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The Empty Fort Strategy (infosec.pub)
submitted 3 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/historymemes@lemmy.world
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[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I left the little bit of text so people knew there was still more to the story….

That’s normal for quotes, to show there’s more, but it’s not relevant to the story.

Clearly you just made a mistake and left in a bit of text from the following sentence unintentionally. That's what I've been talking about all this time.

… no… intentional… and speaking of talking about this entire time…

The rest of the story, as explained multiple times… by the embellished OP story, the wiki article, the article about Liang, and the specific historical account… his renown preceded him, they took his bait, and left. What’s the point of quoting the same shit for the umpteenth time…? The linked article has the information, I’m sorry you can’t be arsed to due a prime effort in your end to get already presented information…. The fuck is wrong with people… seriously….

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This never had anything to do with wanting more information, just wondering why you left the dangling name. I've never seen anything like that done intentionally before. Thank you for clarifying.

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It’s normal Lexicon and is well used in articles and other relevant media.

Quite shocking that you’ve never seen this quite normal thing before….

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm very familiar with that, and that's not how that works. It still needs to be a complete sentence with the words omitted. You don't just...

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world -2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Lmfao, again you show your laziness or at this point frankly pure ineptitude/arrogance to read provided source material, that’s literally how you remove irrelevant information from the end of the quote…. My Link even talked about this.

I’m gonna just block your trolling ass now. Everyone but you seems to understood how the quote works… You are, just as explained before, making an ass out yourself at this point. Twice now you’ve ignored provided source material. The fuck is wrong with you?