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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    The US was also not a forest of walking talking trees. Explain that one! You can’t!

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      2 days ago

      The US was also not a forest of walking talking trees.

      Probably the best case for the analogy was how powerful the American military was on making landfall at Normandy.

      It’s the “too democratic so they are slow and argue a lot” metaphor that breaks down.