@cobratbq I wasnt criticisng you, I know what you meant. All im saying is that if society sees unconditional compassion as suspicious that should not at all effect a good persons desire to be compassionate without condition, if he is truly a good person. But it is sad society would respond in such a way.
@cobratbq If you are being kind because it is "acceptable" then you are doing it for the wrong reasons. that said it is sad when a society is so broken it even finds a reason to hate kindness.
Please do! Taking yourselves off the market and leaving the good ones would be doing us all a favor, you have any idea how much work it is to avoid misandry.
Oh i think this happened like over a year ago didnt it? I think I heard of that actually, some sort of disrespect thing I think at a temple or something.
@Raccoon What do you mean off? They are almost exactly at what was predicted.. Vegas had Harris at 43% and 57% chance for Trump winning, which lines up quite well.
Yes the "there were always 2 parties" is the illusion I spoke of.
In a FPTP system if the underlying real support for parties is red: 40% blue: 39% lib: 21% then the vote will come out as something like red 51%, blue 49%. However in the next election if the real preference shifts than the vote will immediately and drastically change as well to reflect the new party.
In other words, while the votes themselves will give the illusion of a two party system by converting true support to a 2-party vote outcome not reflecting true support. The real underlying support will not reflect a 2-party system and there will be **no** preference for the same 2 parties to win from one election to the next.
We see this with the historic changes in parties, in every election where a new third party becomes dominate within a single election a previously near 50% party shoots completely down to less than 2% and the third party immediately shoots up to near 50%. In other words the numbers move rapidly and shifts in primary parties easily change.
So again this doesnt reflect a 2-party system, just an illusion that reinforces the myth and thus is self fullfilling.
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