Open Thread Feb 29 - March 6, 2016

Elo

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I find the idea of being fully committed to NOT endorsing something to be laughable.

Are you fully committed to not endorsing, say, Genghis Khan? Can you prove it? X-D

OK, so let me do something that never works :-) and explain the joke, such as it was.

Of course there is not really such a thing as being fully committed to not endorsing something; it's not the kind of thing it makes sense to be committed to. So describing someone or something as "not fully committed to endorsing X" has to be an instance of meiosis (understatement for rhetorical effect); and so it is. What I am actually suggesting is that the Golden Dawn looks like a basically-fascist party that's nostalgic for the good old days of Nazi Germany, ... (read more)