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[–] 4 points 23 hours ago

I don't know what to make of this.

It reads like someone who hates the president very much was ordered to write a piece softening this latest outrage. In the process, he points out that the president is exactly this malicious all the time, that it's completely in character for him to say a thing like this and apparently to mean it, and that his fans cheered the idea of thousands or millions of Americans being killed by a foreign power. A light edit of the headline and the article could change the point its making completely.

Maybe the article doesn't matter. Sure, I know we all read the article before reacting, of course we do. But how many people read the whole article these days? Maybe the headline and the outlet together ("CNN is saying...") are the real payload.

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