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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68457087

Would these “Give them Taurus” marchers pictured be foolish German workers urging the German govt to escalate the war?

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Who knocked down the walls of Jericho?

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Terms of abuse:
Bitch
Cow
Weasel
Dog
Pig
Reptile
Cockroach
Rat
Gorilla
Snake
Vulture
Worm
Swine
Ferret-face
Wolf
Leech
Maggot
Pond life
Ape
Insect
Neanderthal
Slimy toad
Animal
Ass
Jackass
Beast
Bestial (adj.)
Brute
Brutish (adj.)
Brutal (adj.)

Phrases:
Going ape
Snake in the grass
Chauvinist pig
Dirty rat
Behaving like an animal

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So why is Russia making its proles do nuclear war bunker duty? We are not being forced to do that. One normally associates such things of N. and S. Korea, and Japan.

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Putin reminds west of his nuclear weapons being on full alert.

https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-russia-war-latest-putin-sky-news-blog-live-12541713

And with Russians being made to undergo nuclear drills, they are expecting Armageddon.

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And the inimitable Marty:

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Woody on Cheers quarrels with his fiancée for religious reasons.

“Well Sam, she’s Lutheran Church of America and I’m Lutheran Missouri Synod.
If we have kids, they’ll be half-breeds!”

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Macron making dangerous statements. Says ground troops being sent to Ukraine not to be ruled out.

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/feb/27/russia-ukraine-war-live-france-macron-ground-troops-latest-news

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68417223

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Human communication (language, vocal or not) fulfils the needs of the human.
Nonhuman communication (language, vocal or not) fulfils the needs of the nonhuman species concerned.

Both communicate in forms necessary for their needs.
Both suffice to themselves and the lives they lead.

Nonhumans are not steps that failed on a path to becoming human. Species difference and diversity is not a comparing game.

You can recite Hamlet’s soliloquy. A dog does not need to.
Your tail is a remnant you cannot wag. But you don’t need to.

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Also, a libertine was once a freethinker. The churches then decreed that a freethinker who rejects Christianity must by definition be immoral and a filthy lecher – which is what the word still means today.

Likewise, materialists must be greedy and selfish, indulging in worldly delights, since they deny all things spiritual – which is what materialism means today.

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Oxford Languages: Socialism definition.

(in Marxist theory) a transitional social state between the overthrow of capitalism and the realization of communism.
“socialism is the first stage of the worldwide transition to communism”

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Thanks DJP.

BJ, I don’t give a fig for your narrowness backed up by traditional prejudice.

This need for you to separate language from communication is the narrowing by you of the definition of language to apply only to the human ape. I have provided links where the word language is used, by scientists, in reference to many species who use both vocal sounds and body language to share information, different types of information, etc. But you will never allow the use of the word in application to other species.
I put forward that the word is for speciesists such a bastion of human “uniqueness” that it must never be applied to other species lest we be “dethroned.”
The policy has to be, in debate over nonhuman intelligence, societies and abilities, that it must be proven whether nonhuman animals “match up” to the human. This assumption, rooted in human society, judges all life by comparison to the human, who is (as a Socialist Standard article once called) “Nature’s supreme achievement.”
Pyramidal hierarchicalism writ large! (That article went on to say that, having produced us, this planet has nothing further of any interest to produce).

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http://www.feld.com

“As humans, we have a very linear view of time and a constrained view of language.”

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This need for you to separate language from communication is, regardless of your protestations, the narrowing by you of the definition of language to apply only to the human ape. I have provided links where the word language is used, by scientists, in reference to many species who use both vocal sounds and body language to share information, different types of information, etc. But you will never allow the use of the word in application to other species, although you say “maybe.”
I put forward that the word is for speciesists (including kind-hearted paternalistic ones) such a bastion of human “uniqueness” that it must never be applied to other species lest we be “dethroned.”
The policy has to be, in debate over nonhuman intelligence, societies and abilities, that it must be proven whether nonhuman animals “match up” to the human. This assumption, rooted in human society, judges all life by comparison to the human, who is (as a Socialist Standard article once called) “Nature’s supreme achievement.”
Pyramidal, hierarchicalism writ large! (That article went on to say that, having produced us, this planet has nothing further of any interest to produce.

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