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It would be kind of funny if one of the teachers that had a gun because of conservative "arm the teachers to stop shootings!" shot a kidnapper that was trying to take students.

Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.

Ur-Fascism, by Umberto Eco

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism

Many people use words not because of their commonly accepted meaning, but because of how it makes them feel. "Net zero" sounds fancy and zero is what they want.

You wouldn't be alone if either party has women friends. I wouldn't be surprised if the guy in this post had no women friends , or only had women be wanted to fuck.

Also the bisexual erasure is pretty thick here.

Are you unfamiliar with how the passive voice works?

"Man shot by police" vs "Police shoot man" are very different sentences.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/active-vs-passive-voice-difference

Passive voice often gets criticized as a weak and evasive form of expression. But it is useful for those instances when you want to emphasize the fact of an action having taken place rather than who performed the action. It is also helpful for instances when the doer of an action (also known as the agent) is unknown.

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The passive voice gets called out on occasion as a tool for expressing the avoidance of responsibility, like when one says “Mistakes were made” rather than “We made some mistakes.” Sometimes, as in our Elm Street example, it is criticized for placing what appears to be a burden of responsibility on the person who receives the action (i.e., the victim) rather than the person who performs it.

Passive voice is for when the state does violence. Active voice is for when a protester does? Got it

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I am continuously disappointed by my mainstream coworkers. They just don't know stuff from history, and they don't seem to care. They seem incurious. Not knowing stuff is fine- none of us know everything. But the lack of curiosity and willingness to engage is disappointing.

Like I mentioned the kent state massacre and they were like, blank stare, topic change.

Of course, they probably think I'm an insufferable killjoy because I keep talking about injustice and stuff. Can't we all just talk about the iphone?

And this implies she was just coincidentally hit and the police had no involvement in what could have been a fatal shooting. This kind of passive voice helps the villain.

That guy's probably drinking with his bros bragging about what he did. Maybe karma will catch up with him, but it seems like assholes are reigning supreme nowadays.

Just remember that good relationships never end in breakups.

lol what. I've had several relationships that were good, and then we broke up. We're still friends, but it became apparent that we were no longer good for each other as partners. People grow and change. That doesn't invalidate the time we spent together.

I really dislike the passive voice in news coverage about this kind of thing. "Reporter hit by rubber bullet"? Fuck that. "Police shoot reporter."

I think Musk is just stupid and dishonest. And a kind of empty, inside. He reaches for words that he thinks will have the effect he wants without caring about their meaning. He knows "pedo" is near universally reviled, so that's the word that came out. If it was 1980, he probably would have called the man gay.

Rare to see a CEO saying something sensible I agree with.

I'd love to see labor organize so when management is like "come into the office" they can be like "no". Let management try to do anything by themselves. They can't. Labor has untapped power.