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by ethbr1 162 days ago
If you have to spend that many words explaining how it doesn't disagree with you, it disagrees with you.
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You'd make an awful lawyer with that mentality.

Anyways, Trump removed all ambiguiti today saying the US is gonna run Venezuela. It invaded and took over.

You chose a definition that is not concise and then selectively misread it.

I don’t know how to politely say that your misreading is why I needed so many words.

"Selectively misread" it? What are we calling having to deemphasize key components then? "Discriminately highlighting"?