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Their second paragraph made it clear they were asking about the style of post, not the contents of that particular post.



“Speaking as if something is true” is how people often share opinions — especially mundane ones that a person wouldn’t expect to be picked apart

It appears as though GP found the word they were looking for, and would like to call that post a “prayer for the downfall of Elon Musk”… so I’m going to guess that the question was a weird attempt to mask a fandom complaint as a heady question about language, because “Why don’t we have a special word for when people aren’t as nice to Elon as I want them to be?” would sound downright insane

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41783394




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