The envelope never made it to Judge Arthur Engoron, but caused an emergency response at the courthouse.
  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
    56·
    9 months ago

    Stop treating domestic terrorists with kid gloves and maybe they’ll be afraid to terrorize again.

      • TheFriar@lemm.ee
        1·
        9 months ago

        Wel it’s not really as straight forward as all that. A lot of leftists are abolitionists. The concept of a state jailing someone isn’t something to be advocated for when every other day you don’t believe the system should exist. Your ideals being flexible based on who gets hurt means they aren’t ideals at all.

  • Blaster M@lemmy.world
    269·
    9 months ago

    misleading headline. The judge was sent a tainted envelope, he did not send the envelope.

    • darth_tiktaalikOP
      312·
      9 months ago

      I wouldn’t have interpreted as the judge being the sender.

      • sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works
        155·
        9 months ago

        That’s how I interpreted it. There are many ways to write that which completely avoid confusion, but they chose the only way that allows that confusion.

        • davelAEnglish
          14·
          9 months ago

          I mean, the core of the sentence—if it were normal English and not newspaper headline English—is “judge sent envelope.” Their copy editor can and should do better.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      82·
      9 months ago

      As I’ve said for years, English is a shit language.

      Bob sent a birthday card

      Means Bob mailed it to someone

      Bob was sent a birthday card

      Means Bob received it.

      We still keep headlines short, so the “was” gets dropped, and we’re left with an ambiguous sentence that literally means the opposite of what context clues tell us it means.

      It makes sense when you realize headlines start out as full sentences but then get trimmed down as short as possible.

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          9 months ago

          Yeah, it’s all shit our brains account for like 99% of the time so we don’t even realize it.

          If you don’t learn it when your little, it’s always going to be weird.

          But if people stop to think about it, most can’t explain why it still makes sense.

      • livus@kbin.social
        4·
        9 months ago

        @davel is right though.

        Envelope With White Powder Sent To Judge In Trump Civil Fraud Case, Source Says

        Exact same length and unambiguous.

    • CableMonster
      41·
      9 months ago

      Ironically enough, he got sent an envelope with white powder too.

      • DogPeePoo@lemm.ee
        6·
        9 months ago

        That was his 1st attempt.

        He was high on cocaine and inverted the addressee/return address.