That’s a position I guess. But it’s, IMO, an inherently anti-democracy position. You can’t have a democracy that deems 40% or so of its voters to be a Nazi level threat. (Unless you simply mean his most devoted followers and not just his general voters.)
I think realizing your side effectively wants a “caretaker dictatorship”, like Egypt currently has to get rid of the Islamist Muslim Brothers or Ikhwan, is one of the things that kept my disdain of Trump from turning me into a progressive as it has other Never-Trumpers.
I think the “Paradox of Tolerance” notion is maybe not even right to begin with, but if it is it is wildly misunderstood by people like you. Even with literal Nazis not all people tolerated them as much as people act like. Leftists had street battles with them. And it’s possible that just strengthened them. Attacking people just makes them defensive. If you don’t want to love (in the sense of wishing the good will of) or tolerate these people that’s not some notable sentiment. And I’m not going to buy in on people wanting to lie to themselves that it is. It’s more likely you just lack empathy for people too “other” than yourself, but can’t admit that to yourself.
Saying “all women” are this that or the other thing is pretty dumb though. Maybe her example just shows men can also be conceited, but I think it would be easy to find a woman (or man for that matter) who’s not conceited and then kill this “all women” stuff.
This is why I tended to think “What do women want?” was such a dumb question. They are individuals, they want different things. Even something like “good food and good sleep” might not be universal.
Happy Birthday You also share a birthday with Felice Bryant, which fits this strip. Why?
“In 1945, Bryant met the 19 year-old Matilda Genevieve Scaduto, (whom he called Felice), when he was performing at the Schroeder Hôtel, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, her home town, where she was working as an elevator operator. Bryant and Scaduto eloped five days after meeting She has said that she ‘recognized’ him immediately; she had seen his face in a dream when she was eight years old, and had ‘looked for him forever’.”
BTW: I had forgotten this took place at the Schroeder Hotel. That’s extra weird.
(Although this storyline might be part of why I used to think maybe Snoopy is an adult and that’s part of why he’s a bit aloof. If you’re an adult surrounded by children getting too into their kid stuff might be weird.)
From what I can tell yes, even the specific “S’more” name looks to go back to 1938. Earlier names look to include “Some more” and the maybe more descriptive, “Graham Cracker Sandwich”.
Looking it up St. Thomas More might be first, “wolde not call it heresye, yf one wolde translate presbyteros a blok: but I wold say he were a blok hed. And as very a blokhed were he, that wold translate presbyteros an elder in stede of a preste.” Although the spelling “Block-head” was used by Elizabeth playwright Thomas Nashe it seems, “Bee he the veriest block-head vnder heauen.” While a Benjamin Jowett’s 19th c. translation of Plato has the more modern sounding “He might think me a blockhead, and refuse to take me.”
But you likely meant in the strip. I just got curious where it truly started.
Could be. Glasses as an affectation has occurred in US culture at times too though. I read somewhere that when “The Drew Carey Show” was on Carey did not actually need glasses, it was just part of his character. (He has real glasses now because of aging.) Likewise in the 1950s my Mom did not yet need glasses, but wanted them because she thought they would look good on her. I rarely wear my glasses, I didn’t need them until my mid-40s and still barely do, but I actually think I look better with them.
That’s a position I guess. But it’s, IMO, an inherently anti-democracy position. You can’t have a democracy that deems 40% or so of its voters to be a Nazi level threat. (Unless you simply mean his most devoted followers and not just his general voters.)
I think realizing your side effectively wants a “caretaker dictatorship”, like Egypt currently has to get rid of the Islamist Muslim Brothers or Ikhwan, is one of the things that kept my disdain of Trump from turning me into a progressive as it has other Never-Trumpers.
I think the “Paradox of Tolerance” notion is maybe not even right to begin with, but if it is it is wildly misunderstood by people like you. Even with literal Nazis not all people tolerated them as much as people act like. Leftists had street battles with them. And it’s possible that just strengthened them. Attacking people just makes them defensive. If you don’t want to love (in the sense of wishing the good will of) or tolerate these people that’s not some notable sentiment. And I’m not going to buy in on people wanting to lie to themselves that it is. It’s more likely you just lack empathy for people too “other” than yourself, but can’t admit that to yourself.