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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 74 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I would've sworn this was an Onion headline. What an absolutely deranged piece of shit.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

It would have been a perfectly acceptable thing to say (in my opinion) if he didn't follow up by saying the suspected shooter certainly appears to be one of them.

The original statement makes sense that the person who's job is to govern an area hoped it wasnt one of the people he represented.

Then when he made the second comment, it all fell apart because being one of them apparently meant they could still be a Utah resident. So he was only representing a subset of the Utah population, and therefore breaking his Oath of office.

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

one of them

This phrase appears to be written by the author of this article to refer to residents of Utah. It's not part of the quote of what the governor said.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 points 44 minutes ago

Yes. He doesn't say "One of them." There's nothing wrong with "One of us" when "us" in this context is clearly "residents of Utah".

Yeah, I haven't listened to him so it's hard to tell tone, but hopefully he meant that it turned out to be a person from Utah and not referring to a person who isn't MAGA

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

What's the opposite of "eating the onion?" Barfing it up?

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

Smelling rotten onion?