Particularly at the Presidential level, there’s only 2 viable choices, and voting for any other is essentially voting for the viable one that you like less. Even Theodore Roosevelt couldn’t manage to become a 3rd party President, and he’d already been President. Any challenge to the system would require a lot of building from the ground up. The introduction of preferential voting or similar would help a lot.
I was in secondary school when we were reading out loud from a modern (although set centuries ago) French play, and my turn was “You [naughty word with 5 letters starting with a ‘w’ meaning lady of negotiable virtue, which this comment section doesn’t allow], you Norman trollop!” I didn’t know that the ‘w’ was silent, did I? Much amusement was had at my expense.
“The paradox of tolerance states that if a society’s practice of tolerance is inclusive of the intolerant, intolerance will ultimately dominate, eliminating the tolerant and the practice of tolerance with them. Karl Popper describes the paradox as arising from the fact that, in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must retain the right to be intolerant of intolerance.” See Wikipedia Paradox_of_tolerance
It continues to bemuse me that, given that kale is as much a cultivar as the other brassicas (cauliflower, cabbage etc.) , that whoever cultivated it got it to that point and said “eh, close enough”.
Talking to girls who regard you as a piece of furniture, which is somehow unremarkable in its ability to talk, is not the same thing as ‘talking to girls’. Conflating mere conversation with the ability to convince an attractive person that you are relationship material annoys the crap out of me.
I manage to be simultaneously good enough at “talking to girls” that most of my friends are women, and bad enough that none of my (few in number and universally doomed from the outset) relationships were initiated by me.
“The so-called “protesters” on certain American campuses are engaging in, or supporting, hostile, violent threats and attacks against perceived Jews. They are actively supporting terrorism and terrorist groups.” Rubbish.
Fast-talking is certainly more Lottie’s style.