Did anyone actually watch the clip? Am I going crazy? It’s like 20% boos and 80% applause. Very misleading title IMO.
That sounds like the old Mitch Hedberg joke:
I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.
Maybe rephrase the headline as “Golf crowd boos Trump. They kissed his ass and gave him thundering applause most of the time, but they booed him, too.”
You’re not crazy we just comment on headlines here, it’s easier this way
Speak for yourself. Some of us have the patience and the sheer willpower to wait for the comments to load so that they can tell us what the article says.
/s but also really happens, lol
Those responsible for the booing will be found and deported to El Salvador.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Smithers…have the Rolling Stones killed.
That came after the United States Tennis Association sent a memo to media partners requesting that they censor “disruptions or reactions” in response to Trump. “We ask all broadcasters to refrain from showcasing any disruptions or reactions in response to the President’s attendance in any capacity,” the USTA said in the memo.
Cowards.
It’s funny to read yesterday’s headline, aka this quote, and then read today’s headline. Everyone is going to boo him tomorrow, please don’t talk about it. He was in fact boo’ed, let’s talk about it.
I guess funny is the wrong word. Insanity?
boo’ed
It’s just “booed”. Really-really.
That’s good to know. It just looked so weird. I knew what I wrote was also weird, but it felt less weird.
Basically apostrophes are never used to separate a word from a normal suffix in this kind of novel or unusual construction. Pretty much just use apostrophes for contractions and (most) possessives. Example: 90s, not 90’s.
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Edit: In English, for English words. Some languages, either those normally rendered in Latin script* or transliterated into it**, make use of apostrophes either to modify an adjacent phoneme or to indicate particular sounds or a glottal stop.
* English-like letters and punctuation
** Like Japanese written as if it were English, for example “Ohayo gozaimasu” which is written in hiragana as おはようございま.
Source: Amateur with the dangerous amount of a little knowledge
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Edit2: Others point out (correctly) that referencing the 1990s as a decade would be properly written as '90s, which is still a use of an apostrophe for a contraction.
So if you said you were a 90’s child, wouldn’t that be okay? (As you are a child of/possessed by the 90s) A nineties’ child, if you will?
As bitjunkie said, if you were referring to 90s in the possessive, it would be 90s’ since it’s a plural noun already - much like parents’ mortgages or stores’ buildings.
That said, I would probably look at the phrase “90s child” as either (1) a compound noun not needing anything to be possessive (like “ice cream”), or (2) with “90s” as an adjective modifying “child” (like “latchkey kid”).
No because it’s plural so the apostrophe would come after the S
And, actually, I believe it’s ‘90s! So there is one, it’s right in front.
'90s is a contraction of 1990s, or whatever other century’s tenth decade is implied. So the apostrophe belongs as an example of a contraction or possessive :)
But your apostrophe is upside down (it became a curved single-open-quote in your version). It’s supposed to be this way:
’90sJust 90s if it’s a reference to someone’s age. And the apostrophe for referencing the 90s era is optional outside of formal writing and a dash can also be used e.g.; 90s-music depending on context.
True true.
In this case, '90s would be more appropriate because you’re removing the first half of the year
Greetings, an Ally in Grammar
This is what happens when you involve yourself in someone’s war against reality and rational thinking
Nice to see the US Tennis Association bending over preemptively.
Hope they boo louder next time.
Hope the next guy doesn’t miss. Boos don’t accomplish shit.
Modify as you will.
Vote with whichever of the three boxes is appropriate
Need more democrats to rubber stamp fascism
s/vote/aim better/
Ohhh Jack Black is going to cancel your tour
Every act of resistance, no matter how small, advances our cause and diminishes their control.
carry sand in your pockets
POCKET SAND!!!
Still waiting to find out that the first incident was a setup. Wouldn’t be surprised to learn they found an individual desiring suicide by cop to do it and sacrificed a random magat for the cause.
That is, if it’s ever actually investigated.
Funny how they don’t talk about it anymore eh?
I’m thinking blatant setup
Hello Donald, you got sum purty lips.
Booing is pretty tame and lame, honestly.
It’s tame but not lame. Every little bit helps. If it bruised his ego even a little bit, it’s a win.
Tame but effective, imagine if everywhere you went and everything you did there was a crowd booing you.
