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I thought so too. Until I saw Bloomberg try.

Well I was raised in a world where at least a few public school teachers and grownups said, inter alia, that:

• “[The United States of] America’s the best country on Earth”, and that
• “In [the United States of] America, any citizen can become president”.

The person smoking weed next to me with skin darker than my own, yes.

True, but I feel like in these discussions I really need to know which fruit it was that God was chatting with Great-Grandma about that afternoon.

I feared Trump a lot less after Bush broke me. I fear another Trump less even. Younger, more idealistic me would vomit with disappointment in my shrugging and sighing instead of seething and yelling.

Sometimes I attend 12-step meetings again for social reasons or friendly support or job hunting and even the boilerplate texts will still make me be like “What in the tarnation?” Like literal tarnation.

I never have a pithy way to correct people who mention survival of the fittest.

It is, in fact, only survival of the fit enough.

This is the only Reddit tradition that has no name. But we used to celebrate it at least once every three months, if I can recall correctly.

They’d be super offensés if they could speak a real language. Thanks for half our vocabulary, suckeurs.

Please, no. I need to believe there’s still a place where things aren’t worsening.

cleverly also called “dogfooding”

Unambiguous pedantry suffices