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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Well Trump just promised a rejuvenation of the space program. There go all my well-educated, engineering associates who would oppose Trump.
For context, I live in Huntsville "Rocket City" Alabama. Space engineering is to us what mining is to those Rust Belt towns. I live in an already conservative area, and this will firmly put our purse strings in Trump's hands. We will slaver and lick his hands as obedient little dogs.
Say to the others who did not follow through You're still our brothers, and we will fight for youSpace program was already doing pretty well, it takes time (the US' next big project, the XBAWKS hueg Space Launch System, won't be ready until at least 2025) and Trump can't fix that. He's probably just diverting money away from other fields.
But Trump and Putin teaming up and exploring space (space is the one arena where Russian-American relations have a solid record) can only end up in one way.
Sure, Republicans are bad at actually governing, but policies usually take time to have a visible impact, and voters have short memories. If they make changes that are gradual or selective instead of ones with an immediate, broad, and highly-obvious impact, then people aren't going to hold them accountable to any degree that can't be deflected by the usual scapegoating.
A lot depends on how much they think they can afford to overreach, and how much we can rally together if they DON'T make incredibly obvious mistakes that alienate the general public.
Furthermore, I think Guantanamo must be destroyed.So yeah, haven't bothered posting here yet, because the thread moves so goddang fast and I couldn't really collects my thoughts properly. In fact, I still haven't other than this sense of dread and fear of what this will mean to the rest of the world. Fuck, the Dutch parliamentary elections will be held in March, and our home-grown extreme right movements must be feeling quite emboldened by both this and Brexit. Which means that we are likely to elect dead badger Wilders for minister-president which will put some of my friends and co-workers at risk.
Mostly, I'm just really pissed and think that I should never, ever trust America to do the right thing again. Americans, maybe, since more than half of them voted against Trump, but America as a system probably not.
edited 11th Nov '16 9:25:15 AM by Kayeka
Going through the last bunch of pages.
Caspase, is there a reason why you always give the benefit of the doubt to Trump supporters? The guy you're talking about, Madfoot, showed up, made a bunch of pro-Trump posts, then got recognized as a neo-Nazi from another website and bailed before anyone could do anything about him.
Yet here you are, accusing Lightysnake, a longtime member of this site of "chasing him around" and "doxxing him". On the basis of what? The fact that he recognized the guy from another website and then dared to tell us who he was? The fact that the racist screamed "I don't feel safe" and ran away?
I get that you'd like it if there were more differing viewpoints in the thread, but don't libel other posters—which yes, is what a baseless accusation of doxxing someone is.
Because we should always believe Trump supporters when they accuse others of the kind of behaviour they themselves have engaged in. Come up with some actual evidence rather than complaints off of Deviant Art.
Comey has basically said "I wanna be J Edgar Hoover. I wanna be J Edgar Hoover. Please, please let me." Anyone who thinks Trump can't get a secret police force going, just think about that.
For all that people joke about this, I could live with it. Seriously, Kanye's an ass on the personal level sure, but is he smarter than the likes of Trump? Yes. Does he have more translatable talents than the likes of Trump? Yes. Is he socially progressive? More or less.
I could live with this.
This is blatantly untrue.
Honestly, the Rust and Rural belt Trump supporters being myopic people with nostalgia for an era long gone and refuse to move on while still being blind that their definition of homophobia and racism still makes them those things don't make them look sympathetic.
It makes them look like a snapshot on an age that everyone left behind and only care about their precious dying life style.
Whatever sympathy I had for them died with the election result and the sheer irony of this election, is how they set to have themselves and the life style they love so much die faster.
Inter arma enim silent legesTrump picks anti-LGBT hate group to run domestic policy transition
Pence must be having an orgasm right now.
edited 11th Nov '16 9:35:12 AM by NoName999
Really, if the GOP is wise, they won't let Comey get away with influencing the election like that. Because they don't actually need to keep him around, and to let this go unpunished is to set a terrible precedent that could very well cut against them next time.
Plus it could be seen as an olive branch to the left, but not a large enough one to turn away their base.
Any Republican president would have done all the anti-LGBT moves they could have gotten away with, this isn't about Trump. Maybe someone like Kasich would have taken a softer route, but the GOP made it crystal clear that they consider wide portions of society to be sub-human.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Please moderates, tell me again that Trump is going to leave marriage equality and LGBT rights alone. That's why he's getting the FRC on the task, I mean it says family right in the name so they must be for everyone being able to get married and start a family, right?
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote? The Onion publishes an article proving that electroshock therapy followed by lobotomy is a safe, humane, and effective way to rid a person of
homophobia. well I mean
edited 11th Nov '16 9:42:10 AM by blkwhtrbbt
Say to the others who did not follow through You're still our brothers, and we will fight for you@Ambar: Doxxing in the sense that drama from another site was imported in violation of the rules against doing that. As far what that said about him as a person, he had yet to break rules here about racism and the like, and there's no rule against holding racist views without expressing them. Nor should there be, since that's literally thoughtcrime.
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Use words that actually have their original meanings. Yes, I called out someone who's a lying neo-nazi who has literally said he doesn't think black people are fully human. He then claimed he didn't feel 'safe' and ran off.
That's not 'doxxing.' But you keep making excuses for the worst dregs of the internet.
edited 11th Nov '16 9:53:58 AM by Lightysnake
Capsace, we will not tolerate anyone coming onto our site to spew hate or to play the "racists are people too" card or anything similar. This applied before the election and it applies after. Nobody who is a member of Stormfront or the KKK or anything similar is welcome on TV Tropes, period. We will not be a part of the cult of false centrism or engage in the pretense that certain forms of discourse are permissible in civil society; this has nothing to do with our drama importation policy. You don't have to like it.
edited 11th Nov '16 9:58:07 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"A University of Wisconsin-Stout student from Saudi Arabia died one day after being assaulted on a street in downtown Menomonie, Wis., about 70 miles east of Minneapolis, police and school officials said.
I wish I could see this for anything but what I think we're all thinking it is.

They have gerrymandered themselves into a position where that is impossible and it's going to get worse in the future thanks to this election. Mostly in the education department will they do it since they want our kids to be stupid and gullible.