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OldBaldy1701E

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12. Exactly. And, thank you for posting this.

Tue May 5, 2026, 01:02 PM

May 5

Now, may I add one little thing.

Mistakes happen. They happen all the time. People make them. These days, it is becoming harder and harder to pick out what is the truth online as well as doing the 'due diligence' required to make sure everything is perfectly correct.

So, understanding that, maybe let's try to tone down the constant desire here to attack and degrade someone just because they made a mistake and posted something that they decided was true, but were just not able to spend hours trying to corroborate every little sentence. Just inform the poster that subsequent information makes the post false. NO one needs to see you rant like that orange gibbon throwing ketchup at three a.m.. Just let people know that the posted item is not true and offer the evidence that it is so.

Spare us the righteousness. We get enough of that from across the aisle.

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