corbin@infosec.pub to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 8 months agoMr. Cook, tear down that wallwww.spacebar.newsexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkMr. Cook, tear down that wallwww.spacebar.newscorbin@infosec.pub to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square11fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squarejmcs@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoAnd thematically I would have gone for something evoking the actual Berlin wall:
minus-squareacastcandream@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-28 months agoI think comparing it to the Berlin Wall which you were murdered by armed guards if you tried to cross is maybe a tad dramatic.
minus-squarejmcs@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-28 months agoI didn’t, the article did by paraphrasing Reagan. And hyperbole is a perfectly valid figure of speech anyway.
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minus-squarepbjamm@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoIt is one of Reagan’s most famous (and lucid) statements. The connection is fairly obvious to anyone familiar with the history.
And thematically I would have gone for something evoking the actual Berlin wall:
I think comparing it to the Berlin Wall which you were murdered by armed guards if you tried to cross is maybe a tad dramatic.
I didn’t, the article did by paraphrasing Reagan. And hyperbole is a perfectly valid figure of speech anyway.
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It is one of Reagan’s most famous (and lucid) statements. The connection is fairly obvious to anyone familiar with the history.