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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Because Trump is going to purge this nation of anyone who isn't white. You've gotta realize that at this point we're not just dealing with some random whackjob, we've got a bonafide white ultranationalist movement in the United States and Trump is leading it.
edited 20th Jul '16 4:24:46 AM by LeGarcon
Oh really when?I don't think any of the people you're talking about ever said anything about forcing people to marry for that. Like, obviously that's a concern when talking about this, but I don't know where you got the impression they were talking about anything except people consensually choosing to do so.
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Trump plays well with angry white men and white men are really angry this go around. Why is a really hard question to answer. Or at least there's so many different reasons that "typical trump supporter" probably isn't any good as a metric.
edited 20th Jul '16 5:37:46 AM by thatguythere47
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?But the thing is, "keeping our genes pure" is discredited. So why should "keeping our memes pure" be accepted? I mean, sure people can decide to marry within their group to keep things "pure". But that's true for racists as well. Doesn't mean it's a healthy attitude. It implies that there is a "right" and "wrong" way of being a certain minority.
Any position which is a political appointment is already subject to that. Those that are and aren't are determined by law. Sure the GOP could expand it, but it would be a massive cost and headache since there are frankly too many political appointees already that need pushed through the Senate (like every single ambassador, although that's an area where i agree they should be personally approved by the President).
I was secretly hoping for bernie. I know making a grandpa your backup is probably not a good idea but im pretty sure Hillary is immortal.
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?Don't get me wrong, it's not a good situation, but the main takeaway should be "government IT sucks and needs to be fixed", not "Hillary Clinton is the devil and can't be trusted with state secrets".
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.Frankly, I'm amazed that urgents steps aren't taken to fix NSA's shit. They've got unlimited funds to spy on people, but can't get the Secretary Of State anything better than a crummy blackberry?!
edited 20th Jul '16 7:04:52 AM by TheHandle
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.Polifact on the email
. The FBI singled out 113 emails (out of thousands) and said she should have known better for at least some of them. Called it "extremely careless" but not enough to prossecute on.
Re: Blackberry - at the time, they were the only smart-device that supported end-to-end encryption (any data that comes and goes from it goes through an encrypted server connection) and they may still be. Obama on the Late Show the other week was talking about how he was finally allowed to use a smartphone...but it had nearly all the features that make smartphones attractive stripped out because security.
Funding questions aside, it takes a long time to vet programs and devices for the level of security demanded by government agencies.
edited 20th Jul '16 7:17:31 AM by Elle
I was certainly talking about people being forced into it, if people choose to marry only within their cultural group that's their choice, I might think it's a bit silly but I'm not the relationship police.
Thing is there's a lot of cultural and societal pressure, including financial pressure of the risk of being disowned for daring to marry outside the group. In some South Asian cultures arranged marriages technically require consent but women are often pressured into them by their families regardless of what the women actually wants. Now I'd certainly hope that with Judaism it isn't that bad but the similarities set off red flags.
As for the "two wrongs make a right" argument, no, two wrongs don't make a right. The argument for cultural purity can be found in every group and it's just as bullshit in every group, even when it's coming from Welsh Nationalists who belive the lead of the Welsh Nationalist Party isn't Welsh enough because she (due to where in Wales she grew up) didn't learn Welsh before learning English.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranWhen Kasich’s adviser asked how this would be the case, Donald Jr. explained that his father’s vice president would be in charge of domestic and foreign policy.
Then what, the adviser asked, would Trump be in charge of?
“Making America great again” was the casual reply.
So basically, this degenerate wrinkled orange apricot shitstain wants the power and privilege of the presidency, without all the hard work that comes with it. And yet people still want this racist fuckwad to be President?
GTFO
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The more I hear about Trump's plans for if he becomes President of the US, the more I question the sanity and morals of those who keep voting for him so enthusiastically.
He would ask Congress to pass laws that would make it easier to fire civil servants, just so Obama can't convert his political appointees to civil servants to make it harder for a Republican successor to fire them, and thus make it easier for Trump to purge the US Government of all Obama-loyalists.
He also wants to let Big Business directly meddle in the government by "let[ting] businesspeople serve in government part time without having to give up their jobs in the private sector".
Oh, and the article helpfully reminds us all that he wants to shut down the EPA and roll back several major eco-friendly policies.
Remind me why his voters think he's good for them?
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