“And so the masses cheered when Caesar crossed the Rubicon River in 49 B.C. and swept away the career politicians. He promised to shake things up and he did, but it wasn’t long before he proclaimed himself dictator for life. He was killed on the Ides of March in 44 B.C. But by then it was too late. The structures of republican government had been laid waste and the voice of the people was silenced for the rest of the Roman Empire.” https://time.com/4375262/history-demagogues-donald-trump/
I just decided to look at TikTok and what I saw after a few minutes make my stomach lurch. Did Musk buy it? I saw a video of Trump pretending he was a preacher speaking about loving your neighbor. That after all his cruelty. There’s new disinformation targeting people who don’t watch factual news and analysis. I reported it. But it needs to be confronted.
Horrific Midair Collision at 9 pm between Blackhawk helicopter and American Airlines regional jet inbound from Wichita Kansas down in the Potomac near Reagan International. Complete Ground stop. Video shows huge explosion. Rescue underway in icy river. #Maddow
“What fascinates and compels me most about Chandler in this #MeToo moment are the ways his novels speak to our current climate,” Abbott writes. “Because if you want to understand #toxicwhitemasculinity, you could learn a lot by looking at #noir.”
😬 “Western security officials suspect Russian intelligence was behind a #plot to put incendiary devices in packages on cargo planes headed to North America, including one that caught fire at a courier hub in Germany and another that ignited in a warehouse in England.”
@fishidwardrobe@hannu_ikonen@STL_Inquiries Yes. And your audience needs to understand which is which. It’s often helpful to the speaker or writer to use a common term rather than a fad only understood by few.
@hannu_ikonen@STL_Inquiries Thanks. As a scholar of linguistics I am unaware of that useage of \rebellious\ as positive especially in this case across the varieties of American English. It would have the same negative or sarcastic intent, as would \radical\ causing confusion. I think \astute\ ir well-reasoned response is a more accurate connotation.
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