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minus-squareOwlHamster@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoIf you hand a gun to a known mass murderer, you have no culpability, makes sense.
minus-squareAmidFuror@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoDid I imply Trump has no culpability for increased pollution by relaxing standards? The link is obvious. The headline is still misleading. When California released inmates early due to overcrowding in jails, should the headline have read “Newsom Admin rapes, shoots innocent citizens?”
minus-squareOwlHamster@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 month agoNobody reads this headline and thinks Trump is personally going to wheel out his mercury machine and start cranking it. The headline could definitely read “Newsom admin to put more rapists and murderers on our streets”, which I think would be equivalent.
If you hand a gun to a known mass murderer, you have no culpability, makes sense.
Did I imply Trump has no culpability for increased pollution by relaxing standards? The link is obvious. The headline is still misleading.
When California released inmates early due to overcrowding in jails, should the headline have read “Newsom Admin rapes, shoots innocent citizens?”
Nobody reads this headline and thinks Trump is personally going to wheel out his mercury machine and start cranking it.
The headline could definitely read “Newsom admin to put more rapists and murderers on our streets”, which I think would be equivalent.