• GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    There is a significant difference between a regular person, even a TV personality, and a politician saying that. Enough so that I don’t think the term “to be fair” can be applied to it.

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      5 hours ago

      I was speculating that calling the US “the lower provinces” might be a fairly common figure of speech. Wasn’t comparing newscasters to politicians. But whatever.