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The Quotation Marks Of Doom
In news stories, call out corrupt government / industry collusion by putting quotes around the words "fined", "fine" "penalty" or "sanction" where appropriate. | |
Say a big pharmaceutical company makes billions
addicting
millions and killing tens of thousands with their
diabolical
poison.
If their profits are several billion a year and they get
fined,
say $100,000,000 by the government, put quotations
around
the words describing that payment
as punishment.
I know this is done sometimes, but it needs to be applied
every time to be effective.
Thank you for stopping in to review my idea and may the
mightiest god, whoever he may be, bless America AND
England.
Have a nice day and thank you for your comments.
"Fined"
https://gph.is/1gV4sqI
[doctorremulac3, Jan 21 2019]
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// Thank you for stopping in to review my idea and may the mightiest god, whoever he may be, bless America AND England // |
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<Turns down Brane Ray intensity to 10% of previous value, wonders if any permanent damage has been done/> |
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This is the “best” idea ever |
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That's the "best" anno ever. |
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Sure.
But let's be careful about escalating this...
I found out recently that neo-nazis signal supposed Jewish
conspiracies in their messages by putting three brackets around
the subject.
(After I heard that, I started to worry that some of my rather
more badly hacked code might accidentally have antisemitic
slurs, deeply nested away somewhere.) |
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Also, it gets very much harder to quote people. |
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By the way, I admit that this was a thinly veiled
rant. Apologies for that, but I do like how quotes
can be two things: indicative of quoting somebody
or of sarcasm or at least incredulity. |
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[Loris] That would make being a LISP programmer a
little problematic |
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// putting three brackets around the subject. // |
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Brackets, braces or parentheses ? |
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<Googles for version of Lint configured to spot extreme right-wing function definitions/> |
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//their profits are several billion a year// |
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We'll make a marxist of you yet, [Dr3]. ;-) |
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I think there's a valid point here, which is that it's inaccurate to say that a huge corporation was 'punished' by being fined $10,000, when that equates to about twenty minutes' worth of profits. Likewise to say that Mark Zuckerberg 'earns' $6m a day is making a value judgement on whether that money was actually 'earnt'. This could be solved by (as this idea suggests) pointing out the misbehaving words with quotes, or by switching to more factual language - e.g. "Mark Zuckerberg is given $6m a day". |
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Or they could just call it "their cut". |
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Deathtech Pharma International pleaded guilty to
killing ten million people last year while receiving 10
billion in profits, or about $1,000 per corpse.
Government officials agreed to a 10% cut of the
profit or about one billion dollars payoff. |
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The government's cut will be paid anually after a
regular accounting. |
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