• melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    21 days ago

    I am an old person. So when you say “they” you are absolutely wrong. Say “a lot” or “some” if you are interested in being closer to the truth at all. We are all bombarded with bullshit and it comes in many different forms from many different people. Maybe even you?

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      20 days ago

      There is more than one way to read *all of the retired old fucks".

      You seem to have read it as meaning that “all old people watch that crap.”

      I read it as, there are old people, look at the subset of them who watch that crap.

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        20 days ago

        Yeah. I guess I need things carved in stone. I don’t like to make mental leaps as I’m usually wrong. I get your point though, even the bible and the constitution come down to interpretation.

    • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      You don’t have to get into semantics about it. To young people like me who see it so often, it feels this way to us. It does not mean every old person does this obviously… I was exaggerating, but it doesn’t come out that way when writing. If I was saying this with my voice and put emphasis on it via cadence then you’d understand where I was coming from.