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idiomaddict,

It checks out

idiomaddict,

I can’t tell if that’s sarcasm or if megachurches just Walmart local churches

idiomaddict, (edited )

And NAACP is still around, even with a name that was offensive 40 years ago, because a) it’s clearly not intended to offend; and b) the name recognition is incredibly helpful: I hear NAACP, I think W.E.B. DuBois and Thurgood Marshall.

idiomaddict,

💦👏🧴👏💦 damn. That’s really the closest you can get

idiomaddict,

You cannot be kicked off for any reason. Class and race are invalid grounds for removal, but you can be removed for no reason.

idiomaddict,

Yes, though the other side is allowed to challenge your reasons if there’s a theme in your eliminations and each side can only do it so many times. You also can’t ask too much personal information, though that varies based on the case.

idiomaddict,

The article included baseless claims such as capturing soldiers in Jabaliya, which the IDF categorically denied.

This is a sentence from the article. If they were neutral towards the subject, they might have written it like this:

controversy surrounded the article, which described the IDF capturing soldiers in Jabaliya, something the Israeli government has denied.

If they were active supporters, it might have sounded like this:

his insightful journalistic work exposed the IDF’s capture of soldiers in Jabaliya, which they continue to deny.

idiomaddict, (edited )

No, it’s the word choice in the sentence as a whole. “Baseless claims” and “categorically denied” make it seem like the article was nonsense. “Controversy” acknowledges that there are different accounts of what happened, but doesn’t pick a side and “denied” feels like the most neutral choice to me, but I’m a layperson and there are entire classes in journalism programs dedicated to neutral phrasing. Calling the article “insightful journalism” is obviously biased and saying “continues to deny” sounds even more supportive of the journalist’s claims, because it implies that people are continuously asking Israel about it, which further implies that multiple people are unsatisfied with Israel’s account of the events.

idiomaddict,

I have no idea if they decided to write the article in a biased way, but I don’t know if that matters. The people reading it still associate the article with “baseless claims,” which colors their view.

idiomaddict,

They better lower the retirement age for women as well, or they’re just stealing a year of women’s lives.

idiomaddict,

I don’t pronounce that in my dialect, so I intentionally don’t write it in informal situations. The loss of American dialects in favor of TV English is a tragedy, in my opinion, so I try to keep mine alive :)

idiomaddict,

It would be a marked improvement if Texas started suddenly caring about uninhabitability. The rich will simply get better generators and let the heat waves and downed power grid cull the masses.

idiomaddict,

If supporters of capitalism had foresight, they wouldn’t support capitalism

idiomaddict,

If there’s one time you know you’re definitely not going to be cannibalized by observant Jews, it’s Passover.

idiomaddict,

Conviction occurs when someone is found guilty

idiomaddict,

I don’t know where you’re getting that though. He is technically and really a convicted felon. You can say it and he can’t sue you (yet. No promises if he wins and declares himself god-king)

idiomaddict,

You got me, I’m both accustomed to a rough peasant life and fragile to the touch like a snowflake. It feels nice to finally be understood

idiomaddict,

That would be hilarious, in a really cynical way. I’m just imagining a literally rabid Republican candidate campaigning. MAGAers would probably stop drinking water in solidarity and we’d get to really test out that “I could shoot someone on fifth avenue” theory, but with biting on campaign stops.

idiomaddict,

Buddy, we all misunderstand the world around us

idiomaddict,

I imagine the drug being in someone else’s physical possession makes a difference. People (thankfully and reasonably) aren’t charged for guns the police have in their possession during their arrest, for example.

idiomaddict,

Also “morphing into”? Maybe I’m out of touch, but this is not new

idiomaddict,

Why the grudge?

idiomaddict,

I don’t know much about West Virginia, except that most of the people running it still havedeep political ties to the Hatfields/McCoys feud. I handled litigated coal miner’s lung insurance cases for a while, and that came up again and again, to the point that that our local legal manager would monitor the family ties of local defense firms and judges.

I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s really what got manchin elected, but it’s also something that could work for lots of potential candidates

idiomaddict,

They should have allowed it and also invited a few reps from the ICC

idiomaddict,

The NYT is not credible regarding Israel. They’ve done very shoddy journalism there (with complete amateurs who don’t understand ethical journalism codes), but stand behind their work in a way that discredits them.

idiomaddict, (edited )

Remember a few years ago when Connor mcgregor was going to fight Floyd mayweather? Those two native English speakers had entirely different theories about the word “boy.”

