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  • jbrains@sh.itjust.workstocats@lemmy.worldShe lay
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    11 hours ago

    Yes. It didn’t sound past tense in my head, but that certainly fits.

    And no: “she lie” would be a colloquial present tense assuming that “she lay” was a similar colloquial conjugation of the verb “to lay” as commonly used in place of “to lie”.













  • Or, and hear me out, the country that built itself in part on being prepared to meet tyranny with force is the one who ought to actually meet tyranny with force when the time comes. Other countries, which did not do this, have every right to call out hypocrisy and cowardice for what it is, especially after decades of watching the cowards be cowardly.

    And no, my country is far from perfect. Surely you see how irrelevant that is to this discussion.

    UPDATE: How nice! You understood me after all. You also assumed some facts not in evidence, but in a discussion such as this, that’s likely to happen. I’m not “keen”, I’m merely fucking exhausted.

    As a way of calling out the hypocrisy of the people who claim to be all gung-ho to stamp out tyranny from behind the barrel of a gun I have no issue with it […] https://lemmy.world/comment/16821307