Coming from deeply conservative evangelical culture, I can tell you that to them, she isn't a pastor, she's a woman pastor which a completely different and significantly less respected thing. To us she's just a pastor, which also earns her buckets of disrespect. She's basically unelectable by everyone.

Yeah but by season 2 they're best friends.

This is Medici, where they speak Interligua, a sort of blend of Spanish, Catalan, French, and Italian and where the world's largest natural source of bavarium was found. I remember reading about the revolution a few years ago that ousted the dictatorship that got powerful on the back of Bavarium mining. The US was caught blatantly supporting both sides, but the revolutionaries won and now they are a democracy again.

Their accents are different. Bob has a Midwest touch to his speech, as is standard for Illinois kids like him, Steve speaks classic Western New England, typical of his Massachusetts upbringing, which is almost exactly the same as American Standard.

But these two came up in the New York comedy world around the same time. They weren't close but had many mutual colleagues. It might be more about a similar performance style than a regional accent you're noticing.

Unwordly Americans like to pretend people think of the US as the best country in the world. They think this because they have never spoken to someone from outside the US except for the Mexicans they persecute, so they have an empty canvas to fill with all kinds of wild notions.

Politicians are generally worldly enough to know it's not true, but that doesn't win elections.

Where I live we've had a 4% cap for a long time. It just means tenants get evicted to increase the price. It's illegal, but the procedure to after landlords cheating the system is so grueling and adversarial, it puts justice beyond the reach of many victims. I can only imagine this being even worse in the US.

Your facts don't check out, that's what makes you wrong. Fallacies are just the symptom.

... did it work?

When the Captain finds Neelix and Tuvok intertwined in an intimate coupling, she is forced to order them to break up.

"But we're adding more ads, spying on you more, and removing more tools. We're trying everything, why don't people like it?

This is an anxiety response, your body is coursing with cortisol, the stress hormone. These exercises should help. I find square breathing to be especially helpful, but everyone's different. https://www.choosingtherapy.com/anxiety-exercises/

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