There is actually a name for this phenomenon. It’s called the Glass Cliff

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It does have a lot in common, like the design of course, but also being an unconventional car that promised a lot but delivered on few of its promises (including costing twice as much as they said it would). Both Delorean and Musk were/are sketchy as hell and have both have trafficked drugs and gotten away with it.

They’re all so good! Love the bee violin

Sir, this is a hobby lobby

They go together really well, and a piece of fried fried cod or pollock feels lonely without some chips to sop up the excess fishy flavor. The oily flavor of the fish is spread further by the crispy absorbent starch of the chips. They are almost always paired together in the UK and elsewhere because they are very complementary. Beans and toast are similarly popular in the UK as a dish, but haven’t been adopted more broadly. You’re entitled to your somewhat esoteric and clearly strong opinion. Please contribute to the respective wiki entries for “fish” and “chips” with these points and see how they are received.

A dish is merely an emblematic grouping of ingredients which we give a name

If I had just the fish, I would miss the chips. And apparently chips were popular in the UK before the fish, which came later. So really the chips are more than just an accompaniment. The fish, meanwhile is special because people like it.

Nice! I tried to give mine away and no one wanted them. Donated >100 to a pet shop lol. I think there’s a glut in my area

To be fair, we had some wacky ideas too, like fart psyops and bat bombs

Gotta hold the record for person triggering the most editing to school blocked content lists

Surely you know Randall Munroe? But yeah I think some of these folks are questionably notable

One I had yesterday

Thank you for apologizing

Process?

As an environmental scientist, I care. It hurts me that there is a drift in my data that is entirely anthropogenic and I must spend time to account for.

Fallwell is fortunately in hell, he can rant all he wants down there.

I choose to believe in a metaphorical Hell just so he can be down there

At the leadership level, I agree. I do think a lot of the young men following them are simply stupid and fall for a bill of goods. The right is a coalition of the evil and intellectually feeble

Fascists often hate being called right wing. It comes from a lack of self-awareness and general lack of emotional intelligence. If you can’t understand other people and their views, you are inclined to see your own position as the reasonable center. There are also, of course, some fascists who cynically portray themselves as the center, knowing full well what they really are. The leaders of AfD and the Reform UK are examples.

Analogously, people on the right often use the word “political” as a derogation. They hate the idea of their beliefs being political, preferring to call them “common sense”.

In a nutshell, there is a commonality across many people on the right of being unable to empathize and understand perspectives outside their own. This is why they always view their own use of government benefits as justified while others are thieves or criminals, and why anyone different from them is a threat.

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