I’d much rather it be a giant crowding shouting “child rapist” while throwing anything they could get their hands on at him.
while more impactful, that takes more prep time and work. there is a magic to booing. it is uncontrollable, unstoppable, and requires no thought. it gives everyone a free space in which to enter into a grand vocalization of “we stand for what you do not.” there is no real way to boo performatively. there is too little room for interpretation within the reverberations of the crowd.
if you do not like booing the 47th president of the united states, i recommend digging into what the problem with the act is, and consider that there’s many routes to resistance. for me, i don’t like booing the president because the president is meant to be a spectacle. it doesn’t matter if you love or hate him. it matters that you feel strongly. the argument i can hear is that you want to increase another kind of spectacle to give the people something to engage in. me, i want to remove him from all spectacle he engages in from my life and focus on community engagement. there is likely valor to both.
but please. consider that better than throwing things at him, giving him the spectacle he thrives in, might be when he appears at an event you are at, that means you don’t care about the org that let him in in the first place anymore. get up out of your seat, and make your way to the exit, never to return again.
That’s a good post, but it’s wasted here. On Lemmy, any actual action is always disparaged. The only acceptable response to fascism is to sit home furiously wanking about what you’d totally do if only you had an army of meat shields to protect you from the consequences.
I mean, I personally wouldn’t ask people to throw guns at him.
What’s in the gun, however…
Can’t be as bad as MAGA actively destroying everything I’ve ever held dear about this country
And now imagine you have narcissistic personality disorder and it hits so much harder
Imagine if you’re the dictator of the wealthiest and most powerful nation in human history.
A few boos from folks in the cheap seats seems like a small price to pay when you can feast on the townsfolk every night with abandon.
Yet basically all dictators have been harsh on even the lightest of protests, since if you allow it, the protests will grow until you can’t deal with it.
Public protests like these are highly useful to fight against Mr. Trump.
Just look how effective calling them weird was.
Oh yeah, keep attacking their masculinity, that is one of their biggest weakpoints.
I don’t think the ‘weird’ thing was really about masculinity. Conservatives value conformity, which is why they mock expressiveness like dyed hair; they think they are the default, and so being called weird and the insult sticking because they are fucking weird really hits them where it hurts
Conservatives mock dyed hair??
Ronald Reagan has entered the chat…
Where it hurts is the money.
Nobody seemed interested in hitting reactionaries in the money. Biden kept dumping cash into the pockets of Musk, Thiel, Zuck, Bezos, and Pichai. Neither do Hochul or Newsom. Dems have the power to hit fascism where it hurts, but they’re too terrified of losing access to the Infinite Tech Sector Money Machine.
what does weird have to do with masculinity?
A few boos from folks in the cheap seats seems like a small price to pay when you can feast on the townsfolk every night with abandon.
You may be assuming some executive function (delayed gratification) that is missing from the observed behaviour.
That’s why puttin sits in bunker most of the time.
I don’t hear many boos. Just a crowd.
Some days, that’s an appealing hobby.
I’d deport them.
but effective
Which of Trump’s attacks on the US have been effectively mitigated or prevented by booing? Best I can tell, he doesn’t give a single flying fuck about it.
Partly its about reminding his supporters and the neutrals that the people who actively dislike him really do exist. One of their talking points around election fraud/denialism is the idea that there just aren’t enough voters against Trump to justify the votes, because that’s what they’re told.
Granted, they’re also told that people like these booers are all paid actors. Paid by whom, and how do they keep anyone from blabbing about these arrangements?
Anyway, every person who gets splintered off from the Trump Train is a win, so push every way you can.
how the fuck is it effective if it literally doesn’t accomplish anything aside from a headline which doesn’t accomplishanything.
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yeah its working really fucking well.
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what kind of dumbass thinks this is the “first try”.
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The problem with it is the fact he reacts like all bullies do: he’ll have a temper-tantrum and do more despicable things even harder than before as an analog to stomping his feet in anger.
You have heard that Donnie has the most fragile ego possible, right? Mass dissent he can directly witness is far more effective than you think.
What else are you gonna do at a tennis match?
Aim a ball machine at his inflamed cankles
I don’t think anyone is arguing that this is changing anything. Just that it’s funny.
It IS funny for sure. And to a massive narcissist it probably stings. And hopefully pulls them out of whatever reality bubble they normally reside in. They need to be reminded that they do not have public support at every opportunity.
The Sinner-Alcaraz match
OH COME ON. YOU CAN NOT MAKE THIS SHIT UP.
No paywall
need to start doing more than just booing.
Yeah well… Shooters are basically exclusively conservative. It’s just not happening, not from us
Not with that attitude.
I was saying boo-urns.
Whatever happened to the free speech maximalists?
They were lying
Could’ve been a bit more excitement to an otherwise boring sport if they had allowed them to be seen
As an apt gesture of appreciation, I’m writing a stern letter to my HOA rep.
