• howrar
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    19 hours ago

    How do you imagine language to work if you don’t have a way of communicating what you want to communicate? Both the general and specific statement are reasonable for someone to make in this context, so there should be a way to express both.

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        19 hours ago

        I agree that you can reasonably make this specific statement about the US. I don’t agree that this is what OP said, because the general statement is also valid, and they used the words to convey that it’s a general statement.

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              17 hours ago

              It could be Facebook for all it matter. The reason is the same regardless of media platform but keep on with the weird attempts at gotcha tedium.