#StatusCoup reports #LIVE on the ground from the protests in #minneapolis

#press #news #media #BreakingNews

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    Remember boys and girls, if ICE approaches you, you are in mortal danger. It would be reasonable to fear for your life. Defend yourself accordingly.

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    Can people at least start slashing the tires of all ice vehicles whenever possible? It’s probably the absolutely minimum that can be done to inconvenience/slow these fuckers down but at least it’s something.

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    I don’t know where to start with why this is an infuriating post. In addition to believing that virtually all words need a pound sign appended to them, the capitalization here is a crime against humanity.

    Camel case for StatusCoup, followed by all caps for LIVE, then we can’t be bothered to capitalize a city name. Then, it’s just random tags. Yeah, we’re a news aggregator. As such, “press,” “news,” “media” and the suddenly camel-cased “BreakingNews” is literally what people are expecting.

    Now, why you placed this in World News is confusing.

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      Honestly, it’s not the most important part of this post, but I can’t help but agree. I don’t mind the capitalization, so much as the fact the text on both this post and this one appears to be trying to cosplay as a news organization. Who the hell even says “BREAKING NEWS” when they literally aren’t a reporter or journalist of any sort? It makes me think of fake news-org grifts and drives me up a wall. This site doesn’t even use hashtags!

      Edit: Literally every single post this user has made on Lemmy is written like this. Genuinely starting to wonder if OP is a bot.

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        ffs what are you people complaining about? a citizen is murdered LIVE on camera and all you are interested in is my lack of punctuation?

        i don’t use capitals by principle bc i am an anarchist and keep it to a minimum to level out all hierarchical systems of control and make you realise these language rules are all social conditioning.

        i am new on this platform and didn’t know hashtags are not used here.

        i am a citizen journalist spreading news around from grassroots independent outlets and sources i trust. i am wrong sometimes and make fucking mistakes.

        now go fuck yourselves and mind your own fucking business.

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          Ok, ignoring the rest of this comment…

          i don’t use capitals by principle bc i am an anarchist and keep it to a minimum to level out all hierarchical systems of control and make you realise these language rules are all social conditioning.

          This is wildly unhinged to me. Not the anarchist part, but that I’m supposed to somehow infer this all from the lack of proper capitalization.

          Look, I don’t really care if people follow grammar rules or capitalization, and I ignore them on most platforms myself. But I really don’t think it’s this deep, at least for most people.

          Anyway, the video is appreciated yes, but the post came across the wrong way since it basically read like keyword soup. It’s better to share videos with a description of the video or some personal commentary on it so that people know what they’re going to watch (or not watch, especially for Youtube links which some will avoid).

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          ffs what are you people complaining about? a citizen is murdered LIVE on camera and all you are interested in is my lack of punctuation?

          Yes. I care about that and am furious at my government, but there’s nothing I can do about that here except to say that it’s horrible. I think it’s safe to say we all already agree on that, so what’s the point?

          The part I care about here is whether or not you’re a real person, which I have more faith in now that you’ve replied, but which your initial posts absolutely did not give the impression of. So that’s what I addressed. As for your capitalization, I don’t care. That’s Powderhorn’s business. Though I genuinely can’t tell if the reasoning behind all-lowercase is a joke or not?

          now go fuck yourselves and mind your own fucking business.

          Look, there’s probably no way to link the code of conduct for this instance to you in a way that feels respectful, so just humor me and give it a skim, please?

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        If you’re at a real outlet, you throw a SCANDAL violator diagonally in the top left of your main art and call it a day.

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        I wanted to be an asshole, but Midwesterners opened up a tavern nearby, and the toasted ravioli is on point.