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Bi latino northerner here, will Trump win or will America save itself? Need some anti-arzy. Sitting next to Trump supporters sets me off.
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Geostomp posted:When they say "fix things", they mean "break everything that Democrats have tried to do and hurt non-whites for us." It's essentially nihilism, and - at the risk of making a provocative analogy - it's exactly the same kind of nihilism which informs groups like ISIS. When the world fails to conform to your expectations, preconceptions or wishes (as is obviously the case with many of Trump's white, male supporters), you really have two choices: you can accept the world for what it is and attempt to adapt, or you can lash out at the world and attempt to destroy it. Groups which have succumbed to nihilism obviously opt for the latter. Trump's entire candidacy is premised on negation. He is against Clinton (that is all he talks about in his rallies now), he is against immigration, he is against free-trade and so on. To someone who has lost faith in the state of the world, the idea of simply negating it must be intuitively appealing; we would be fine if only Democrats didn't have political power, if only immigrants weren't coming freely to this nation, if only we weren't part of this or that global arrangement. But the problem, obviously, is what you then to propose to construct from the rubble, but the trouble is I don't think Trump supporters are prepared to think that far. I had this discussion with an American, Trump-supporting friend of mine: yes, okay, I understand your grievances, but once Trump has taken a sledgehammer to everything Obama has accomplished over the last 8 years, what do you actually expect him to be able to do (even in an ideal world, where political gridlock doesn't exist) to change it? My friend, for example, is worried about the influence of banks, corporations, and general economic decline, so my question is simply, "and what exactly do you expect Trump - or anyone else, for that matter - is going to do to fix it? Regardless of what he has or hasn't proposed (virtually nothing on this issue), how exactly do you imagine that these things are going to be fixed by a Trump presidency?" Silence. My friend is generally liberal-leaning (from what I can tell - we haven't dicussed politics much before) but the one positive thing about this election is how it's exposed the hypocrisy and vacuity of the Republican party in its current iteration. They've spent 8 years doing nothing but saying no to Obama, they're being led by the nose by a demographic that is increasingly indifferent to the laissez-faire idealism of the party's establishment, they've forgone all talk of boiler-plate social conservative positions (abortion, gay marriage and "family values" have hardly been raised at all this election), they have a leader who has openly insulted most of them, and all that they are capable of saying is, "well, at least he is not Hillary Clinton". They have exposed themselves as men (and they are invariably men) without principles, and without any particular concern for the facts of reality. They live in a closed bubble and have given up on any meaningful engagement in the world beyond their safe-space, save their investment in its continued destruction. They are nihilists, by word and by deed, pure and simple.
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boner confessor posted:please, let's not consider any part of this creepy  Wow. Now I've seen everything.  
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Pedophilia technically (or is it "technically") prep prepubescent. Ephebophilia is teenagers. Theres a term for tweenagers but I don't remember. Ephebophile noun A pedophile with a thesaurus.
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teen witch posted:So this dude is a loving predator. Neat. Yeah. He's a literal predator. Who also has five children by four women, including that then-teenager (who, btw, maintains they totally didn't have sex before she was 18, not even that time they shared a hotel room).
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Who What Now posted:The moderation in D&D, and specifically in this thread, is hot loving garbage right now and it's really embarrassing. Someone should post that QCS thread. We already have the parody thread here. I'm not gonna be the one to do it. Mel Mudkiper posted:Seems to really enjoy getting young people off I guess 
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My May-December Steampunk Romance
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boner confessor posted:the older i get the more i consider anyone younger than 25 a child Same here, buddy.  I'm only 27, but I already feel like shouting at college kids to get off my drat lawn. 
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boner confessor posted:the older i get the more i consider anyone younger than 25 a child Agreed, there's 20 year olds ITT with opinions about things, and then I think back to myself over a decade ago and lmao
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boner confessor posted:please, let's not consider any part of this creepy Is that baby really hers? 
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Nevvy Z posted:Someone should post that QCS thread. We already have the parody thread here. I'm not gonna be the one to do it. I don't have confidence a QCS thread won't just be a honeypot.
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boner confessor posted:the older i get the more i consider anyone younger than 25 a child I'm 34 with two kids and I don't know that I would call myself an adult with a straight face. I'm also beginning to assume that this is how everyone has always felt.
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CascadeBeta posted:Turn left thread! Left! *looks at the commie meter* We can't go any further left captain!!
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I'm 25 and my sister is near this girl's age and I'm shaking mad. Who the gently caress just lets this skirt by.
