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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Lost in Space
I'm watching this topic. I was a bit taken aback but we settled things through discussion, which is the purpose of the forums. So, yay.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
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, It probably helps that I only skimmed the article and mentally conflated it with another one that I read, which did in fact all claim that the fact that most young male voters were voting for Sanders proved that misogyny was on the rise among the youth, citing a study about the political and social views of millennials that came to the exact opposite conclusion.
edited 5th May '16 6:35:15 PM by CaptainCapsase
And I come bearing articles:
Paul Ryan still unwilling to back Donald Trump as the GOP Nominee
Of course, this all requires the next president to continue cracking down on these industries.
Trump's finance chairman, Steven Mnuchin, has previously donated to Democrats
Welcome to Griftopia on Trump Lane and Rove Road.
Regarding the banks, unless the losses to lawsuits (or actual criminal charges with jail time) are going to outweigh the potential earnings, banks aren't going to stop abiding by laws and regulations at their convenience.
And holy shit, I think I might actually be right that Trump's planning to run to the left of Clinton on some issues. Until Clinton inevitably claims she was even further left since forever and we've always been at war with Eastasia.
edited 5th May '16 6:43:25 PM by CaptainCapsase
And it's going to work and he's going to win and everything will be terrible, right?
Another green world.
Honestly, if he's running with a democratic running mate, we're reaching the point where he's literally going to drop all the horribly racist rhetoric overnight and be a completely different person in the general election. That's all the more reason not to vote for him, since that puts every other politician (both Clintons included) to shame, but it could work.
edited 5th May '16 6:47:21 PM by CaptainCapsase
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
And in depressing news from my fine home state.
Oh really when?
Why shouldn't he. He's not bound to the conservative social planks like the other Republican candidates were.
He's basically taken Transphobia mostly off of his table going "Eh, who gives a fuck about the bathroom" basically.
And he's basically swung left of New Democrats/Neo Liberal Technocrats on Social Security and Medicare, basically saying the two should be untouched and unfiddled with and we shouldn't fuck around with these programs which old people and the infirm need. (While the Technocrats love using them as bargaining chips to raise taxes)
He's still an abhorrent racist and a psychotic warmonger, but he is swinging left-ish on social plank issues.
I would literally laugh if he picked Jim Webb as his running mate.
edited 5th May '16 6:48:20 PM by PotatoesRock
Lost in Space
If Trump successfully positions himself as more moderate than Clinton, I will... well, I'll have to move to that ski chalet in Hell that I was sold a timeshare to last year.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
He wasn't really perceived as horrendously racist prior to the election, and I never really followed him in prior years, so it's not beyond the realm of possibility that the blatant race baiting has all been part of an act to gain power.
I feel like the entire theme of his campaign has been "just crazy enough to work", so I wouldn't totally rule it out, though the question then becomes
A. Will the electorate forget all the horrible things he said during primary season?
B. Will the Republican electorate actually vote for him just because he has an R next to his name, even if he's basically campaigning as a democrat?
edited 5th May '16 6:50:31 PM by CaptainCapsase
Well Hillary allies are trying to position her as a High Priestess of the Cult of Centrism for moderate Republicans.
So yes, it comically looks like we might bizarrely be entering zone where Hillary is the Right Wing Candidate and Trump is the Left Wing Candidate.
Clearly what Hillary needs to do is fuse with Sanders and become Hernie Clanders.
IIRC, his father was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and he's spoken in books about minorities being 'inferior' to Whites.
edited 5th May '16 6:52:33 PM by PotatoesRock
His father or Trump personally? Because I hadn't heard about that. Yeah, that's definitely not encouraging, all the more so if he suddenly starting campaigning on an economic platform I would agree with but whose social views I find absolutely abhorrent.
@Fighteer: It fits with the whole concept of him as a fascist; while it's typically described as an extreme right wing ideology, fascists at times could and did support and implement leftist policies in order to gain the approval of the general populace. It's a very disjointed ideology with only a few unifying tenets compared to say communism.
edited 5th May '16 7:00:51 PM by CaptainCapsase
Trump himself. I think it was dog whistley and god if I can remember where it was.
Though he apparently lives on racial stereotypes and refuses to rent to African Americans.
I'm actually quite surprised I never heard about that.
My name's Ben.
Trump in the 80s correctly predicted Japanese supremacy over the world economy. ;)
He's always been about foreign conspiracies.
Great men are almost never good men, they say. One wonders what philosopher of the good would value the impotence of his disciples.
Well, until it came crashing down in the late 2000s.
Lost in Space
Japan's economic dominance was always more of a paper thing than a real thing. A lot of silly movies like Rising Sun made money off of that particular meme, though.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Yankee Doodle Dandy
In fairness, a lot of people bought into that in the 1980s.
edited 5th May '16 9:09:16 PM by Demonic_Braeburn
Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.
They were the kings of video games until the Late 2000s, though.
And they still own the automobile industry and industrial robotics. But they're not going to take over the world anymore - they're going to slowly age out of existence.
edited 5th May '16 10:30:45 PM by Ramidel
Vampire Hunter
Don't worry, Japan will replace its population with robots. Then it will be the world's first robocracy.
Wizard Needs Food Badly
Beware the Crazy Man.
Topic?
Final Fantasy, Foreign Policy, and Bollywood. Helluva combo, that...
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Will Hillary become America's first Japanese-robot president?
Paul Ryan: 'I'm just not ready' to back Trump.
The casino magnate Sheldon G. Adelson said that he would support Donald J. Trump.
edited 5th May '16 11:40:33 PM by Demonic_Braeburn
Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.
My name's Ben.
Trump has been making ridiculous, panicky statements about evil foreigners for a long time. I think we might reasonably expect that to be a stable trait of Mr. Trump's otherwise very flexible "code."
Great men are almost never good men, they say. One wonders what philosopher of the good would value the impotence of his disciples.
I wasn't really upset, just taken a bit by surprise. Maybe I could have been better about that, too.
edited 5th May '16 6:25:28 PM by LSBK