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    Yeah my name is Link man,
    I’m more well known than Lil’ Wayne

    What’s that? You thought my name was Zelda?
    That’s a fucking girl’s name!

    I’ve saved the world like fifteen times,
    And saved the princess from demise
    And I do it all alone with no help and no advice!

    (Hey, look, listen!
    Hey, look, listen, you _ annoying fairy!
    I’d rather be forced to listen to constant Katy Perry.)

    I’m called the Bushwhacker
    And my bank account’s maxed.

    Got 999 rupees,
    But I’m forced to pay out the ass for these bombs in Castle Town.

    So I can kick that dumbass Ganon
    All the way to Argentina!

    L to the I to the N to the K, and he ain’t gonna stop 'till the world is free of evil.

    Legend of Zelda? Fuck that! Legend of Link!


    Credit (and blame) to Smosh. By the way, while we’re at it, can someone lend me their tomahawk, or maybe some meat in my mouth? Also, who’s Evil Kneivel?







  • Apologies for the Facebook link

    Equivalent content from first four search results for “Trae Crowder Lauren Boebert”:

    Twitter.

    Youtube. (Longer.)

    Facebook. (Landscape.)

    TokClockTikTok.

    Youtube automatic transcription. Click to expand:
    y'all every time I hear something else
    about Lauren bobert I've become more and
    more convinced that we somehow went to
    high school together you know like I
    know this person man I do because see
    I'm of the Whiskey Tango persuasion and
    as such I know another trash monster
    when I see one okay I mean you know it's
    not like she tries to hide it she just
    got kicked out of a theater in Denver
    for vaping and hollering stuff you know
    my fellow trailer Americans I ask you
    who Among Us right I mean we do that we
    do you know get a little too excited at
    a public event start cussing in front of
    the eight-year-olds then acting dignant
    when the bouncer shows up but what is it
    illegal to have a good time now I
    thought this was America right I know
    I've been there myself I have now
    granted I wasn't a congressperson at the
    time I was 22 Hammer drunk and the
    Titans were losing again but still I've
    been there now but I'm just saying
    bobert checks so many red ass boxes it's
    insane you know like she was born in
    Florida aka the Fertile Crescent of
    crazy crackers right to attain mom natch
    she grew up on welfare and food stamps
    she dropped out High School when she
    herself got knocked up now that baby's
    having a baby so she's a 36 year old
    mammal she married then divorced a guy
    who wouldn't stop pulling his dick out
    in public she's always talking [ __ ]
    about having a gun in her purse and she
    has an ongoing feud with the other
    craziest [ __ ] in town that is some top
    shelf trashery right there y'all like
    you just know she claims her Grandma's
    one-quarter Cherokee right you just know
    it and I'm saying all that makes me wish
    that I could root for this person kinda
    I do you know like if she was out here
    actually standing up for the little guy
    taking the elites down a peg Reed and
    stuff knowing facts [ __ ] like that I'd
    be all for it I'm like hell yeah finally
    some representation right but she's not
    no bobert's dedicated her life to being
    wrong out loud every time she talks it's
    like the chat GPT of harmful ignorance
    she outwardly hates other marginalized
    groups she screws over our own people by
    trying to take away the same government
    benefit programs that kept her alive as
    a child Lord I cannot stand a ladder
    puller y'all drives me crazy around like
    I'm saying I don't I don't hate Lauren
    bobert because she's white trash I hate
    her because she's a piece of [ __ ] right
    and I know some of y'all are going to
    hear that and be like well that's a
    little redundant but it's not it's
    really not okay some of the most genuine
    kindest most empathetic people I've ever
    known were trailer babies and an
    affinity for Mountain Dew and the early
    works of Limp Biscuit does not change
    that fact okay this country would do
    well to have a chamber full of them but
    alas it is not to be no instead we're
    stuck with boberts and bobert is just
    another loudmouth vindictive [ __ ] who
    somehow took all the wrong lessons away
    from her life and now spends her time
    spewing misplaced rage and making us all
    look bad it's a damn shame
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    didn't mind that ad too much this I was
    thinking I was trying to think like do
    we have any good you know like trailer
    trash representation in Congress you
    know and I couldn't I figured I might be
    forgetting somebody I tried to Google it
    but that's hard if you Google Congress
    and trash you mostly just get a bunch of
    articles about either Republicans being
    called trash or Republicans being mad
    that they were called trash you know or
    like journalistic socioeconomic you know
    studies about how it's bad to call
    people trash which I firmly disagree
    with look I mean as long as you're trash
    you can call people track anyway made it
    hard to come up with any good results
    and I might be forgetting somebody but I
    was thinking I don't know who we have we
    need some representation in there at
    first I thought it was fetterman you
    know that one of the reasons I love
    fetterman so much is I was like this is
    one of my people right here looked it up
    still think Federal is great but like
    his daddy was rich he's from an affluent
    suburb he went to Harvard all this stuff
    it's actually kind of typical
    senatorship but I but I thought about it
    you know what no I don't care I'm
    anointed again he's honorary trash all
    right look he's earned it he's not he's
    done all that Real Deal Blue Collar
    working class stuff you got all them
    tattoos he looks like he wrestles at the
    county fair right he's always wearing a
    hoodie and cargo shorts the official
    attire of Burley winter time trash
    everywhere all right he's one of us
    we're claiming him okay that's why I
    decided we're claiming John Federman
    whether he likes it or not he's trash
    now but in a good way the good kind you
    know what I'm saying he's a trash
    Champion that's what he is trash
    champion John Federman put that on a
    sign anyway
    thank y'all for being here I appreciate
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    chicken see you bye
    






