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		jmye 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ‘Bloody Saturday’ at Voice of America and other U.... There is a vast difference between the word I responded to, “build”, and the word you substituted in, “impose”. Hard power and violence “imposes”. Sending you TB vaccines and helping you build roads, well, “builds”.

slater 9 months ago [–]

I'm not disagreeing, nor did i claim they're the same word. but your idea of “building” always seems to come with demands, implied or otherwise.

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