You wouldn't get a choice which one. Just sayin'.
Some things eat at a man worse than dying.
Because he's claiming to have drunk turpentine and had no side effects.
Ah, I see. What's it like being sinless?
How many comments to it are just scolding her for using a "misogynistic" insult?
Imagine being so self-righteous that you think only a tiny handful of human beings are capable of evil.
Imagine being so small minded that you don't think China is controlling them both.
Mine was 1992, courtesy of Rush Limbaugh. 13 years old. And then I went from being bullied by my fellow students, to being bullied by the teachers.
Nobody rejects religion; they just invent a new one for themselves--and then proceed to judge others by it.
It's the new word for "heretic".
It takes so much strength of will to break away, and admit to yourself that what love they offered you doesn't justify what they did. You made it, though, and now you're well prepared to see it as it is--and help others see it, too.
(I lived through a childhood by gaslight, too, so I'm always filled with new hope whenever I see someone else broke free!)
Lifelong abuse victims seldom have the context to understand that mom and dad weren't the good guys.
It's one thing when it's a faceless HR idiot, or someone with whom you have very little contact, handing you a mandate like this. It's another entirely when it's someone who looks you in the eyes regularly throughout the day, and then gives you an ultimatum in a stern letter instead of talking to you one-on-one.
Someone who would do something like this, after frequent eye contact, is not to be trusted. The barrier to unreasonable demands by Karen-ish delivery has been broken, and even if it didn't work this time, it will happen again. You need a good relationship in such a small office, and the good relationship is gone--because it never really existed.
Indeed, then you agree that there's no reason to think Biden is in control of the military.