games, tolerate rowdyism, or otherwise flaunt the law —
Oscar Lewis
observed with horror the flaunting of their authority in the suburbs, where men … put up buildings that had no place at all in a Christian commonwealth —
Marchette Chute
in our profession … very rarely do we publicly chastise a colleague who has flaunted our most basic principles —
R. T. Blackburn, AAUP Bull.

If you use it, however, you should be aware that many people will consider it a mistake. Use of flout in the sense of "flaunt, parade" is found occasionally.
"The proper pronunciation," the blonde said, flouting her refined upbringing, "is pree feeks" —
Mike Royko



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#43
(13-05-2025, 09:37 AM)zqwerty Wrote: "out of proportion to the crime... "

killing someone/more than one possibly by giving them Covid you mean.

 that is far from a certain outcome when one catches covid, either now or then. Look, i'm not saying those people aren't idiots for non-conforming, but if you banished or imprisoned everyone that was non-conforming with some aspect of the law you would empty the country...
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#44
A process we see underway in the States. A symptom maybe of a failing state..
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#45
If you are in your 60's and onwards Covid is a serious affliction, plenty of people die if they are over 70.
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#46
What it comes down to is that basically, we humans are feckingidiots. Not all of us & not all the time, but often enough to sometimes be a problem both to ourselves & to others...
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#47
(13-05-2025, 03:01 PM)zqwerty Wrote: ... plenty of people die if they are over 70.

Well, I certainly hope so. Have you seen how fug ugly we get as the decades pass?   Big Grin Rolleyes

It's so sad. I used to be so gorgeous  sigh... Rolleyes
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#48
(13-05-2025, 03:12 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote:
(13-05-2025, 03:01 PM)zqwerty Wrote: ... plenty of people die if they are over 70.

Well, I certainly hope so. Have you seen how fug ugly we get as the decades pass?   Big Grin Rolleyes

It's so sad. I used to be so gorgeous  sigh... Rolleyes

Well...what a coincidence - me too! Rolleyes Big Grin Big Grin
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#49
Due to Covid, not old age lol, although many do not get the privilege of living to a ripe old age and the wisdom that may come with the resulting experience.
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#50
It's not trump that's being Orwellian to women, quite the contrary.
He is putting woman's rights into law so that these sick guys who want to take their rights away in sports can't compete against them.
This BS needs to stop, and winston is following suit here.
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#51
(15-05-2025, 09:22 PM)C_T_Russell Wrote: It's not trump that's being Orwellian to women, quite the contrary.
He is putting woman's rights into law so that these sick guys who want to take their rights away in sports can't compete against them.
This BS needs to stop, and winston is following suit here.

I'd agree that there should be a trans category in sports.

I definitely do NOT agree with the rest of your post. Dodgy
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