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No worries, I was not sure what you initially meant. 👍🏻

Pretty sure you meant aren’t …?

Weird, wonder why by his logic the vaccine wasn’t a miracle?

“In the long run…” so he’s still onboard. Let him ride the failure train to financial ruin. Maybe then he’ll learn.

No. Just no.

She’s in the midst of a divorce and almost certainly not ready for that.

You admit concerns about compatibility but way more than that claim you’d change who you are for them.

No.

That will NEVER work out well. Love comes from people who love who you are, not who you can try to be.

The bond you have is lovely, let her dust settle and the storm to pass - once there is “normal” life see if you still feel the same. Crisis and trauma can push people together but perhaps for the wrong reasons.

Good luck. I hope you both find happiness.

Wow. That’s the dumbest goddamn thing I’ll see today.

They hate freedom, I reckon.

I did not know she actually refused. Dick move but smart for the constitution to stipulate that.

I would note that it’s not any part of the ethos so an atheist can be (or not) anything. A lack of faith in a deity and an absence of prescribed beliefs is precisely that after all.

So vegan and meat loving atheists can exist precisely as much as progressive and extremely conservative ones.

Is it likely or common? I’d venture so say I doubt it.

She may have rudely skipped the ceremonial handoff but she ceded power. That’s a far cry from refusing to which is the threat I meant.

All the solid answers posted plus they’re now a massive store - they can live on, say, $0.10 profit on a book because they made plenty more on the backpack and tire patch kit and deodorant you also added to your cart because convenience.

Plus no retail rent, no retail staff to pay.

It’s like gas stations barely breaking even on gas, but making bank on snacks. Bookstores usually won’t have those other product categories to fall back on like Amazon does.

Sounds like a typical SMIDSY - also known as failure to yield. May the rider RIP.

News media rarely frame such crashes as what they are.

You’re right - I think but do not know he’s worse and it’s due to the global pattern of totalitarianism that the Right has embraced. I fear Argentina falling into that trap by electing a populist today that refuses to cede power tomorrow.

If he’s the least bad option that’s a commentary of the politics there and perhaps your conclusion is justified, I simply don’t know enough about them to say, but a meh known quantity appeals more to me than a personable extremist.

With all respect, is defeatism the best way to choose leadership? Far Right is in an of itself disqualifying to me because I strongly oppose their stated policy positions so I’m certainly not objective.

You’re right - I think but do not know he’s worse and it’s due to the global pattern of totalitarianism that the Right has embraced. I fear Argentina falling into that trap by electing a populist today that refuses to cede power tomorrow.

If he’s the least bad option that’s a commentary of the politics there and perhaps your conclusion is justified, I simply don’t know enough about them to say, but a meh known quantity appeals more to me than a personable extremist.

With all respect, is defeatism the best way to choose leadership? Far Right is in an of itself disqualifying to me because I strongly oppose their stated policy positions so I’m certainly not objective.

I get it man but accept that opting for worse in the pursuit of change is not a solution.

To a large degree that’s what led people to vote for Trump - he was independent (not actually), self-financed (big nope) and an outsider (incompetent clown). Not saying this guy is akin to Trump but are you certain enough of that to still support him?

Argentina’s history has enough heartbreak and man this guy sure smells like a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Maybe he’s really not. Maybe his heart is in the right place. That’s a big maybe.

“Argies are not stupid, EVERYONE knows whats going on “

Yes, they are and no, they don’t.

Just like EVERY country that suffered under incompetent and corrupt rule and gravitated to “change”.

I get it. Hell it’s be far not the first time Argentina has been in economic crisis. It’s a rational reaction with a reasonable basis that ignores the likely consequences.

That’s the point being made here - you want different, but is he actually better? Populist gestures like “he gave his salary away” mean he’s getting paid via other means. By whom? Why?

I get it - you’re sick of the status quo and he’s expressing the outrage you feel.

Good luck, really. I love BA and hope it works out.

Practical reasons aside (visibility and ease of pulling out) I simply prefer it.

Practical reasons aside (visibility and ease of pulling out) I simply prefer it.

Standard Oil = S.O. = “Esso” in some parts of the world (at least when I worked at an ad agency years ago).