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Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

*wearing idiotic white hood* i'm just yknow concerned about the future of our great nation *looks extremely contemplative*

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Nodelphi
Jan 30, 2004

We are all quite capable of believing in anything as long as it's improbable.

Ham Wrangler

Vladimir Putin posted:

That would be illegal and get him impeached.

Voters re-elect him because they feel it makes him smart and a good businessman.

Nothing matters.

docbeard
Jul 19, 2011

FAUXTON posted:

Look I ain't calling someone who isn't a racist a loving racist but a lot of people seemingly clearly didn't mind questioning why Trump appealed to white loving supremacists before throwing their lot in with them. It's kind of like ironic bigotry - there's little point in reacting to it differently from your reaction to genuine bigotry because it's still someone saying the fourteen words or what have you. The "you called us all racists" salt is the biggest loving red herring because it tries to shut down discussion about the very real problems with publicly associating with loving klansmen. Just because the rurals are overwhelmingly white doesn't mean you should ever for a second try appealing to a sense of white identity and if someone complains about the lack of white identity rhetoric then sure, they're almost certainly a loving racist.

Yeah, again, I worry that we're going to learn the wrong lesson from this and just kind of shut up about racism because we want votes, while our non-white brothers and sisters are all going "Guys? Guys? They're literally coming to kill us, where are you? Guys? Hello?"

There's a line somewhere between completely ignoring hatred and completely dismissing an entire demographic because of our own prejudices about them, and it's a tightrope. But who said this was going to be easy?

CortezFantastic
Aug 10, 2003

I SEE DEMONS
Just saw the writer of Art of the Deal is still copping with this election and saw this in his timeline

https://twitter.com/tonyschwartz/status/795306586759720960

well let's hope for the best i guess!!

Beet Wagon
Oct 19, 2015





Yinlock posted:

*wearing idiotic white hood* i'm just yknow concerned about the future of our great nation *looks extremely contemplative*

"It's not about hatred or nothin' like that, I just want to make sure that my race is allowed to be proud just like all the others" - Guy with a swastika tattooed on his loving face

Typo
Aug 19, 2009

Chernigov Military Aviation Lyceum
The Fighting Slowpokes

docbeard posted:

Yeah, again, I worry that we're going to learn the wrong lesson from this and just kind of shut up about racism because we want votes, while our non-white brothers and sisters are all going "Guys? Guys? They're literally coming to kill us, where are you? Guys? Hello?"

There's a line somewhere between completely ignoring hatred and completely dismissing an entire demographic because of our own prejudices about them, and it's a tightrope. But who said this was going to be easy?

the next time when the question comes up as to "why is the government allowing low wage illegals coming in to compete with the poorest rural workers" the answer shouldn't be "you are racist for asking"

SocketWrench
Jul 8, 2012

by Fritz the Horse

Beet Wagon posted:

No it's okay because he's going to repeal Obamacare and replace it with

Something great, it's gonna be yuge, he put the best, absolutely the best people on it to make a bigly thing that'll be the best, because everyone knows Trump stands for the best (see; steaks, vodka, casinos, Plaza hotel, Television City, marriage, radio, mortgages, universities, sexual misconduct, etc)

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

Yinlock posted:

it's really funny when the kkk try to pretend to be non-insane in full uniform during interviews

'Economic anxiety' is the new 'ethics in video game journalism.' Sure, those are actual topics to discuss (as in there is actual economic anxiety and actual issues of ethical erosion in tech journalism at large and neither has anything to do with race, gender, or anything about identity) but most of the time it's someone cynically using the term (and not the topic) to bypass the shrieking mental alarms an outside observer might have when they see the actual dialogue in action. You can usually tell the cynics apart from the rest because their response is immediately to characterize you as a "SJW" like that poo poo hasn't been a white trash shibboleth for half a decade or more now.

E: the next time when the question comes up as to "why is the government allowing low wage illegals coming in to compete with the poorest rural workers" the answer shouldn't be "you are racist for asking"

The answer should be "you're racist for thinking a person can be illegal, your joblessness or pennilessness isn't about immigration at all, and if we gave every undocumented worker citizenship and the legal protections thereof tomorrow they would be able to fight for a higher wage without fearing deportation for demanding a fair shake."

Seriously that "illegals" poo poo is and will always be an obvious "kick me I'm a racist" sign. People cannot be illegal. There is nothing that makes someone different just because they did some god drat paperwork. They're looking for a decent paying job and a safe home like everyone else but their status as undocumented immigrants means that bar for "decent paying" is lowered because of the leverage held against them by the same exact system of capital accumulation that's loving you over too. Don't call people illegal, especially when they are literally dying to join the same labor fights you are.

