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Re: Greece: if austerity doesn't work.. (none / 0)

A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the ECB, vote EPP-PES in 2011!

self-styled anarchist youths

I have now seen this oxymoron too many times to not ask: what is a non-self-styled anarchist?

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Wed Jun 15th, 2011 at 12:09:03 PM EST
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Re: Greece: if austerity doesn't work.. (none / 1)

A press-styled anarchist youth or so-called anarchist youth.

Economics is politics by other means

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jun 15th, 2011 at 12:33:11 PM EST
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Re: Greece: if austerity doesn't work.. (none / 0)

Do you mean oxymoron or pleonasm?

Economics is politics by other means

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jun 15th, 2011 at 12:34:02 PM EST
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It's a redundant tautological pleonasm. At least on a Wednesday...

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Wed Jun 15th, 2011 at 01:01:37 PM EST
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Ah OK, self-styled anarchist is a pleonasm and non-self-styled anarchist would be the oxymoron.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Wed Jun 15th, 2011 at 02:25:04 PM EST
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And an Anarchist Party would be the Oxymoron? What about "I style myself an anarchist." and "I call you an anarchist also." And what about the Anarcho-Syndicalists.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Wed Jun 15th, 2011 at 03:05:12 PM EST
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