An interesting analyses. It certainly matches what we’ve seen. His attacks on the standard list of people is moderately pathetic, and quite predictable.

He’s never told the truth in his life. How hard would it be to say “no, of course not.”

The government should be obligated to shield them from the causes of climate change. But I suppose that ship had sailed.

This has always been our problem, ever since I’ve been politically aware. The right offers whatever comforting lie you want to hear. We offer painful truths, and if you don’t instantly embrace the cactus, you get screamed at.

Context is as important to language as syntax.

Context is important to the message, yes. But if I need the context to understand a particular word, I would understand the message just as well without that word.

Yea. Not helpful.

I’m aware of the existence of contranyms. None of the examples you gave apply, as they just have different meanings, or the same leaving with different connotations.

Right, that’s “speaking figuratively.” There are rules for that.

But a word that means the opposite of what it means is not a useful word.

I’d hate to find a box in my lab marked “inflammable.”

The current administration is making Humphrey Appleby seem a much better option.

Trouser Python. Technically true, and no-one is going to check.

Maybe there’s a reason we prefer tenure civil servants who don’t have financial interest at odds with their job?

No research needed. Getting back to the routine, after a suitable period that varies from person to person, is important. But it is not, in itself, healing, and someone who didn’t miss a day of work is not doing well.

Oh certainly. But it’s treating a symptom, not the actual problem.

I was thinking this myself.

That’s not healthy, though. That’s repression, which is bad for you. I know it’s bad for you, as I have not had more than six emotions in the past 20 years.

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I don’t think 29 year olds are millennial, are they? Or is this an older meme?

Because we have YouTube videos instead.

Are we expecting the Democratic party to actually support him? Seems the national leadership would rather see someone else in his spot.