henchmannumber3

joined 1 month ago
[–] henchmannumber3@lemmy.world 34 points 4 hours ago

Kidnapper, human trafficker, genocidal foot soldier

[–] henchmannumber3@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago

If nothing else, not capitalizing first letters and proper nouns will just look weird to many readers. If there's no capitalization in a sentence, I'm inclined to assume the writer accidentally mistyped an incomplete sentence or phrase. Not capitalizing proper nouns will create significant confusion since some proper nouns are also general terms.

"after friday, land is out."

Is that a reference to land as in earth or is it a reference to someone whose last name is Land?

Making communication more difficult by requiring your reader to spend more effort to parse your intended message might not be a good idea.

[–] henchmannumber3@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

No, you see, other people have believed in it so it must be true!

[–] henchmannumber3@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Same people who made Obama phone jokes are eager to sign up to be ripped off by Trump mobile.

[–] henchmannumber3@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Somebody doth protest too much.

[–] henchmannumber3@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Do you find this weak troll act fulfilling and useful? Good use of your time? Healthy outlet for your emotional issues?

[–] henchmannumber3@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

So you are just actively advocating for a worse-than-useless solution that only helps ensure the least favorable party gets more votes while arrogantly pretending you know better than the people who have to live with the results. Got it.

[–] henchmannumber3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (6 children)

That's not a denial...

[–] henchmannumber3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (8 children)

The obvious answer, voting 3rd party doesn't register with you people.

So you admit you don't understand first past the post voting systems.

[–] henchmannumber3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Yes, that's a subjective perspective on the matter. And...?

I also keep seeing this:

"The progressive congresswoman deserves the heat she's getting for her vote against a bill that would've held back aid to Jerusalem"

People keep calling the amendment a bill, which it is not. Even the PhD author of that article is misconstruing the vote in question despite correctly identifying it as an amendment elsewhere.

AOC voted against the bill that funded Israel. Full stop. Saying otherwise is counterfactual, i.e a lie. Full stop.

You can quibble over the repercussions of the amendment vote. I wouldn't have voted for or against it personally. But saying she voted for funding Israel is not correct. Saying she funds genocide is not only incorrect but would be defamation if she weren't a public figure.

But I will ask again, what is the value of attacking AOC on this point? Will it drive voters further to the left? Will it win primaries for progressive candidates? Will it in any way affect the funding of genocide in Gaza? What is the value of this fight? If it's just feeling self-righteous but doesn't have any useful results, why pursue it so fiercely? The only people this fight benefits are those who want someone farther right than AOC in office.

[–] henchmannumber3@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

That's what ranked choice voting can get you.

[–] henchmannumber3@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

Except if you know the amendment will fail and you know the amendment is a stunt by a racist conspiracy theorist, you can't be expected to take it seriously.

But again, what's the endgame for this criticism? She resigns and someone more centrist or corporate or right leaning takes her place? She feels bad and remembers next time to virtue signal meaningless gestures instead of attempting to achieve plausible goals?

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