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NNadir

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5. No, it is not common knowledge. However, it is unfortunately easy for people who live in a world that is esoteric...

Reply to Fiendish Thingy (Reply #4)

Thu Apr 9, 2026, 06:28 AM

7 hrs ago

...to others to assume that everyone knows about what they are talking.

I fall into that trap myself, and it is a legitimate criticism of me, that I assume others live in my world.

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Has any American President ever received a Tito letter? [View all] Wolf Frankula 17 hrs ago OP

Care to explain what you're talking about? Nt Fiendish Thingy 17 hrs ago #1

It was a letter to Stalin: NNadir 17 hrs ago #2

Like we're all supposed to know that? Fiendish Thingy 15 hrs ago #4

No, it is not common knowledge. However, it is unfortunately easy for people who live in a world that is esoteric... NNadir 7 hrs ago #5

Partisans were fierce, or so I heard. Need to read up on them, and on the Basques bucolic_frolic 17 hrs ago #3