Because critiquing a system as currently failing doesn’t translate to, “good things aren’t possible,” or as you said earlier, “things can’t get better,” except by hyperbolic inference. You’re welcome to disagree with my points and offer your own thoughts on the issues, and that would certainly be more interesting than trying to critique me as a person based on four sentences on Lemmy.

You’ve wilfully misread the comment, but I’m not going to quibble with you about it.

Honestly with the way the US stands today, “no fundamental change” is probably the best we could hope for. Of course, I think things are generally worse now than when he was elected, but I don’t blame him for the problems of crony capitalism, a completely dysfuncional congress, a Supreme Court beholden to private donors, and a national constituency that seems to shed brain cells like trees shed leaves in autumn.

For convoluted linguistic reasons, “x and me,” is correct and the default expression in English for this type of subject. If I recall, “x and I” is how it would be said in Latin, and I believe the desire to sound more educated // “proper” (like Latin) was the original reason that this phrase was pushed onto children in schools, by well-intentioned but ignorant school masters.

Yes! I’ve also been doing a Spooky Season last month and this one with some of the same classics - Frankenstein, Dracula, The Invisible Man, and now Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

I had never read any of them before! Based on the popular conceptions versus the reality of the text, I’d say Frankenstein was the most interesting.

The Holy Roman Empire.