I mean, it probably would’ve been ideal then but as usual, America was recovering from/embroiled in the last Conservative disasters (financial crisis, Afghanistan/Iraq.) And Obama had just burned a lot of political capital giving people healthcare.

All of a sudden or suddenly. Leaning back on old camp counsellor story telling, I think all of a sudden would be better for building tension whereas a quick, staccato **suddenly! **acts like a verbal bang or jump start, if that makes any sense.

Ha, I had the same reaction but the opposite way: the sudden?

This might be the best comment reply I’ve had on lemmy. When I’m not half cut coming home from soccer, I will dig into this and either agree or give you a worthy response.

If that’s an actual opinion, it is a damning indictment of our education system and a demonstration of the consequences of provincial Conservative governments cutting too much from those budgets.

I’m more optimistic and lean troll. Have you tagged as such and don’t need to feed you anymore.

I gave her extra head skritches, kisses and a treat for you! I think she approved.

Wait, you know he’s racist, you don’t support him but you want to rally support using his slogan?

Are you that oblivious or just a really bad troll?

And by the end of Harper’s term, the dollar had fallen. Are you furious about that too ya silly Billy?

Everyone knows that every night Justin Trudeau sneaks into each sleeping Canadian’s room, spends four hours whispering Liberal messages into their ears in a long dead tongue. We don’t ask what deal he made with what Eldritch being for such dread power, we can only pray he uses it for the good of the nation.

A title like that, lazy troll. Unless you know zero Canadians, you should know that trump is anathema to good Canadians and Leafs fans.

We vote in the primaries, not just when an issue is trending!

She sounds adorable, sorry you had to lose her, I hope you’re getting through it as best you can. My elderly cutie pie is deteriorating and loudly demands affection sporadically but I know I’d rather have her howling at me at whatever o’clock than not.

Glad mine isn’t the only one!

That seems wild but adorable.

I upgraded from a twin to queen but now thr cat feels more comfortable in the bed if it’s just us. But I’ve been trained by twin bed relationships to sleep on one side so it’s been an unlearning process. And sometimes when I’m on the side and she’s in the middle I have less space than I did with the twin!

Trust a cat to find the least convenient “compromise.”

Going as Mr Clean. Seems simple and fun. Although, with Halloween parties being what they are, we’ll see how long those pristine whites last.

Oh you sweet summer child of a blog poster. The aliens could make us live like say, how things are going for the Ethiopians, Syrians, Congolese, Lebanese, Palestineans, Yemeni, Russians etc.

Or like people have lived through most of history. Especially as a someone who presents female, that seems especially non ideal.

Blaming individuals for what is a systemic failure could make them less receptive to change.

Ironically, that’s almost exactly how I feel about trump/conservative voters.

Were I trying to actually change people’s future grammar, I’d totally agree.

But to elaborate on what I said earlier, if someone is going to come flying in from the top rope with some childish/boring “everyone with whom I disagree is a stupid/racist/evil” well, I don’t particularly care about the convo anymore, I’ll tag them as a waste, let myself correct their grammar, respond however and move on, ignoring their comments when I see them in other threads.

I generally don’t correct grammar until I’m already annoyed. But once someone is a silly, well, as the Emperor urged, I give into my anger.

Lemmy has interesting folks like yourself but also a lot of not particularly interesting children.

Wait, making fun of you is being unable to handle criticism but you responding to it is you tolerating criticism?

I’m now a little curious what your rules are.