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AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#133651: Jul 31st 2016 at 1:13:12 PM

@The Handle

No she's not. The Brexit was motivated by xenophobia more than anything else and to praise it as any sort of victory for the working class is to reveal just how out of touch with reality she is.

CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#133652: Jul 31st 2016 at 1:18:05 PM

@Brexit: If one assumes the EU's undemocratic elements are beyond fixing, there's a case for withdrawing from the EU beyond simple xenophobia. It's not a very compelling case given the alternative is likely to be even more harmful to democracy, but it's not as black and white as people would like to imagine. Though I suppose it never is.

Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#133653: Jul 31st 2016 at 1:20:05 PM

But that's not how it was presented to us. It was all "we need to leave so we can shut the borders to keep out terrorists" and "the EU is evil because bits of the bureaucracy get to make laws that affect us without our say-so" without ever providing examples of that.

And outright lies about how much it cost us. And a dismissal of any expert who didn't blindly agree as a scaremonger.

"Yup. That tasted purple."
CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#133654: Jul 31st 2016 at 1:32:40 PM

[up] Of course not. Because not nearly as many people would've been sold on it without the xenophobic overtures.

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#133656: Jul 31st 2016 at 2:47:55 PM

So, the Republicans are now officially the Doves of American politics? Wow. Just fucking wow.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#133657: Jul 31st 2016 at 2:49:59 PM

Not even Doves, just outright cowards when it comes to Putin.

The Republicans are all for a nice round of carpet bombing in the middle east.

Oh really when?
Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#133658: Jul 31st 2016 at 2:52:07 PM

Trump supports Putin, though I don't think many Republicans do.

Leviticus 19:34
SciFiSlasher from Absolutely none of your business. Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#133659: Jul 31st 2016 at 2:57:05 PM

[up] Generally speaking, the Republicans prefer someone like Putin because he's a stubborn leader who doesn't take shit from those gosh darn immigrants and Muslims. Which is also why they think Trump will be the best option for America.

"Somehow the hated have to walk a tightrope, while those who hate do not."
FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#133660: Jul 31st 2016 at 3:02:49 PM

Just want to put this out their before someone else does:

Is it just me, or is Trump experiencing the wrath of Khan?[lol]

edited 31st Jul '16 3:08:25 PM by FFShinra

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#133661: Jul 31st 2016 at 3:10:57 PM

[up]

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#133663: Jul 31st 2016 at 3:36:31 PM

On next: After losing the election, Trump does his best Shatner impression.

kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#133664: Jul 31st 2016 at 4:07:16 PM

[up]TRUMPNER: We must... build... awall! Those dirty... RAPISTS are bringing in crime and...druuuuugs, and they must... beSTOPPED! At. All. Costs.

Eschaton Since: Jul, 2010
#133665: Jul 31st 2016 at 4:11:04 PM

Trump rescued from stuck elevator by fire marshal - then bashes fire marshal - in Colorado Springs (the marshal takes it in stride). .

This is the kind of petty shit that concerns me on multiple levels.

For one, his event sold too many tickets, so people were kept out of the venue for safety reasons. Trump manages takes this personally, or at the very least, perfectly willing to sell it that way to his supporters. Though I wouldn't be surprised if he genuinely believes it too, since it's consistent with... everything else he's ever done.

And it's not hard to picture his thought process that "occupancy limits are bogus!" But is it a bad omen when you can extrapolate that attitude to the Geneva Convention. For a "law and order candidate," he's not much a "rules are rules" guy when they get in his way.

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#133666: Jul 31st 2016 at 4:11:35 PM

[up][up][up][up]So now Russia, North Korea, and Daesh have all supported Trump. At some point you have to wonder if Republicans will start questioning the fact that America's enemies all want this guy to win.

edited 31st Jul '16 4:12:14 PM by Kostya

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#133667: Jul 31st 2016 at 4:14:30 PM

[up][up]He's not about law and order, he's about punishment and retribution. His future is a boot stamping on a human face, forever.

Actually, Trump might be the most Orwellian candidate in a very long time, and he hits all main points. He's textbook.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#133668: Jul 31st 2016 at 4:16:37 PM
Thumped: This post has been thumped with the mod stick. This means knock it off.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Discar Since: Jun, 2009
#133669: Jul 31st 2016 at 4:24:23 PM

[up][up] What's his stance on privacy? I don't think I've heard it. I ask because to me that's an important part of an Orwellian nightmare (as opposed to other generic dystopias).

Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#133670: Jul 31st 2016 at 4:26:29 PM

[up]At the very least he wants to monitor all Muslims in an impractical, ineffective and almost certainly unconstitutional degree.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#133671: Jul 31st 2016 at 4:39:59 PM

Trump's mind does seem suspiciously similar to how I'd expect an inner party member to act (though, to be fair, I haven't actually read 1984). He doesn't seem to think that the truth exists and also seems to view power as an end in itself.

Leviticus 19:34
pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#133672: Jul 31st 2016 at 5:05:12 PM

Trump is so woefully ignorant, somebody should send him videos of those old Saturday morning "Schoolhouse Rock" cartoons. [1] Maybe then he'd learn something about American values, the Constitution, and the how the US government works.

Trump doesn't read. He gets all his info from watching TV. Because it comes in small, easily-digestible sound bites that his short attention span can cope with.

This Space Intentionally Left Blank.
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#133673: Jul 31st 2016 at 5:28:52 PM

@ Putin. On one level they admire him as an enemy with skill. I admit I had a bit of this. Mind you it's not "we want Putin to take over Ukraine", it's glaring over at Obama like a disproving parent and being "why can't you be more like that." It really doesn't help that his life story, spy comes to Presidency and defends nation from enemies, bears some similarities to the later Jack Ryan books.

That said I think, for some, what he and the Chinese stand for resonates deeply. They claim they oppose globalism. They wax and wain about how "unique cultures should not be subservient to the Western Liberal model." Than Conservatives look over here and see our "unique culture" being "destroyed by the Western Liberal model", and they think they've found themselves a champion.

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
Ekuran Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
#133674: Jul 31st 2016 at 5:29:05 PM

That fire marshal would have done us all a favor if he'd just left him in that elevator to rot.

kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)

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