cptsmrk

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   by cptsmrk 5y ago

   It's like you erected two straw men and are trying to convince us one of them is bronze.
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   by cptsmrk 5y ago

   Sure, we've often failed to live up to our values. One of the baddest-ass diplomatic moments in modern history was in the 50s when India's UN ambassador read the US Declaration of Independence in protest of its support for colonia
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   by cptsmrk 5y ago

   I'm no lover of these tech giants, but I think you're missing the point if you think there's no difference between Twitter banning Trump and succumbing to pressure from Modi after he threatened their entire Indian staff with
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   by cptsmrk 5y ago

   Definitely, if not consciously - I saw earlier today that Trump and his minions propagated the meme that says "In reality, they're not after me, they're after you. I'm just in the way" well after Modi, and in the ti
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   by cptsmrk 5y ago

   Which is also funny, because it's apparently convoluted enough in English to have us regularly shorten it to "you had to be there" (which sounds correct, even though I'm fairly sure it's ungrammatical.