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The best thing you can do in these situations is to ask a critically reflective question for them to sit with. You can and never have been able to change someone’s mind just like that. What you can is be part of the web of critical thoughts that help them towards thinking critically about their idea.

I think the word is mostly used by the far right anyways

How can age verification be misused?

I never really hear people say that the free market will solve everything. Market failures are a thing and a dominant part of welfare economics.

Yes also that, but reducing it to “they could be into anything, and there’s an equal chance just like everyone else that theyd be into me” is also a cognitive distortion right?

What’s holding you back from being the person they’d date?

(Btw there is some good advice in that question that can help you identify what fears and procrastination that keeps you away from what you want to be, but there’s also a potential trap in determining your worth by external factors)

I love an ambitious person. Just not if the main motivation is money, fame, beauty, or status. But give me someone geeky, curious, and exploring person anytime.

Maybe doesn’t qualify as a war crime, but they have mass murdered their own protesting citizens.

But you should also read up on their role in funding militias around the arab world, about sunnis and shias, about operation AJAX, and about their authoritarian regime.

My comment wasn’t about what is or isn’t. It was about what narrative will be spun.

I’m just saying what narrative they will spin

They would just do the whole “we don’t negotiate with terrorists spiel”

Ah so it’s more of a question about the origin of the word, and it seems you’re right about the lion’s teeth. People who say dandy lion probably misinterpreted the sound. But hey that’s how language evolves.