That's not simply "copy and paste". Quite often when you copy and
paste a long link
it will wrap around and the link will become broken as it was in the
original post.
Adding the and the before and after the long link will prevent it
from being
broken due to a wrap around. You could then have a link as big as a
paragraph and
it will remain unbroken and usable.
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Or you could just "tiny URL" it.
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I'm a liberal because the militant fundamentalist ignorant
science-denying religious xenophobic corporate oligarchy of modern
Republican conservatism just doesn't work for me or my country.