@jon-nyc said:
When you’re on track to lose you might be tempted to take any high volatility play.
But in two weeks, when it’s over, what you’ve decided is what kind of man you are. And that lasts long after the election.
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@jon-nyc An aside- Your post reminded me that a person in my immediate environment for whom I have implicit respect and great fondness call me a "good man". It was one of the best compliments I've received. Nobody had called me that and probably nobody will again.
It was during a different situation as you can image.
People generally think of "FL men" and women as intolerant.
I don't don't doubt the reason is because of the legendary intolerance of Floridians against Blacks and Hispanic people that exists to this day.
However, it's not like I imagined it would be for me.
Men in general don't express their intolerant feelings.in public. They don't express the fact they have any feeling.
Women are different. Almost all women in public express a deep understanding and acceptance of human nature.
The tell is when they're talking to a person and they finish their sentence with- "...honey."
It happens to me all the time.
This is working class and middle class women.
We know upper-middle class women don't speak this way
My friend who gave me this compliment doesn't speak this way. She's far too serious to use terms of endearment.
So I savor this compliment it course.
Interestingly, HI flips all of this on its ear.
Polynesia is a world away.
The women were very rude until you got to know them and finding a shared sense of humor was always the key.
The men didn't have a North American sense of any of this it they were Hawaiian, mixed race Hawaiian, and including the mixed race descendants of the groups that came to work the plantations, with very few exceptions, were "on the down low". I wouldn't have believed it.
This didn't apply to whites who were generally upper-middle class, generally appropriated Hawaiian culture, and generally thought they were God's gift to humanity.
