What I’m trying to tell you is that literally each and everyone of them firmly believe(s/d) that what they’re doing is the right thing and absolutely necessary for the future of the country, and that their predecessor was a liar and a crook. They wouldn’t make it halfway to the Oval Office without that conviction. You may disagree, and that’s your God given right, but I’m afraid that’s just how democracy works.
It’s certainly rare, but it wouldn’t be the first time.
Uncle Ted for the Twitter generation
Everyone treats you like a bro because they would have done the same thing?
Yes, you’re probably right. I’m a degenerate but at least I’m aware of it.
The problem with that thought experiment is that different people have different ideas about what “slowing it down” means. One man’s poison is another man’s medicine.
There’s nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
The problem with assertions like this is that they can never be conclusively proven or disproven. Literally every single president (at least during my lifetime) has blamed their predecessor for all of the problems plaguing the country and took credit for everything that improved, while their predecessor claimed credit for laying the groundwork and blamed their predecessor for all the challenges they faced.
The fundamental issue is that the same experiment can never be conducted twice under controlled conditions, because the world doesn’t stop spinning and whatever the other guy did, he did, and we can’t turn back time in order to find out how his opponent’s choices would have played out. Sure, you can always pick and choose some factoids in order to spin a compelling “what if” scenario, but ultimately there’s simply too many variables at play in order to reach a sufficiently solid conclusion.
Sorry the bottom’s a bit cut off but apparently it was lighter fluid.
Don’t ask me if that was meant literal or proverbial.
Sure but I’ve definitely heard of cases where residents ended up getting exposed too. Lack of proper maintenance, accidents, ill-advised wall drilling, etc.
You can call it what you want I guess but AFAIK that’s still the proper name of the country.
The problem is, it rarely ends up staying there. At some point, the walls always end up coming down one way or another , don’t they.
That’s why I deliberately chose to make an effort in order to avoid that phrase.
I’m not judging, just telling it how it is.
Well, that would certainly be something
Yeah, I have a feeling that joke went right over your head.
If you’ve never seen food panties my guess is you haven’t spent enough time around poor people.
Yes, some will literally slip items from the store into their panties in order to steal them (or at the very least, to make frisking them utterly awkward whoever’s in charge).
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Like I said, F in chat.
The unfortunate truth is that it is the way that it is because the majority benefits from it being that way.
Your rent might be expensive but how would you like to spend twice as much in order to ensure that some guy out on the street (who’s likely a good-for-nothing drunk and a degenerate, let’s be honest) has a roof over his head in this kind of weather? How do you know just what kind of evils they’ve done in the past in order to make it for as long as they did? How do you know you’re not going to wake up with a knife at your throat if you decide to take them in?
Both you and I, along with damn near every human being out there, are nothing but liars, murderers, and thieves. We don’t like to confront that fact but it’s true nonetheless. If you got a warm place to sleep tonight, you really just happened to either be lucky or more cold blooded than they other guy, but your luck might turn at any time, or someone more ruthless than you might come along and displace you.
At the end of the day, all you can really do is pray for mercy, and do your best to offer the same as much as you possibly can. Your life could be over in a second, so don’t take even a minute of it for granted.