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AMERCIA: Where Dyslexic Americans Thrive

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Amercia, comrades, is the new Macaca movement.

The Democrats have finally found the fault in Romney's campaign they can safely exploit. A typo made by a low-level designer for a Romney phone app, which said "A better Amercia" has now become a major political and cultural issue, consuming the best minds of the progosphere.

Says one Obama campaign strategist: "We must tirelessly exploit Romney staffer's typo and this country will soon be ours! Then we will not just missplell it, but we will fundamentally transform it and change its bourgeois constitution!"

Explicit orders given to all subservient prog-media, prog-bloggers, and prog-comedians are bringing results:

Romney misspells 'America' on iPhone app
USA TODAY
Internet punishes Romney for believing in 'Amercia'
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Romney iPhone app misspells 'America' to Web's delight
CNN
I want to live in Amercia! How Mitt Romney's iPhone app typo explains the Internet
ABC News
Mitt Romney's AMERCIA: No Laughing Matter
U.S. News & World Report
Mitt Romney's 'Amercia' vs. the Scripps National Spelling Bee
Washington Post
'A Better Amercia': Typo distracts from roll out of Romney campaign mobile app
Washington Post
Romney camp fixes "Amercia" iPhone app gaffe
CBS News
The Fraught Mobile Politics of the United States of Amercia [Sic]
The Atlantic
With 'Amercia' blooper, Mitt Romney is just asking for Internet mockery
Entertainment Weekly
Colbert Spoofs Romney's iPhone App Typo, The Ban On Bachelorette Parties (VIDEO)
Huffington Post

And, of course, international media won't miss this chance either:

Mitt Romney's 'Better Amercia' app spawns internet meme
Sydney Morning Herald
Pass notes, No 3184: Amercia
The Guardian
Embarrassment for Republican candidate Mitt Romney as new app spells America ...
Scottish Daily Record
Lead America? You'd better learn to spell it first: Mitt Romney mocked for ...
Daily Mail
Prog-Americans rule, comrades! When was the last time the media was gloating over Obama's gaffes - something he made personally, and via a dyslexic staffer? That's right.

Amercia is now everywhere: on Twitter, on Facebook, on the Internet. There are Amercia websites and Amercia T-shirts.

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But there is one small renegade group that wants no part of this Prog-Pride parade. It's made of Dyslexic Americans, who came out in support of the Romney campaign's typo with a new shirt: AMERCIA - where dyslexic Americans thrive.

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The Party can only hope that Romney doesn't use it to his advantage and begin to own the issue with counter slogans like these.

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Dear Red Square,

Being one who often exhibist dyslexic tendencies, I humybl offre several suggestinos for captions/t-shrits/Posters:

Dyslexics for Romeny:
I Loev Amercia

Dyslexics for Romeny:
Land of the Feer and Home of the Barve

Dyslexics for Romeny:
Caipatlism not caipotlism
(Re visual depiction of above-- the "o" would be the Obama trademark)

Dyslexics for Romeny:
Feerdom Isn't Feer

Dyslexics for Romeny:
Can Yuo Transalte This?

Dyslexics for Romeny:
Uosted 2012
(Re visual depiction of above-- the "o" would be the Obama trademark)

Dyslexics for Romeny:
Amercian Excepitonalism

Dyslexics for Romeny:
Go Eta Rapty

Dyslexics for Romeny:
Lief, Librety & Proprety

Dyslexics for Romeny:
Remembre Bidne's 3-Lettre Word:
BSOJ

--OKKO

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What a doofus! I bet he thinks those Amercians have 57 states and speak Austrian!

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One moer: Dyslexics for Romeny:
Fier Boama --OKOK

Yes! Let us exploit this type by a low level functionary and blame it on Romney personally! As we do that, however, we must label as RACIST, anyone who points out that Ear Leader's pastor spells it AmeriKKKa.Umm, Comrade Red Square, "Dyslecic"?

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Prog off/

Anyone do a quick comparison of how much air play the "Amercia" thing got as opposed to Obama's "Polish death camps" gaffe? It was something like a zillion to nothing.

