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Aspiration's primary meaning in modern English is not inhalation of objects. You have an impressive command of English for a non-native speaker, but if it sounds ambiguous or strange to you to use "aspiration" in this way, you will have to take the word of native English speakers that her use isn't ambiguous or strange.
Yah, I hear it at work all the time relating to creating goals for people. Almost buzzword-y these days in my circle.
Also, "ambition" is not a word a politician would eagerly use. Particularly a woman politician.
And ambition has a nuance of ego and self-fulfillment that aspiration doesn't have. Aspiration implies a goal that has some worthiness. Ambition not so much.
That last statement really sums it up. I read something about Jared and Ivanka where Ivanka said they both realized they had, and I’m possibly paraphrasing, unrelenting ambition. Aspiration in this case is more about the thought itself, the dream if you will. You need the dream and the drive to go together. But when someone thinks something isn’t even possible, the drive can be suppressed or pointed elsewhere. So a woman, and/ or a woman of non-white descent, seeing that someone of the same did achieve a position will let them know that they can put the dream there then work towards it. Are there people who don’t need that to aspire to it? Sure. But the more that know it’s a possibility means the more that will try.
Aspiration meaning breathe in really is used more in the medical field- aspirating food, aspiration pneumonia, etc. M ywife is a speech therapist and uses that term in that way very often.
As far as Trump vs Biden, time will tell if the right choice was made, and there will be another election in 4 years. There were certainly many who voted for Trump because he created a cult of personality who gave them a place to put blame and ignore the real core of their own issue. I’m also sure that there were many who voted for him because he was the republican candidate and they are going to vote republican no matter what. And that was true on the democratic side too.
That’s where I get scared, because then it means statements, actions, ideas, etc don’t matter, just the label that you function under. I’m independent and voted for who I felt would do the best job in this circumstance, but different than other times, I voted for one of the mainstream candidates because I knew it was going to be close and I knew of the two mainstream candidates who I would rather have in office.
For me, Trump himself, is the problem, not Republican ideas or whatever someone wants to call them. He has been a con man since he was young, with plenty of real evidence to prove it. But he is really good at projecting success to those that don’t want to think to hard about it, like all good conmen and showmen. He didn’t just show anyone who he really is- he’s always been the same. The difference, in this case, is that the job required a lot of responsibility, proactive thinking, planning, vulnerability, long hours, and follow through, all which are weaknesses of his, regardless of personality traits (or because of them). If he was an idea man who hired a trusted, competent team to do the things he doesn’t do well and was actually ok with discussion and productive disagreement, things would be different in business and in government for him. When he ran the Taj Mahal casino into the ground, he hurt a lot of people, but it was still on a small scale compared to what an irresponsible decision or a lack of a thorough approach can do as president of the country.
Anyway, enough out of me on it, the post is long enough already.
It's a good post though
Someone should put this to music.
My favorite reaction GIF by far
America welcome back to the human race for a few years, well until you get the first female President.
Until?
Many people who voted for Trump, voted with their wallets. Poor people. People who lost their business due to the pandemic and the various restrictions. People who are barely clinging on to their business. I’m not judging one way or the other here, just pointing out one of the reasons he got so many votes.
Anyone who voted for Trump with their wallet because they thought LESS should have been done about the pandemic doesn't understand economics.
The U.S. economy will have suffered far more by the time the pandemic is over than if strong measures had been taken early. If you look at countries that stopped the pandemic in its tracks, their economies and local businesses got back to business within months.
The U.S. and Britain's and other countries refusals to take strong action early has resulted in more damage not less.
If anyone looked at the U.S in November and thought "we'd be better off with business as usual", they weren't thinking about what would happen. We will be at 500,000 dead in a month or so....imagine what the number would be if even less had been done.
Just read an interesting micro-poll of 4 Republican voters' attitudes towards Biden:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55742586
Also, here's an interesting (pre-Trump) post from Brain Pickings, about the 'backfire effect':
[tl;dr - people protect their beliefs like they protect their fingers and toes. Conflicting evidence strengthens their (our) convictions, rather than changing our (their) minds.]
https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/05/13/backfire-effect-mcraney/
I feel much safer with Joe Biden as America's Commander in Chief, anyhow, and I can't be the only one.
I've had this scene from 'The Dead Zone' stuck in my head for months.
Ha!
Apparently irony is not part of his vocabulary! 🤗
I wonder if he's ever asked a true Native American how she feels about Udayan "breaking in" to her country???
It's amazing how as soon as someone moves some place they like, they immediately do everything in their power to stop others from doing the same.
So sad!
So very, very unfair!
