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A university president makes a case against cowardice

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450 points pseudolus | 2 comments | 03 Apr 25 12:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.509s | source
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JKCalhoun ◴[03 Apr 25 13:06 UTC] No.43569036[source]▶
Wild that he is some kind of exception. Rolling over, folding is not the university culture I remember.
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CaptWillard ◴[03 Apr 25 13:28 UTC] No.43569313[source]▶
Not sure when you graduated, but I've seen a complete inversion.

Much like 90s rockers, they now rage exclusively on behalf of the machine.

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techpineapple[dead post] ◴[03 Apr 25 13:33 UTC] No.43569381[source]▶
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dingaling ◴[03 Apr 25 15:29 UTC] No.43571157[source]▶
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1. techpineapple ◴[03 Apr 25 19:43 UTC] No.43574428[source]▶
Kidnapped off the streets? I think for “bodies burned in pits” I might prefer “slaughtered” or “butchered”. Disappeared sounds rather light for what we’re currently discussing to my ear.
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2. marcosdumay ◴[03 Apr 25 21:32 UTC] No.43575724[source]▶
"Disappeared" does strongly imply that those people are dead, because that's what usually to happen to people that the government decides to kidnap.

But then, that's what usually happen to the people that the government decides to kidnap. So the OP's usage is perfectly correct, and the expectation that those people are dead should exist. Including the people that we know that were sent to the concentration camp, because despite nobody claiming it's an extermination camp the leading one does strongly tend to morph into the later.