Beautiful! I looked this up once and mine are like yours with spiky leaves. They’re Thanksgiving cacti because they typically bloom around American Thanksgiving. Christmas cacti have more scalloped leaves and bloom a few weeks later. Mine often bloom all winter long.

Thank you—your guess makes sense.

Is it a way of distancing themselves—they’re suggesting it’s endemic in some economic/cultural groups but, obviously not suggesting that white, male politicians have this issue, too? I mean, obviously facts defeat that pretty quickly but that doesn’t usually seem a problem for them.

People are proud when they resist temptation. Most people don’t refrain from raping teenagers because of their willpower but, rather, because it’s abhorrent.

My fav:

One of my students did a brilliant presentation on it just two weeks ago