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Oh… irony, how sweet you are sometimes. You know how the things we say can come back to haunt us? The test of time is a tough nut to crack, and this time, it’s all about failing. The Facebook page Posts That Did Not Age Well is a hell on earth, showing embarrassing moments when quotes, comments, and everything else you saw online some time ago contradicts itself or completely misses the mark.

There’s aging like fine wine and then there’s aging like milk, and the posts here definitely fall into the latter. Some of these future predictions look so utterly ridiculous today, it may make you wonder what the heck they were thinkin’. From astounding Trump tweets to people who jinxed everything for the rest of us, there’s plenty here that’ll make you feel like dying inside.

So, let’s go down this memory lane together and take a look at everything that has gone wrong lately. If you don’t die from cringe in the meantime, be sure to check out part 1 after. 

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is how science works, people. Preliminary findings are overruled when new, better evidence come out. This just shows scientists aren't coerced to toe the official line, as some claim.

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If humans could see the future, this post would probably have not existed. Because there’s nothing quite like failing the test of time. All the things you believed and said look more or less absurd in retrospect. Unless your job is predicting the future for a living.

Mysterious as it sounds, seeing what comes next is complex, critical, and quite a different job than the myths suggest. Paul Saffo, a technology forecaster in Silicon Valley, wrote in a piece for Harvard Business Review that “prediction is concerned with future certainty.” And that alone sounds quite paradoxical.

Paul explains further: “forecasting looks at how hidden currents in the present signal possible changes in direction for companies, societies, or the world at large.” Thus the goal of forecasting is to “identify the full range of possibilities.”

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Plus, “unlike a prediction, a forecast must have a logic to it,” says Paul. That means that the forecaster must always be able to articulate, explain, and defend this logic. “That’s what lifts forecasting out of the dark realm of superstition,” argues Paul. In the end, forecasting is “nothing more (nor less) than the systematic and disciplined application of common sense.” And that common sense is something we all have.

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Alan Green
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

. . . he should have 2 wishes left. Wish for it all to go back to normal ASAP then throw the lamp away.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I just love how the internet never forgets. (so far it hasn't bitten me yet, so I might be biased...)

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Probably One Of The Worst Future Predictions

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Trump couldn't bear that Obama was better than him at anything, so rose to the occasion and proved himself wrong.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

basically the more your locked up the more we want out then if its the other way we want in and i want to stay in for now

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It has been 19 years, and my heart still aches every time I see the NYC skyline. For me it has been gone longer than it existed (I was born in the 80s), but the Twin Towers will always be iconic, quintessentially New York.

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The Us Thought It Was #1 Again

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Monika Rhodes
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well- theoretically yes but what can you expect when you have buffoons in charge...

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Quite An Experience To Live In Fear, Isn't It?

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Brittany
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why? Shouldn't you be living your life? F**k the click bate don't worry about a test.

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Trivial Pursuit Gone Wrong

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh man, they would hate to go through my cards, I have first edition cards from the original release of the game in '79....dude you have no idea how many of those make me laugh today.

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More Trump Tweets That Were Hilariously Wrong

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Tabitha L
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe coronavirus took this as a personal challenge. 'People keep calling me a flu, I'll give them the worst flu they've ever seen! Spanish flu, hold my beer."

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Aragorn II Elessar
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Coronavirus is not the flu. They are both viruses, with similar symptoms, but different strains, different species, if you will. Saying that the coronavirus is the flu is like saying a German Shepard and a Labrador Retriever are the same thing.

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MARY ANN Hannah
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

LETS THINK ABOUT HIM BEING THE WORST PRESIDENT IN MODERN HISTORY

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Nathan Jones
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He'll have to try a lot harder to pry that title from Obama's hands.

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Bill
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can Twitter ban this idiot for national security?

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Lady Clare
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

twitter has recently banned Trump but they let the terrorists keep their accounts

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Kerri Russ
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We DID think about that, Donnie. We did. YOU didn't. That thing in your head is a brain. It is supposed to THINK. Try that next time before over 100k die (projected number).

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WilvanderHeijden
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He's a medical wonder. The only living organism that can poop from both ends.

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Tracey Hirt
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

1,410,000 infected, 84,000 deaths in the US alone, even with shutdowwns. That's in two months. Two. Months.

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Leo Domitrix
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've wanted to have him scrubbing bedpands for over two months now...

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sam
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We now have upwards of 85,000 deaths (possibly more due to errors in reporting) in approx 2 months...so all those people still saying it's just a flu...sit down and stay inside

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

His ego is far too overwhelming powerful for him to accept such a fate. His time will come. Won't be long now. 🙏

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Bob Belcher
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The biggest difference is the mortality rate. The flu infects over 100M annually but kills on average 40,000 in America. Yet COVID has infected less than 1.5M while we are nearing 100K dead. That's the issue.

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Kathy Baylis
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And now the orangeanus has the ‘rona in his own house. Keep those goggles on for your protection, Donny Dumbass!

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Katherine Gilleland
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don’t think he understands that things start small and get worse, just like he did

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BlueCustardAngel
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Someone needs to explain what the word "think" actually means to this man

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Stannous Flouride
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If he had acted FOUR DAYS faster the number of fatalities would be HALF what it is. He is responsible for 30 times the deaths that Osama bin Laden was. Can't we make him go live in a cave yet?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I see. So the plan was to do nothing until the deaths exceeded, in a couple of months, an entire year of flu deaths. Then do nothing some more. I really feel sad and fearful for the good people in the US.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

those 22 people at the time, not being shown any sympathy by this rotten orange

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Annabeth Chase
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

hmm, let me think about that...I think you should be one of the 22 deaths...

