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Re:Lawmakers begin bipartisan push to cut off police access ... by dang on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @02:03PM (#23393978)
This comment breaks the site guidelines against calling names in arguments ("whataboutism"). Please don't do that.

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Re:Lawmakers begin bipartisan push to cut off police access ... by inerte on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @02:52PM (#23394696)
Didn’t know, sorry about that.
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Re:Lawmakers begin bipartisan push to cut off police access ... by dang on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @03:43PM (#23395412)
Appreciated!
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Re:Lawmakers begin bipartisan push to cut off police access ... by webmaven on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @07:40PM (#23397853)
Is that actually name-calling? It's a description of a comment (or a argument), not of a person.

I mean, if it is, then so would calling out someone's comment as an ad-hominem, right.

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