FAUXTON fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Nov 11, 2016

Typo
Aug 19, 2009

Chernigov Military Aviation Lyceum
The Fighting Slowpokes

SocketWrench posted:

Something great, it's gonna be yuge, he put the best, absolutely the best people on it to make a bigly thing that'll be the best, because everyone knows Trump stands for the best (see; steaks, vodka, casinos, Plaza hotel, Television City, marriage, radio, mortgages, universities, sexual misconduct, etc)

lol Trumpcare is gonna be a thing isn't it

The Puppet Master
Apr 9, 2005

Would you fuck me? I'd fuck me. I'd fuck me hard.



i

Typo posted:

lol Trumpcare is gonna be a thing isn't it

it's repeal obamacare and replace it with health saving accounts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_savings_account

SocketWrench
Jul 8, 2012

by Fritz the Horse

Vladimir Putin posted:

That would be illegal and get him impeached.

You wish

Telephones
Apr 28, 2013

SocketWrench posted:

Lolz, I've already heard people saying Trump's gonna be great with the economy because he's a great business man. Who else could come back to be a millionaire after multiple bankruptcies. The fact he got millions from his dad after such incidents and his offshore accounts/holdings doesn't seem to be a thing those people comprehend though.

My favorite thing is the casinos. The house always wins! Unless you're Trump then the house loses 300 million. Just lol.

Bill Burr is a bit of a fucker but drat that poo poo about him being a gangster is so spot on.

ThndrShk2k
Nov 3, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Bread Liar

Lol poor Bill.

comingafteryouall
Aug 2, 2011


Anybody got stats on what the % of voter turnout was in rural areas?

Von Sloneker
Jul 6, 2009

as if all this was something more
than another footnote on a postcard from nowhere,
another chapter in the handbook for exercises in futility

Vladimir Putin posted:

That would be illegal and get him impeached.

Funny story!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedtech_scandal

quote:

By the final years of Reagan's second term, Wedtech's crimes had become too numerous to hide. An independent counsel was appointed by Congress, which later charged Attorney General Edwin Meese with complicity in the scandal (his close friend had worked as a lobbyist for the company and sought help from Meese on Wedtech contract matters). While Meese was never convicted of any wrongdoing, he resigned in 1988 when the independent counsel delivered the report on Wedtech.[6] The independent counsel McKay never prosecuted or sought indictment of Meese, but in his official report, which is still confidential, he was highly critical of Meese's ethics and urged further investigation of Meese's role in that scandal and others (such as Meese's efforts to help Bechtel Corporation build an oil pipeline for Saddam Hussein's Iraq).

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/meese-trump-transition-228694

quote:

Two sources said Meese is heading a Trump transition group focused on the Executive Office of the President, which includes the Office of Management and Budget. Meese declined to comment, and the Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

Serf
May 5, 2011


Vladimir Putin posted:

That would be illegal and get him impeached.

look at this corncob still acting like things matter

get with the program, friendo

docbeard
Jul 19, 2011

Typo posted:

the next time when the question comes up as to "why is the government allowing low wage illegals coming in to compete with the poorest rural workers" the answer shouldn't be "you are racist for asking"

Yeah.

I'm not sure that "because companies can get away with what is effectively slave labor so why would they pay you a fair wage" is going to be a much more satisfying answer, but it's probably the start of one.

(I'm definitely not sure that my gut reaction of BECAUSE NATIONAL BORDERS ARE BULLSHIT is a satisfying answer. There is a reason I am not in politics and that reason is laziness but also I probably couldn't pretend to be reasonable forever.)

Covok
May 27, 2013

Yet where is that woman now? Tell me, in what heave does she reside? None of them. Because no God bothered to listen or care. If that is what you think it means to be a God, then you and all your teachings are welcome to do as that poor women did. And vanish from these realms forever.

Typo posted:

lol Trumpcare is gonna be a thing isn't it

Basically, if you live in a rural area, you will likely die of a disease/condition that President Obama would have covered for you.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

ThndrShk2k posted:

Lol poor Bill.

It's not even "Third Way-ism failed", because they didn't listen to the guy that actually loving became President on Third Way-ism.

Jesus H Christ.

SocketWrench
Jul 8, 2012

by Fritz the Horse

Telephones posted:

My favorite thing is the casinos. The house always wins! Unless you're Trump then the house loses 300 million. Just lol.

