Missing Romanian teenager 'begged' police to 'stay on the line':"Please stay with me on the line, I'm really scared," Alexandra Macesanu told a police officer while crying during her third and last call, according to a transcript released on Facebook by her uncle

It's a confession of futility in the face of a practical reality.

No, actually. It's half-arsed non-committal and vile hypocrisy in the wake of a lecture about moral absolutes.

You do, or you wouldn't have lied.

It was an error - an insignificant error, since letting children walk around with either weapon is an unheard of lunacy practically everywhere but in the United States. Which again underscores my previous points.

This sounds like a typical redditism written by someone with all the the originality of a robodialer.

See?

You keep shitting on American exceptionalism as thought it's supposed to upset me. Why?

It's not supposed to upset you, it's merely descriptive of the culturally supremacist brainwashing you're putting on display. It's not even an exclusively American thing. Some other nations display this jingoist flexing and revolting pomposity.

No argument there.

Good, be off then.

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