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> You are quibbling over minor semantics. You all are. Why not just concede it's an embargo not a blockade and move on? > Is the US preventing most oil from r
by palmotea 6mo ago
> You are quibbling over minor semantics.
You all are. Why not just concede it's an embargo not a blockade and move on?
> Is the US preventing most oil from reaching Cuba or not?
Sometimes questions like that obscure more than they elucidate. If you're debating if a killing is murder or involuntary manslaughter, it doesn't prove your point to ask if the man is dead.
- beepbooptheory 6mo agoOk but if it is a murder/involuntary manslaughter-esque distinction, why not just say that? I feel like I made it really easy to do that and wasn't couching it in an accusation or any kind of hyperbole. Just, please, tell it to me straight, I'm a little slow. Is that what we are saying? That everyone is claiming murder, but actually it's more involuntary?
- palmotea 6mo ago> Ok but if it is a murder/involuntary manslaughter-esque distinction, why not just say that? It's a distinction between two different things that have some similarities (in this case, a cessation of trade) but important differences.