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You do know that "heads on a pike" is a figure of speech? Colbert depicts Stephen Miller's head on pike in one of his shows[0]. Are you going to have the speec

You do know that "heads on a pike" is a figure of speech? Colbert depicts Stephen Miller's head on pike in one of his shows[0]. Are you going to have the speech police cancel him too? I doubt it. You just don't like ideas you disagree with and you're just looking for an excuse to get rid of them. 0: https://youtu.be/IXUMbz3U920?t=70 https://youtu.be/IXUMbz3U920?t=70

mansion7 6y ago
This is exactly correct. I've seen as nauseum posts accusing Drumpf and his cohorts of treason, for which the penalty is death, not to mention more recently scads of Twitterers gleefully posting photos of the mutilated corpse of Mussolini and expressing desire for the same to happen to the president and his "collaborators". It's getting to the point where AOC's recent calls for lists of said collaborators be compiled for harassment and ostracization seem reasonable, as at least she's not calling for their execution. We could have seen this coming several years ago with calls for violence against "Nazis" (and btw a Nazi is anyone who disagrees with me politically) but big tech looked the other way because they support it. I'd expect more cogent analysis from the top intellects if HN, but apparently the stereotype is true: "It's acceptable when our side does it".
henrypasta 6y ago
> You just don't like ideas you disagree with and you're just looking for an excuse to get rid of them. False. You should be thinking about the Solovian view to this (trigger warning advised): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bIwVIx5pp88 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bIwVIx5pp88
amf12 6y ago
You do know that "heads on a pike" is a figure of speech? The phrase can be used in two contexts, one as a figure of speech. The figure of speech context does NOT have any threats involved. Now, here is Bannon's statement: "I’d actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England, I’d put the heads on pikes, right, I’d put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats. You either get with the program or you’re gone – time to stop playing games." In this context, Bannon does not seem to use it as a figure of speech, it is a threat - maybe not literally - but a threat nonetheless. That's what's wrong, and why people are angry. Not because they don't like his "ideas".
- osullivj 6y ago
  Tudor England was a nasty place. Henry VIII and Liz I were murderous despots persecuting Catholics and pursuing genocide in Ireland. Suspect Bannock likes that 'directly approach to opponents.

mansion7 6y ago

This is exactly correct. I've seen as nauseum posts accusing Drumpf and his cohorts of treason, for which the penalty is death, not to mention more recently scads of Twitterers gleefully posting photos of the mutilated corpse of Mussolini and expressing desire for the same to happen to the president and his "collaborators". It's getting to the point where AOC's recent calls for lists of said collaborators be compiled for harassment and ostracization seem reasonable, as at least she's not calling for their execution. We could have seen this coming several years ago with calls for violence against "Nazis" (and btw a Nazi is anyone who disagrees with me politically) but big tech looked the other way because they support it. I'd expect more cogent analysis from the top intellects if HN, but apparently the stereotype is true: "It's acceptable when our side does it".

henrypasta 6y ago

> You just don't like ideas you disagree with and you're just looking for an excuse to get rid of them. False. You should be thinking about the Solovian view to this (trigger warning advised): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bIwVIx5pp88 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bIwVIx5pp88

amf12 6y ago

You do know that "heads on a pike" is a figure of speech? The phrase can be used in two contexts, one as a figure of speech. The figure of speech context does NOT have any threats involved. Now, here is Bannon's statement: "I’d actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England, I’d put the heads on pikes, right, I’d put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats. You either get with the program or you’re gone – time to stop playing games." In this context, Bannon does not seem to use it as a figure of speech, it is a threat - maybe not literally - but a threat nonetheless. That's what's wrong, and why people are angry. Not because they don't like his "ideas".

osullivj 6y ago
Tudor England was a nasty place. Henry VIII and Liz I were murderous despots persecuting Catholics and pursuing genocide in Ireland. Suspect Bannock likes that 'directly approach to opponents.