{"id":86401,"date":"2023-11-08T06:52:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T12:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86401"},"modified":"2023-11-08T06:52:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T12:52:49","slug":"all-relative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86401","title":{"rendered":"All Relative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The incredibly aptly named Representative Debbie Dingell lectures us on semantics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rep. Debbie Dingell defends Rashida Tlaib, says &quot;from the river to the sea&quot; means different things to different people. WATCH <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Fq91kNQW44\">pic.twitter.com\/Fq91kNQW44<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Simon Ateba (@simonateba) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/simonateba\/status\/1721988873893347360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFrom the river to the sea, Palestine will be free\u201c means different things to different people in different times!\u201c, says the font of wisdom, in rising to the defense of the loathsome modern Nazi Rashida Tlaib.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And she\u2019s right, in a sense. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p>The phrase \u201cthe final solution\u201d can mean a lot of different things; it can be the formula that gets rid of your Creeping Charlie, or solves your credit card debt.  So, too, can the German phrase \u201cArbeit Macht Frei\u201d, or \u201cwork will set you free&#8221; which, set free of other context, seems straight out of Horatio Alger<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Except.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Except when you\u2019re talking about people who wanted, or want, to remove Jews, from some corner of the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p>Then, they mean exactly one thing, and one thing only. And anyone who pretends otherwise is being disingenuous, precious, a useful, idiot, or lying like a sack of garbage.<\/p><p>And if Dingell is capable of being anything, it might very well be all four.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The incredibly aptly named Representative Debbie Dingell lectures us on semantics: \u201cFrom the river to the sea, Palestine will be free\u201c means different things to different people in different times!\u201c, says the font of wisdom, in rising to the defense of the loathsome modern Nazi Rashida Tlaib. And she\u2019s right, in a sense. The phrase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,458,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-gaza-2023","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86403,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86401\/revisions\/86403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}