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Re:Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for offic... by dang on Monday July 01, 2024 @05:18PM (#40850796)
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40848146.
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Re:Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for offic... by lapcat on Monday July 01, 2024 @06:21PM (#40851451)
> We detached this subthread

What does that mean? I'm not familiar with detached subthreads.

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Re:Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for offic... by tptacek on Monday July 01, 2024 @06:22PM (#40851458)
At the point where the thread was "detached", it is as if someone started a new top-level thread.
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Re:Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for offic... by lapcat on Monday July 01, 2024 @07:34PM (#40851974)
Interesting, thanks!

I wonder what the reason was, though.

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Re:Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for offic... by dang on Monday July 01, 2024 @07:39PM (#40852005)
Just that it went on a somewhat offtopic tangent (war declarations and whatnot), and I was trying to prune the top threads.
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