If you think literally saying "they're definitely different, but the difference is smaller than ideal" means "they're the same" then things will never be fixed.
You're right - it's more like one group voting to drive off a cliff and the other voting to just drive really close to the cliff in case we decide to go off on some other vote, but so long as the cliff doesn't win now, we can focus on convincing people ice cream is the better option. We don't, and instead wait 4 more years to complain about the lack of ice cream, but that's a separate problem.
Yeah, pretty much. You take someone who has what they see as a perfect life, but one without sex or with unfulfilling sex, and you introduce some reason for them to have sex with someone who's good at it. Maybe they're being blackmailed or persuaded - anything that makes them feel like they need to have sex in order to return to their previously idyllic life. Then, as they have more sex, they find that they enjoy it, and slowly start to prefer sexual side of their double-life to the one they used to think was idyllic. Time passes, and they end up fully engulfed in a life of wanton sex, abandoning the life they were trying to save in the first place.
The pledges mean nothing; Trump uses words as nothing more than a way to get people to do what he wants. To him, speaking truthfully is as foreign and unnecessary as speaking backwards.
People think it because those in power want us to think it, and tailor the media coverage accordingly.
They didn't forget, they enacted a decades-long propaganda campaign to ensure we'll be too preoccupied with fighting each other to band together.
That's the thing, though - there isn't anything else. Just think - would you still go to work if they stopped paying you? If, like most people, you answered no, then everything besides the pay is just a neat bonus on top of the only real thing you're there for.
I said this in my first interview, and while I still go the job, they made it clear that it was very much in spite of the response. Sorry that it wasn't my life goal at 16 to put tags on clothing...
Signtist
joined 2 years ago
No, I changed it to "one side killing us, the other not, but still leaving it on the table" Which is a huge difference, but still a troubling scenario. Not driving off a cliff is orders of magnitude better than driving off a cliff, but still significantly worse than ice cream.