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"holstered guns on their waists, visible on their waists" I'm certainly not against people having jobs in this lousy economy, but it kinda bugs me that someone
by Semiapies 17y ago
"holstered guns on their waists, visible on their waists"
I'm certainly not against people having jobs in this lousy economy, but it kinda bugs me that someone got paid to write this article and someone else got paid to edit it.
"More fundamentally unnerving, some say, is the Free Staters' efforts to secure government positions, with the goal of whittling down or eliminating them."
"Some" say? Who say?
- tjic 17y ago> "Some" say? Who say? "Some say" is code. It means "I, the journalist, think so, and I bet that I could find at least one person to agree with me, therefore I will insert my political bias into the story in a way that isn't totally obvious to a naive reader".
- Semiapies 17y agoIt can mean other things, but I can't think of any justification more savory for that sort of blithe vagueness.