I had to sit through a poorly made documentary at church as a kid about how Star Wars was evil. Star Wars, which Lucas made to be as generic good vs evil as possible, was labeled as evil by my church. I can pinpoint that as one of the moments in childhood where I started becoming critical of the views of my church, and questioning the things they were telling me. Another key moment was when they had a young man go up to the podium and give his testimony. He talked all about how he was living a life of partying, rock-and-roll, and sex, and then found his way back to the church. I vividly remember thinking “well if that’s an option, that’s the road I’ll take too! Sounds like fun!”. My church did a lot of things like that which had the opposite effect they intended.
Jon is the exception, and I’ve often spoken about how he would be an excellent President.
He knows, has been involved, and most importantly is disgusted in that knowledge of how the sausage gets made. He knows how to appeal for public support to tear down the institutional obstructions.
Also importantly, I don’t think he can be bought. He’s walked away from cash cow gigs after he made enough. He isn’t infinitely greedy, and that’s rare in politics because most of them get into politics explicitly to be bought. I think his combination of institutional knowledge, understanding of today’s social ills, demonstrated empathy, and ability to say no to calls of making moooooaaaaaar money make him the ideal candidate.
That’s also the problem, because I don’t think he’d want it, which makes him an even better choice.
That’s the paradox of power, from police all the way to POTUS, the ones that seek it out and fight for it tend to be the worst possible candidates to possess it.
They do it for the looks. They think others don’t care about legs and they don’t like training legs so they don’t. Truth is exactly how you said it, it looks extremely unbalanced and most women/men I know actually prefer people with a nice lower body.
The flip side are women who only train lower body and it’s the exact same thing. They look lopsided.
As for you mentioning using strength to lift irl stuff, very few people these days lift for functional strength. It’s for health and looking good 99% of the time now. Usually that’s mentioned by people who don’t really work out which is interesting now that I think about it.
No, because he’s repeatedly said that he has no desire to do it, and that it’s a total indictment of our system that we are looking to a comedian for political leadership, lol. (He’s not wrong!)
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