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Re:Noam Chomsky and Jeremy Scahill on the Russia-Ukraine War... by rayiner on Monday April 18, 2022 @04:50PM (#31076353)
> People deserve to have self-determination now

Sentences in passive voice always obscure the true meaning. For example when people say “everyone deserves healthcare” that means “taxpayers should pay for other people to have healthcare.” So what do you mean in this context, expressed as an active voice sentence?

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Re:Noam Chomsky and Jeremy Scahill on the Russia-Ukraine War... by cafard on Monday April 18, 2022 @04:54PM (#31076401)
The sentence you quote is in the active voice.
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Re:Noam Chomsky and Jeremy Scahill on the Russia-Ukraine War... by rayiner on Monday April 18, 2022 @05:38PM (#31076930)
It’s quasi-passive voice—a sentence grammatically in the active voice but where the subject is purely passive. Such as “honey is sweet” is really an assertion about what happens when a person tastes honey.

The “people” here are purely passive; the sentence is an assertion about what an implicit actor should or should not do with respect to people.

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