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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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Will Smith's, not mine. He said it at Colbert's. Please take it literally. Not as in "so we can avoid them", but "so we can sink their careers forever and make sure they're never in a position to hurt people with their evil stupidity". When this is over they're gonna find a glass ceiling to their lives so hard, they'll evolve into Pugs just to be able to breathe properly.
Fucking shitlords. Pond scum. Bottom feeders. Garbage Pail Kids.
edited 9th Sep '16 4:56:17 PM by TheHandle
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.![]()
I've held some pretty stupid beliefs (political or otherwise) in my lifetime, and I'm not even that old. So the idea of a lifelong social punishment for having stupid beliefs at some point in their lives does even slightly appeal to me. In fact it kind of disturbs me.
For example as late as my Junior year of High School about a decade ago I was a climate change denier. I can't remember exactly when I flipped and I don't think I really had a single moment of clarity, rather I think I ran through basically every possible intermediate stage between "it's not happening at all" to "it's happening, it's largely the fault of humans, and it will have a meaningful impact on human society in the relatively short term" over the course of several years.
While I'll acknowledge that a lot of modern Trump supporters are a lot older then I was in my junior year of High School, and therefore should know better then 17-year-old me, I am fundamentally opposed to hating someone for once being what I used to be (I'm also very hesitant to hate things in general, which my signature probably gives away).
Besides, if a modern Trump supporter doesn't change their worldview 10 years from now, they will probably have more contemporary stupid beliefs to be held against them.
edited 9th Sep '16 5:45:34 PM by Falrinn
Oh, right. Young people can change. I meant old people. Like, Bojack Horseman old. Unable to escape their bad habits. Irredeemable, and barely tolerable. Your racist aunt Anne, who drunkenly and snidely blames the negroes for everything every thanksgiving. Grandpa Rupert, who lies constantly and lives in a bubble of Misanthropic WASP-Centrism, That sort of human. The sort you only put up with because you're related, or coworkers, or something binding like that.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Call me idealistic or whatever the heck you want, but I honestly believe that even those kinds of people can change under the right circumstances. Those circumstances might be unlikely to be met and outright impossible to manufacture intentionally, but they still exist.
And like I said, if a Trump supporter who is horrifyingly racist is still horrifyingly racist 10 years from now, then you can still hold their horrifying racism 10 years from now against them.
I think Donald Trump is probably the first political candidate in my lifetime that I legitimately fucking hated. Like, I disliked Romney, Cantor, Mccain, and a good many right-wingers, but my dislike was always political. I was sure, that on some abstract level they could be decent people.
But Trump? No. I hate this man and his policies, and what he could potentially unleash in this country if he's elected, and how many progressive goals that we've fought for over the past ten years would be destroyed, if not in an instant, within four or heaven forbid EIGHT years.
This election is literally a fight for the soul of America and Western Civilization, and yet we've still got people who are complaining about voting for the lesser of two evils or are still salty that Bernie didn't win the nomination.
Welcome to being a fucking minority for the past 100+ years, where you vote for the person LEAST likely to fuck your community over, get over it. If you can't even hold your nose to vote for someone who's AT THE FUCKING WORST, is simply preserve the status quo of the Obama Administration over a genuine fascist who wants to turn America into a de-facto autocratic state, then honestly you're a useless human being who doesn't have the right to call yourself a progressive or liberal.
I'll cast my ballot for Mrs Clinton proudly and when she wins, all you fuckers who voted Third Party can go kick rocks. You weren't even helpful in trying to stop a buffoon like Trump, then you're sure as hell aren't going to be useful in the down in the trenches hard work that is American politics.
New Survey coming this weekend!Fox, that's enough with the salty language. There must be ways to make your points that don't involve calling entire groups of people subhuman.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Regarding that comment about state to state polls still favoring Clinton more than the Nationals, that's no longer the case as of the most recent batch, and according to 538, it was wishful thinking to believe that wouldn't happen.
edited 9th Sep '16 7:35:50 PM by CaptainCapsase
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This is a real quote. My mind is fucked.
New Survey coming this weekend!Who is that quote attributed to? Donald Trump, or just some dweeb on the Idiotnet?
This Space Intentionally Left Blank.I thought the diction made it quite obvious that it came from a presidential candidate.
And if my digging is correct, he also stated that if any Iranian ships make any rude gestures, they'll be blown out of the water. He then also Clinton of being trigger happy in the same speech.
He also claimed Clinton could shoot someone in a stadium of thousands and not be arrested. Gee, that sure sounds familiar...
In an effort to explain the support behind Trump, Clinton went on to describe the rest of Trump supporters as people who are looking for change in any form because of economic anxiety and urged her supporters to empathize with them. "To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables," Clinton said. "Right? Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it."
She added, "And unfortunately, there are people like that and he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people, now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric." Clinton went on to say that some of these people were "irredeemable" and "not America."
Tell 'em Queen.
No lies detected.
New Survey coming this weekend!It's not good even though it's true. A smart politician keeps that sort of talk to a very small circle, a noble politician gets that while 27% of the voting population is basically irredeemable, they represent them all the same and should fight just as hard for them as the 73% who are sane.
(i didn't come up with the 27% rule. It's called the Crazification Factor or the Lizardman Threshold).
They can claim to be American by birthright and national identity, but that doesn't mean I would recognize their attitudes as representative of what America is supposed to be about. Problem is that they are voting, and so they exercise direct power. With only a little luck, they could be in a position to reshape America into their vision.
Regardless, Clinton should not back away from this position.
edited 9th Sep '16 9:06:24 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I'm afraid that what Clinton said will have the opposite of whatever the intended effect was.
I don't think that you should make broad and sweeping generalizations about these people. Who knows what they're bound to do.
"Nuclear warming"? My god, the comedians have so much material to work with.
edited 9th Sep '16 10:16:08 PM by BearyScary
Do not obey in advance.

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That kind of thing terrifies me to no end, and I can't joke about it. Like, at all.
Say to the others who did not follow through You're still our brothers, and we will fight for you