Gregory's Server@ireneista Perhaps the battle, then. There was a significant loss, and I agree that fight is going and going strong thanks in no small part due to people such as yourself. I just don't know how to name that loss, that shift in normality to the fucked state it's in now, if that makes any sense?
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 @ireneista Absolutely. I tried to balance the same kinds of concerns, but I absolutely take the point that I may not have done so ideally. (if a "war" is lost, can you fight it again and win? what does losing a "war" mean when that war is at most a loose metaphor? how do I invoke the common idiom of "war on X" without carrying along the idea that when you lose a war, you tend to just be dead? language is hard) @xgranade @ireneista i suppose that's a state of occupation by the adversary, and then there are battles or even uprisings
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@xgranade we agree with that
it makes a ton of sense, it's a thing we are aware of because we spend a lot of time thinking about ways to keep our strategic assessment accurate without despairing heh