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"No quarter" also means [0]: >no pity or mercy —used to say that an enemy, opponent, etc., is treated in a very harsh way It's plausible that he meant this in
by Mirioron 6y ago
"No quarter" also means [0]:
>no pity or mercy —used to say that an enemy, opponent, etc., is treated in a very harsh way
It's plausible that he meant this in the way you describe, but I think it's more likely he was using fancy language to emphasise that the city and police shouldn't tolerate things like the CHAZ or rioting and looting. Essentially, he's trying to criticize the local governments for tolerating these things and not putting a stop to it. (Easy way to try to score political points.)
[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/no%20quarter https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/no%20quarter
- pm90 6y agoCotton isn’t some rando posting a comment on Facebook. This is a US Senator whose essay was reviewed by his editorial staff before being sent to the times. He is saying exactly what he meant to say. If he meant something different there were other ways to express it.
- leereeves 6y ago"No quarter" wasn't in the essay. It was a tweet. Does "his editorial staff" review everything he tweets? And should everything anyone says be given the worst possible interpretation, or should we, as in the Hacker News guidelines, "respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."
- pm90 6y ago> Does "his editorial staff" review everything he tweets? Most Senior Government officials do, yes. And Occam’s razor applies: I would argue that using an alternate interpretation of what he said rather than the well known one is going absolutely against the spirit of that hacker news guideline.
- leereeves 6y agoBetween the colloquial meaning listed in dictionaries, and the technical meaning found in military law books, which is "the well known one"?