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boner confessor posted:please, let's not consider any part of this creepy So interracial relationships are creepy? Thanks, D&D
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Agrajag posted:Is that baby really hers? Genetics can be weird sometimes.
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Covok posted:Bi latino northerner here, will Trump win or will America save itself? Need some anti-arzy. Sitting next to Trump supporters sets me off. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/compare/presidential_election_comparing_2016_2012_2008_2004.html 2012 was a closer election than this year.
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https://twitter.com/aseitzwald/status/794558517717991426 That's, uh, not terribly reassuring.
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CascadeBeta posted:Turn left thread! Left! Jesus Christ, this. What is with this thread and being utterly incapable of self-restraint or not dying on rhetorical hills for literally loving everything? Whether it's mcmagic or... this poo poo, it's mindless and shits up the thread for another 50 pages, rendering it almost impossible to parse actual meaningful discussion from white noise.
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EugeneJ posted:So interracial relationships are creepy? Dude why are you always so loweffort with this poo poo? Its not hard to troll this thread if you try a little
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EugeneJ posted:So interracial relationships are creepy? It's the age of the girl you idiot
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EugeneJ posted:So interracial relationships are creepy? And the winner for Racist Troll of the Day is...*drumroll* EugeneJ!
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boner confessor posted:please, let's not consider any part of this creepy Seriously Virginians, I want to forgive you for the civil war, but this poo poo makes it so hard.
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DaveWoo posted:https://twitter.com/aseitzwald/status/794558517717991426 2017 will be when it comes out that the FBI is riddled with Russian agents.
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DaveWoo posted:https://twitter.com/aseitzwald/status/794558517717991426 God that's hosed up. I wonder how many of them are fantasizing about a coup.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:*as he is dragged to the leper's colony* when I'm president you're going to gitmo Mel Mudkiper posted:Seems to really enjoy getting young people off I guess EugeneJ posted:So interracial relationships are creepy?
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ImpAtom posted:They couldn't find enough dirt Hillary Clinton. They're not going to suddenly discover Tim Kaine murdered a man in Georgia just to watch him die.
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boner confessor posted:the older i get the more i consider anyone younger than 25 a child You know why that is? It's because your brain doesn't finish maturing until 25. This is an actual biological thing.
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Teriyaki Koinku posted:I've worked in a DC lobbying firm. What type of firm did you work at? And were you actually lobbying (either contact or no contact)? Because I was also working at a DC lobbying firm and people would joke about it but it is definitely not widespread or considered impolite. The vast majority of lobbying work is not even contact lobbying, which is the public perception, so I find it odd that a DC lobbying firm would have that attitude unless you were a very rare contact heavy or specialty shop.
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teen witch posted:I'm 25 and my sister is near this girl's age and I'm shaking mad. Who the gently caress just lets this skirt by. Richmond is a weird loving city. Also, the honor of Murder Capital of Virginia trades back and forth between there and Roanoke.
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EugeneJ posted:So interracial relationships are creepy? Are you literally an idiot?
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I was also working at a DC lobbying firm This explains so much about why you shilled super hard for Citibank.
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Agrajag posted:It's the age of the girl you idiot He was never convicted of anything 
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Teriyaki Koinku posted:Jesus Christ, this. Nobody has defended him. Nobody.
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I don't know if I'm getting this because I've clicked on various Trump-related links in this thread, or if it's just a blanket advertisement, but every time I've clicked on a Youtube video today I've had to sit through an insane attack ad of a voiceover about how suspicious the Clinton Foundation is, and a 'music video' of what I can only presume is a Republican fever dream of what they think the newfangled hippity-hop that them colored folk like so much is - 'Hillary' dancing in piles of money with a group of crude racial stereotypes representing Arabs, (((bankers))), etc, throwing bills around almost grinding on her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GHth-bt0Qs Like seriously, what the gently caress is this.
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Just Offscreen posted:Are you literally an idiot? Yes, or he devotes enough time to portraying one here that the implications are the same
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EugeneJ posted:So interracial relationships are creepy? Oh hey! It's today's idiot! Do we corncob him now or does he have to perform for us a bit first?
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Captain Fargle posted:You know why that is? It's because your brain doesn't finish maturing until 25. Fine, so explain the last ten years of my life. Go on, I'm waiting.
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Teriyaki Koinku posted:Same here, buddy. I'm only 26, but I'm a grad student at a liberal school with a WHOLE LOT of white midwesterners, and I'm disappointed ... almost all the time.
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