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		pluma on June 15, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cyber attack on German parliament still active, co... Somalia being a post-apocalyptic wasteland qualifies as a mesofact[0], I guess. Whether it actually ever was quite that bad I don't even know. I think the idea is mostly fed via movie tropes. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1173845

fwn on June 16, 2015 [–]

In my argument I used Somalia as a metaphor to transport an idea of a certain type of hostile enviroment.

I don't see how - in this context - a debate on somalias current affairs can be seen as something other than derailing.

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