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In an administration stuffed to the gills with dangerous lunatics, Miller stands out on both counts.
He's clearly a full-blown psychopath, and an existential threat to the US and the world. He doesn't just need to be removed from power - he needs to be committed.
You spelled hung wrong
*Hanged
I prefer hanged, because I don't want any fairy to grant him a giant schlong by accident.
Agreed. Monkey's paw/genie wishing is a precise science...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdExsAQuCQA
In this context 'hung' could also be an adjective indicating he has a gigantic dong. So I really think we should be sticklers about hanged vs hung here.
I got banned from r/politics for replying to someone saying that Eric Swallwell should be hung. Apparently, saying something around the lines of "anybody with balls of steel must also be hung" was "inciting violence".
Meanwhile, the guy actually saying he should actually be murdered wasn't seen a problem.
Power-mad mods is one reason I ditched the /r/.
I've always thought hanged was the correct term for past tense of hanging humans and hung was correct for other situations
"Hanged" is an obsolete usage that persisted in legal contexts because people who practice law tend to be pedantic bores. It goes back to the 1500s. "Hung" is first attested a century later.
It's one of the uncommon cases where an originally weak English verb (hang/hanged) morphed into a strong verb (hang/hung) in later usage.
Remember that Noah Webster is responsible for deriving American from English. Convince me he didn't write a dictionary only to lend an air of legitimacy to his lunacy.
Yeah but fuck Noah Webster
Wow, I didn't know that all that stupid little changes in orthography were just because nationalism