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		zzrrt on April 30, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to... Being commonly misattributed (which GP did not do!) doesn’t make it fictional, nor does coming from a composer make it automatically wrong or useless.

leereeves on April 30, 2025 [–]

It's not relevant that the quote came from a composer specifically. It's relevant that it didn't come from someone with any expertise about politics. Yet it's been elevated to the status of a "law" by people who just really like the way it insults their opponents.

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