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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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The original plan announced was deportation, which is what I was talking about.
But really you never know, if no one would accept them they would be just an additional tax on the economy in addition to the trillions of dollars that would have already been spent on collecting and building the concentration camps, yeah.
edited 6th Sep '15 3:01:05 PM by Memers
Trump signed the loyalty pledge, promising he wouldn't run as an independent if he lost the nomination.
And then promptly declared he was in favor of the Iran deal and was not against gay marriage.
In the eyes of trump and followers those people are more than worthless, being outright thieves taking jobs no one wants to do, they would be even more so when they are not working and basically thrown in prison so jumping to 'the lets save money and kill em all' is not a big leap.
Anyway it's scary to even think about government sanctioned ethnic cleansing in the US but if he is elected that is exactly what will come to pass.
edited 6th Sep '15 3:09:13 PM by Memers
I kind of wonder if he and Sanders are going to be cores around which American politics realign. Maybe not two new parties per se, but the extant ones would certainly have to shift to accommodate them and the populism they've stirred up.
"I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once."![]()
Considering his stances on gay marriage and Iran he seems to actually be a weird mix, incredibly racist but with a more Democrat outlook on social and foreign policy issues, with an economic policy that can be summed up as "economic policy? What you talking about? I'm Donald Fucking Trump!"
edited 6th Sep '15 3:27:30 PM by Silasw
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran![]()
And that really can't be said enough. He'd probably downplay that nonsense after he got the nomination, but his more rabid supporters would push him along if the stars aligned and his inauguration commenced on the day of the first unexpected solar eclipse in modern history.
edited 6th Sep '15 3:29:37 PM by Artificius
"I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once."Yeah people really need to press him on economic policy seeing how he has driven so many companies into the ground then abandoning them and seeing how much actually rounding up and deporting people is going to COST and how much damage the loss of workers is going to hurt the economy.
Seriously at this point American agriculture will take an even bigger hit than the California drought, which in turn will trickle down into the meats and milk and so on. It would crash the economy. And these areas are primarily republican dominated.
edited 6th Sep '15 3:33:39 PM by Memers
Clinton at Republican attacks: "I am absolutely confident that whatever they throw at me, I can throw it right back."
"I'm going to be pressing very hard to get specifics, because there aren't any specifics," Clinton said. "This is just the kind of political rhetoric that doesn't belong in our election."
If you don't give a shit about politics, fine. It's not the smartest opinion to hold given how much politics affects basically everything else, but no one's forcing you to care if you don't want to. Just don't pretend that you don't care because you've realized the Hidden Truth that a person becomes a lying corrupt scumbag by being elected into office and attained political nirvana by distancing yourself from such mundane worldly concerns like "who should I vote for".
Oh, sure, I didn't mean you specifically with that comment. It's just that people tend to use "meh, all politicians are assholes" to shut down any political discussion they're not interested in. Even if you don't like politicians in general (and it does admittedly take a certain kind of person to be successful in politics at the national level), it's almost always worth voting against someone even if you don't want to vote for anyone. I'm not particularly excited about Hillary Clinton, for example, but if she gets the Democratic nomination, I'll almost certainly end up voting for her just to keep whatever nutjob ends up winning the Republican nomination from winning the general election.
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.Actually, the statement that all politicians are evil is pretty easily disprovable, as many famous "good guys" were politicians. I mean, all the founding fathers were by definition political leaders.
Leviticus 19:34Though, as for the answer to the question: Politicians are regular people, except they have political powers and responsibilities. They are not particularly worse than you, though they have more media scrutiny on their actions and they have more power and "power corrupts". It happens to everyone.
I'm not sure how realistic the game Democracy III is, but if it's accurate at all, it's a pretty good simulation of The Chains of Commanding and why a person in such a position might become something of an opportunist even when they're well-intention-ed.
Leviticus 19:34

I'm not denying that and while it's an unbelievably horrible course of action it's still not the same thing as killing all of them.