Comments on: Open thread 5/13/23 https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/13/open-thread-5-13-23/ A blog about political change, among other things Sun, 14 May 2023 18:18:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/13/open-thread-5-13-23/#comment-2679704 Sun, 14 May 2023 18:18:50 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=125830#comment-2679704 This is the Democratic Party
https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1657566565422837760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1657566565422837760%7Ctwgr%5Ea1c7a246988d4e2d1d79309fb027ca17d3363004%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.unz.com%2Fisteve%2Fnyt-cleopatra-was-black-because-it-makes-us-feel-good-to-say-she-was-black%2F

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/13/open-thread-5-13-23/#comment-2679686 Sun, 14 May 2023 15:53:03 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=125830#comment-2679686 Intimidation (continued)…
Matt Taibbi chimes in on the lawsuit against Fox:
“Taibbi Fact-Check: Nina Jankowicz v. Fox News”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/taibbi-fact-check-nina-jankowicz-v-fox-news

(It really looks like they hurt her feelings… Seriously!
But then, how does one take the feelings of a serial liar, um, seriously?
Conclusion: Even serial liars have feelings…)

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/13/open-thread-5-13-23/#comment-2679681 Sun, 14 May 2023 15:17:40 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=125830#comment-2679681 Sunday morning Open Thread: But what about France? You didn’t ask?

French Defence Strategy & Rearmament – a new war economy, deterrence & strategic autonomy – Perun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5eUh3_eo9E

Timestamps:
00:00:00 — FRENCH DEFENCE STRATEGY & REARMAMENT
00:01:38 — WHAT AM I TALKING ABOUT?
00:03:10 — FRENCH MILITARY HISTORY
00:08:05 — napoleon’s France
00:15:07 — cold war France
00:17:03 — FRENCH STRATEGIC POSITION
00:19:09 — setting goals
00:23:15 — THREATS AND OBJECTIVES
00:25:46 — THE FRENCH MILITARY
00:34:12 — FRENCH NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES
00:45:02 — A FRENCH ADVANTAGE?
00:46:40 — selected French and German equipment graph
00:48:11 — how?
00:55:07 — INDUSTRY & SYSTEMS
00:58:35 — European giants
01:02:56 — protecting export
01:06:04 — FRANCE’S PLANNED TRANSFORMATION
01:09:04 — economic preparation
01:12:02 — FRANCE AND “STRATEGIC AUTONOMY”
01:12:17 — pursuit of autonomy
01:13:49 — the challenges of autonomy
01:16:03 — CONCLUSIONS
01:17:41 — CHANNEL UPDATE

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/13/open-thread-5-13-23/#comment-2679658 Sun, 14 May 2023 13:10:11 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=125830#comment-2679658 From the “Well it sure worked for Dominon!” File….
‘ Ex-Disinfo Governance Board chief sues Fox News for ‘immense suffering’ caused by ‘lies’ about her;
‘ Nina Jankowicz, who called the Hunter Biden laptop Russian disinformation and Steele dossier true, claimed that Fox made “cheap, easy entertainment untethered from the facts” that provoked physical threats.’—
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/ex-disinfo-governance-board-chief-sues-fox-news-immense-suffering

Clearly “just” another “Biden” gambit to intimidate the Truth tellers….
(See, that way, they don’t even HAVE TO censor the news!)

]]> By: OBloodyHell https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/13/open-thread-5-13-23/#comment-2679635 Sun, 14 May 2023 04:14:30 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=125830#comment-2679635 “Fear is useful as a warning … [but] if you let it rule you, you’re its
slave.”
– S.M. Stirling/Shirley Meier, ‘The Cage’ –

]]> By: OBloodyHell https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/13/open-thread-5-13-23/#comment-2679634 Sun, 14 May 2023 04:12:02 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=125830#comment-2679634 “Fear is just one more weapon, no more dangerous in itself than a sharpened
blade is. Treat it as you would any weapon. When it approaches, turn
yourself to let it pass you by, then take and control the hand that guides
it at you. The weapon without the hand is only one more thing in a universe
full of things.”
– Gordon R. Dickson, ‘The Final Encyclopaedia’ –

]]> By: OBloodyHell https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/13/open-thread-5-13-23/#comment-2679633 Sun, 14 May 2023 04:10:22 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=125830#comment-2679633 “The disciplines that hold men together in the face of fear, hunger, and
danger are not natural. Stresses equal to, and beyond the stress of fear
and panic must be laid on them. Some of these stresses are called
civilization. And even the highest of civilizations demands leadership.”
– T. R. Fehrenbach, ‘This Kind of War’ –

]]> By: OBloodyHell https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/13/open-thread-5-13-23/#comment-2679632 Sun, 14 May 2023 04:08:32 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=125830#comment-2679632 “The mind can go either direction under stress – toward the positive or
toward the negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes
are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the
positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly
influenced by training.”
– Bene Gesserit Axiom, ‘Dune’ –

]]> By: PA+Cat https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/13/open-thread-5-13-23/#comment-2679631 Sun, 14 May 2023 04:01:26 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=125830#comment-2679631 huxley–

Here is a link to the complete conjugation of foutre, complete with a warning that it is a rude verb:

https://conjugator.reverso.net/conjugation-french-verb-foutre.html

And here, for your further enlightenment, is a Frenchwoman’s guide to the many meanings of foutre:

https://www.frenchtoday.com/blog/french-verb-conjugation/french-swear-words/

She gives the same advice that my high school French teacher gave (no, I’m not so old that I or my teacher knew Guillaume le Conquérant personally):

“I don’t mean to offend anybody, and I’m sorry to be using vulgar French swear words, but as a French learner, it is important that you understand these French slang expressions, and even more so the intent behind them. However, I would encourage you to stay away from them. If French slang sounds natural from a French native, slang is always stronger and has a much bigger impact when it is used by a foreigner.”

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/13/open-thread-5-13-23/#comment-2679624 Sun, 14 May 2023 02:42:24 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=125830#comment-2679624 A few more weird French things you don’t need to know…

Working my way through Francoise Hardy’s oeuvre, I got stuck on “Ma jeunesse fout le camp.” I can tell it’s something about youth, female youth, but “fout le camp”?

Google Translate to the rescue. For stupid reasons I can’t copy/paste a song title directly from Amazon Prime to Google Translate, so I have to remember from the first window, then type in to the next. Being fast and careless, I took a while to get the title right.

Here was my path to the proper translation. I was surprised how often the translation of my bad typing was rather raw and humorous.
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me jeunesse fouit
my youth fucks

me jeunesse fout
my youth doesn’t care

me jeunesse fout de la camp
my youth gives the fuck away

me jeunesse fout le camp
my youth is getting the hell out

ma jeunesse fout le camp
my youth is fleeing
____________________________

If someone who knows French, especially slang French, can explain how “fout” is such a troublesome word or why getting “me” and “ma” mixed up should have such ramifications, I’d be delighted to hear.

A more genera! take-away is that it’s a lot more fun these days to ask “What if?” questions of a foreign language one is learning.

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