• magnetosphere@fedia.io
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      2 years ago

      Throwing in the word “apparent” is cowardly, but it’s also a lot cheaper than being sued for libel by a fucking billionaire.

      • LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee
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        Nah. Getting sued for libel is what these outlets should be absolutely proud to have sent their way. That’s literally a news story in itself. It would also means he’d actually have to defend it instead of posting Nazi puns on Twitter.

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        2 years ago

        So at what point of doing something does it actually become the thing that it was?

        Seems pretty obvious to me.

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          2 years ago

          From a legal point of view it hasn’t been tried in a court of law, which is why words like “apparently” and “allegedly” are used.

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      2 years ago

      Oxford’s top definition for Apparent is “clearly visible or understood; obvious”

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        And the second (which is how they are using it) is “seeming real or true, but not necessarily so”.

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          I think the third one is “brother, i really don’t wanna get sued of that shit.” Pretty sure they are using that one.

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          Having read the article, that doesn’t seem to be the case. The undertones of the writing seem to be “There have been some attempts to deny that these are Nazi salutes (and not from the people making the gestures), but plausible deniability is rapidly running out and it definitely looks exactly like a Nazi salute”.

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      2 years ago

      The space karen one was blatantly apparent, this was a pretty half assed attempt. Like he is too much of a bitch to put his contemptible fascist ideology on full display.