(On a more serious note: if a particular publication decides that they don't want writers using "decimate," whatever! All publications have a style guide, and they can put anything they want in it. Anything! Even "coƶperate"! Like it's 1750 again!)
From your keyboard to his God's ears.
The mindset has to switch from, āif I get this, I will voteā to āwhen I vote, I had better get thisā because thatās the actual order of operations here. The voting is systemic; the results are process-based. Also, she is not the incumbent. The VP has no actual power except being a live body.
The Murderbot series is marvelous in audio (I listen to it over and over again). Also The Last Binding (trilogy) by Freya Marske and The Lamb and the Lion (trilogy) by Gregory Ashe.
I don't know about most recent, but the one that immediately springs to mind is www.kthoffmanwrites.com/the-prospects
Just going with a concept weāre used toā¦
By "history book" you mean today's NYT/WaPo/etc.?
That, too.
The fact that I'm asking myself "Which one does she mean?" says a lot about the US.
Right? We've got some work to do on the capitalism/socialism numbers, but on the whole... I'll take this!