The space under my bed

Look at them! They are full of joy and bliss.

Which is correct!

But this is often framed as me approaching the right wing naively by the respondent.

That's not the case at all. I know they're evil. The goal is to demonstrate that they're lying by exposing the way the rhetoric fails to line up with reality.

The play is to:

Demonstrate that the policy doesn't work

Demonstrate that the people enforcing the policy have everything they need to know it doesn't work

Provide the context of what the policy achieves in the absence of its "intended" outcome.

Remind people that the purpose of a system is what it does.

Also a lot of people having a rough time also tend to want to simplify, and sometimes aren't interested in empathizing.

All round, though, it doesn't look good for Farage. It was a sham one-party election, so he can't play the "See? No one cares about my multimillion pound bribes, they still voted me in" card he was banking on. His only competition was a bin, and the bin actually did well. Meanwhile, as Goats says, he's now subject to the enquiry he tried to avoid.

He played a strategy that was supposed to be win-win, but the other major parties totally hamstrung it. And, credit where credit's due, the idea for the others to not stand this time was an absolutely genius move that, in fact, came from the static TV screen of a brain that belongs to, of all people, Kemi fucking Badenoch. Stopped clocks and that.

when i asked whether their autistic classmate's meltdown was dangerous or merely uncomfortable, they said, "i felt like i was in danger!"

yes you should, actually. that's life. upsetting things happen. no one should have to experience any discomfort. but we do. we get stung by bees and sunburns and headaches. we live in bodies in the world.

autistic people are human beings who have the right to exist in society, including during meltdowns. having one class of your entire semester interrupted by a singular meltdown is not anymore of an infringement upon your entitlement to education than having your class interrupted by a fire alarm or cancelled for a snow storm.

one of my peers once experienced a cardiac event 10 minutes into class. it was terrifying. it was desperately upsetting. i was contacted by the school and offered counseling because i happened to be the one who managed the situation until paramedics arrived. everyone was worried about my classmate first and foremost, and then about me. no one blamed anyone, and certainly when my classmate happily recovered and returned to school, no one thought they should be removed from the program.

Like Patches up there?? He's a stupid bastard who is constantly screwing you over in every game, but my favorite thing he does is in Elden Ring. During one of the major boss fights you get the chance to summon a bunch of NPCs to help you out, which is pretty cool bcs there are usually only one or two NPC summons for bosses in these games. The thing is tho, the game will make a boss harder if you summon an NPC or a player, so having a friend doesn't take all the challenge out, and this stacks. In this fight, every person you summon is an asset, but they also each make the boss a little bit stronger just by being there.

Now that difficultly boost doesn't go away if your friend or NPC dies, this is why in co-op it is important to fucking stay alive, bcs if you die too early your friend is stuck with a harder version of the boss, and thus is probably fucked. It also doesn't go back down if your summon quits out or finds some other way to leave.

So anyway, for the big boss Patches is one of the summons. Now, to preface this, usually you're running really fast and just spamming the interact button to summon everyone before the boss kills you because he has really strong ranged attacks(there's a reason this boss arena is one of the only ones where you can ride your horse), so it's hard to check WHO you're summoning. Which means you usually end up summoning Patches.

Patches, who is a self-serving jerk and has tried to kill you a bunch of times and only acts friendly when it's clear he's losing, is programmed to summon in, walk towards the boss a few steps, and then IMMEDIATELY LEAVE, making the boss battle harder without the balance of another set of hands, and thus, fucking you over. He does this every single time. It doesn't matter what you do, you cannot get him to stay and fight. He will always leave. And the game makes it sure you know he did that, bcs if an NPC or player dies you get a message like "[character] has died" at the bottom of your screen. If someone leaves, instead you get "[character] has returned to their world". They want you to know right away that he didn't die, he left.

And it's fucking hilarious. I don't know a single player who didn't laugh the first time that happened to them. It's not something you're expecting, even if you know Patches from the other games, usually your thought is "oh, no way, Patches is here?" and like you assume he's gonna help despite his nature bcs that's how these games work...only for him to stay true to his characterization and leave you to fucking die because of course he does.