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While I don't watch TV and therefore missed the broadcasting of Romany's >spit< slysdexic moment, I have (yet again) The People's Cube to thank for keeping me up to date on what's important in the world!

It's a glorious thing.

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Hmmm... Romney is the sock puppet of the CIA, and just tipped his hand. You can't spell Amercia without CIA.

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The glorious Left would never poke fun at the learning disability of a low-level campaign worker (who is merely brainwashed, not evil). Nor would it criticize a candidate for hiring the learning disabled. Furthermore, true Progressives know that "proper spelling" is a bourgeois construction. So clearly this is a Right Wing plot!


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Dyslexics of the world....untie! Yuo have nithong to esole but your chins. Chains.

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The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

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The "Amercia" error was pretty benign compared to this...

FROM OUR ARCHIVES: the anti-Pope riots

Angered by Pope headlines, dyslexic Muslim protesters burn effigy of Popeye

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Muslim clerics urge to boycott spinach products, ban Popeye cartoons

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The human mind is indeed a strange thing, comrades - here, in this example from Deke McClelland, we see photos of a Democrat (top left and bottom right) and a Republican (top right and bottom left) womyn:

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The pairs of photos are, of course, the same, as you can see by turning your monitor upside down.

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FWORD: a dyslexic response to Amercia! Think about it. If they can spell Romney's America as Amercia, they can also spell Obama's FORWARD as FWORD. Just another look at emperor's new slogan – out of about a thousand others.

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These shirts are now in our new online store - https://redcube.spreadshirt.com/fword-f ... -I11950010

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New T-Shirt: FWORD 2012

FWORD, comrades! FWORD!

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Just think how hard it's been for progressives, waiting for another Dan Quayle potato moment. Even though Quayle was set up, it was a great moment.

Let us rejoice with our fellow comrades in all this hooting and hollering. It's more important to crush the Romneyoid than it is to convict and try the white Hispanic Zimmerman. Even though there are pictures of the back of his head, bloodied, and his nose was broken.

Let's talk about Amercia, and the Romneyoid's car elevator. Because we don't want to talk about Moochelle using a 757 to fly to Martha's Vineyard four hours early so she could take the dog.

The one with four legs, not Janet Napolitano.


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This is a serious tactical gaffe on the Rethuglicans' part... They can no longer accuse Obama's supporters of being a pack of Dogless socialists...

That said, I don't think we should be promoting t-shirts that make fun of dworfs... that's just mean.

Sis
(current temperature: 39.6º C... that's 103.3º F in Amercian... don't worry... I took some Paracetamol... that's Tylenol in Amer... Oh, never mind!...)

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Sitser Malivessy Opitaed is a dysxelic agsontic imnosniac.

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Princess Nookie wrote:Dyslexics of the world....untie! Yuo have nithong to esole but your chins. Chains.
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Red Square wrote:Sitser Malivessy Opitaed is a dysxelic agsontic imnosniac.

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Holy Carp!

You managed to include both my favourite joke in the world (I know it's silly, but you also know it always makes me laugh every time I hear it, cuz I'm an idiot... not always useful, but an idiot)... and my Official Cube Doggy Mascot... gotta admit that's still the cutest Dachshund picture I ever found, and I've never been fond of little dogs.... though I still think it should be the Assassin Husky (gimmeeee a cooookie! R.I.P.).... She was the only dog I ever knew who could bend Laika's signals to her own will (gimmeeee a steeeak!)....

Sadly, Red is right... I've been staying up nights since I was a very small child wondering if there really is a dog... in spite of the fact that we've always had them... I guess it's just one of life's great mysteries... but then I'm not only dyslexic but synaesthetic, so Red's always tasted and smelled good (no jokes Theo)... if he was Orange Square, he'd smell sort of like a mixture of burnt plastic and rubbing alcohol... that's the closest description I can come up with... I can't actually tell you what Red tastes like.... It just tastes and smells like red... another one of life's great mysteries. Like why Elgar's Cello Concerto in E Minor feels like someone's touching the back of my right calf and running their fingers up my left arm. Sometimes when I'm up, in the middle of the night, wondering if there really is a dog, and feeling a bit bummed and lonely, I listen to it just so it feels like someone's there... heheheh. Dyslexia jokes are easy, except that dyslexics don't usually get them... Synaesthesia jokes, not so much. They just sound like non-sequiturs.

