It is important to get a democratic majority. If you ask yourself why some non-US citizens care: We have to share the planet with you. Your politics affect us. Trump lead to an increase in far right politics all over the world. Nationalism, xenophobia, sexism, and racism are on a rise. Far right extremists use him as an example and role model.
The changes in foreign politics and his opinions about climate change affect all of us. The world is a more dangerous place. We are in the middle of a trade war with ever increasing vocal threats and insults that might lead to more.
We are afraid. We can’t trust the USA any longer. The world order is destabilized and not for the better. The EU now turns to China as their partner. A country where human rights are disrespected. Events like the murder of Saudi-arabian journalist Khashoggi are only vaguely addressed, because the international community fails to find an united voice.
We need stable and sane USA. Not for their military power, but for their voice of reason.
So please vote democratic, so that we can all hope for a better future. We need you.
love being trusted with “you cant tell anyone this” conversations and nodding a lot and forgetting everything they told me like god intended and going down as a trustworthy individual while doing literally zero work of ill or good
Most people don’t even use cursive for signatures. Eventually, they all just dissolve into squiggles.
Plus Some people’s cursive can be pretty unreadable even when they do put in the effort.
Oh noooooooo, society is chaaaaaaanging, what will we dooooooo~???
I was taught cursive, told I would need it in high school when we started writing essays.
Teachers didn’t accept anything in cursive. By the end of highschool teachers were not accepting hand-written essays and everything had to be typed. Though, they assured me cursive would probably be a thing in university because you have to write essays in class sometimes too and wouldn’t have access to computer to type it up.
In university, we were warned, that cursive can be a faster method of writing, but harder to make legible when writing quickly. We were warned if the professor couldn’t easily and quickly tell what we were saying, it would count as not having written anything. This included in-class exam essays on a time limit. So no one used cursive.
So while I was constantly being assured that cursive would be very useful when I grew up, it only became increasingly obsolete.
Why would we continue to teach obsolete skills? Why waste the time?
That being said… kids are exposed to a lot of different fonts… some of which are cursive. I think they can figure it out.
cursive is more of an art form than it is a way of life now a days and i appreciate the beauty of the script but its not practical unless you can do it really well and quickly for anything school related tbh.
The initial comic is annoying as hell, but I will say that being able to write in cursive absolutely is practical. It’s a godsend for fast note-taking. If you’re a kid who never learned it in school, I’d recommend doing so before starting university.
Knowing both print and cursive is very handy when writing quickly because, once you’re used to them, you can write some letters is one way and some letters in another way, whichever is quickest
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