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Re:Hong Kong Police Fire Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets at Protesters by peterwwillis on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @11:22AM (#20165529)
The rules are only enforced in order to reduce flame wars. They're not strictly followed and generally speaking whatever the mods feel like goes.
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Re:Hong Kong Police Fire Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets at Protesters by tzakrajs on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @11:36AM (#20165697)
Exactly. It’s not enough to say “oh we are trying to stop flame wars” when we are trying to talk about these topics to stop literal wars from occurring.
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