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That is one of the dumbest things I have ever read.
"Dim" Americans have never fucking heard of the Pelagian heresy (though it might be my favorite: see what Randall Jarrell had to say about WC Williams and Pelagianism in the intro to WCW's Selected Poems--that's me, too). What absolute crap, and a lousy way to try making a point: good idea to have gone to bed.
For "dim" Americans, plagiarism is piddly, the kind of thing that gets you a do-over from grade-inflating COMP 101 teachers and a death penalty from the NCAA when your entire team turns in papers copied off Wikipedia (which also makes anxiety about plagiarism seem pretty silly to "dim" Americans).
I've been busting kids for plagiarism for twenty-five years, so I am sensitive to this mess. It's ridiculous--trolly, in fact--to say that Biden is doomed.