Bill Burr is a bit of a fucker but drat that poo poo about him being a gangster is so spot on.

I think mine's still the billion dollar loss he took, because that's the sign of a great business man, a guy that can lose a billion and mooch off his wealthy family to recover. If only I could make a small million dollar loan from my daddums.

Typo
Aug 19, 2009

Chernigov Military Aviation Lyceum
The Fighting Slowpokes

Covok posted:

Basically, if you live in a rural area, you will likely die of a disease/condition that President Obama would have covered for you.

tremendous!

TotalHell
Feb 22, 2005

Roman Reigns fights CM Punk in fantasy warld. Lotsa violins, so littl kids cant red it.


nothing really matters
anyone can see
nothing really matters
ed balls

pathetic little tramp
Dec 12, 2005

by Hillary Clinton's assassins
Fallen Rib

SocketWrench posted:

I think mine's still the billion dollar loss he took, because that's the sign of a great business man, a guy that can lose a billion and mooch off his wealthy family to recover. If only I could make a small million dollar loan from my daddums.

And remember how he got the infusion of cash? His daddy literally sent someone to the Trump casino with a shitload of money, turned it into chips, and then just forfeited the chips to the casino.

Like, the most blatant money laundering bullshit in history.

Bolton Hairy-Bore
Jul 31, 2013
I'm shooker than shook

Covok
May 27, 2013

Yet where is that woman now? Tell me, in what heave does she reside? None of them. Because no God bothered to listen or care. If that is what you think it means to be a God, then you and all your teachings are welcome to do as that poor women did. And vanish from these realms forever.

Typo posted:

tremendous!

Basically, we won't have to worry that the Rust Belt will vote in his son in 2024. There won't be enough of them left alive.

Deaths will go up a year in that region by 10,000 to 18,000 according to most studies.

In a way, we will actually have a purge in Trump's America and it's sad.

Covok fucked around with this message at 16:49 on Nov 11, 2016

Notahippie
Feb 4, 2003

Kids, it's not cool to have Shane MacGowan teeth

Typo posted:

the next time when the question comes up as to "why is the government allowing low wage illegals coming in to compete with the poorest rural workers" the answer shouldn't be "you are racist for asking"

I think you're totally right. Too many people have used shorthand instead of engaging politely and through education instead.

Asking that question is loving racist and idiotic, and if you asked it you're a racist fuckwit. Let me politely explain why that is.

1. There are not a horde of low wage illegals coming to compete with the poorest rural workers. Migration for the last several years has been a net outflow. More people are leaving than coming in, and the ones who are coming in are essentially making up for labor shortages - there aren't enough workers who can get to the places where the jobs are, and in places where there are acute shortages of immigrants the result is that crops are rotting, not that everyone suddenly has a job.

2. Government is already doing a shitload about illegal immigration, to the point where there are already huge numbers of deportations and internment camps. Doing anything more aggressive is almost impossible to do without literally killing people through neglect or abuse.

3. Wage stagnation is being driven from the top - the bigass corporate heads and CEOs whose pay is dependent on showing quarterly profit increases. Increasing pay for workers is solely a cost center. It doesn't provide any visible value-add on a quarterly basis. People are being squeezed because of the rich, not because of immigrants.

If, instead of looking at what's happening out your front door, you decide that the problem is actually illegal immigrants, it's not because you are trying to speak truth to power - it's because you're actually a racist and so you're jumping to racist assumptions. Therefore, if you ask that question, you're a racist for asking.

See? Education always is better than just calling someone a racist, you racist shithead.

mormonpartyboat
Jan 14, 2015

by Reene

gradenko_2000 posted:

It's not even "Third Way-ism failed", because they didn't listen to the guy that actually loving became President on Third Way-ism.

Jesus H Christ.

fifth world ism

Serf
May 5, 2011


see we used to be the party of reason, but reason skipped town a long time ago and now we're stuck looking around for friends

Covok
May 27, 2013

Yet where is that woman now? Tell me, in what heave does she reside? None of them. Because no God bothered to listen or care. If that is what you think it means to be a God, then you and all your teachings are welcome to do as that poor women did. And vanish from these realms forever.
So, how is the Phillipines doing? Because, that's what we will be soon.

pathetic little tramp
Dec 12, 2005

by Hillary Clinton's assassins
Fallen Rib
Paul Ryan cancelling medicare has hit the media. That sick feeling we have all had in our stomachs for the past 3 days is about be shared by a whole bunch of racist old white people everywhere.

mrmcd
Feb 22, 2003

Pictured: The only good cop (a fictional one).

