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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Actually, the painter wrote a 6. They were commissioned to write a 6.

Fuck your perspective, people should consider the original intent and research rather than just argue about it. Calling it "free speech" doesnt make it right or moral.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Replace "original intent" with "context" and I agree 100% with you.

I think that this is important to point out because we don't really have access to each other's "intention" (whatever this means); at most what they say and do, and specially for politics there's often a big mismatch between the alleged intentions of a policy vs. what the policy achieves.

Or, playing along the pic: if that random scribble is between a "5" and a "7", then it means six, no matter if the author claims "actually it's a nine".

(NB: I'm discussing this on general grounds, based on the image. I'm not from USA nor discussing its healthcare.)