Republicans target public broadcasters in rarely used gambit while also slashing global health programs
  • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
    92·
    9 days ago

    To be clear, they’re cutting an extra $9.4 Billion in services. Maybe it’s used differently in British English but in the US “claw back” as an idiom generally refers to a win for an underdog party to keep something after a difficult fight, not a privileged party ending access to something.

    • Schwim Dandy@lemmy.zip
      71·
      9 days ago

      Whoever wrote the title was just trying to insinuate something extra vicious and violent in nature. It’s a common part of our fair and unbiased media.

    • Bronzebeard@lemm.eeEnglish
      31·
      8 days ago

      That’s not at all what that means.

      Claw back implies money (or something else) has already been sent out and is trying to once again be retrieved from the receiving party.

    • njm1314@lemmy.world
      11·
      8 days ago

      This is just completely incorrect. Claw back in no way suggests an underdog.

  • DMCMNFIBFFF@lemm.ee
    2·
    9 days ago

    Informed Americans are a threat to American conservatives and/or Republicans: it’s best to keep them stupid.