Ohio Republicans force through anti-trans bathroom ban at last minute

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Ohio Republicans force through anti-trans bathroom ban at last minute - LGBTQ Nation
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No it isn't, that's like saying, "Don't feel sad" is a double negative

A double negative is something like, "Don't not do that"

Honestly, I'm reading it as a triple negative. I wasn't planning on nitpicking it, but "force through" falls under the negative category for me.

I feel like you're still thinking of the wrong kind of "negative". It has multiple meanings, in this case, a synonym of "no".

I think almost all articles like this are deliberately written in a confusing manner. 60 to 31?

Anti ... Ban ...?

60 whats to 31 whats?

Yes, after reading things over twice, I gather 60 republicans to 31 democrats, or something like that, but hell why do political articles have to be written in such a confusing way?

Also, double negative..

Anti-trans ban? That's a double negative, when cancelling our the negatives, that means it's pro-trans.

Sorry but I think with the mathematical part of my brain. Throw two negatives into a sentence and they cancel out and become a positive.

mathematical part of my brain

There's no such thing. It's just a gooey mass of billions of randomly firing neurons that can coalesce into patterns of signals and "brute force" answers to math problems. We are not logic machines with well defined mechanisms of functionality like a computer. We just fake it very well. That's why we can make mistakes. A well built computer does not make mistakes.