Rising numbers of older people across the continent are straining budgets and making for some difficult political decisions.

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    12 days ago

    Maybe you should have been clearer on that, because to me it reads like you were annoyed with OP.
    But I agree the pension scaremongering we often see is exaggerated sometimes to the extreme.
    And absolutely taxing the rich more is an option.

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      11 days ago

      I’m sorry, English isn’t my first language and I might not express myself as clearly as I’d like.

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        11 days ago

        stop being so annoying

        You forgot to specify who should stop being annoying. In your mind that was probably obvious when you wrote it, but you forgot to put yourself on the recipient side, where it is definitely not obvious.

        It doesn’t seem like a language problem, but more like a logic problem many of us get wrong from time to time, it is far from only you.

        We can all make similar mistakes, and we have to be conscious about communicating in a way that is not so easy to misunderstand to avoid it.

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          11 days ago

          Okay, I may not have expressed myself well, I appreciate the correction and I’ll be more careful in the future