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Why can't Redditors understand news headlines? What's that all about?

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1cgx5fj/supreme_court_declines_to_block_enforcement_of/l1zjfqd/?context=8&sort=controversial

Like, I know Redditors like to be smug and pretend to not understand that headlines have different gramatical rules to enable them to be short, concise, and alluring, so that they can complain about the headline being misleading because they want to comment without reading the article and without getting all the facts wrong.

But is this guy just applying the circlejerk to clear headlines like this (that are actually written like a full sentence) for updoots or are they just a genuine moron?

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Maybe I'm even stupider than this guy, but isn't that only a single negative? "Declines" is the negative here, the rest of it is "block" which is a positive action to be taken:

(1) Porn sites now need age verification

(2) Some want enforcement of that

(3) Some don't want enforcement of that and took their objections all the way to the Supreme Court

(4) Supreme Court decided it would not block enforcement

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Yeah it's a single negative at best. I'd barely even count 'decline' as a negative because it's a very common word that people understand in its own terms rather than as a negation of 'agree' or something.

Triple or quadruple negatives can be genuinely confusing, like when Boris Johnson said, "I couldn't fail to disagree with you less".

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Clickbait headlines have made regular headlines illegible jargon to normies

Should have been Will the supreme court decline blocking? What happens next will SHOCK you

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Let's not pretend politically wingnut redditors are normies.

The normies get the headlines, the wingnuts are being purposely obtuse

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I've been coping thinking it's mainly bots but I do think we're starting to see the impact of No Child Left Behind policies and people genuinely have issues comprehending sentences if they're longer than 5-7 words.

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They are either r-slurred, children, or r-slurred children.

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