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Have you seen our President? Minor conveniences are what trigger him into launching full blown DOJ investigations, wars, and economic disaster. If he realizes
by reactordev 5mo ago
Have you seen our President? Minor conveniences are what trigger him into launching full blown DOJ investigations, wars, and economic disaster. If he realizes he can just "turn off" the EU, oh, he will threaten that on Truth Social tonight in a rant about how they should make a deal or else.
- like_any_other 5mo agoAn open threat like that would be the best case scenario, as it would (hopefully) cause a reaction in EU countries trying to get rid of this yoke. Instead usually it happens through backroom dealings, or just the services being a nuisance to competitors while being helpful to friendly companies, and thus the target country is drained of its resources and economic independence, slow enough to not provoke retaliation. With the exception of the current US administration, hostile countries and corporations try to appear non-hostile when possible.
- EchoReflection 5mo ago[flagged]
- nickburns 5mo agoFriendly advice: please don't capitalize random common nouns like the president does. It's a marker of one's affinity toward precision (among other things).
- danaw 5mo agoyou're being this pedantic about someone capitalizing "President"?
- altairprime 5mo agoIt’s not a proper noun, and this is HN: pedantry is par. “The president of Xyz” capitalizes the X in Xyz(pn) but not the P in president(n). However, the P in President(pn) is capitalized when it’s a Title suffixed to a Name - but that varies per country by what they title their president-equivalent locally and isn’t always translated, while the concept-slash-role label of ‘president’ in English generally does not (and is often used interchangeably, albeit somewhat wrongly, for ‘monarch’ and other such single-person executive-leader roles). (That we use the same spelling for both title and concept is annoying, as usual :)
- reactordev 5mo agoPresident is a title here so Capitalization is correct use. That last one wasn’t. To be pedantic, we all know which one I was referring to.
- nickburns 5mo agoThe word 'president' being a potential title doesn't make it a title nor a proper noun in all contexts. Your bio contains comma splice, by the way.
- JumpCrisscross 5mo agoThey’re trolling.
- nickburns 5mo agoI'm not.
- JumpCrisscross 5mo agoIf you’re not, and I say this in good faith, take your own advice around your tone. Making assumptions about other people, and then doubling down when they correct you, comes across as a kind of horrible I doubt you truly are.
- nickburns 5mo agoI say this in good faith: oh, stop.
- JumpCrisscross 5mo agoRight, you’re a troll. Something, something Dwight Macdonald about parody needing to be smart and not bitter.
- nickburns 5mo agoYes. But mostly just because it's in reference to this particular president who's a dullard and displays it regularly in this particular way.
- yawaramin 5mo agoWhat does 'marker of affinity toward precision' mean?
- fouc 5mo agoindicator of being detail oriented
- userbinator 5mo agoI'd like to see if he can be convinced into going after Google and effectively stopping remote attestation. One can certainly dream...