• j_elgato@leminal.space
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    19 hours ago

    “died after guards held him down and he stopped breathing”

    Fucks sake AP, what’s with the passive voice here? Was he holding his fucking breath??

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      11 hours ago

      It’s unfortunate but usually wording like that is intentional and necessary, I.E if you say “mother fuckers murdered him” you’ll get sued.

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        3 hours ago

        A couple caveats

        1. this only applies if you’re a trusted news source - musk or trump could say this tomorrow and would win the case because they’re known liars. The implication here is that anyone that can legally get away with saying shit any other way is either a small potato, known liar or if its irrefutable truth.

        2. I think in this case, specifically, they could probably say he was murdered by somebody because they already said homocide in the title