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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by gwright on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:38PM (#25692335)
> Half the US population don’t wear masks as a political statement

This is just wrong and a sloppy way to insult "half the US population". This sort of attitude contributes to the tribalism that is creating so much division.

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20201022/mask-use-by-america...

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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by andy_ppp on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:52PM (#25692658)
Half the people around here think half always means exactly 50%...
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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by gwright on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:12PM (#25693028)
But in this case it was clearly a slam against anyone who didn't vote a particular way. It wasn't just some sloppy use of language to mean "many".
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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by andy_ppp on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:41PM (#25693548)
You are right, the comment I made on the Internet late at night was not perfectly formulated. I think there is a better wording here, I was trying to say there is a political aspect to how people view everything nowadays (before an edit I compared to taking a knee on the other side, but again it’s too complicated a point to get across right now). Good night Gwright.
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