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		0xbadcafebee on June 12, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hong Kong Police Fire Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets at ... The rules are only enforced in order to reduce flame wars. They're not strictly followed and generally speaking whatever the mods feel like goes.

_lflx on June 12, 2019 [–]

Exactly. It’s not enough to say “oh we are trying to stop flame wars” when we are trying to talk about these topics to stop literal wars from occurring.

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