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        5 days ago

        In the rest of the world, newspapers can carry stories that cover more than just their home country. Thank you for that timely example of American exceptionalism.

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          5 days ago

          Do you find that when that occurs they usually don’t include the name of the country in the headline?

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            5 days ago

            I find that not every newspaper website url is going to be obvious which country they are from. And I see no reason why in a community about world news, it is consistently the American news that somehow manages to not label which country the news is about.

            (Bonus American exceptionalism: Assuming that LA must mean Los Angeles California, worldwide. And that everybody should be familiar with it, when LA in ISO format actually refers to Laos, and there are 91 distinct locations worldwide going by the identical name.)

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                  You know you’re right. I just couldn’t get past the stunning argument that whenever I see a publication called The LA Times I should assume it is a Laotian newspaper. An English language one at that apparently. The sheer ingenuousness of that totally honest argument laid me low. Congratulations.

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    5 days ago

    Uh… Yeah? That’s why we cook it and wash our hands after touching it.