Silverseren @ Silverseren @kbin.social

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You're referring to actual appointed staff in his cabinets, not the people volunteering for his campaign and other non-cabinet staff.

So, one should never criticize the party they're supporting? Like the blind Trump followers?

Fair enough. I saw the Newsweek article first and the Politico article only after I had posted the former here.

As will I, but I will also take every opportunity I have to try and make him be less of a trash person. As difficult of a task as it is.

As I noticed literally right above your comment:

If the reason for this law is to not have someone change their name to hide some negative past from voters, a marriage name change is still just as concealing. Sally Smith to Sally Michaels when there are thousands of Sally's out there is just as much hiding as anything else.

The letter was organized by campaign staffers. Five of them confirmed the authenticity of the letter to West Wing Playbook. Those staffers, who were granted anonymity because of their concern of backlash, said they were motivated to organize their letter out of a sense of moral responsibility.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/03/biden-campaign-anonymous-letter-israel-hamas-00133705

Nice try though to ignore the issue.

They claim in the article an exception for marriage name changes, which is nonsense. If the reason for this law is to not have someone change their name to hide some negative past from voters, a marriage name change is still just as concealing. Sally Smith to Sally Michaels when there are thousands of Sally's out there is just as much hiding as anything else.

She should push for it being applied to all the other politicians in the Ohio House. Any single one of them that had any form of name change for any reason or took the name of their spouse. They all need to be disqualified and kicked out, if we're going to be enforcing this old ass law.

How in the heck does this work for someone who had their name changed for any other reason? Heck, what about married people who took their partner's last name?

I indeed saw plenty of that in various comment sections and social media.

Does anyone seriously want to make the asinine claim that this sort of response is because of claimed plagiarism?

So, single or partial sentence issues less than 5 times in each article. Articles that are many, many pages long, as such published articles are wont to do, yes? Again, this just sounds like an "you should extend a reference to cover this as well" sort of suggestion and not a major issue.

The examples you gave are also incredibly minor. I've taught students and dealt with plagiarism for years. Single sentence or partial sentence pieces like that are a minimal issue and, if considered one by the author, easily fixed with some quotation marks.

It's very obviously looking for a problem because it isn't the claimed plagiarism anyone actually cares about, but exists as a convenient excuse attempt.

And yet Swain seems to care about other things than the claimed plagiarism, which she didn't even mention in her call to have Gay fired. No, she cares a lot more that Gay wasn't vociferously pro-Israel and didn't expel the students for their pro-Palestine speech.

More or less. And she took a neutral stance on the issue of students exhibiting their free speech, rather than expelling them all for not supporting Israel.

Which then led to all the certain well-known non-profits all about promoting Israel to start a furor calling for her resignation.

Don't you know that Obama is personally responsible for 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina?

This Carol Swain? Yeah, no, it has nothing to do with plagiarism, it has to do with Swain being pro-ethnic cleansing and is mad that Claudine Gay didn't expel all Palestinian students or some other extreme action to show loyalty to Israel.

We all know that plagiarism was not the real issue here. It was a convenient excuse to call for her resignation, but it was the other thing listed above that was the real push by certain well known non-profit groups to get her fired.

Here's an example: https://www.nbcnews.com/card/top-sanders-aide-defends-dnc-chair-wikileaks-controversy-n664831

Here's one example: https://www.nbcnews.com/card/top-sanders-aide-defends-dnc-chair-wikileaks-controversy-n664831

Oh man, double benefit! It's a win-win!