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Will Fenton
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How many people read this tweet (and others like it) before going on to do unsafe things, thinking the threat was not real? This man has basically killed people.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Racism, stupidity, other countries meddling in our election, huge unaccountable detrimental social medias, a lazy electorate that doesn’t get out and vote, voter suppression, voting day not being a national holiday, and the f*****g electoral college! Hillary had 3 million more votes.

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María Hermida
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Many people in many countries tought coronavirus was nothing to worry about when they only had a handful of cases. The problem is, Trump and his lookalikes continued saying everything was OK when hundreds of people were dying every day. To err is human, but only idiots persist in their errors.

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Lady Clare
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

spanish flu claimed 500 million lives, COVID only claimed around 22 mil.

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Socair SocairNone
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The restrictions are not just about the virus some would argue that they are about getting people used to doing as they are told whilst restricting the number of opportunities they have off-line to talk about that.

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Randy Klefbeck
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He believes that things are static. So if he believes in some conspiracy theory ....that is it...he won't even consider any alternative. So he fires people who disagree with him, and calls all others not in his cabinet, names.

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Leesa DeAndrea
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He has no vision, no imagination. Guess that's why most of his business ventures failed. If it wasn't for his rich daddy, he'd be just another schmuck.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It took us decades to learn how to make most Influenza seasons a non-issue for the majority. Take away our vaccines and other precautions and the numbers would be much worse.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And stats are still actually lower than the H1N1 Flu.... your a bunch of sheep if you think the numbers aren’t fake on the news. I know too many people in health care and they are disgusted with the media and actual tracking of death by this virus. The disrespect to those that fight for there lives that don’t have the virus and being used as COVID-19 stats is disgraceful.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, if YOU'D thought about that maybe a lot of those 80,000 dead would now be alive.

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Baali Venomax
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Common flu there is a vaccine against that's why, you moron! When there is for Corona, then it will become a background part of existence like all the other viruses.

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Kelly Hartle
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And he still refuses to wear a mask (but everyone around him has to in order to protect him).

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Daniele Ribolla
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Donny should just try the scary experience of buddy Boris, he and his "heard immunity" ... but it seems that he has changed his point of view ... or not?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As of today's CDC stats: 147,026,768 confirmed cases, 90,002 deaths. Updated 5/15/20

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And now over 1,100,000 cases and 89,000 dead.At least the flu has a vaccine

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm not on Twitter. Someone can tell me if he slows down on messages??? Wondering...So wrong so much times I guess he is tired right now

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He posted this on the day they shut all the schools down in my state. Hmm

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You do realize that less people have died from Jan to May this year than in the same period in any of the ten previous years? The death rate from Covid-19 is around 0.1% around the same as a typical flu season. The only reason it was declared a pandemic in the first place is because WHO falsely claimed it had a death rate of 3.5%. And they're fudging the stats by classing just about every death as a Covid death. Countries which didn't quarantine healthy people have already reached herd immunity. Countries which did will now suffer more waves of it.

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True at the time. Monday morning quarterbacking is really easy to do. As of last week, the USA surpassed the 1968 seasonal flu death rate. "We" still haven't even come close to the death toll of pandemic flu (not seasonal flu) that killed nearly half a billion worldwide. Also, the world wasn't shut down then. We've done alright as a world keeping this one fairly tame, I'd say.

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And then it spread and info came in and ideas and beliefs about it changed.....it happens

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Keywords: at this moment. Obviously in hindsight, this is a dumbass thing to say. What kills me is that some people sit here all smug now - we all know damn well that when this started, most of us didn't believe it was that serious either.

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And it is still true. More people die of flu then of this Covid19 virus. Keep the seniors behind masks when they go out, if you have health issues wear a mask and be safe. You don't shut down the whole economy of the world and put it into a depression and kill millions a year from now via starvation. That is the liberal idea of how to do things and the media is liberals so hey, that's what happened.

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If he had shut everything down and less people were infected in the states, you all would have been complaining about how he was an idiot for his actions and that he destroyed the country. There is no right answer, just a bunch of complaints regardless of his actions.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I usually don't say this, but you are an idiot. Aggressive contact tracing, massive testing, and production of supplies (PPEs, ventilators etc) was the right answer. South Korea did a pretty good job, and nobody is criticizing them for it.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i watched this episode a month ago and said the same to my best friend :D it was quite cringy :D

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I read an interview sometime in the recent years with the son of the man who invented plastic bags. He said that, if his father knew that people use a plastic bag once and then immediately throw it away, he would have been horrified and saddened. The reason the man invented plastic bags was specifically so they could be reused over and over again

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

why on eath would you think a man (or anybody) with a sh*tload of money would look like that in future?!

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A lot of people underestimated and still underestimate the dangers of Corona and they think that the media are lying to them. ( Wonder who gave them that idea??). If history repeats itself and people behave like they behaved during the Spanish Flu, there are going to be plenty mass graves all over the world.

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Rewriting The Rules

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I still have a huge (legit) DVD collection. It's one of the most infuriating things having to sit through these 'anti-pirate' adverts that can't be fast-forwarded. That didn't do their cause any good at all, just made me want to buy pirated films instead, which don't have the adverts! Grr...

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Who the hell tweets there's suspicious noises in their house and then waits 5 hours to investigate?

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Jane S.
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So, what's the new Tumblr, now they've neutered themselves? Where is everyone migrating to? (Legit question).

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Every Voice Matters

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Need more. Was the player only mentioning he supported Hong Kong, or did he hold up a tournament somehow on a rant? Was online or offline? What was exactly said?

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