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The entire party is literally rotten, the attempts to exclude oneself from it are laughable.
Can you point to one of these - how you say? - "attempts to exclude oneself from the party"?
You are misquoting the comment above yours. The title of this post is an example of a member trying to exclude himself from the rottenness of the party.
Thank you for granting me the opportunity to be pedantic. You are incorrect.
I would strongly argue that the comma in the above sentence should be a semicolon; I will treat it as one.
The subject is "party," a noun. "The entire" describes the subject. The verb is "is," and the predicate is "literally rotten." The predicate here is a descriptor of the subject.
In the second part, we need to determine what "it" refers to. "It" is a pronoun. Pronouns are shorthand for nouns. There are two nouns in the entire comment: "party" and "oneself." Context tells us that "it" cannot be a reference to "oneself," because it is absurd to "attempt to exclude oneself from oneself," and even if that was the meaning, it would be a complete non-sequitur from the first part of the comment.
That leaves one other noun for "it" to refer to: "party."
Furthermore, "it" cannot be referring to "rotten," because "rotten" is an adjective. "Rottenness" is a noun, but that's not the word here. If @iforgotmyinstance had intended to refer to the "rotten[ness]," they would have said something like: "The rottenness of the party is overwhelming; the attempts to exclude oneself from it are laughable."
Now let me get into your comment.
In the first sentence, you refer to the "comment above [mine]." As explained above, I am not "misquoting" or misunderstanding it.
In the second sentence, you refer to "the title of this post," in a way that suggests that the post title and @iforgotmyinstance's comment are necessarily referring to the same specific subject: ("party" or "rotten[ness]"). They are not, and are not obliged to. They do refer to the same general subject: the rottenness of the Republican party. It is reasonable to refer to the "party" in a comment about it's "rotten[ness]."
The post title reads:
The title (of the post and the article) is quoting Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who was briefly Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. One interpretation of that quote is that McCarthy is "trying to exclude himself from the rottenness of the party." I would argue that the simple statement is an extremely weak attempt, but I would otherwise agree.
That was a whole lot of text to say nothing. At the end you didn't even have a counterpoint, you just said it was a weak attempt. Do you really have this much time on your hands to not make a point?
I stopped reading their reply once he brought up the comma, like oh brother ain’t no one got time for that!