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[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stop treating domestic terrorists with kid gloves and maybe they'll be afraid to terrorize again.

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] glimse@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Agree. Not sure this really holds a candle to the systematic violence and terrorism emanating from the traitors’ camp.

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

misleading headline. The judge was sent a tainted envelope, he did not send the envelope.

[–] darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wouldn't have interpreted as the judge being the sender.

[–] underwire212@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I interpreted your interpretation differently

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As I've said for years, English is a shit language.

Bob sent a birthday card

Means Bob mailed it to someone

Bob was sent a birthday card

Means Bob received it.

We still keep headlines short, so the "was" gets dropped, and we're left with an ambiguous sentence that literally means the opposite of what context clues tell us it means.

It makes sense when you realize headlines start out as full sentences but then get trimmed down as short as possible.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's all shit our brains account for like 99% of the time so we don't even realize it.

If you don't learn it when your little, it's always going to be weird.

But if people stop to think about it, most can't explain why it still makes sense.

[–] livus@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

@davel is right though.

Envelope With White Powder Sent To Judge In Trump Civil Fraud Case, Source Says

Exact same length and unambiguous.

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably Don Jr. trying to make some layaway payments with cocaine

[–] CableMonster@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ironically enough, he got sent an envelope with white powder too.

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

That was his 1st attempt.

He was high on cocaine and inverted the addressee/return address.

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure that's what "ironic" means. Perhaps you mean "coincidentally."