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spacemadness on Oct 28, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Welcome to Hell, Elon

No they cannot be only harmlessly sarcastic. Context is very important.

noxer on Oct 29, 2022 [–]

Are you telling me these phrases can cause harm?

As I said before the context was a pun but it should not matter these are factually true statements that any reasonable person would agree on.

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