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smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#142176: Oct 7th 2016 at 8:21:11 PM

People don't cry "racist" unless someone is being racist. And Trump is being racist 24/7.

FluffyMcChicken My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare from where the floating lights gleam Since: Jun, 2014 Relationship Status: In another castle
My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare
#142177: Oct 7th 2016 at 8:23:19 PM

Have we got ourselves a Redditor or a Channer here? A mighty interesting specimen indeed.

Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#142178: Oct 7th 2016 at 8:24:51 PM

[up]There's a difference these days? Might even be a "political" Facebook and/or Twitter user. Definitely a memer. Nimble America hire? Not so sure.

[up][up][up]Is that your means of debating? By claiming that fiction can do the debating for you? Have you had a single original thought in your life?

edited 7th Oct '16 8:25:58 PM by Krieger22

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#142179: Oct 7th 2016 at 8:25:38 PM

@Smokey: That's not true. Sometimes he's elitist, sexist, ignorant, selfish or lying instead.

He's frequently racist, but let's not get hyperbolic when being precise serves our rhetoric purposes just as well.

edited 7th Oct '16 8:26:17 PM by Gilphon

KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#142180: Oct 7th 2016 at 8:25:59 PM

[up]x5 Seriously, I'd really like to know what else you agree with Trump on besides "Mexico = bad".

[up] The best part is that he can be all at once!

edited 7th Oct '16 8:27:05 PM by KarkatTheDalek

Oh God! Natural light!
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#142181: Oct 7th 2016 at 8:27:24 PM

People don't cry "racist" unless someone is being racist. And Trump is being racist 24/7.

People do sometimes cry racist without good reason but those are very fringe/isolated people at best.

Most of the time there is at least a little fire beneath the smoke.

Basically there are some things that you don't get to decide are racist or not unless you're part of the group that's suffering from the racism.

And there IS a lot of racism going on right now in America and elsewhere. That's pretty much Trump's entire campaign, I'm sorry to say. Some of his supporters might not be especially racist or are supporting him for other reasons, but they are by definition

a) ignoring the fact he isn't qualified to be president at all

b) saying that they are ok with racism.

edited 7th Oct '16 8:29:07 PM by Draghinazzo

AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#142182: Oct 7th 2016 at 8:27:58 PM

I just think it's laughable that this new guy things that a wall of all things is what's going to effectively stop or curtail the illegal drug trade. The cartels are smart enough to get around physical objects, for fuck's sake. There is no proof that the wall will actually accomplish any of the things that has been promised it will. That's why the wall is so fucking stupid as an idea.

Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#142183: Oct 7th 2016 at 8:28:36 PM

[up][up][up]Judging from the trail of posts? That criticism of him is as unwarranted as criticism of Cheeto Benito is, and that PC is running the country into the ground. As opposed to people who forced government shutdowns because they felt like it.

edited 7th Oct '16 8:29:00 PM by Krieger22

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#142184: Oct 7th 2016 at 8:29:12 PM

Interesting event, anyone care to link me to a newspaper article on it? Obviously a kid being made to write an apologie for supporting Trump would have made the papers.

edited 7th Oct '16 8:34:51 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
AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#142186: Oct 7th 2016 at 8:30:40 PM

There's no proof that Clinton would tank our economy, given that it appears she'd continue much of what Obama has done and that our economy has improved under him. However, there is ample evidence that Trump has very little idea about how the national debt or international trade work.

And, quite frankly, if you're just going to call names without backing up why you think she's a crook why should we listen. (And certainly if you bother to do so nearly everyone here has tons of things to show you that proves she's not.)

Fucking hell, she's not the one with a steady habit of NOT PAYING the people she's hired. TRUMP IS.

edited 7th Oct '16 8:32:09 PM by AceofSpades

smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#142188: Oct 7th 2016 at 8:31:54 PM

Please, Hillary doesn't have anything that makes her any dirtier than Obama. Trump is way dirtier than her.

