56 points

“Ronald Reagan has won the Presidential Election” was pretty terrifying.

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Yeah but that’s seven words.

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23 points

“President Ronald Reagan” is three; three and seven average out to five.

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7 points

I knew I shouldn’t have dropped out of statistics

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10 points

“President-elect Ronald Wilson Reagan”

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1 point

It’s also six in the original quote, who cares about numbers anyway?

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enshittification, people just fucking keep using proprietary platforms and act surprised when they always end up turning to shit

this concept has a wikipedia page, can we please stop repeating the same mistake endlessly?

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Right? I did switch to Matrix but I knew a perfect discord server for a community that’s kinda hard to find servers that I like for and there’s something similarly themed in Matrix but it’s not the same at all and it’s so inactive :< So actually I might end up making a discord account again just for that server… but I’m holding on for now X3

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8 points

am i missing something or is there an extra joke because the guy cant count?

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  1. we’ve - contractions are still a single word
  2. improved
  3. our
  4. mobile
  5. app

5 (five) words…

Original quote was “nine” and “I’m with the government and I’m here to help.”

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22 points

Which is exactly the kind of thing you want to hear from the leader of the government.

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10 points

It’s a perfectly reasonable thing to say if your campaign and ideology hinges on you rooting out the corruption in government. It’s a way of capturing the idea of the corruption that you want to fix.

Like all Republican messages in the last 60 years or so, it’s bullshit, but there’s nothing ironic about it.

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8 points

Gubernment bad

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Also, when the hell does anyone from the government show up to say that? If I need them to help me, I contact them. If they’re contacting me, it’s because they’re helping someone else (employees, crime victims, the public).

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thanks for clarifying. i did not know contractions counted as one word

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3 points

Yep. English is a very hard language (and I say this as a native speaker who, caring about proper grammar, still struggles with it).

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5 points

Putting nice words in the mouth of the root of most Americans’ problems seems kinda cringe.

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Seht ihr mich?

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Versteht ihr mich?

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