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Julio Cruz
May 19, 2006

BabyFur Denny posted:

If you meet an American the chances are over 50% that he either voted for Trump or didn't care enough to vote against him. That's all we think of when we meet one of your kind.

Also, Americans who you might meet abroad are a lot more likely to have voted Clinton than ones who don't even own a passport.

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Mustached Demon
Nov 12, 2016

cant cook creole bream posted:

It was incredibly addicting. Literally.
And it was a time where I didn't have a lot going on.

Worse reality TV I suppose.

John Wick of Dogs
Mar 4, 2017

A real hellraiser


And the ones who voted for neither can't accurately be said to have not voted against him. And hundreds of thousands voters who wanted to vote against him were disenfranchised through racist laws.

Ekster
Jul 18, 2013

To be fair to the US a lot of it depends on the voting system. The main issues Trump stands for are similar among far right groups in Europe. There's a reason why Wilders and Le Pen were galvanized by Trump's victory.

Crain
Jun 27, 2007

I had a beer once with Stephen Miller and now I like him.

I also tried to ban someone from a Discord for pointing out what an unrelenting shithead I am! I'm even dumb enough to think it worked!
Aw geez sorry guys. I had the "dark timeline" option checked for map generation.

We'll just have to ride it out and reroll a new one later.

Overwined
Sep 22, 2008

Wine can of their wits the wise beguile,
Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.
Chomsky weighing in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u66GA-YquXo

It's interesting to note that he states fairly directly that he think Trump is a stooge just like a lot of people believe.

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 10 years!)

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

hahaha you think Trump raised any of his kids

on the other hand, Ivanka did raise Trump's cock

Cran
Mar 23, 2011
I, for one, would be perfectly willing to apologize on behalf of my country for electing the man less than half the cast votes went toward if I wasn't concerned about my immediately livelihood because of him.

Wark Say
Feb 22, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

cant cook creole bream posted:

It was incredibly addicting. Literally.
And it was a time where I didn't have a lot going on.
:same:

It's basically how I caught up with the previous thread: in the two month interim I was between jobs, all I did was jog, play guitar and listen to Whitesnake while sending my updated CV and waiting for peeps to call in and offer me money for being rad.

skylined!
Apr 6, 2012

THE DEM DEFENDER HAS LOGGED ON

Filthy Hans posted:

on the other hand, Ivanka did raise Trump's cock

this poo poo's gross and cringey as gently caress and not funny

John Wick of Dogs
Mar 4, 2017

A real hellraiser


Zbigniew Brezinski died btw

Kilroy
Oct 1, 2000

eyebeem posted:

No, it's not.
I mean, if you meet an American outside of North America the chances of them being a Republican (or "independent" for that matter) has already dropped by quite a lot since many of them would view that as a kind of light treason - especially the ones most likely to vote for Trump and be really proud of that fact. This doesn't apply if they're there on business, though.

Verizian
Dec 18, 2004
The spiky one.
Seriously, watching Trump the past year has been like a lost season of House of Cards where Peewee Herman runs for office, and wins on an insane technicality. Except his health plan probably involved kinky nurses and free gummy bears for all instead of making GBS threads on poor people.

ZobarStyl
Oct 24, 2005

This isn't a war, it's a moider.

Al Borland Corp. posted:

That is incorrect.
It's particularly bad math if you're referring to Americans you may encounter abroad. The kind of voter who went for Trump doesn't really travel at all, much less internationally. I mean, if you meet an American who decided visit Europe, it stands to reason that they didn't come to see the collapse of your socialist nightmare states into Sharia observing muzzie outposts, but rather just wanted to remember what functioning govt looks like.

Efb

Mystic Mongol
Jan 5, 2007

Your life's been thrown in disarray already--I wouldn't want you to feel pressured.


College Slice

Andrast posted:

Why on earth would you do that?

Because we get to decide if the world ends and they don't.

Mahoning
Feb 3, 2007
Chuck Todd just pointed out on Meet the Press that Trump used "In my opinion..." in a tweet for the first time ever (they checked). So maybe the lawyers got to him. Sort of.

flashman
Dec 16, 2003

ZobarStyl posted:

It's particularly bad math if you're referring to Americans you may encounter abroad. The kind of voter who went for Trump doesn't really travel at all, much less internationally. I mean, if you meet an American who decided visit Europe, it stands to reason that they didn't come to see the collapse of your socialist nightmare states into Sharia observing muzzie outposts, but rather just wanted to remember what functioning govt looks like.

Efb

I'm pretty sure wealthy suburban whites travel.

