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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Versteht ihr mich?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (2 children)
  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."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months 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).

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months 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).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

government indeed bad when it's ran by fascists

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Gubernment good

[–] [email protected] 56 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Yeah but that's seven words.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

"President-elect Ronald Wilson Reagan"

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I knew I shouldn't have dropped out of statistics

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Well, that adds up.