jgwil2

> His tone is the least of the problems.

I agree with that, but it's still shocking to me that somebody in such an important role can sound so unprofessional.

Really not the message nor the style of good leadership. I don't want my CEO to talk like an eighth-grader.

I think you've got cause and effect quite mixed up: smoking became a social faux pas precisely because people learned how bad it was for them.

When somebody like Mamdani (obviously not him since he's not a native) wins a presidential primary maybe I'll concede your point. All recent Democratic nominees have resembled the "normal," centrist candidates of yore; only the Republican party has adopted the intolerant, "theatrical" third-world style of politics so far (in the figure of Trump), and again, natives have always voted for him at higher rates than naturalized citizens.

Is that why white South Africans are being welcomed as refugees?

But this government was voted for by natives at a higher rate than by naturalized citizens. It seems odd to blame them for this.

Just because the second opinions did not disagree with the first, it does not necessarily follow that they were a waste of time.

I like how the names of these problems are italicized as though they're the titles of short stories. Really it's just become a canon we're expected to have memorized rather than a test of problem-solving skills.

This is meaningless without a denominator. How much has international tourism increased in those years? What percentage of international tourists visited the US before and after 2001?

Yeah the French word could also be translated as "the foreigner." It's an interesting demonstration of the challenge of translation; even a one-word title presents an ambiguity that has to be resolved.

Eh, when I was a kid violence was physical by definition. That distinction seems to be getting lost such that the phrase "physical violence" is no longer redundant. But the new usage is figurative.

The weapon, ostensibly, in a democracy, is the ability to vote your leaders out.

What's the blast radius we can expect when these changes land?

That's a different phrase. "Pace yourself" is reflexive; "pacing the frontier" has the frontier as an object, but in that sense it only means to set the speed, nothing to do with slowing down.

What reason does he have to fear for his life?