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[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 56 points 2 years ago

"Ronald Reagan has won the Presidential Election" was pretty terrifying.

[-] BeanGoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 2 years ago

Yeah but that's seven words.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 23 points 2 years ago

"President Ronald Reagan" is three; three and seven average out to five.

[-] 0ops@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

I knew I shouldn't have dropped out of statistics

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Well, that adds up.

[-] FakeGreekGirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 years ago

"President-elect Ronald Wilson Reagan"

[-] occhineri@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

It's also six in the original quote, who cares about numbers anyway?

[-] tubaruco@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

am i missing something or is there an extra joke because the guy cant count?

[-] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 34 points 2 years ago
  1. we've - contractions are still a single word
  2. improved
  3. our
  4. mobile
  5. app

5 (five) words...

Original quote was "nine" and "I'm with the government and I'm here to help."

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 years ago

Which is exactly the kind of thing you want to hear from the leader of the government.

[-] xantoxis@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

It's a perfectly reasonable thing to say if your campaign and ideology hinges on you rooting out the corruption in government. It's a way of capturing the idea of the corruption that you want to fix.

Like all Republican messages in the last 60 years or so, it's bullshit, but there's nothing ironic about it.

[-] HerrBeter@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago
[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

government indeed bad when it's ran by fascists

[-] HerrBeter@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Gubernment good

[-] squiblet@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Also, when the hell does anyone from the government show up to say that? If I need them to help me, I contact them. If they're contacting me, it's because they're helping someone else (employees, crime victims, the public).

[-] tubaruco@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

thanks for clarifying. i did not know contractions counted as one word

[-] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 3 points 2 years ago

Yep. English is a very hard language (and I say this as a native speaker who, caring about proper grammar, still struggles with it).

[-] doctorcrimson@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Putting nice words in the mouth of the root of most Americans' problems seems kinda cringe.

[-] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago
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