I agree.

One has to take it in context. Particularly when we simultaneously say “don’t judge a book by it’s cover” (despite that literally being the point of a book’s cover in a bookstore).

Sigh. No, I don’t.

First, I apologize for the insult earlier, it was not constructive nor warraned.

You’ve failed to divine Dahl’s meaning behind the quote from The Twits. Or more likely I’ve failed to explain it in way that saticfies your needs (which is on me, not you).

Dahl’s point, which I generally agree with, is that a person’s demeanour is shown on their face by their expressions. A person with an ‘ugly’ demeanor probably has ‘ugly’ expressions.

Dahl’s point is that your expressions convey information and he draws a distinction between having ‘bad’ features versus having ‘bad’ expressions.

In the vast and complex field of neurodivergence that generalisation can fall apart when one’s expressions no longer convey information about your thoughts.

PSA this is called a “strawman argument” and is a logical fallacy

A strawman is the construction of an argument not present in the original premise which is then argued against.

In this case the strawman is “everyone at fault except the perpetrator” (emphasis mine) the original premise did not explicitly exclude the perp.

Your ugliness is showing.

Not constructive. I apologize.

Whatever dude.

Not constructive.

I’m explaining a quote from a children’s book. Not promulgating some universal absolute truth.

Also, doing so in the context of one particular person.

Then, frankly, those people should read more children’s books and watch less (American) TV.

Read it again. It specifically points out that even if your facial features are “ugly” it’s your demeanor that is actually what your face shows holistically.

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

Roald Dahl, The Twits

1926, Germany.

I assume someone left a newspaper lying around in the oval office mar-a-lago.

I take it back, he looks less worse with the over the top bronzer.

He knows his words are false, but what he is doing is dictating reality to us; he’s making it clear how we are expected to behave, and that any deviation from said reality will be declared treasonous and terrorism.

Ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears. Listen to The Party and toe the party line.

They are deeply angry that the American public “betrayed” them

Accurate and succinct.

Urgh,shitty bottle only pours out the left side.

Yeah, but the tangerine buffoon can’t think ahead, plan, or even follow a plan for that matter. He’d have blabbed already, unless he’s been kept in the dark this time.

I was really really surprised when Trump didn’t immediately call the election “stolen”. I figured that it might have been because he’s so narcissistic that he didn’t care because it wasn’t an election for him specifically.

But, with all the military mobilisation I’m thinking along the same lines as you: what’re they up to? Obviously a coup, but how and when?

Yeah, another reply/comment made me change my mind.

There’s also that a lot of people conflate justice with revenge.

Distance oneself from wanting vengeance and then discussed what consequences justice requires.

I hope you’ve been (and are) able to deal with that trauma in a healthy way.

Come to think of it, I’m not sure I wish that on anyone, no matter who they are.

He’s possibly barely suffered a consequence in his entire life, so probably even the thought of there being any consequences is terrifying (enough) to him.