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Cake day: November 27th, 2023

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  • There’s actually legal reasons why publications would pay special care to their word choice like this. The difference between seeming violation and violation comes down to hard proof. Whether we like Elon’s sideshow or not, if there is a defendable claim that his post didn’t violate (e.g. new policy that allows it was approved internally but not yet published publicly), NYT could land themselves in a lawsuit that they have a chance of losing. Then ask yourself how many stories do they publish a day? The risk starts to add up quick.

    So the word seeming is doing some heavy lifting there. If you ignore the ass covering, they did still report truth on something important.




  • I don’t know what point this comic is trying to make. Or actually I do, I just don’t think it’s very useful to sow division like this. Not-GOP candidate is an absolute gain over GOP; in fact I’d call being not-GOP the entry criteria. Exit criteria then is policy specifics, but that’s not a conversation that’s possible unless we pass entry criteria. So let’s try not to be smug jerks when we have a common goal that’s in jeopardy.