The Harding hate is sadly predictable. Harding is so abused by people who nothing about the man. Historians hate him because they have a bias toward hyperactive presidents like TR and FDR.
Rated by the historians in the “worst” category, by contrast, is, you guessed it, Warren G. Harding: a president who successfully promoted economic prosperity, cut taxes, balanced the budget, reduced the national debt, released all of his predecessor’s political prisoners, supported anti-lynching legislation, and instituted the most substantial naval arms reduction agreement in world history. Go figure.
Yes, Harding was prone to verbal gaffes, and had a few scandals, but he was basically a solid leader, ahead of his time in many ways, like in civil rights.
Yes, and Wilson is always in the top 10, and he suspended habeus corpus and took political prisoners (mostly socialists and feminists).
If you look at the list, you can see that historians tend to favor the politicians that took big dramatic actions, started wars, led imperially, etc. Theodore Roosevelt is also always near the top, and he basically advocated empire building and racist immigration policies. Historians are just awful drama queens mostly.
Sure. The cat face emoticon is a reference to an anime trope. When a character is being deliberately mischievous, or slightly bad in some way, they’re often shown with the “cat face” (If you want to see an example, go to the Banned Wiki and search “cat smile”. I daren’t link there. ). It was adopted as an emoticon since the “mouth” of the cat face is essentially a sideways 3. In the west it is usually used to indicate that one is joking lightheartedly, using a bad pun, or alternately, to indicate that one isn’t really trying to troll.
Interesting. Most of the people I’ve seen using it (myself included) are using it as a kind of a variant of <3, the heart smiley. (There’s a slight difference in meaning between that and the heart, but one that’s too subtle for me to put my finger on right now.)
Hmmm, maybe the meaning is splintering as it becomes more common. I suspect it originated in anime/manga message boards, as that is where I first saw it.
The TV tropes page mainly seems to describe my usage.
The Harding hate is sadly predictable. Harding is so abused by people who nothing about the man. Historians hate him because they have a bias toward hyperactive presidents like TR and FDR.
Yes, Harding was prone to verbal gaffes, and had a few scandals, but he was basically a solid leader, ahead of his time in many ways, like in civil rights.
Edit: Okay, you’ve given good reasons.
Yes, and Wilson is always in the top 10, and he suspended habeus corpus and took political prisoners (mostly socialists and feminists).
If you look at the list, you can see that historians tend to favor the politicians that took big dramatic actions, started wars, led imperially, etc. Theodore Roosevelt is also always near the top, and he basically advocated empire building and racist immigration policies. Historians are just awful drama queens mostly.
There’s a pretty good argument to make for Lincoln as our worst President, too. He’s the only President under which we had a civil war!
Is this really relevant …
Hey, we’re trying to get less wrong here.… :3
well in that case, can you explain that emoticon (:3)? I have yet to hear any explanation that makes sense :)
Sure. The cat face emoticon is a reference to an anime trope. When a character is being deliberately mischievous, or slightly bad in some way, they’re often shown with the “cat face” (If you want to see an example, go to the Banned Wiki and search “cat smile”. I daren’t link there. ). It was adopted as an emoticon since the “mouth” of the cat face is essentially a sideways 3. In the west it is usually used to indicate that one is joking lightheartedly, using a bad pun, or alternately, to indicate that one isn’t really trying to troll.
Interesting. Most of the people I’ve seen using it (myself included) are using it as a kind of a variant of <3, the heart smiley. (There’s a slight difference in meaning between that and the heart, but one that’s too subtle for me to put my finger on right now.)
Hmmm, maybe the meaning is splintering as it becomes more common. I suspect it originated in anime/manga message boards, as that is where I first saw it.
The TV tropes page mainly seems to describe my usage.
:3 is more “kitty likes you! aww!” or “teehee” and <3 is more “I send my love/kisses” or “wish I was there”. At least, that is how I see it.
Thank you, that fits my intuition. Though :3 can also be a more tender, delicate version of the “love message” in <3. <3 has a more powerful tone.