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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Because they don’t have to beat it afterwards? 🤷🏾

[-] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago

What the fuck is wrong with you?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

“Beating a dead horse” is an old saying/idiom in the US meaning “that a particular effort is futile, being a waste of time without a positive outcome,” such as flogging/beating a dead horse, which will not compel it to do useful work. Maybe it didn’t land as well I thought it would.

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