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mathiaspoint
72 days ago
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Killing the Mauna Loa observatory over irrefutable...
I like Richard Stillman's word for Trump: "the wrecker." It perfectly captures the disagreement here.
ceejayoz
72 days ago
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It has a bit of a dual meaning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrecking_(Soviet_Union)
int_19h
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That's a weird translation of the original Russian term for it. A more accurate translation would be "vermin" (it's the same word in Russian, and it's clearly meant to evoke that image).
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