To be fair to Udayan Mallik, he's a US citizen with a point of view and a vote, and we don't know that he's ever moved anywhere. But I get your point about ex-colonial double standards
Telling people to wear a mask in a pandemic that has killed 400,000 plus people is indeed terribly radical. “Give me liberty or give me death!” they say. Good news- you can now have both by exercising your liberty to not do one of the most basic things you can do to protect yourself and others.
By the way, it doesn’t matter what percent of those that had Covid that number is, 400,000 dead people is too many. 1 preventable death is too many. Not every death from Covid was preventable, as with anything, there will be some that don’t make it just because, but when it’s preventable, shouldn’t it be prevented?
Immaturity can’t be illegal of course (that will make sense on a few sentences), so there will just be those that refuse, and they don’t realize that doing their part to protect others is a responsibility of living in a society. You don’t have total responsibility for protecting others, as they have to do their part too, but your personal responsibility is important. Kohlberg’s theory of moral development is the one that really stuck with me from social work school and provides a nice framework for understanding certain choices people make. If they aren’t in that point in their development to understand that responsibility to others yet then you have to mandate things like wearing a mask because it’s developmentally appropriate (regardless of age).
I’m going to read that article now, it sounds interesting.
Interesting reading- the third guy says Biden won’t unify because he’s pushing an agenda that doesn’t reflect all Americans. No one can do that, because all Americans can’t agree on everything. The give and take is the important part about making anything work. Everyone has to be willing to compromise. The part that’s been frustrating about the way politics has developed, and certainly emphasized in the past 4 years but it didn’t start just there, is this feeling of, “If you don’t agree 100% with everything I feel and say you are the enemy.” It wasn’t just one party that was doing that, or one left or right, etc.
Also very interesting to me is this “Big Tech” narrative that seems to have developed or come to prominence recently. There has never been a time in the country (and many others of course) where it’s been ok, in any forum, to push violence towards others, to denigrate others, or to plot to overthrow a government. And, the “Big tech” in question is not a right, it’s a private company that provides a spot for people to express themselves within guidelines they agreed to when they signed up. Yes, it makes it easy to send a message to a large number of people at once for whom you do not have to have individual contact info, but it is not a required thing to stay alive.
To go with that, a privately owned business can tell you to leave if you are not wearing a mask, not wearing shoes, not wearing a shirt, or whatever rules they set, as long as it is not saying you can’t access it by something you have no control over, such as the color of your skin or a disability. That’s no different than them having a room lableled “employees only” or the like. You are free to not patronize the business, to protest peacefully letting others know about the business’ policy that you disagree with, etc. If the business fails because of a lack of customers then it’s on them. At the beach, there are plenty of businesses that specify you need a shirt and shoes, no wet clothing, etc if you want to enter, even though that state of dress would be common for that situation.
Anyway, interesting reading and it definitely was a good example that not all who voted Republican are fringe characters. And I don’t have to agree with everything they say to respect their point of view. I do think that as a little distance from the inauguration happens, a lot of this will settle down as people’s lives are able to get back to more normalcy. Many of us have had WAY too much time on our hands in the past year and many have definitely been feeling cooped up and disconnected from others, which can affect mental health. There’s always been people on the fringe and there always will be, but I think the majority of people will start to calm down inflamed feelings with time. That doesn’t mean beliefs will (or should) change, just the inflammatory way that they have been expressed.
When we talk about 400,000 dead from COVID, it is probably worth reminding us that most experts in the field believe the number dead as a result of the pandemic is considerably higher.
The other thing that is interesting -- and an indication of how much this is not like the flu -- is that during the period since the pandemic started (which includes what is normally flu season), the statistics show that the even though the pandemic has worsened dramatically in November and December that flu and pneumonia deaths are way down as are reported cases. It is an indication that the precautions people are taking are having an impact and that COVID is a greater threat
Let us not pretend that people with these views exist only in the U.S. While there are a lot of such people here. 20,000 (unmasked) people protested in Berlin against masks and other coronavirus related restrictions. And there was another demonstration there in November with 10,000.
While Germany's response has been far better than the U.S.'s, it feels a little over-the-top that you are constantly posting about how stupid you think Americans are with no acknowledgement that there are plenty of idiots elsewhere as well.
https://www.quotemaster.org/images/2b/2b64125a5c21446cd3d1225b10827530.jpg
Derail for a moment:
You’ll get full credit, But “Lord, let it rain brains” is making it into one of my songs if it’s the last thing I do. A collaboration is fine with me too.
Well, there’s somewhat stupid like Mr Udayan all the way to batshit crazy like this fine specimen:
https://www.reddit.com/r/InsaneParler/comments/l1iufi/insane_parler_qanon_lunatic_crying_and_begging/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
I think one of the main differences is that so many Americans seem to take pride in being belligerently ignorant.
I say that as an American.