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Cotton 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 i
by pm90 6y ago
Cotton 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"?