(She did knock my husband out of the semi though which is very funny to me)

This reminds me of when an early Sally Rooney profile described her as “the best debater in Europe” and a bunch of salty members of the community got pissed off because, while she was the best speaker at the competition, she did not win the EUDC final.

Have read this multiple times and feel like my brain is leaking out my ears

Fun fact: my high school had an Avatar themed prom

What strikes me with these videos is how eloquently she’s able to speak without notes. Excellent word economy, no filler phrases or cliches really.

If it’s about safety then your claim is essentially that a predatory CHILD has had sufficient foresight and deviousness to strategically identify as trans, with all the difficulty that entails, specifically to join the Girl Guides and abuse girls. Laughable.

Compare Sultana to something like this and it's clear how much we're grading her on a curve when we say she's good at communicating.

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they better not come for my boy Payakan

Nationalisation as a blanket solution precludes us from thinking about more specific ways to improve these things (which will sometimes be nationalisation, but not always!)

“Workers cooperatives” is just as useless a phrase as the liberal focus-grouped lingo Sultana presumably despises. Talk about the real world in ways people recognise!

I usually hate it when people describe something as “student politics”, because they’re often just mocking the concept of wanting good things, but this is student politics from Sultana.

OJ is literally trying to lead her to the argument, to specificity, to real people and implications beyond the abstract; but she’s stuck in reading a photocopy of a photocopy of a Tony Benn speech.