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Civil liberties in the USA are being eroded under the guise of protecting religious freedoms. No one disputes the legitimacy of protecting religious freedoms. However, when legislation is crafted to permit some religious beliefs to run roughshod over the rights of others, then there's serious cause for concern.
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"The right to practice one's religion" has become "the right to impose one's christian religious beliefs on everyone".Originally posted by mpare View PostComment
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When you're so desperate you attack the difference in pronunciation between Khomeini and Khameini... wowOriginally posted by par345 View Post
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Desperation is not necessary to direct one's focus on the daily gaffs that mark a good deal of President's Trump's daily actions. His outrageous behaviour is on full display for all to see.
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When you're so desperate you attack the difference in pronunciation between Khomeini and Khameini... wowThis isn't a dress rehearsal. Enjoy yourself. There's no do-over.Comment
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It's always best for the commander in chief to get the adversary's name right or they may not take you seriously....I know it's difficult for Donald...but Donald's Iran game just ain't strong enough after he choked on his Iran bombing plans.Originally posted by SeanAvery2point0 View Post
When you're so desperate you attack the difference in pronunciation between Khomeini and Khameini... wow
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Me thinks Melania is tone deaf and dense.
Meanwhile...Ordinary people want to help those migrant children living in horrid condition but got turned away.
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As Trump prepares to have his quarterly review with Boss Putin later this week, the latter sent out a reminder who is in charge.
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If misprouncing the name of a person or place constitutes outrageous behaviour, then I'm sure you'll love this vintage Barack Obama mispronunciation of Mississauga:Originally posted by mpare View Post
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Originally posted by SeanAvery2point0 View Post
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...was Barack at war with Mississuaga...sanctioning them....wanting to bomb them-then choked...yep should have got the name right,Barack.
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What happened to the usual 'Death to America?'
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I agree, although I wouldn't use the word "desperate". One hardly needs to be desperate to find daily examples of Trump's ignorance and incompetence.Originally posted by SeanAvery2point0 View Post
When you're so desperate you attack the difference in pronunciation between Khomeini and Khameini... wow
This was really a trivial mispronunciation, and TBH I'd be hard pressed to know the proper Persian pronunciation of either, never mind the differing regional accents and formal vs. informal. I don't think Donald got the leading glottal correctly at all, but most Western anglophones don't.
Reading further, there's this to be considered:In Classical Persian, the uvular consonants غ and ق denoted the original Arabic phonemes, the fricative [ɣ] and the plosive [q], respectively. In modern Tehrani Persian (which is used in the Iranian mass media, both colloquial and standard), there is no difference in the pronunciation of غ and ق. The actual realisation is usually that of a voiced stop [ɢ], but a voiced fricative [ɣ]~[ʁ] is common intervocalically. The classic pronunciations of غ and ق are preserved in the eastern varieties, Dari and Tajiki, as well as in the southern varieties (e.g. Zoroastrian Dari language and other Central / Central Plateau or Kermanic languages).
Some Iranian speakers show a similar merger of ج and ژ, such that [dʒ] alternates with [ʒ], with the latter being restricted to intervocalic position.
Discuss.
In short, don't give Trump supporters fuel for their argument that he's being unfairly persecuted in the media for stuff like this. There's plenty of real, substantive stuff to criticize him on.
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Your last point is what I was getting at. Focus on substance not stupid trivial garbage like mispronunciations. In this case, desperate was a more than fair characterization. If it's a slow day and there is nothing substantive to attack Trump on, leftist minions resort to attacking trivial things like this, and act like they are intellectually superior in the process. I can only imagine how boring somebody's life is if the first thing they think about in the morning is "how can we get Trump today?.... ohhh he mispronounced a Persian name, this will do the trick". These people must be fun to be around.Originally posted by Ignatius Reilly View PostComment
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Mexico sending 15,000 troops to the U.S. border to help stem the flow of illegal aliens.... that tariff threat really isn't working as POTUS had intended.
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