Are we having fun yet?

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BTW.... that's NOT a picture of ME with a small canine wedged between my butt-cheeks... Like I said, I've never been fond of smaller breeds (except maybe some terriers and schnauzers... I know a very well-mannered mini-schnauz named Iggy), so all the more reason not to walk around with one attached to my ass-crack... they tend to dig..

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Hey, some of my best friends are mini-schnauzes!

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Ever experience the Joy of Miniature Pinscher? Those lil' suckers are 100%, hysterically and completely, insane :)

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My favorite Gary Larson of the notorious Far Side.

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Well, Bush. I was gonna see that and raise you MY favorite Gary Larson cartoon - a man leaning over to pet a dog lying inside of his doghouse with a chainsaw beside him and another man saying "I wouldn't do that, mister - Ol' Zeke's liable to fire that thing up" - but alas, it's nowhere to be found on the interwebs...

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Fortunately, I always keep a dobie in my boot....

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Aren't you afraid he'll get into your jar, run off with you, and roll in you?! Or worse, bury you!!!

That's just irresponsible! I'd never find you then!... and I'd just be stuck with an empty jar, feeling guilty, like that time you completely disappeared, and Chicken Sushi, ignoring the always foreboding "Do Not Disturb" sign, found you just in the nick of time when Meow took you back to his apartments "just to give you a quick look at [his] new Jacuzzi.".... "Don't worry Betinov! Won't take more than two shakes of a lamb's tail... She'll never know you're gone.... What are you worried about! Don't you want a little air? You never get out! And you haven't seen any of my new Hummels!... It'll be fun!"... as if Meow and the word "fun" have ever ended well...

I...was...on...@t!v@n* for an entire YEAR afterward, you BASTARD!

When will you learn? When will you learn!

Aaah! My shattered nerves!

* if you're wondering why it's spelled like this, it's because the anti-spam system will replace the commercial name of any patented medication with a rude comment.

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Another coded message: If you can read this you have a strong mind.

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If you can see this, you have the right mind.

Jut another intellectual curiosity: I saw this as part of someone's Tweet, spelled out in regular characters: this is not an image! You can copy-paste it as text!
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UNINSTALLING OBAMA..... █████████████▒▒▒ 80.0%


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Just out of curiosity, statistically, how many people have no trouble reading the Figuratively Speaking thingy?


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Thank you R.O.C.K... "ME! ME! ME!" is a very statistically meaningful piece of information, and it is good to know that you too understood it...

Nevertheless, I am curious to know, from an objective point of view, the percentage of individuals in the general population who are able to read it.

Please note, it is not a question of competition - those who can vs. those who cannot, as that would imply competition, which is anathema... I am simply curious (which may also be anathema, in which case, by all means please denounce me... but not before I discover the information I am interested in finding) to understand, generally, the statistical implications of the outcome, in a larger context (I can't be anymore roundabout than that.. I'm sorry)...

But certainly, "ME! ME! ME!" is a commendably enthusiastic response... Thank you for that.

Sincerely,
SMO

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Dearest Sister of Massive Opiations:

I assumed that you were preparing to crunch the numbers once you'd received sufficient input and would thenceforth provide said data to us here at the kollective, along with appropriate charts (Gantt, standard deviation, eye, etc.), in a most splendid - and user-friendly - form.

Obviously, I misunderstood.

The actual percentage is 13.496542%.

And I say that with fully equal enthusiasm :)

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Thank you Comrade R.O.C.K.

That's what I was actually looking for... although I'm curious now, why I would need to produce a Gantt chart, unless it was to schedule all the other inputs and activities related to such an undertaking...

I was actually just curious as one of the things I'm interested in, in general, is perception and visual information theory. My basic dystechlexia made it almost impossible for me to read a PS manual, but a simple article in a science magazine on information density and spatial frequency in images led me to a book by one of the author's references, and by understanding how peoples brain see and perceive images, I was able to figure out some of the more esoteric tools in PS, and so I've been interested in pattern recognition and information density and spatial frequency perception ever since... just a general curiosity... why a Giaconda smile is precisely that, and why some perceive things that others don't.

