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elisi ([personal profile] elisi) wrote2017-09-28 12:39 pm
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From Vox

How we would cover Trump's handling of Puerto Rico if it were happening in another country
It says it's satire, but honestly, from over here it reads pretty straight...
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[personal profile] nostalgia 2017-09-29 10:21 am (UTC)(link)
"an object of fear in traditional American folklore"

so true
elisi: (Democracy)

[personal profile] elisi 2017-09-29 12:10 pm (UTC)(link)
IKR?
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[personal profile] lokifan 2017-09-30 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, reads straight to me!
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[personal profile] elisi 2017-10-01 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe they just translated it from like, Romanian?
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[personal profile] sea_thoughts 2017-09-28 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
one of his nation’s colonial possessions in the Caribbean Sea

OHHHHHH

American football, a sport more akin to rugby than international football and distinguished principally by players’ high rates of brain injury

PFFFFFF

more cynical observers note that evacuating impoverished hurricane victims using a multi-millionaire’s private jet is a reflection of the deep economic inequality and weak state institutions that mar a country that’s otherwise relatively advanced by international standards.

Damn, they did not hold back AT ALL.
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[personal profile] elisi 2017-09-28 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Damn, they did not hold back AT ALL.
SO NICELY DONE!!!

[identity profile] ragnarok-08.livejournal.com 2017-09-29 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
It does read pretty straight.
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[personal profile] elisi 2017-10-01 07:23 am (UTC)(link)
Doesn't it though? It could have come from straight from a 'foreign' newspaper.
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