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  • Kalothar@lemmy.caEnglish
    82·
    17 hours ago

    What a beautiful world we live in, where nothing really matters but money.

    They might as well be spitting directly in our faces, it’s just so openly bullshit.

        • realcaseyrollinsOPMEnglish
          1·
          9 hours ago

          Yeah. It took me a loooooooong time for me to come up with that phrasing. The rule allows for someone to say something like:

          “He should get the death penalty”

          “If Ireland is attacked militarily, they should retaliate”

          But not things like:

          “They should go out and hang him”

          “Punch those people when you see them”