https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2592:_False_Dichotomy&feed=atom&action=historyTalk:2592: False Dichotomy - Revision history2024-03-28T13:44:39ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2592:_False_Dichotomy&diff=228651&oldid=prev172.70.110.65 at 13:21, 19 March 20222022-03-19T13:21:01Z<p></p>
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</table>108.162.245.69https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2592:_False_Dichotomy&diff=228339&oldid=prevKev at 15:22, 12 March 20222022-03-12T15:22:17Z<p></p>
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</table>Kevhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2592:_False_Dichotomy&diff=228318&oldid=prev172.69.79.153 at 01:11, 12 March 20222022-03-12T01:11:09Z<p></p>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">:But that's just my opinion. Open to further editing. (Maybe shoving in a Trivia section, also!) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.34.221|162.158.34.221]] 01:09, 12 March 2022 (UTC)</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It may be a stretch, but Cueball’s dialogue could be a reference to A Modest Proposal, which satirically creates an extended false dichotomy between poverty and cannibalism [[User:Lordoftheroboflies|Lordoftheroboflies]] ([[User talk:Lordoftheroboflies|talk]]) 23:11, 11 March 2022 (UTC)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It may be a stretch, but Cueball’s dialogue could be a reference to A Modest Proposal, which satirically creates an extended false dichotomy between poverty and cannibalism [[User:Lordoftheroboflies|Lordoftheroboflies]] ([[User talk:Lordoftheroboflies|talk]]) 23:11, 11 March 2022 (UTC)</div></td></tr>
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