• ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world
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          5 months ago

          To “affect” a change would be to alter the change itself, for example if the university had already been reviewing its portfolio then the protesters might be affecting the change by making it happen more quickly.

          To “effect” a change would be to cause the change in the first place.

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          5 months ago

          Old enough to be sent to die and kill innocent non white people for profit so they are old enough to be adults.

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            5 months ago

            The vast, vast majority of 18 year olds are not in the military, and it’s really weird to consider all 18 year olds adults because a tiny fraction of them are soldiers

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              I never once said they all were in the military or that them being in the military made them adults. I said if we consider them adult enough to be able to do that, then we need to just consider them adults in general.