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Judge in Trump civil fraud case sent envelope with white powder, source says (www.nbcnews.com)
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[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 56 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Stop treating domestic terrorists with kid gloves and maybe they'll be afraid to terrorize again.

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

MAGAts are terrorists.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I agree but let's not forget that less than a year ago nearly 100 letters containing white powder sent to Trump and senior Republicans

[–] thatsTheCatch 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that's very not cool

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Agree. Not sure this really holds a candle to the systematic violence and terrorism emanating from the traitors’ camp.

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

misleading headline. The judge was sent a tainted envelope, he did not send the envelope.

[–] darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.ml 29 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I wouldn't have interpreted as the judge being the sender.

[–] sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's how I interpreted it. There are many ways to write that which completely avoid confusion, but they chose the only way that allows that confusion.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 14 points 9 months ago

I mean, the core of the sentence—if it were normal English and not newspaper headline English—is “judge sent envelope.” Their copy editor can and should do better.

[–] underwire212@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

I interpreted your interpretation differently

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

As I've said for years, English is a shit language.

Bob sent a birthday card

Means Bob mailed it to someone

Bob was sent a birthday card

Means Bob received it.

We still keep headlines short, so the "was" gets dropped, and we're left with an ambiguous sentence that literally means the opposite of what context clues tell us it means.

It makes sense when you realize headlines start out as full sentences but then get trimmed down as short as possible.

[–] livus@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

@davel is right though.

Envelope With White Powder Sent To Judge In Trump Civil Fraud Case, Source Says

Exact same length and unambiguous.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

Yeah, it's all shit our brains account for like 99% of the time so we don't even realize it.

If you don't learn it when your little, it's always going to be weird.

But if people stop to think about it, most can't explain why it still makes sense.

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Probably Don Jr. trying to make some layaway payments with cocaine

[–] CableMonster@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Ironically enough, he got sent an envelope with white powder too.

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago

That was his 1st attempt.

He was high on cocaine and inverted the addressee/return address.

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I'm not sure that's what "ironic" means. Perhaps you mean "coincidentally."