• cybervseas@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I thought we were done with “slamming” in headlines. At least it felt like I didn’t see any of those here on Lemmy until now…

    • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It always makes political statements read like Pokemon battles.

      Lula uses SLAM on UN!

      …it’s not very effective.

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        1 year ago

        Unfortunately, it seems most politicians are Ghost types, since it never seems to affect them.

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      1 year ago

      In order to be accurate, most of the news communities want the headline of the post to be the same as the one in the article. And as the news sites use “slam”, well…