Plus, Hillary has plans that could actually benefit the economy. Trump's plans just benefit people like him.

And this "political correctness is bad" shit is so old. Yeah, us minorities are sick of being degraded. Sue us.

edited 7th Oct '16 8:32:59 PM by smokeycut

Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#142189: Oct 7th 2016 at 8:32:19 PM

What exactly is "PC" and how exactly is it running the country into the ground?

Because most arguments I've seen against it are basically just dressed up versions of "I want to do and say whatever I want without having people criticize me". And well, you can't just do or say whatever you want and expect that everyone will like or agree with it.

edited 7th Oct '16 8:33:30 PM by Draghinazzo

Eschaton Since: Jul, 2010
#142190: Oct 7th 2016 at 8:33:15 PM

inb4 "Obama won't say radical Islam"

AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#142191: Oct 7th 2016 at 8:33:27 PM

I'm going to point out again, Trump refuses regularly to pay people for their work. It's not job creation if you're not paying them what you agreed to, it's creating slave labor.

And this latest fucking scandal of his, good Lord, it appears he's actually getting repercussions from within the party on this.

"PC" is politically correct. Or, to use other words, some people are upset that they're actually getting called out on talking disrespectfully about entire groups of people.

edited 7th Oct '16 8:34:29 PM by AceofSpades

Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#142192: Oct 7th 2016 at 8:35:34 PM

An uncharitable reading would be "fuck everyone that isn't in my privileged ingroup". Because you reek of privilege.

But let's aim a little higher. I want you to list out the exact policy and why you agree with it. It must be up to date, it absolutely must not have been contradicted at any point. You are required to post links to a news article, the quote of the policy in question and your reasoning.

You have two hurdles to cross: this chart of policy shifts and the banhammer.

edited 7th Oct '16 8:36:00 PM by Krieger22

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#142193: Oct 7th 2016 at 8:35:39 PM

White Americans like Zesty think they are inherently superior to the rest of the world and can say whatever they want without consequences.

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#142194: Oct 7th 2016 at 8:35:39 PM

So, leave our allies as free game to Russia and demand protection money, keep cutting more and more taxes for the obscenely rich and leave the economy in the hands of a businessman who inherited his fortune, made several predictably stupid business decisions and screwed associates out of money and has a history of not paying his employees or contractors?

Sounds about right.

Inter arma enim silent leges
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#142196: Oct 7th 2016 at 8:36:01 PM

"PC" is politically correct. Or, to use other words, some people are upset that they're actually getting called out on talking disrespectfully about entire groups of people.

I know what it means, I was just making a point because sometimes people who complain about political correctness don't bother to properly define what it is or how it's supposedly ruining everything.

Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#142197: Oct 7th 2016 at 8:36:36 PM

So you think that feeling obligated to respect other people is running America into the ground, then?

Well, since you're apparently anti-PC, allow me to be uncharacteristically anti-PC for a moment and say that that's fucking idiotic and shows you don't have a single goddamn idea what a real problem looks like.

If you don't like the sentiment I just expressed, or the way I said it, feel free to tell me, and I'll return to being PC. And, apparently, to running America into the ground.

edited 7th Oct '16 8:38:33 PM by Gilphon

Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#142198: Oct 7th 2016 at 8:37:06 PM

[up][up][up]You can work the post generator. You have no excuse for being unable to do homework. Or to drop the PC, git gud fuckwit.

And have you even been to college or was that the one day you decided to not skip classes?

edited 7th Oct '16 8:37:43 PM by Krieger22

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#142199: Oct 7th 2016 at 8:37:38 PM

Wow. I'm not even gonna bother debating anymore. Once you start talking about how college professors are brainwashing today's youth into respecting minorities, you've lost it.

Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#142200: Oct 7th 2016 at 8:38:24 PM

Who says you're the only Republican here? I know we have a few, not many, but a few. Plus lots of us aren't even Americans.

Anyway, I'll ask again for a link to an article on that school thing, I'd like to read more on it.

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran

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