Are you the head of a major international corporation? If not, there’s nothing meaningful you can do.

I think they’re under the unfortunate delusion they’re being funny.

“You will reunite with a friend”
“The bad times will be over quickly”
“A sudden windfall will come your way”

I feel like it’s accurate to say Texas is completely Texas.

I’m living under a conservative government, so I can’t make any promises on that toast. But I would like to, yes.

Given how you say it’s happening across 43 states, I should point out I’ll be in Britain.

Also, you’re just saying “lets do something” and not saying what you’ll actually do. Your scale is spread thin and your talking points are empty cliches. In the end, you will do nothing.

Edit: Called it.

Human centipede economics.

I think OP might have a skewed opinion of the centre.

Bathos. That’s Bathos. Interrupting something serious to ridicule it. It’s been a trope since the 18th century, and it’s definitely not just a “leftist” trope. It’s also NOT the only type of joke in left-wing media, or the only types of jokes in those specific movies. Most of Deadpool is pop culture references, for example.

Care to give an example of a movie that does this?

I would actually recommend !anime@ani.social instead. The admins of lemmy.ml are weirdly hostile towards anime, but ani.social is an anime-specific instance.

Ironic that you say to use real words, yet you use slang initialisms frequently. But it’s fine, because those are things that you understand. It’s only a problem if people younger than you say stuff that you personally don’t understand yet, right?

Largiloquent: Bombastic.
Dithyramb: Ancient Greek improvised hymn about Dionysus.

You were almost coherent there, but not quite.

If you think stuff slips below your radar, that just makes me question how good your radar is. The problems are obvious if you pay even a little attention, so… Maybe you don’t?

We’ve had that movie. Now let’s see the Elvis one.

None. Is this an American thing or something? I have never had this happen, or even heard of it happening except in America. It seems so weird to me to applaud people who can’t hear you.

That’s it! I knew I learned of this from something but forgot the name of it.

Power does not corrupt. It reveals. If you have the power to do whatever you want, it becomes apparent what you wanted to do. If having this power makes you do evil deeds, it means you already wanted to do evil deeds but lacked the power to.

Yeah, exactly. It’s not someone dodging a lot, but someone asking a lot that’s abnormal.

Fun fact: That’s just an average amount of question dodging. Paxman had to stall for time and realised he could just stretch it out by getting the guy to actually answer the question.