On Thursday, December 8, 2016 at 12:30:11 PM UTC-5, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Thursday, December 8, 2016 at 11:49:33 AM UTC-5, philo wrote:
On 12/08/2016 10:45 AM, trader_4 wrote:
nerals" quite pukeable.

Maybe if you started with their full quotes, in context, you wouldn't
get sick as much?



!!!!IT WAS THE FULL ****ING QUOTE!!!!

Maybe you are missing what T-4 is trying to point out. I'm not getting into
the discussion related to whether Newt should have said anything or not,
just T-4's point about the context of the tweet you quoted.

Twitter only allows 140 characters per tweet. Very often a tweet has to be
split into two tweets in order to say everything that a person wants to say.

Newt posted a 130 character tweet, followed by a 136 character tweet. Both
tweets stayed below the 140 character limit. If you read them in order,
you could certainly interpret it the way T-4 has, i.e. as a warning.

"December 7 is a good day to remember that the world is dangerous and
shattering surprise is possible even when we have been warned

75 years ago the Japanese displayed professional brilliance and
technological power launching surprises from Hawaii to the Philippines"

Note the connection between the 2 tweets: the word "surprise".

In T-4's opinion - and mine too - those 2 tweets *together* are the
"full F-ing quote"

Thank you! As so often, we agree. And I don't even care about message
packet size. If you're talking about a subject in any media, and you
say several things about the same subject, one directly after the
other, then you have to look at the whole thing. And in this case,
when you do, it changes it. I still would not have called what the
Japanese did brilliant on Pearl Harbor day, but it's also not the
standalone quote that Philo falsely claimed it to be either.