Don’t engage with them.

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If every interaction you’ve had is bad, look for the common denominator

Quick history lesson. In 1960 US minimum wage was $1.00/hour and the cost of the average US home was $11,000.00 A couple of high school kids could get married on graduation day and be homeowners in a few years.

You know that Trump just told the generals to have ‘a parade.’

Kim or Putin would know exactly which tanks and units he wanted, would have specified how many flyovers, and sweated all the details.

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I can’t remember the author or title of the story.

Napoleon wants to give his enemies false information, so he picks a courier who looks bold and dashing, but has a reputation for being a complete fuck up.

The idiot manages to fumble his way past a dozen patrols and deliver the orders.

Exactly what they didn’t want.

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Purity politics is the only kind some people understand.

People are downvoting you, I assume because they think you are lauding some other east Asian billionaire.

iirc Epi-pen is the usual treatment, and those things are pretty easy to obtain.

I think that OP philpo is on to something, that the medical staff was a bit slow to deal with the situation.

I read a detective novel years ago. One character said that even when people are lying, they always reveal a lot when they are boasting.

Trump said it himself, he hasn’t matured at all since he was in first grade.

https://theweek.com/speedreads/575962/donald-trump-tells-biographer-hes-same-now-first-grade

Along similar lines, I once saw a food review that talked about Peking duck and Beijing, China.

So, there were others that weren’t?

12 Step Support groups.

No dues or fees; no full time leaders; you are a member if you say you are and no one can say you aren’t.

I expect many downvotes.

To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, ‘It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but might as well be.’ It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: ‘if you’re so smart why ain’t you rich?’ There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register.

Kurt Vonnegut, in "Slaughterhouse 5’

No one has more contempt for Trump supporters than Trump does.

lechajim

I’ve never seen that spelling before. Usually I see ‘L’chiam’

Moi?