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CAUSTIC AND DISCURSIVE

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Discursive is a real word, in this context it's kind of a polite way of saying he was incoherent.

i was implying the editor was jacking off

Oh, it doesn't mean not writing in cursive?

Well, it's an accurate description of cursive. Jokes aside it seems like a really complicated word with a lot of meanings, I'm confused by it but I liked the implication that they called him incoherent.

Leave it to the NYT, though, to use a word with confusing connotations when "rambling" or "incoherent" are more accurate.

I'll actually give them credit, at least it wasn't something like, "In Ohio Speech Trump Lays Out Vision For The Future And Is Quickly Criticized On Social Media."

CNN decided it needed to add some context

“And don’t forget Biden old!”

Right? Sub-head "He again pointed out voters' concerns about about Biden's age."

jfc I am getting out the Joker makeup as we speak

I’m going straight to Thanos glove snap.

NYT gonna NYT bsky.app/profile/ygal...

Trump: Immigrants are vermin, and I am going to exterminate them New York Times: Mr. Trump's fascination with the science of genetics has long raised curiosity of the public.

I guess they don't have 'xenophobic and racist' in the NYT dictionary

No no, that's "was considered intolerant by some," and "racially charged."

enough racial charge to fire off a racial howitzer

They don't even have "rambling." I mean JFC - "discursive."

"Deranged and sociopathic."

That would not be "objective."

nor is this calling a blue sky 'somewhat not red in hue' is not useful journalism

NYT does the same when reporting on genocide in Gaza being committed by Israel and the Israel Apartheid state.

Committed on behalf of “Western” hegemony

I’m picturing someone sending a note saying that the Times’ journalists aren’t humans, and to expect a bloodbath at their headquarters, and the execs not alerting security, but tsk-tsking the note for being discursive.

Takes a bit of a dark view, this note, doesn't it?

Ribald and Tangential, a Former President Stokes Passions

I just assume this a completely different blood bath than the one that happens if he wins🤷‍♂️

Lol does the NYT not realize that the number of Americans who could define what 'discursive' means measures in the single digits?

I know that's not the most important thing here but it speaks to the NYT being increasingly cloistered and out of touch

Rule #1 when writing for the general public: DON'T SPEAK LIKE YOU'RE IN THE GRAD SCHOOL LOUNGE!!!

Which is the lesson Trump learned early on, unfortunately.

I am siding with NYT here, they are establishing where the MAGA movement is and it is clear there's no compromise or two sides with them, if you don't see it their way you're out.

OK, but the NYT didn't say that. They said some weird five-dollar words that, even given the most charitable of their viable interprtations, still mean something much milder than that.

But that’s the thing: the NYT isn’t and never has been writing for the general public. Everything from the style guide to the font is tailored to fit the upper class.

When has the NYT ever pitched itself to an audience that wouldn't know what that word means? Not in my lifetime.

Newspaper writers are told to aim for a 9th Grade reading level And usually? The NYT is just at that

Of the multitude of critiques I'd make against the Times, "they use too many big words" doesn't make the list.

I consider my vocabulary to be way larger than average and I had to look it up, but damn if it isn't the perfect word to describe any of that clown's speeches.

One should just really go with 'rambling' since anyone with a high school education knows what that means (and that's what you want to reach for in a newspaper, writing at a high school reading level, yes 'even' the NYT WaPo and WSJ)

They're broad based mass subscription media properties The only place you see writing on a college reading level is smaller prestige mags like THE NEW YORKER

Grad school level? You don't see that in materials marketed to the general public--ever--and there's a damn good reason for that lol

Haha yeah not arguing with that, just commenting on how it's such a good word to have learned! =)

THIS

::gets punched in the face, hard:: hmmm, why so caustic, my dude?

I think caustic is fine, it's discursive that I find baffling.

He's always discursive, but they could've used plain language. My similar, yet improved and more accurate headline (that would never be used by the NYT nowadays): Angry and Rambling As Ever, Trump Threatens Violence If He Loses Again

"Rambling" is pointedly better. "Discursive" is neutral in that braindead "Democrats think water is wet, Republicans disagree" kind of way the Times likes so much. If they had to be neutral, which is arbitrary for them at this point, they could have at least said "disgressive."

Isn’t “angry” an understatement though? He said immigrants are not people. “Xenophobic and rambling?”

Great point!

Don't you just hate discursive bloodbaths?

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