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- news@lemmy.world
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- news@lemmy.world
“Democracy sustains capitalism. Capitalism thrives in a democracy. And, right now, we are dealing with, as I called him at my speech on the Ellipse, a tyrant,” she said, referencing her rally last year on the White House Ellipse in Washington. “We used to compare the strength of our democracy to communist dictators. That’s what we’re dealing with right now in Donald Trump. And these titans of industry are not speaking up,”
Misleading, editorialized title. Any worthwhile journalist wouldn’t quote somebody on words they didn’t literally say.
bad journalism for sure… however, you can infer the meaning here. i don’t think she’d separate ‘tyrant’ and ‘communist’ for distinction. still, hate how this shit passes as acceptable writing.
She did literally say that
https://x.com/HotSpotHotSpot/status/1970343099151892487
She literally didn’t.
Can it be presumed it’s what she meant? Arguably. But presumptions are not quotes, and it’s not acceptable to attribute a quote to someone that didn’t say the words you are claiming they did.
What could this quote be referring to if not the prior sentence
Your inference on what she meant doesn’t change what she literally said.
You are defending her comments like MAGA would be Trump’s or Kirk.
We’re dealing with a fucking menace of a president. That’s the important thing to focus on, goddammit!
This is the akin to the pedantic gymnastic arguments that people keep using trying to protect themselves from accepting Kirk’s fascist bullshit. He literally said a bunch of heinous fascistic shit, and people will argue “context”. You’re arguing pedantics for no good goddamned reason.
Her first sentence involves the second, and vice versa. They are not exclusive of each other. They are two clauses of a singular thought. Stop. FFS
For someone so against meaningless arguments, you are quite insistent on continuing the argument about things I’m not talking about. For the fourth time now - it doesn’t matter what she meant. Quotes in journalism (especially in headlines) are for verbatim statements, not paraphrased inferences.
Double quotes are distinct from single quotes in some journalistic style guides and can be used this way.