Just because some Arabic speakers use a different word for a different thing, does not mean that these Arabic speakers are. Imagine for a moment, that this is a horrible coincidence: what would you need to see to prove it to yourself?

idiomaddict,

Sure www.democracynow.org/2024/3/1/nyt_anat_schwartz

idiomaddict,

Yeah, my dad’s doctor told him to drink lemonade, but I don’t think the soda bit’s really the worst part.

idiomaddict,

I’m deeply sad that Alex jones got his hands on that one. There’s a potentially huge effect that birth control has on fish reproduction, but I suspect people dismiss it because Jones said libs were turning frogs gay

idiomaddict,

Are you from there or something? 80-90% seems like a huge number without some other information factoring in

idiomaddict,

Sell them. You’ll make more than $4M, if you don’t get killed for it

A GOP Texas school board member campaigned against schools indoctrinating kids. Then she read the curriculum. (www.texastribune.org)

Weeks after winning a school board seat in her deeply red Texas county, Courtney Gore immersed herself in the district’s curriculum, spending her nights and weekends poring over hundreds of pages of lesson plans that she had fanned out on the coffee table in her living room and even across her bed. She was searching for...

idiomaddict,

In that case, they accidentally end up with a politician with some actual decency. I was imagining they’d vote in a less honest fear monger.

idiomaddict,

I honestly think that’s more about ensuring that they can charge trans women with rape (which they obviously should, when relevant). It seems like the thing they’re commenting on is the pronoun, not the noun.

Where I am, penetrating someone with an object counts and they phrase it very differently

idiomaddict,

Joynes denies six counts of engaging in sexual activity with a child, including two while being a person in a position of trust.

The defendant, pleading innocence, said that. The case is about sexual activity with children.

idiomaddict,

Ohh! It’s just your reading comprehension, not that you’re really suggesting that it’s cool for a teacher to fuck their fifteen year old students and former students. If you care about what the children said, there’s this from the older one:

Boy B claims he tried to end the relationship but did not know how to, called her a “paedo” and told her to find someone her own age but claimed emotional pressure came from Joynes to keep their relationship going.

idiomaddict,

Or coconut and honey. I’m sure that’s in some candy or cookie I’ve had at some point

idiomaddict,

The love child of billy eichner and Matt gaetz

idiomaddict,

“I think Gov. Noem’s efforts have been sophomoric,” said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a Trump ally. “Running ads may have seemed clever, but to someone as sophisticated as Trump, her strategies have been a bit too obvious.”

Jesus Christ, everyone involved has the subtlety of a sugared up eight year old.

idiomaddict,

Judge is definitely a profession

idiomaddict,

The food is really good though

idiomaddict,

I was actually confused because there’s thousands of vegan body builders

idiomaddict,

What you’re describing (enslaved people’s children are automatically also enslaved) is chattel slavery, it’s a special kind of evil.

However, those other things you listed are also slavery (people forced to work against their will). No, they’re not the same, but they’re both forms of slavery. The definition is broader than you might expect.

idiomaddict,

It’s just really extreme marriage counseling

idiomaddict, (edited )

Sadly, if you don’t cause the animal undue pain (a clean shot almost certainly is not legally considered to cause undue pain, but noem didn’t do that…), you’re totally allowed to kill your pets at any time. I would definitely prefer that people who kill their pets (for reasons other than mercy/safety) are separated from the rest of society than people who shoplift, but alas.

Over 30 pro-Palestine protesters arrested at Ohio State: what we know (www.nbc4i.com)

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Ohio State University police and the Ohio State Highway Patrol arrested about three dozen people Thursday night for staging a pro-Palestine encampment on campus – carrying out what is likely the highest number of protest-related arrests there since the Vietnam War....

idiomaddict,

Ohio State University police and the Ohio State Highway Patrol arrested about three dozen people Thursday night for staging a pro-Palestine encampment on campus – carrying out what is likely the highest number of protest-related arrests there since the Vietnam War.

Hopefully we don’t repeat anything else of Ohio universities during the Vietnam war, but I have basically zero faith in that.

idiomaddict,

I got as far as the lice shower. That’s not far, but it’s already such an emotional gut punch. I wish I could read more to give a more well-grounded compliment, but I’m 100% not in the headspace for it.

The GOP’s “Election Integrity” Lawyer Was Just Indicted for Election Subversion (www.motherjones.com)

The attorney, Christina Bobb running the Republican National Committee’s “election integrity” effort has been criminally charged by the state of Arizona for her efforts to help Donald Trump steal the 2020 election. This turn of events highlights the Orwellian meaning of the phrase “election integrity,” as used by Trump...

idiomaddict,

Most words ending in -[vowel]c get a k when the ending is more than just s, without changing to a soft c.

We picnicked in a panicky mood while politicking traffickers rollicked nearby.

Is spelled correctly (for American English at least), which would be fine if it weren’t for words like gimmick, but if anyone gives you shit for not assuming that, they’re an idiot.

idiomaddict,

Nonviolent people waiting for immigration to process them do not make knives out of paper. If they did, they would not receive asylum.

There’s no reason to conflate this with jail, except that we for some reason jail them.

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