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Let's say you need to clean out your garage. It's piled full of stuff and it's going to take you a while to clean up. Do you first reach for the biggest thing i

Let's say you need to clean out your garage. It's piled full of stuff and it's going to take you a while to clean up. Do you first reach for the biggest thing in the bottom of the pile, or do you grab the small stuff on top that's closest to you first?

klyrs 6y ago
Only, you're not cleaning a garage, you're a tin-pot dictator and you control the budget of a newspaper which has recently covered a narrative that you don't like.
- TheAdamAndChe 6y ago
  The article did not mention that they covered a narrative that Trump disliked. Where did you get that from?
  - matt_kantor 6y ago
    > https://www.stripes.com/news/us/trump-denies-reports-that-he-disparaged-us-war-dead-as-losers-suckers-1.643839 https://www.stripes.com/news/us/trump-denies-reports-that-he... > A few days ago they also ran a story about a poll showing Trump lagging Biden among the military. Thanks to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24375564 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24375564
    - liability 6y ago
      It may well be retaliatory, but not for that specific article/poll. The Trump administration proposed defunding Stars and Stripes back in February. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/the-stars-and-stripes-newspaper-has-long-supported-the-troops-now-it-needs-congresss-support/2020/06/18/10046b92-8982-11ea-8ac1-bfb250876b7a_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/the-stars-... > In February, the Trump administration proposed eliminating all of the publication’s federal support in 2021. That’s more than $15 million a year, about half its budget. “I can’t think of a graver threat to its independence,” the paper’s ombudsman, Ernie Gates, told me recently. “That’s a fatal cut.”
      - matt_kantor 6y ago
        Thanks, I should have noticed that too. My fault for commenting before coffee. Sucks that you've been downvoted for pointing out a fact.
      - deleted 6y ago
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      - klyrs 6y ago
        Oops, well spotted. He's still a tin-pot dictator rabidly against the press, but this particular correlation doesn't seem to be causative.
dastbe 6y ago
you'd probably move the fighter jet out of the garage first
wolfram74 6y ago
You probably don't grab a tooth pick from way in the back and call it a day.

klyrs 6y ago

Only, you're not cleaning a garage, you're a tin-pot dictator and you control the budget of a newspaper which has recently covered a narrative that you don't like.

TheAdamAndChe 6y ago
The article did not mention that they covered a narrative that Trump disliked. Where did you get that from?
- matt_kantor 6y ago
  > https://www.stripes.com/news/us/trump-denies-reports-that-he-disparaged-us-war-dead-as-losers-suckers-1.643839 https://www.stripes.com/news/us/trump-denies-reports-that-he... > A few days ago they also ran a story about a poll showing Trump lagging Biden among the military. Thanks to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24375564 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24375564
  - liability 6y ago
    It may well be retaliatory, but not for that specific article/poll. The Trump administration proposed defunding Stars and Stripes back in February. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/the-stars-and-stripes-newspaper-has-long-supported-the-troops-now-it-needs-congresss-support/2020/06/18/10046b92-8982-11ea-8ac1-bfb250876b7a_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/the-stars-... > In February, the Trump administration proposed eliminating all of the publication’s federal support in 2021. That’s more than $15 million a year, about half its budget. “I can’t think of a graver threat to its independence,” the paper’s ombudsman, Ernie Gates, told me recently. “That’s a fatal cut.”
    - matt_kantor 6y ago
      Thanks, I should have noticed that too. My fault for commenting before coffee. Sucks that you've been downvoted for pointing out a fact.
    - deleted 6y ago
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    - klyrs 6y ago
      Oops, well spotted. He's still a tin-pot dictator rabidly against the press, but this particular correlation doesn't seem to be causative.

dastbe 6y ago

you'd probably move the fighter jet out of the garage first

wolfram74 6y ago

You probably don't grab a tooth pick from way in the back and call it a day.