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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 9 points 56 minutes ago

To be clear, inbred poster boy, Markwayne Mullin, will almost certainly be worse than Noem.

  1. Mullin tried to physically fight someone during an official proceeding until Bernie Sanders yelled at him to sit down and behave like a member of Congress.

  2. Mullin tried ripping the "Black People Are Not Apes" sign out of Al Green's hand during the State of the Union.

  3. There are pictures of Mullin cowering in fear during Jan 6, after helping incite it.

  4. There are pictures of Mullin standing on a box behind a podium to match the height of his debate opponent.

He is an inbred and a coward with a chip on his shoulder. Expect more Constitutional violations.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 57 points 5 hours ago (3 children)
[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

Red Skull is too competent for the job.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 17 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

MarkWayne "Hillbilly Is Right There In His First Name" Mullins is her replacement.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 hours ago

My money was on Kid Rock.

[–] TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

IKR? Putting the cheek fillers/fat removal aside, why can’t plastic surgery improve necks or hands? Honest question.

[–] 2piradians@lemmy.world 1 points 10 seconds ago

To your point, the android face makes her neck look that much more gross.

I know that's below the belt, but that's where Noem spends all her time anyway.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 10 points 3 hours ago

Surgical tech here! It can, but it's a more expensive operation so a lot of people just don't. We can fix it later.

One of my surgeons was talking about that just a couple days ago.

[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 35 points 5 hours ago

Did they finally figure out a way to resurrect the broken corpse of Hitler with AI?

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 23 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 hours ago

This is why I really want to celebrate this, however I know in my bones there’s nothing to celebrate.

[–] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 hours ago

Damn, I would not want to be a puppy in South Dakota right now

[–] AmbientDread@piefed.social 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Bye Bye Cosplay Bambi

Time to show Talibondi Barbie the door next.

Won't fix the historic mess of an administration, but it's a start.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 2 points 48 minutes ago

but it’s a start.

Nah. Markwayne Mullin will be worse. But he'll be instructed to chill out until after the midterms since the traitor party is scared it'll be a bloodbath for them if they can't do something about public perception.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 12 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

How can he be both President and Secretary of whatever specific bullshit this is?

[–] YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth 16 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I think it means that Trump is replacing her with someone else, not that he's taking both positions. I was confused at first too.

From the article:

President Donald Trump says he's replacing his embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and will nominate in her place Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin.

The headline is just really stupidly worded.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It's certainly some light title gore.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (13 children)

It certainly is not, unless you also think "I'm going to make you a pie" is me literally threatening to turn you into a pastry.

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[–] hakase@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Agentive interpretation, not anticausative.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

If only there were some way to make the title less arbitrary.

[–] hakase@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

It's not arbitrary - it's ambiguous. Context clues, world knowledge, and the entire attached article are more than enough to resolve the ambiguity.

All natural human languages show structural ambiguity like this, especially when it comes to headlines which famously favor brevity over clarity, and the built in feature of human language to solve it is pragmatics.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

You're right that "ambiguous" would have been a better word.

Anyway, the title is too ambiguous and could have been better worded like the other dozen articles I've seen about the exact same thing, which was my singular point the entire time.

[–] hakase@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Use your pragmatics module! Find those context clues! You can do it! I believe in you!

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

How else do you think I could point out its ambiguity, champ?

[–] hakase@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Going back and reading the thread it doesn't look like you were the one to point out the ambiguity, champ. Reads more like you were initially confused and then got defensive about it.

Probably could have been written a bit more clearly so that it was less ambiguous, champ.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

My original comment was clearly a humorous take on the ambiguity, sport.

Sorry about you sense of humor, li'l guy.

[–] hakase@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Maybe not as clearly as you thought, champ.

Also, Jesus dude. I initially only wanted to drop some knowledge about agentives vs. anticausatives, not have a huge snarky slapfight just because you chose an incredibly odd and incorrect hill to die on elsewhere in the thread.

Maybe try to have less of a hair trigger in response to innocuous comments in the future.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Sure, sweet thing. You literally agreed that the title was ambiguous. How was it "incorrect" of me to point that out?

[–] hakase@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Because of your additional normative position that that's somehow a bad thing, instead of being a perfectly normal part of language that you have the faculties to easily resolve, as mentioned above.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

No, buttercup, it's not a bad thing to point out that poor phrasing is poor.

[–] hakase@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Poor by what objective metric that doesn't ultimately boil down to "because I said so"?

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 0 points 43 minutes ago (1 children)

I'd ask you the same question, chuckles, if you hadn't already agreed with my initial assessment.

[–] hakase@lemmy.zip 0 points 37 minutes ago* (last edited 26 minutes ago) (1 children)

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Pragmatics-Blackwell-Textbooks-Linguistics/dp/139419675X

Enjoy! Just because you're ignorant about something doesn't mean everyone else is too.

In short, a headline being interpretable from available context is a descriptive, empirical phenomenon, as opposed to the question of whether ambiguity is "bad", which is a normative, unprovable statement with no objective merit.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 0 points 24 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] hakase@lemmy.zip 0 points 23 minutes ago (1 children)

But hey, at least you learned something today!

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 0 points 22 minutes ago

Christ, what an asshole.

[–] fulcrummed@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

The thumbnail photograph chosen is chef’s kiss a work of art.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 1 points 47 minutes ago

It's the only work of art that's ever made me throw up in my mouth.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

PBS doing what needs to be done.

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

It's a toss-up between Pistol Pete and RFK "Peewee Mengele" Jr. Also Bondo.

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[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

So they're replacing a sycophant with another sycophant nepobaby with SDE.

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