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Re:Vox Media is cutting pay and furloughing 9% of employees by fzeroracer on Saturday April 18, 2020 @11:38AM (#22908440)
No it's not. You're being intentionally pedantic here and seem to be ignoring the actual meaning of those words.

If I helped someone do something bad, then I bear some responsibility for the outcome. That is the definition of responsibility. What is your definition, considering it seems to differ from the dictionary definition?

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Re:Vox Media is cutting pay and furloughing 9% of employees by read_if_gay_ on Saturday April 18, 2020 @12:16PM (#22908703)
I’m honestly not being intentionally pedantic. To say someone helped with X is different from saying someone is responsible for X. The latter implies full responsibility, the former only partial responsibility.

That’s more than enough of a difference for this to matter. Especially if X is COVID-19. Traster is clearly strawmanning the tweets.

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