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AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#148001: Nov 2nd 2016 at 10:56:44 AM

But anyway, isn't the point of Epic Rap Battle is to level common complaints about characters/people in rap form. I don't think whether the complaint in question is actually valid is a part of it.

Which is a fine format 90% of the time, but becomes enormously problematic when they stick their noses into current political issues.

Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#148002: Nov 2nd 2016 at 10:59:56 AM

As a Clinton supporter I do think she has a certain "Wave for the Camera" smile that comes off as weird. I've tried to watch as much of her speeches as I could and it's much more noticeable than Michelle Obama's smiles, to compare another prominent woman.

If the only thing ERB could think of to keep the flow was to criticize her smiles, I took it was a pretty strong endorsement for Clinton.

edited 2nd Nov '16 11:01:34 AM by Parable

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#148003: Nov 2nd 2016 at 11:07:19 AM

Also, it isn't like Trump's appearance hasn't been criticized this election, either. Trump's Orange Spray-On Tan have provided many jokes this election cycle, and Trump's Hair has been a meme since his days as host of The Apprentice.

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#148004: Nov 2nd 2016 at 11:07:33 AM

As a guy who has trouble smiling "naturally" I really couldn't care less how HRC's smile looks. Or about HRC's looks in general. She's about seventy. Frankly, she looks pretty good for her age. DJT on the other hand, not so much.

Disgusted, but not surprised
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#148005: Nov 2nd 2016 at 11:09:56 AM

Trump looks like Jabba the Hutt put on a wig made from an orange wookie's fur.

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#148006: Nov 2nd 2016 at 11:11:00 AM

People want Hillary to save us from fucking fascism but don't want her to be a bitch about it

New Survey coming this weekend!
smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#148008: Nov 2nd 2016 at 11:16:58 AM

Good. And that cop killer turned out to be a Trump supporter, right? Seems his supporters are going nuts this week. That should hurt him more.

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#148009: Nov 2nd 2016 at 11:18:35 AM

Hate is often recognizable because of its extraordinary stupidity.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#148010: Nov 2nd 2016 at 11:20:37 AM

On the cop killer:

A white man with a history of racial provocations and confrontations with police, ambushed and fatally shot two white Des Moines area police officers in separate incidents Wednesday morning, police said.

Authorities took 46-year-old Scott Michael Greene into custody hours after the killings and less than three weeks after he argued with officers who removed him from a high school football game where he had unfurled a Confederate flag near black spectators.

...

In other incidents, court records show Greene was jailed and charged with interference with official acts after resisting Urbandale police officers who tried to pat him down for a weapon on April 10, 2014. An Urbandale officer described him as hostile and combative. He entered a guilty plea and was fined.

Two days later Urbandale police were called to answer a complaint of harassment at the apartment complex where Greene lived. The complaint said he threatened to kill another man during a confrontation in the parking lot and yelled a racial epithet at the man. Greene was charged with harassment.

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
#148011: Nov 2nd 2016 at 11:25:31 AM

[up]Ladies and Gentlemen, Les deplorables.

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Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#148013: Nov 2nd 2016 at 11:31:42 AM

I mean, he's kind of just a singular lunatic though. A guy who hates both the police and black people- and apparently hates the police more. That ain't Trump's platform. If you asked Trump which group he likes less, I'm pretty sure he'd go with black people.

edited 2nd Nov '16 11:32:40 AM by Gilphon

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#148014: Nov 2nd 2016 at 11:34:52 AM

Plenty of the militia and sovereign citizen nuts have thrown their lot in with Trump, and they hate cops more than anything else.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#148015: Nov 2nd 2016 at 11:35:48 AM

Trump is running on a "law and order" platform wherein he considers it just peachy for cops to frisk, imprison, and murder black people without justification or repercussion. Police are not people to him, just tools. If they protect his interests, they're useful. If not, he doesn't give a damn.

And this. [down]

edited 2nd Nov '16 11:36:42 AM by Fighteer

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AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#148016: Nov 2nd 2016 at 11:36:21 AM

The thing to remember about the militia boys is that they hate the police in a large part because the police protect minorities from them. The hatred of black folks and of cops is tied up together, because in these peoples' minds, the cops are not racist enough.

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#148017: Nov 2nd 2016 at 12:08:05 PM

On the topic of Comey, I was just looking at today's edition of Neue Zürcher Zeitung (a Swiss newspaper) which had as its very first item an article titled "The FBI is silent on Trump: "Transparency" only applies to the Clinton case" - note the scare quotes around "transparency". Seems like a lot of people are picking up on the appearance of impropriety around the investigation.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#148018: Nov 2nd 2016 at 12:23:02 PM

I see Trump supporters and this whole election in industrial terms - Clinton's presidency would be better purely because it has programs that help the middle and lower classes, while Trump does not.

His supporters, clinging to obsolete jobs like coal and going along with plans that hurt them for quasi religious reasons... I view them as basically humanoid industrial waste products.

Nothing they say or believe has any validity, and if they get screwed over in the process of continuing growth trends, then I say "good".

We do not require these people if their sole interest is keeping alive a mythology of the confederacy and the idiotic notions they have such as "honor" and "southern pride".

Crush them in this election and let existing trends take care of the rest.

nervmeister Since: Oct, 2010
#148019: Nov 2nd 2016 at 12:33:01 PM

The thing to remember about the militia boys is that they hate the police in a large part because the police protect minorities from them. The hatred of black folks and of cops is tied up together, because in these peoples' minds, the cops are not racist enough.
...........Which precincts?

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#148020: Nov 2nd 2016 at 12:33:43 PM

[up] At a minimum, the one in which two police officers were just murdered by a white nationalist.

edited 2nd Nov '16 12:33:54 PM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
TheWanted Since: Oct, 2013
#148021: Nov 2nd 2016 at 12:35:29 PM

But why two white officers? Were they just the first ones he found?

TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#148022: Nov 2nd 2016 at 12:35:35 PM

It's an awkward situation police are in where progressives hate them for murdering black kids and white nationalists hate them for not murdering enough black kids.

That, cult of moderation folks, is exactly what - to quote Fighteer - "half-racism" looks like. [lol]

edited 2nd Nov '16 12:39:46 PM by TobiasDrake

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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.
#148023: Nov 2nd 2016 at 12:41:44 PM

[up][up] I don't know. Maybe? I'm not sure if their race matters in this case - we know that the guy was a racist asshole regardless.

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nervmeister Since: Oct, 2010
#148024: Nov 2nd 2016 at 12:42:48 PM

[up][up]Well the ones not murdering enough are preferable. Though who says you cant eat the cake for a change, by reducing the death rate to zero (through firings and federal investigation mainly).

edited 2nd Nov '16 12:47:52 PM by nervmeister

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#148025: Nov 2nd 2016 at 12:42:59 PM

Or maybe because there are more white police officers than black ones. And traitors are worse than enemies.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

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