Man, there’s some biases in there you should probably unpack.

The placebo effect is a pervasive delusion, but situationally it is extremely convenient. Glad the bands helped your wife.

… what?

Okay but how do you feel about kabaddi?

Mmmm no, at worst I am a narc for community reading comprehension.

Sure and if you claimed anything different, you’d risk being banned. I get it. It’s transparent, but I get it. Keep on dodging if you like, I’m certainly not trying to wring a confession out of you, just point out that the removal was justified and that you’re going to have to try harder if you want to actually convince anyone.

As I understand it, it came from the military essentially vietnam vets off at bus stations and then letting the local communities figure out what to do with them from there. It’s been co-opted to some degree, especially by the larger chains, but most of the local businesses near me keep up the practice because the military traps the uneducated into contracts that pay far less than poverty wages. Among many things, it’s a way of maintaining some measure of goodwill between local communities and military bases, and it’s looking more and more likely that we’re going to need every scrap of good feeling we can get as this slow descent into fascism continues…

Did the author die, or was it murder?

Sarcasm and irony can both be expressed through text, and neither require projection or assumption (beyond that required to establish basic context (like language)) when written or when expressed verbally. Why are you trying to pretend that’s not the case, when the whole of the written canon is full of thousands of years of ample examples to the contrary?

Nah.

Shocking.

Neat, you gonna address the faulty premise of your position or just keep transparently deflecting with… whatever this cringe is.

Overruled.
Sexism isn’t gender-restricted, reducing either gender to a sex object is sexist behavior.

You absolutely were (though I disagree with it being removed)

It would be horrible if they ramped up the rate at which they’re doing it in DC.

Sarcasm isn’t a magic cloak of deniability.

What does that even mean?

Christ… And people rail against claims that there’s sexism in [any_industry]

I am not sure those are mutually exclusive.

It’s uplifting in that there’s so many people prioritizing not paying these predatory loans, there’s no realistic way to prosecute them all. It’s like a rent strike, but massive.

… at least that is my interpretation.

I don’t want to trade rhetorical quips with an ally - we both gain nothing from me waxing didactic about doctrinal warfare. I just want to caution that the political landscape shapes all wars, and the metaphorical terrain on which a US civil war would be fought would be abjectly alien to what you’re envisioning.

The US only fights insurgencies it creates - and on terms it dictates. A civil war is invariably the bloodiest kind, and should one break out in the US there would not be a coalition to help reign in the ROI this time. It would not be vietnam, or afghanistan - both wars that were lost in congress, not on the battlefield - it would be palestine.