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Ruby the Liberal

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12. Pelsar and Az - Thank you for calling me out on that.
Fri Dec 16, 2011, 12:47 PM
Dec 2011

I am guilty of hypocracy on that. One of my pet peeves is seeing things like a $5 cup of coffee attributed to "a luxury of the 1%", thus, in my opinion, diminishing the real concerns about the few with the gold making the rules for everyone else and at everyone else's expense.

Well, I did the same damn metaphorical thing. I diminished the atrocities of the Kahane/Goldmanites by labeling them Israel's "tea party". This was a slap in the face to the people who are trying to live their lives surrounded by this horror by likening what is happening to a bunch of people waking around with misspelled signs.

Good lesson here for me. If one is going to call out people for using words inappropriately because thats the meme of the day, then one needs to make sure that one's own house is in order and not guilty of doing the same thing.

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