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Re:Pirate Bay Founder: ‘I Have Given Up’ (2015) by dang on Thursday April 13, 2017 @01:26PM (#14109046)
The guidelines helpfully suggest which formatting option to use instead. Really though, if you have this conundrum, it's probably time to reconsider your slavery comparison.
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Re:Pirate Bay Founder: ‘I Have Given Up’ (2015) by johnfn on Thursday April 13, 2017 @11:18PM (#14112515)
But I'm not comparing filesharing to slavery.

You see? Even you missed that point. And it was in all caps. You think that italics would have helped? :P

Maybe I just shouldn't even make reference to slavery at all. No matter how tangentially related the reference is. It's like an inverse Godwin's law where you try to say something like "this one guy, who was incidentally Hitler's friend, said something that refutes your point..." and your interlocutor automatically claims Godwin's law.

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Re:Pirate Bay Founder: ‘I Have Given Up’ (2015) by dang on Friday April 14, 2017 @02:10PM (#14116001)
Right. If you fly close to a black hole there's no point complaining about getting sucked in.
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