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You think half of Trump supporters are like the KKK? Bloody hell man, you're proving my point.
You're strawman-ing again, but no? Nothing at all i said even implied that? What're you even talking about?
It's funny. On one hand, Hands is telling me that by no means is the left calling Trump supporters racists. And here you are, calling Trump supporters racists.
Perhaps that's because you're distilling out points down to baselines like that rather than actually engaging them in any meaningful way, just boiling them down to the most base way to describe them and throwing them away isn't conductive to this debate at all.
But to actually answer your point; Are you literally saying to me that they have to be racist to justify supporting the racist candidate with racist policies as not racist? I proposed a question, and you've given the answer and become outraged at it.
If you think voting for Trump is racist in itself I'm pretty much done with this conversation. Please clarify so I can see if I need to end this discussion entirely.
Not really, it's supporting racism, homophobia, xenophobia and general bigotry though regardless of how you try to spin it. Whether that's the same thing is a question i've poised
Well I guess it's a good job that I never said "teh SJWs!!!", isn't it?
When you're complaining about "the left" and "political correctness" they're one in the same
I did. Guess what, it was unjustified nonsense. It was people saying "Well if you think that you must be racist". And you know, I'm not a racist. Unless you mean to say I am?
Think what? That Trump was better, or that Trump's policies were good?
How was it unjustified? Can you explain why it's not justifiable?
My support is not behind any such candidate. I'm British, dude.
Your support is behind Trump even if you can't vote in the US, you've said as much, but the points all still stand
I'm not the one who draws the line, I'm saying some have crossed that line wherever it is. Are you saying there haven't been riots?
If you don't draw the line, and don't know what the line is, then how can you say they've crossed it? Can you truly say there have been riots based on that metric? (But there really haven't, as far as i'm aware of, just incidents during protests. No protests completely consumed by rioting)
Yes, people have the democratic right to be anti-democracy. When did I say they didn't? Why are the two things (exercising your democratic right to protest and being anti-democracy) mutually exclusive?
Taking posts out of context is fun, isn't it? The person said I was calling specific protests anti-democracy, and he said that before I even made any similar claim. I wasn't accusing him of saying something unrepresentative of what I believe - I do believe anti-democracy protests are going on. I was accusing him of misrepresenting my previous posts. Taking something I said after the fact is useless.
What's the difference between saying protests in general and those specific protests are anti-democratic based on your original comment i was replying to?
How is exercising the democratic right to protest, in order to protest the election of a president the majority did not want as their president anti-democratic? Regardless of the democratic systems that led to that occurring, considering it doesn't even match up with what is the most basic tenant of democracy (Majority rules) can a protest against an election result that the majority of people didn't want be considered anti-democratic in the slightest?
"calling people stuff" vs "calling Trump supporters X" - I don't see much of a difference?
So..... your perceived culture of calling people bigots in areas they supposedly aren't is the same as calling Trump supporters bigoted in some fashion? And somehow calling Trump supporters "X" made them... multiply?
Not what I was talking about. Strawman.
I mean if you want to "take things out of context" like you were complaining about, sure, if you're talking about the wider paragraph on how trump "not being afraid to speak his mind" is not at all any kind of valid "main reason" he got elected- not so much.
Prove it..? I thought this was supposed to be a discussion. Your argument is "X was not the reason, for A, B and C other reasons. Y was the reason."
I need to prove... that his policies, many of which were impossible, that were made up on the spot to appeal for each audience he had, aren't a big reason for his election?
You want me to prove that a politician telling people that if he's elected he'll solve all their problems and do what they want him to is a main part of how he was elected
Huh.
The riots are still happening. Present tense.
Protests are, you mean. They're not riots just because you don't like them.
Should be noted that Mike Pence is currently fighting to have his own emails be considered "private" and restricted from the public eye, and that Trump wasn't aware of the wide scope of the president's duties, and had to be lectured by Obama on some key aspects of which he was "surprised" by.
He wasn't aware he'd have to hire new whitehouse staff, and refused to prepare for doing so before he was elected because he didn't want to "jinx" it. This means he must hire entirely new staff, thousands of which must be vetted by the senate before they can start work, all before he takes office in a few months.
Something important in that first link about how he didn't know how much the president earned but said he'd only take a dollar- His kids are intricately involved in his take-over process and this 100% means they're not blind trustees anymore (Although they never really were, considering the huge hand he'd still have as their father and the company's face and founder)
This just makes his conflicts of interest even worse, and more worrying overall
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