trumad (34,221 posts)
If one more person calls my hard earned Social Security an Entitlement. ...
I will reach through the internet tubes and choke them until they turn blue.
It's not a God Damn entitlement, I PAID FOR IT!
http://sync.democraticunderground.com/10022666241If your benefits get cut, just think of it as a tax and you are paying your fair share. It's the same thing you goons want to do us tax payers so suck it up and quit whining.
Robb (37,777 posts)
1. You paid for it, you're entitled to it.
(ducks)
trumad (34,221 posts)
2. me thinks that's not what they mean.
NightWatcher (20,100 posts)
3. Straight out of Orwell, they've taken over the language
And that is not double plus good.
Who is this "they" you speak of? It is your side that constantly changes the language to suit your purposes. It was your side that started calling welfare and other freebies entitlements, even though they are not earned. You changed the meaning so you can just live with it.
whathehell (10,949 posts)
26. Agreed. The word now carries negative connotations, unfortunately, thanks to Right Wing World.
and it's hideous, but significant impact on this country.
To many, It now conveys a sort of arrogance, as in "He's thinks he's entitled".
You tell me the 0bamaphone woman is "entitled" to her free phone and a cut of all our earnings, it was not the right wing that is responsible for the misuse of the word entitlement.
Newest Reality (2,907 posts)
4. You haven't been
checking the Newspeak dictionary:
new•speak ('nü-"spEk, 'nyü-), noun, Usage: often capitalized. : propagandistic language marked by euphemism, circumlocution, and the inversion of customary meanings. Etymology: Newspeak, a language "designed to diminish the range of thought," in the novel 1984 (1949) by George Orwell. Date: 1950
http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/ns-dict.html
Are you not entitled to your entitlements? Or are your entitlements what you are not entitled to? Both? Neither?
They play with the language as they please and to a certain end.
More projection.
Some examples of left wing language changing is global warming became global climate change, illegal aliens are now undocumented workers, marriage is being changed from a man and a woman to any person and any person, and gun control is changing into gun safety.
They also pull this trick on legislation, Affordable health care act for example.