In Japan, if you have to say it out loud, it is already too late.
We call it reading the air. You call it mind games.
It is not a game. It is attention.
The host notices your glass before you ask. The friend changes the subject before the room gets heavy. Nobody announced anything. Everybody knew.
You think communication means speaking. We think speaking is what you do when communication has failed.
The kindest sentence is the one nobody had to say.
British occupation forces in New York City hang convicted spy Nathan Hale.
He behaves with great composure, and on the gallows he declares: “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
I understand and that’s why I said standby. If this needs to be done, I will do it first and bear the consequences. But I won’t act out of emotion or without a plan. And not until we have devised a clear path to victory.
bums are an untouchable priest caste who occupy the most valuable property in our cities while not paying taxes
how did we get here?
(video of me doing some every day Free State "activism")