>Being able to correctly state truths and falsehoods about any subject without fear of needing to subject to social guidelines on communication is a strength of this forum.

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And the pedantry really isn't more accurate or more precise. What's being litigated here are two separate and subjective views of the same event - DOGE was a disaster in one sense, and was not a disaster in another. The one arbitrary contextual definition of "disaster" is not more correct than the other arbitrary contextual definition.