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Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud
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I've come to the conclusion that this is a personality difference between "judging" and "perceiving" in the Myers Briggs sense. You seem to be solidly on the judging side of the spectrum while I'm pretty far on the perceiving side. Neither is "correct" which leads to arguments like this, judgers are annoyed by perceivers for their laziness and perceivers are annoyed by judgers for their pedentry and chauvinism.
Again neither is right, so the best thing to do is be aware of this difference and try to avoid the things that annoy people. Perceivers need to try to not make those grammatical errors and judgers need to not call them out for it.
On the political side yes we should be making the best possible arguments in the best language when trying to bring others to our side, I'd say my original comment wasn't trying to do that, just an offhand remark but either way. Along with that we should avoid calling out and judging people for the language they use, as long as it's coherent and not offensive, as that alienates people.
Agreed! Not to get to off tanget, have you heard of Elle Cordova? - she is one of my favorite creators.
I can appreciate when someone uses language well.
What I find is that people hear what they want from politicians and a good linguist can cut through the noise and point out what the pols are actually saying.
Before the election, Trump was saying that he was going after criminals, and the people that voted for him who were in the immigrant and latin communities were hearing that and thinking gang bangers and robbers.. not realizing that undocumented people were also criminals in that they had broken immigration law.
No one wanted to hear it and I was out screaming at the top of my lungs this was going to come down like it was as Trump is a dyed in the wool racist. Was told I had TDS.. Really? Trump Derangement Syndrome isn't half as perilous an affliction as Trump Delusion Syndrome, in that the Hispanic Trump supporters thought he actually cared for them.
Now, they're getting harased and detained by ICE because they're not white.
TDS indeed.
The racism, that's old news actually - he got it from his father who was even more barefaced with his bigotry. There's a reason that President Eisenhower loathed Fred Trump, aside from scamming government funds for Veterans Housing, which used to build houses to bare minimum standards of quality and design for the times than pocketed the rest. He also redlined neighborhoods and took funds for public housing and used it to build homes in tonier neighborhoods which he sold for handsome profit. Fred Trump was an evil man. Out of all his children, he did the most damage to Donald.
The fruit did NOT fall far from that particular tree it grew on.
Please do check out Elle Cordova's work, it's delightful.
Regards,
Oh yeah, I've seen her before, my gf shows me her tik toks, didn't know her name or that she was on YouTube, will have to check out more of her stuff.
I agree the lawyers that dominated, and still do to some extent, politics for the last half century did use very tricky language to disguise what they were actually going to do. Trump though doesn't really do that, take for example Venezuela, he'll either blatantly lie: "they're sending fentanyl" or be blatantly honest saying the quiet part out loud: "we're going for the oil".
Even for immigration trump wasn't really hiding behind an implication that criminals meant murderers and rapists, he was explicitly saying they were only going after the murderers and rapists and just lying to his constituency.
Trump just doesn't have the brain to come up with the weasely stances the ivy League lawyers have been using in the past. His statements are very direct and simple with little room for interpretation. He's using lies rather than language to trick people.