• DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone
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    If you ignore all the headings and contents pages, I think it’s “whereas”… So what’s your point? Whereas isn’t a pronoun.

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      4 days ago

      They mean the Australian Constitution. I’ll make sure I intentionally misunderstand when the fascists come for Australia next.

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            How many Americans know the first few words of the Australian constitution? Not many. So they can’t expect me to know theirs

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              Sure, not knowing it’s the US constitution is reasonable if not from the US

              However, I think one could take a reasonable guess that if the first word of a constitution wasn’t a pronoun, this post probably wasn’t about that specific constitution

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                Why would someone post something like OP without stating what constitution it is? Do they expect only americans to read it? Maybe keep your american jokes in american specific communities.

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                  Lol “it’s unreasonable for foreigners to not know the text of our constitution!”.

                  American stereotype.

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                    Thats not in the least what Im saying. I actually had no idea about the wording of the US constitution before this post. But how many other fascist governments actively attacking LGBTQ rights in the last few weeks do you know? I honestly dont think anyone would have thought this was not about the US. Maybe if you havent watched the news once for the last month.

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                    Youre technically right, it could have been clearer by explicitly stating it. Still, Im positive that 99.9% understood immediately, including them. Its like saying something about Trump and someone comments “how was I supposed to know youre talking about Donald Trump and not Carl Philipp Trump”

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      The constitution doesn’t have a contents page. It was written in the 18th century on a parchment.

      The first thing in the constitution is the preamble, and the first word of the preamble is a pronoun.