Harry Reid and Ken Jennings for heads of the "Progressive wise-rear end Mormons caucus".

Bolton Hairy-Bore
Jul 31, 2013

Bolton Hairy-Bore posted:

I'm shooker than shook

Jk I'm not afraid of loving dipshit Nazis and dipshit pigs

Serf
May 5, 2011


pathetic little tramp posted:

Paul Ryan cancelling medicare has hit the media. That sick feeling we have all had in our stomachs for the past 3 days is about be shared by a whole bunch of racist old white people everywhere.

"too bad Paul Ryan had to cancel Medicare because of that damned Obama!"

prepare for this, friend

The Nastier Nate
May 22, 2005

All aboard the corona bus!

HONK! HONK!


Yams Fan
Does anyone else still think that Trump was a Bill Clinton plant to give his wife an easy win? I didn't before, but now I'm like 90% sure he was. The universe loves irony, and the hubris of the Clinton family goes deeper than any of us ever knew.

docbeard
Jul 19, 2011

gradenko_2000 posted:

It's not even "Third Way-ism failed", because they didn't listen to the guy that actually loving became President on Third Way-ism.

Jesus H Christ.

Yeah, if you're completely ignoring the guy who is one of two contenders for greatest living Democratic campaigner in modern history, what are you even doing?

Covok
May 27, 2013

Yet where is that woman now? Tell me, in what heave does she reside? None of them. Because no God bothered to listen or care. If that is what you think it means to be a God, then you and all your teachings are welcome to do as that poor women did. And vanish from these realms forever.

Serf posted:

"too bad Paul Ryan had to cancel Medicare because of that damned Obama!"

prepare for this, friend

I said it once and I'll say it again: these people will die of a disease the democrats could have saved them from while blaming the democrats for everything. These people are unreasonable and delusional: it's sad, but the truth. They will see no savior and fade into darkness full of hate and fear.

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

docbeard posted:

Yeah, again, I worry that we're going to learn the wrong lesson from this and just kind of shut up about racism because we want votes, while our non-white brothers and sisters are all going "Guys? Guys? They're literally coming to kill us, where are you? Guys? Hello?"

There's a line somewhere between completely ignoring hatred and completely dismissing an entire demographic because of our own prejudices about them, and it's a tightrope. But who said this was going to be easy?

Basically "I'm not calling you a racist yet, I'm calling the klansmen in your clown car racist. I'm only judging the gently caress out of you for not leaving that bigot on the side of the road to begin with. Sorry folks, you don't get a loving economic hardship deferment in the fight against hatred."

FAUXTON fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Nov 11, 2016

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

Bolton Hairy-Bore posted:

I'm shooker than shook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGRQW-PbdB8

docbeard
Jul 19, 2011

Notahippie posted:

I think you're totally right. Too many people have used shorthand instead of engaging politely and through education instead.

Asking that question is loving racist and idiotic, and if you asked it you're a racist fuckwit. Let me politely explain why that is.

1. There are not a horde of low wage illegals coming to compete with the poorest rural workers. Migration for the last several years has been a net outflow. More people are leaving than coming in, and the ones who are coming in are essentially making up for labor shortages - there aren't enough workers who can get to the places where the jobs are, and in places where there are acute shortages of immigrants the result is that crops are rotting, not that everyone suddenly has a job.

2. Government is already doing a shitload about illegal immigration, to the point where there are already huge numbers of deportations and internment camps. Doing anything more aggressive is almost impossible to do without literally killing people through neglect or abuse.

3. Wage stagnation is being driven from the top - the bigass corporate heads and CEOs whose pay is dependent on showing quarterly profit increases. Increasing pay for workers is solely a cost center. It doesn't provide any visible value-add on a quarterly basis. People are being squeezed because of the rich, not because of immigrants.

If, instead of looking at what's happening out your front door, you decide that the problem is actually illegal immigrants, it's not because you are trying to speak truth to power - it's because you're actually a racist and so you're jumping to racist assumptions. Therefore, if you ask that question, you're a racist for asking.

See? Education always is better than just calling someone a racist, you racist shithead.

I think what it comes down to is that the core message needs to shift from "you're ignorant and wrong" to "you have been lied to".

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Serf
May 5, 2011


docbeard posted:

I think what it comes down to is that the core message needs to shift from "you're ignorant and wrong" to "you have been lied to".

this x1000

I've been just as guilty of this as lots of people I know

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