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Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#132076: Jul 24th 2016 at 5:12:21 PM

I think this is starting to affect my sanity. I now get violent urges whenever I see or hear anything about Wikileaks or Trump...

kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#132077: Jul 24th 2016 at 5:20:41 PM

[up]Eh, I just get mild anxiety, long periods where I can't do anything but think about the election, and dark thoughts about various fascistic and post-apocalyptic scenarios myself. Though maybe that's just me.tongue

Memers Since: Aug, 2013
#132078: Jul 24th 2016 at 5:27:45 PM

[up] You Are Not Alone there, especially the long periods where I can't think of anything else but and the doom and gloom.

This election is going to put me into an asylum, especially if things do not turn around and quick.

edited 24th Jul '16 5:29:29 PM by Memers

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#132079: Jul 24th 2016 at 5:29:49 PM

Let me ask you all something, would you be this anxious if it was anyone but Trump?

edited 24th Jul '16 5:30:25 PM by LSBK

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#132081: Jul 24th 2016 at 5:31:50 PM

Probably not. Trump elevates it from "damn, the next four years are going to suck" to "Defcon 1! We need to do everything in our power to take the White House or America as we know it will cease to exist!"

edited 24th Jul '16 5:32:05 PM by Kostya

Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#132082: Jul 24th 2016 at 5:33:02 PM

I get those feelings, too. Having said that, I also have a suspicion that people (likely a recent cultural phenomenon) have a desire to live in the end times in a strange way-the thought of being "the last generation" makes one feel important (or being the one to correctly guess the apocalypse). This subconscious desire forces us to interpret data in the worst possible way.

Having said that, while I typically think cynicism is for losers, Trump has got me a little worried.

edited 24th Jul '16 5:33:44 PM by Protagonist506

Leviticus 19:34
Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#132083: Jul 24th 2016 at 5:33:56 PM

[up]That may be true for some religious fundamentalists but most liberal types do what they do because they want to make sure they aren't the last generation.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#132084: Jul 24th 2016 at 5:34:02 PM

It's pretty clear why Trump would be awful but it's less clear why he's worse than everyone else. It mostly just seems to be because he's more blatant about it than the others were, but if I'm not really sure why that should scare me more if they would all be working towards the same awful things.

Memers Since: Aug, 2013
#132085: Jul 24th 2016 at 5:34:23 PM

[up]x6 I want to say no but after looking at the current Republican Party and how it is openly racist and other such things, I don't think I can say that with 100% certainty.

edited 24th Jul '16 5:35:19 PM by Memers

smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#132086: Jul 24th 2016 at 5:34:30 PM

I'm not just scared of Trump, I'm also very scared of the current Republican platform. Every single item on that list will do nothing but hurt people. Things are already bad in this country for minorities, but they'll get worse if we have a Republican in office.

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#132087: Jul 24th 2016 at 5:35:22 PM

[up][up][up]Trump has talked about deporting all Muslims and given his rhetoric I wouldn't put it past him to seriously consider internment camps. If nothing else his naked bigotry is stirring up a lot of unsavory types in the US.

edited 24th Jul '16 5:35:34 PM by Kostya

Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#132088: Jul 24th 2016 at 5:38:45 PM

@Kostya: It's not just religious groups. Secular liberals have put themselves into self-imposed hysteria in many ways.

Leviticus 19:34
Memers Since: Aug, 2013
#132089: Jul 24th 2016 at 5:38:56 PM

Out of everything I think the worst thing is his threats to our eastern allies like Taiwan, Japan and South Korea and then there is NATO... I mean seriously those ideas are bonkers if he thinks that will 'make America great again'.

In reality it would give up everything that the US has spent a century to build and remove any 'greatness' we have.

I don't think I have ever been more scared of a potential future in my life.

edited 24th Jul '16 5:45:32 PM by Memers

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#132090: Jul 24th 2016 at 5:52:39 PM

I originally thought that Cruz would be worse than Trump, but then Trump started going off about NATO and Russia.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Pseudopartition Screaming Into The Void from The Cretaeceous Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
Screaming Into The Void
#132091: Jul 24th 2016 at 6:03:54 PM

Honestly, I'm not scared of Trump. He's awful and an egomaniac, but I don't know if he's particularly competent enough to actually run anything. What I'm really scared of is the Republican Party and their ridiculous, harmful platform that somehow make the Bush years look like a cakewalk.

I'm scared of the people who will be voting for Trump and their reasoning behind doing so. Not just the hateful bullshit (although that's obviously a huge part of it), but nonsense like "he's not telling anyone his platform so they won't steal it from him!" and claiming he's not part of the system that failed them, when as a rich businessman he quite obviously is. I'm also scared of the response we'll see from other countries to a Trump presidency.

So no, Trump personally doesn't scare me. I'm scared of everything that a Trump presidency would mean, however.

AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#132092: Jul 24th 2016 at 6:06:35 PM

Same. Trump's fans scare me less than the man himself. He's a blowhard and scam artist, it's entirely possible he won't actually enact most of the bullshit he spews and just sits his fat ass in the Oval Office, funneling government funds into his own bank account. But for him to win is an important psychological victory for the alt-right who've turned him into a messiah, and many of whom are willing to take direct action in the name of their ideals.

edited 24th Jul '16 6:07:33 PM by AlleyOop

smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#132093: Jul 24th 2016 at 6:09:26 PM

Ugh. I'm dealing with someone who genuinely thinks Jill Stein can win the election. God damn it.

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#132094: Jul 24th 2016 at 6:11:33 PM

[up]My sympathies. I'd personally go the non-political statistic route in such an argument, but such people are often immune to logic.

I just had to unfollow an old friend from high school cause he kept flooding my Facebook feed with anti-Clinton/Bernie or Bust garbage. Pity, he was otherwise a decent guy.

edited 24th Jul '16 6:17:14 PM by Rationalinsanity

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#132095: Jul 24th 2016 at 6:20:29 PM

At this point, I'm sure if a President was assassinated these days, half the country would be cheering on social media.

Let's be fair: if Trump were assassinated, there'd be cheering in this thread until the mods shut it down.

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#132096: Jul 24th 2016 at 6:21:21 PM

I've unfollowed a few of my friends too. I'm probably going to go back to following them after the election though. They were okay people until a few months ago.

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#132097: Jul 24th 2016 at 6:23:55 PM

[up][up]Not cheering, consternation.

No, there would be cheering if, say, he died of a heart attack. Or cancer. Skin cancer, from all that tanning.

God, I hope Trump gets the worst kind of cancer.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
#132098: Jul 24th 2016 at 6:26:27 PM

No, there would be cheering if, say, he died of a heart attack. Or cancer. Skin cancer, from all that tanning.

God, I hope Trump gets the worst kind of cancer.

... You know, you could just wish that he'd get AIDS first and then get hit with the worst diseases you could name all at once. I mean, why pick one when HIV allows combining several?

edited 24th Jul '16 6:27:04 PM by MarqFJA

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
Pseudopartition Screaming Into The Void from The Cretaeceous Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
Screaming Into The Void
#132099: Jul 24th 2016 at 6:26:52 PM

Even if that happens though, I fear that plenty of people would simply claim he was killed as part of a Clinton conspiracy.

Still, if it's going to happen you'd better hope it's before he's elected; otherwise we're stuck with President Pence.

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#132100: Jul 24th 2016 at 6:29:28 PM

[up][up]AIDS is pretty much under control now. Just ask Charlie Sheen and Magic Johnson.

edited 24th Jul '16 6:31:11 PM by TheHandle

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

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