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Re:Mexico’s drug cartels are moving into the gasoline industry by davidw on Saturday September 29, 2018 @02:20PM (#18101912)
English lacks a 'we' form that separates "me and all the other people" from "you and I". I think the poster meant the former.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clusivity

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Re:Mexico’s drug cartels are moving into the gasoline industry by djpr on Saturday September 29, 2018 @02:33PM (#18101978)
Interesting, I grew up with have inclusive/exclusive forms in Indonesian but never really thought about how it would really help in situations like this!
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