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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Why did my Grandma have to remind me that she things Donald Trump is handsome! Why?
so i made a new avatar
I mean, if you're old, he's probably decent-looking.
To pity someone is to tell them "I feel bad about being better than you."
Not with that hair, no he isn't.
Disasturbator
his views they find attractive,Trump is what happens when your ranting grampa becomes president
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Industrious Incisors
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That and the appearance of being mega-rich.
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That was always the funniest thing for me. All these rednecks, living in their dirty trailers, spouting the good old "Trump ain't no goddamm politician, he's one of US, he stands up for the lil' people boy!" memes.
Dude, the guy is a multi-FUCKING-billionaire! He is exactly the kind of guy who gets richer and richer while you get poorer and poorer! How the hell is he "standing up for the little people"?
Edited by Forenperser on Apr 20th 2019 at 10:29:10 AM
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so i made a new avatar
Cognitive dissonance is a powerful thing.
To pity someone is to tell them "I feel bad about being better than you."
Industrious Incisors
They just believe whatever Fox News tells them. Their "logic" is easy to dismantle, if they'd let logic matter. "How many times has your boss screwed you over? Why do you think Trump is any different?"
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Actually, I think they identify in Trump what they would like to be and someone who panders to some of their feelings.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Industrious Incisors
Ah, so it's Original Position Fallacy, then.
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and ) That, pretty much. Trump is the person that they aspire to be: rich and powerful without any of that "book learnin'" or "liberal bullshit" in his head, willing to talk to those in a language that they can understand, and spout whatever hateful shit he wants to without fear of "The PC Police" coming to destroy his career.
Edited by Reflextion on Apr 20th 2019 at 4:38:06 AM
A Washington state senator (Republican) is taking some flak for calling out nurses for taking long breaks and spending too much time "playing cards".
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/20/politics/washington-state-senator-nurse-remarks/index.html
That is not a good look, nurses are the lifeblood of any hospital.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Industrious Incisors
What I’d really want to look forward to is investigations into Trump’s businesses shutting him down, though that might be impossible until 2021. That’d hopefully make an example of him and show that you can’t do whatever you want to get rich without consequences.
If only more people saw that this was the norm for the republican party.
Not really. The Trump Organization's corporations are absolutely fair game for lawsuits and even criminal charges, even if he's President.
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Going back to Trump's looks, I could easily see someone still thinking he's good looking, either he is their type, the person is letting their like of his stances and such cloud their judgment or still have a mental image of when he was younger and actually real good looking.
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
Officially, he isn't even a member of the Trump Org anymore.
Industrious Incisors
I was thinking more in terms of his political allies making prosecution difficult, not so much any inherent factor of the position of president.
Disasturbator
It bears his name though so that's debatable,any business founded by Trump and longer owned by Trump would probably change their name to remove their link with him
Edited by Ultimatum on Apr 20th 2019 at 9:22:11 AM
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Industrious Incisors
The org still operates under his children, though, so they can probably maintain plausible deniability even without a name change.
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There's an old quote about how the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
It's ultimately the biggest problem with American capitalism. The rich are very busy eating the poor and the middle-class are reluctant to stop them, because they're waiting and hoping that one day they'll get their own turn at the buffet table.
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Same trick is used by corporations to dismatle unions and worker's right.
"No no no, you're not an employee, see, you're a businessman! Trust me, you're only a year or two away from being rich like me!"
Industrious Incisors
I’ve thought the American dream was one of the most harmful cons for a while now, and yet obviously it’s so ingrained in our country that no one can go on tv and call it out. Still, I wonder if a movement could exist with the purpose to gradually reshape the dream into being a dream for everyone’s success, for social prosperity so to speak, instead of being a dream for the individual, to be better than others which by definition means some people have to be worse off.
That’s probably my Wide-Eyed Idealist side leaking through again.
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Nothing wrong with that, you can't fight for change if you don't think change is possible in the first place, right?
Frankly, the American Dream is entirely viable in theory. The problem is that a lot of what made it possible (unions, protections, labor laws, environmental laws) were hard won by the struggles of previous generations.
And then basically the workers and the cronies of Big Business in Washington pissed it away.
Thousands of reforms destroyed in an organized ideological purge.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Apr 20th 2019 at 3:06:29 AM
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Ugh, what a way to make a page topper.
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I was thinking that it seems like only the most blatant racism gets a mention in classrooms, but that may be because my childhood was spent in all-too-red areas thanks to my parents. Though, you are right about how the so-called liberal media is doing more harm than good for a lot of causes. I just can’t see a solution that doesn’t consist almost entirely of separating children from racist, homophobic, or other such viewpoints.
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