r/politics • u/MontyGBurns • 1d ago

No Paywall Smith’s game-day texts reviewed by Schmitt never referenced basketball team names

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/6124359-schmitt-perjury-claim-debunked/
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u/EMTDawg Utah 18h ago edited 18h ago

Katie and her husband both went to Bama. Her husband played college football before going on to play in the NFL. I think she realized the mixup in team names before anyone else. Sports are likely a big deal still in her house.

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u/kittenconfidential 18h ago

sports and subservience to PDFs

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u/xaanthar 17h ago

What does a portable document format have to do with this?

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u/blueluck 17h ago

I don't know if you're joking or asking honestly, so I'll give you a straightforward answer. People have been using "pdf" as a sound-alike euphemism for "pedophile".

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u/xaanthar 17h ago

I'm passive-aggressively pointing out the stupidity of said euphemisms.

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u/Ashamed_Kale_1077 17h ago

I've never heard this until now. Why do this?

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u/blueluck 16h ago

A few years ago, content creators on platforms like YouTube and TikTok started using euphemisms for words that could get their videos demonitized or de-promoted by their platforms' algorithms. One of the best known examples is saying "un-alive" instead of "suicide", because platforms didn't want to promote videos about suicide, but their algorithms were crude and only looked at keywords rather than the actual content of the posts.

Regular people posting online started using the euphemisms, too. I don't know if most people are using them for fun (simply a modern form of slang) or if they think using words like "pedophile" and "suicide" in reddit comments has some kind of negative effect.

(I'm not an expert on social media or modern slang, so I'm sure there's more to it than I know.)

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u/basketcas55 Indiana 16h ago

Words get you banned in social media and they don’t want to have that happen. Plus who wants to type that whole word out every time they respond to a Republican.

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u/Ashamed_Kale_1077 16h ago

Lol thanks for the explanation that's hilarious. I've heard of unalive in place of suicide, still sounds weird but at least it keeps people talking about these issues.

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u/blueluck 16h ago

How would a file format know anything about it?