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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Murder in New York
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 08:43:42 -0800
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On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 03:50:38 +0000, quadibloc <quadibloc@gmail.com>
wrote:

>On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 19:00:14 +0000, William Hyde wrote:
>
>> Paul S Person wrote:
>>> On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 20:32:17 +1300, Titus G Trump <noone@nowhere.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 14/12/24 05:30, Paul S Person wrote:
>
>>>>> [1] This is a common trope, whether by Pres Truman ("The buck stops
>>>>> here", pointing to his desk or perhaps the Oval Office) to Star =
Trek
>>>>> VI, where Kirk agrees that, as Captain, he is responsible for what
>>>>> happened. So why does the buck /not/ stop at the top dog in these
>>>>> cases?
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps because one is fiction with a message and the other is =
reality?
>>>
>>> Truman isn't fiction.
>>
>> We could start a Harry Truman denialism movement.  When FDR died (if
>> indeed he did!), Eleanor hired an actor to play Truman while she ran =
the
>> country until 1952 before ceding power to FDR's illegitimate son.
>
>The only thing fictional about Harry "S" Truman was his middle initial.
>
>But, on the other hand, the television show Star Trek was fiction, and I
>think
>that was what was being referred to.

Actually, it was /Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country/, a movie.
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