  • Bruh. I offered a polite correction on an ultimately inconsequential grammatical error you made. You’re the one who doubled down on the error, and then continued doubling down while ignoring everything I said except for specific sentences which you clearly didn’t understand.

    “Spewing out ChatGPT levels of text”? WTF is that even supposed to mean? I just quickly explained the grammar at first. Then, when you didn’t get that, I elaborated on the reasoning for it, and linked to like, five different independent sources, instead of just making blanket assertions. You didn’t understand, so I explained­— Jeez, but that’s the real issue, isn’t it? You don’t seem to like that very much.

    This is so stupid. Does it even matter? Do you do anything other than moralize down at Internet strangers about petty and incorrect semantics while repeating yourself?


  • If I was saying that the change already happened I would have said ‘affectED’ past tense, which I did not.

    I’m advocating for something to cause change, I’m not saying that change is already in the middle of happening or has happened.

    Oh my god. You’re using “change” as an object noun after a transitive verb which itself has no connotation or denotation of creation or causation. That implicitly means you’re saying that the thing it’s referring to must already exist.

    I’m advocating for something to cause change,

    Yes! That is what “effect” means.

    I’m not saying that change is already in the middle of happening or has happened.

    Yes you are! “Affect (v.)” already means “change (v.)”. “Affect (v.) change (n.)” means “change (v.) the change (n.)”. That implies that the “change (n.)” must already exist.

    It’s like if I said “This salt will really affect my spaghetti”. That implicitly says/presumes that “my spaghetti” already exists, or else it wouldn’t be able to be affected.

    I stand by my usage of the word affect, over effect.

    🙄

    FFS, I explained the grammatical reasoning, and linked to historical usage data, and linked to four different dictionaries to back that up.

    You know what, fuck it. I only mentioned “effect” vs. “affect” because I thought that was somewhat interesting and more obscure rather than annoying to point out, but if you’re going to just be obtuse about it I may as well have some fun and point out the various other grammatical and semantic mistakes too…

    “The Congress app” should not have a definite article because the app you linked to is, per the app ID, developer info, and first line of its description, unofficial and unaffiliated with the U.S. Congress. “Representative” should be plural, though that’s probably just a typo. The second “despite” should have a conjunction such as “and” immediately before it. “Want” should be conjugated as “wants” after “citizenry”, because the noun it applies to in this case is the singular “majority”. “Affect” should be “effect”, because “affect change” isn’t a thing and is actually nonsense. The clause right after that, beginning with “that’s what the corporations”, is a run-on sentence and should probably be fixed with a conjunction denoting causality or reasoning. The clause after “involved” is also a run-on sentence, and should probably either be its own declarative statement or be semicolon-delimited. The third “to” on the second sentence of your next reply needs a listing conjunction right before it. And in your latest reply, the clause after “cause change” is also a run-on sentence and should probably be delimited by either a full stop or a semicolon instead of a comma.

    Now I suppose I’ll wait for you to explain why you “stand by” these other plainly incorrect (and, frankly, inconsequential) errors as well.

    It’s funny how you started out pretending to champion political change, and to be against frivolously “commenting about it on an Internet forum”. … I should know better.



  • Change is to alter something, not to create/produce something.

    It’s a transitive verb. “Affect change” places “change” as the object. You’re not saying you’re altering the political situation or you’re altering Congress; You’re saying the change is already happening, and you’re merely slightly altering its direction. “Effect change” means “Make a change”, which is what you’re trying to say. “Affect change” means “change the change”, which is probably nonsensical in most cases you’d use it.

    Also, “effect change” specifically is a standard idiom. “Effect change” shows up in the English language around 8X more commonly than “affect change” between 1800 and 2000, because “affect change” is a semantically incorrect misspelling of “effect change”. [1] “Effect a change” is also either explicitly defined in or given as an example usage in many major dictionaries, while the same isn’t true of “affect change”, because, again “affect change” is a generally incorrect usage that doesn’t actually make sense or mean anything outside of potentially very specific scenarios that don’t apply here. [2]

    1: Google Books Ngram Viewer.

    2: Defined in Collins. Used in example sentences by: Cambridge, Webster, American Heritage

    I stand by my usage of the word affect, over effect.

    I mean. Feel free to, I guess?