Technically it means 10% (ie - deci) but has been misused for so long that it’s a lot less specific now.
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why do you vote for the GOP in MS primaries???
As long as their precious 2nd Amendment remains intact, what on earth do these knuckleheads have to complain about?
Last I checked, they can still open carry semi-automatic weapons in a goddamned airport. That’s not enough freedummz for these stupid shits?
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Cuz…it’s Misssissippi. And I can vote in the GOP primary (in this case, voting for McRacist on the first one, Cochran in the runoff) to actually influence the outcome, or I can vote for the meaningless Democrat in the Dem primary.
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So, has anyone else noticed that mustaches have kind of become the recognition signal among enraged working class white guys whose brains have been rotted out by Fox and Limbaugh?
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jones
“Decimate” has an interesting origin. It derives from the practice of the Roman Army in Caesar’s day to punish mutinous soldiers by killing every 10th man. The man would be beaten to death by his comrades. Talk about chicken shit officers, eh, hoser?
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Maybe he’s really pissed precisely because Obama has a couple marines staying in this guy’s pool house.
(The Third never gets any love.)
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Everyone loses their temper and often that leads to saying or doing something stupid, it happens. Fortunately for the cop he only lost his job. When the situation is reversed and a citizen loses their temper in an encounter with law enforcement more and more frequently they lose their lives.
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Doesn’t it mean to break into tenths? I don’t know. I never could math.
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It originally meant the killing of every tenth person.
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I hope “Bob” is out on his ear. He was more objectionable to me than the police officer. We all lose our tempers and goof up big time, I’m not excusing it but it’s a fact. But “Bob” was so full of himself and his attitude was the one you see in many pencil-pushing ex officers who probably get the corner office by licking the bosses boots. Recine’s error I can understand and he admitted it was a stupid mistake, but Bob fluffed his peacock feathers from the moment he came in to the picture. He needs to be gone.
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Funny, another right winger whose spent their working lives collecting a government pay check, now moving on to collecting a government pension check. Lucky for him his Republican pals haven’t messed that up, yet.
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It’s New Jersey…Christie is already working on that.
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I want to make the case that everyone in the video is kind of being an idiot. The guy’s gotten kicked out of a series of public buildings. What’s his point? What’s he trying to accomplish? Starting arguments? What’s his ‘investigation’? I feel bad for the officer; I don’t agree with the ‘Obama is ruining the Constitution’ nonsense of course, but the cop was caught in a silly runaround with a guy who knows just enough law to be annoying.
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dec·i·mate verb \ˈde-sə-ˌmāt
: to destroy a large number of (plants, animals, people, etc.)
: to severely damage or destroy a large part of (something)
Its origins go back to the roman practice of killing 1 in 10 soldiers for mutiny, but its current meaning is in keeping with the one I gave.
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This is the kind of reaction we can expect to increase because of people listening to and buying as fact, misinformation from media, politicians and pundits on the right. This simmering “Anglo men anger” is increasing and those instigating it will run and hide in their gated and guarded communities, justifying their misology in their heads.
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“I tried to explain to [Wronko] that since 9/11 you just can’t walk into a place and take videos,”
Uh, yes you can, unless the officer knows about some secret law the rest of us haven’t heard about.
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Eh, there will be another OKC and then they’ll have to go back to burning crosses in secret.
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Or vice-versa.
jw1
If he says Obama has decimated the Constitution, does that mean he struck one of the amendments?
I hope it’s the 10th, so we can shut these whiny teabag fucks up, once and for all.
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