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Originally Posted by tesla69
hey no one is forcing you to read every thread and responding to every thread that you aren't interested in. for some reason you (2nd person plural) feel obligated to let everyone know. everytime. instead of just contributing in an interesting way. But you have to explain your use of oxymoron above. Are you asserting "political article" is an oxymoron? or "current events" is an oxymoron? Or are you trying to say the two things equal each other, which they don't.
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Apologies if my interpretation was erroneous - I was inferring that current events are political (that is to say, current events are not not political); that is, by stating 'This
isn't a political article' and then immediately following it with 'this
is current events' lead me to the impression that you wished to suggest that 'politicle articles' and 'current events' were, if not in opposition, then at least distinct. I was using oxymoron in the sense applied to phrases of rhetoric rather than compound noun-adjective words. That is to say, that by negating the object of the first sentence you wished to emphasise the assertion of the second.
My assertion, in turn, is pretty much in common with SFAD, as it happens - politics isn't something that happens in history books, it's happening now, and the article SFAD posted is one such instance of this.
I can't really apologise if you feel my contribution frivolous; we're left with a world of non-sequiturs here because anyone can assert that they think someone else's contribution to 'the board' is 'pointless' or another such synonym. Mud-slinging is a laugh for a while, but it can easily descend into a pissing-competition (I'm well aware of the irony of my saying that, thanks).
I (second person plural) by no means respond to all the threads that don't interest me. Clearly, I have some vague semblance of a life that doesn't involve me sitting in front of the Sonic Youth forum writing 'this thread is cock' over and over again.