• tornavish@lemmy.cafe
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    1 day ago

    Oh I see, how do I convey all the information in an entire article within one headline because you don’t want to read the article you just want to read the headline… Well, I don’t know how to help you. If you don’t know how to read or don’t want to read, that’s on you. I will say, that really does explain a lot about the United States. I hope you have the day you voted for

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      15 hours ago

      No, you don’t see. That wasn’t what anyone said, you’re just missing the point.

      Stop focusing on headlines. How do you communicate the totality of the facts? Headline, article, wherever. It’s like you’re intentionally missing the point.

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          12 hours ago

          No. You’re focused on sensationalist headlines, the point is that no matter how you word the headline, the facts of reality being reported are objectively sensational. Even with the most sober and neutral tone, the things that are happening are so ridiculous they read as satire.

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            12 hours ago

            People get their dicks sucked all the time… from other guys… but also, there is zero actual evidence—pending confirmation from Bill 🤞

            So maybe that topic seems like satire… because it’s just speculation. If you mix speculation with sensational writing, it sounds like satire. It sounds like former Onion writers switched publications.

            Perhaps we should stop posting speculation with sensational writing designed to make us excited.

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                8 hours ago

                Yes, but, “Bubba” was either Bill Clinton, Maxwell’s horse, an unknown party, a joke, or just a double entendre that might not even mean sex.

                As much as I want that email to explicitly say that Donny blew Billy………. It does not.

                I think the real problem is, you want these things to be true (as much as me), but you’re talking it a step further and calling it a fact before it actually is.

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                  8 hours ago

                  No, the fact I’m referring to is the text of the email. Whether the text alludes to factual events is besides the point. The email exists, and it says what it says. Any thorough reporting on such a ridiculous situation is going to sound like satire.

                  And this is only one example. This is the latest in a never ending stream of ridiculous scandals and unbelievable turns of events. This is not the result of sensational headlines, this is the result of sensational events.