The boss said "shoot this at the drones", so they did.

If it's any consolation, you're just hearing from terminally online partisans, actual lunatics, and foreign intelligence agents trying to destabilize us.

The on-the-ground experience here is not accurately reflected on Lemmy.

That is a shockingly accurate assessment.

That sounds like a fantastic plan. Enjoy yourself.

Thank you! That sounds like something a human would say.

Can I have your flavoring if you're not going to eat it?

Correct.

The pot-stirring also exacerbated rioting in the summer of 2020, too. Both of those events got the media to lay off a little bit, but that only lasted for a little while.

If you read between the lines the messaging is "holy fuck, you got people killed in 2020. Cut this shit out because you're getting people killed again".

Not to the "base" of either of the major parties, no. Those voters are already committed to their candidates.

This election is likely to come down to independents and undecided voters. Where that messaging could matter is with people who are unsatisfied with the Democratic party AND dislike Trump.

The idea that "they hate me enough to kill me" might be compelling to someone with a strong dislike of the Democratic party, perhaps enough to get them to hold their nose and vote for Trump. That being said, I wouldn't even venture a guess at how many people that would be.

Just because a lot of people use a phrase incorrectly doesn't mean that it should be the accepted meaning.

A good example is "have your cake and eat it, too". As the Unabomber famously fixated on, the phrase was originally "you can't eat your cake and have it, too". That saying actually makes sense and has meaning.

After a while people began to jokingly say it backwards, as "you can't have your cake and eat it, too". That was dandy, until people forgot that it was a joke. Now, years later, we're all left with a saying that is fucking ridiculous sounding and but we keep saying it because we need the original phrase in our language.

Sure, language evolves and changes. Sometimes though, it's a good idea to be sticklers about the rules.

No shame in sitting things out for a bit.

A whole slew of politicians from every party and every corner of the Union have more or less said "can the media and firebrand politicians chill out before we all start getting bumped off?". I'm paraphrasing, of course.