Cheers,
SMO

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The human brain is, indeed, a strange and wonderful instrument (in many, if not most, cases). I myself am, for instance, among the 50% of people who can pull off the feat of wearing one distance contact lens and one up-close (reading) contact lens. The lack of clarity in either eye is apparent if I choose to notice it, but unless I make the effort to do so things distant and near are delightfully - and clearly - visible.

Apparently the other 50% of people who attempt such lensification simply can't stand it.

On the other hand, I've also found that the very best brain activity, in my case at least, is post-Cabo Wabo tequila :)

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Among the most cherished of all is our dear Cher! It can most certainly be said that she thrives! She does it for All Mankind™ and The Children™, of course.

https://thinkbuildliveblog.com/cher-and-dyslexia/

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Red Square wrote:If you can see this, you have the right mind.

Dear Uber-Comrade Red Square, Head of the Cube " Olegarchy " ........

I read your offering with no problem.

But I did it with my LEFT MIND.

To do this requires abandonment of thinking with a RIGHT MIND.

I believe an apology is in order. Or at least ten cents credit towards my next purchase of fifty dollars or more at the People's Dry Goods Store # 86.

Krasnodar,Commissar of After-Dinner Mints Production & Tractor Maitanance....Maintenence.... Repair Guy

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R.O.C.K. in the USSA wrote:The human brain is, indeed, a strange and wonderful instrument (in many, if not most, cases). I myself am, for instance, among the 50% of people who can pull off the feat of wearing one distance contact lens and one up-close (reading) contact lens. The lack of clarity in either eye is apparent if I choose to notice it, but unless I make the effort to do so things distant and near are delightfully - and clearly - visible.

Apparently the other 50% of people who attempt such lensification simply can't stand it.

On the other hand, I've also found that the very best brain activity, in my case at least, is post-Cabo Wabo tequila :)

I don't think I could do this, simply because my optic neuritis sometimes wipes out an entire quadrant of my vision... Also, when I'm doing bead sculptures, and focusing close-in, it would make it impossible to do the work, although in the last few years I've noticed that when I've been focusing on something close-up, like really small work for a long time, it takes my eyes longer to adjust and focus on more distant objects, but that's also from my optic neuritis... And when my eyes are tired and part of my field of vision drops off when I'm reading or on the computer, I find I close that eye without realizing it, just to block out the distraction... it's completely unconscious... but I'm good at pattern recognition and my depth and spatial relationship perception has actually improved as my vision problems have started acting up more (they relapse and remit... which is normal, or at least, how it works)... I think it's some sort of adjustment, although the quadrant disappearing thing usually goes away within an hour or so of waking up, or only starts up during the day when I've over-strained my eyes, or am tired or stressed... normal autoimmune things.

I have found, in my experience, that tequila helps most things. Oddly, when I was in hospital, they didn't include it as part of anyone's medications, that I know of. Doctors are so short-sighted (no pun intended).

Pamalinsky wrote:Among the most cherished of all is our dear Cher! It can most certainly be said that she thrives! She does it for All Mankind™ and The Children™, of course.

She did donate all those helmet inserts for U.S troops that reduce brain injuries... you've got to give her that.

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Comrade Krasnodar,

I have been puzzling over what our Glorious Incarnadine Trapezoid meant by his "right brain" comment... whether he meant we were using our 'right brain processes'... whether he meant we had a 'right wing mentality'... or whether our thinking was 'korrekt' for the task... I don't think it has to do with our political leanings, but whether he meant our ability was korrekt for the task or we were using our 'right brain' to process, I don't think it matters.... since our 'right brain' controls the left side of our body, and so it would not be inkorrekt to allow it's use... I believe either is acceptable and neither will earn us censure.... I write "believe", rather than "think" as I would not presume to "think" about something to critical.

Humbly Yours,
Sister Massively Opiated

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Dear SMO,

You're commentary offers considerable elucidation pertaining to Red Square's statement.

But just to be sure, I'm still goin' for that ten cent discount !


 
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