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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"When were you radicalized?"

"When Columbia was leading the charge on human rights..."

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really though, read up on the Columbian peace process of you're genuinely interested in peace, war, and human rights.

These issues are complicated as fuck, and there are many bad things to be said about the Colombian context for sure. But their peace treaty if a marvel of modern diplomacy; it's to diplomacy what the Hoover dam was to engineering.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes. And yes thanks, it is Colombia without a u.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see I use both in my comment - it's one of the embarrassing pitfalls I keep falling into in English when writing in a hurry. Oops.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

No worries, understandable!