"Thus and such" nghĩa là gì?

"Thus and such" -> nghĩa là theo cách đó, như thế; làm đúng theo hướng dẫn, chỉ thị.

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They traded fairy tales about Trump. It was nothing more than prattle and drivel – a guy told a guy who told me that someone connected to Trump might have done thus-and-such. You get the picture. It wasn’t reliable intelligence; it was scandalous junk derived from “speculation and open secrets” (p30).

That makes regulation a dicey (nguy hiểm) matter, because the classes of firearms anti-gun activists want to prohibit are the ones the Second Amendment exists to protect — including the AR-15 and semiautomatic (bán tự động) handguns, not just granddad’s deer rifle. (Although dear ol’ pawpaw’s deer rifle was a “weapon of war” in its day, too: The classic .30-06 hunting round was developed for the U.S. military and adopted by the army in 1906, hence the designation — .30 caliber, ’06 model.) When the gun-grabbers complain that thus and such a firearm was designed for the primary purpose of killing people, the answer is, “Well, yes — that’s precisely the point.”

But there’s no Hollywood ending here — my defenses didn’t stay down for long. The Americans came back and my porcupine quills (lông nhím) were raised lest my identity and values be pricked. Over and over I thought — who should speak for and about Israel? Israel cannot be compared to the way other countries operate! Easy for you in the diaspora (cộng đồng người Do Thái) to say thus and such at a distance! Your vision of Israel is pie-in-the-sky! You are using a double standard! And sometimes, those things were true. Other times they weren’t. One person from Los Angeles talked about the “shadow” side of our personal and collective identities and how it can act as a blind spot. My finger was poised over the “leave quietly” button on Clubhouse — yet I didn’t disconnect. Something about that rang true.

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