John Wick of Dogs
Mar 4, 2017

A real hellraiser


Mahoning posted:

Chuck Todd just pointed out on Meet the Press that Trump used "In my opinion..." in a tweet for the first time ever (they checked). So maybe the lawyers got to him. Sort of.

He truly became president with that tweet

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
To be fair, there are plenty of terrible Americans who travel aboard. Like a group of frat students. And frankly, in a few months only 30% of your people will claim that they'd voted for Trump. Especially if they talk to to foreigners.

I know that this forum is extremely based on facts, and therefore against Trump, but if an average group of 10 people (who aren't all from NY or CA) would all claim to not have voted Trump, I'd hardly believe it.

cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 16:19 on May 28, 2017

theres a will theres moe
Jan 10, 2007


Hair Elf
vague statistics about people's travel habits cross-referenced to their voting records is cool and interesting and meaningful. Especially when you've got no data or anything to back it up.

twice burned ice
Dec 29, 2008

My stove defies the laws of physics!

cant cook creole bream posted:

To be fair, there are plenty of terrible Americans who travel aboard. Like a group of frat students. And frankly, in a few months only 30% of your people will claim that they'd voted for Trump. Especially if they talk to to foreigners.

Less than 30% of eligible voters did vote for Trump.

Mahoning
Feb 3, 2007

Al Borland Corp. posted:

He truly became president an adult with that tweet

More accurate.

FBS
Apr 27, 2015

The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.

We need some of those 3 million surplus Clinton voters to leave and start colonizing the less populous red states.

A couple hundred thousand from NYC or the bay area move to Cheyenne and that's two new senators and three more electoral votes!

This is so brilliant I can't believe nobody ever thought of it.

Kilroy
Oct 1, 2000

flashman posted:

I'm pretty sure wealthy suburban whites travel.
Yes, to parts of the Caribbean and like Mazatlan and poo poo.

Timeless Appeal
May 28, 2006

cant cook creole bream posted:

And frankly, in a few months only 30% of your people will claim that they'd voted for Trump.
Only about 20% of eligible voters actually voted for Trump.

Party Plane Jones
Jul 1, 2007

by Reene
Fun Shoe

Kilroy
Oct 1, 2000
poo poo, am I sort of defending Americans? Sorry.

Turtlicious
Sep 17, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
To be clear, if you meet an average American in America, you'd have to tell us what State to get a real Average, because each of our states are twice the size of your countries (except for a select few,) and even if you weren't looking at each state or whatever, only about %45 percent of American's who voted voted for Trump, which is far less than 50.

alpha_destroy
Mar 23, 2010

Billy Butler: Fat Guy by Day, Doubles Machine by Night

Tim Raines IRL posted:

Mathematically it's correct.

Of course, the numbers change if you look at the subset of Americans who are likely to have encounters with people from other countries.

I think it's also unfair to the millions of disenfranchised and the millions of practically disenfranchised.

Apoplexy
Mar 9, 2003

by Shine

skylined! posted:

pretty much everyone that reads this thread for more than trolling voted for hillary.

also so did most of the country.

we don't need you to turn away, we need your help. please invade and kill all the republicans.

Literally this.

Wark Say
Feb 22, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

twice burned ice posted:

Less than 30% of eligible voters did vote for Trump.
60 million people (give or take), that's a little less than 20% of the USA population. How many registered voters are there?

PT6A
Jan 5, 2006

Public school teachers are callous dictators who won't lift a finger to stop children from peeing in my plane
Please just stop. Your country is full of utter loving morons, who elected an utter loving moron for president. You can quibble about the exact numbers, but in the end, America made its choice, and it chose a man in its own image: an intellectually incurious, bigoted, fat sack of poo poo. All the protests and hand-waving in the world can't change that, until we (the rest of the world) see Trump dragged out of the white house in handcuffs like he deserves.

Mahoning
Feb 3, 2007
Does that guy realize that Christianity is a monotheistic religion?

Is he a follower of the Old Norse gods?

Bottom Liner
Feb 15, 2006


a specific vein of lasagna

PT6A posted:

Please just stop. Your country is full of utter loving morons, who elected an utter loving moron for president. You can quibble about the exact numbers, but in the end, America made its choice, and it chose a man in its own image: an intellectually incurious, bigoted, fat sack of poo poo. All the protests and hand-waving in the world can't change that, until we (the rest of the world) see Trump dragged out of the white house in handcuffs like he deserves.

Everyone here wants the same outcome, stop being a dick an insulting us.

Mustached Demon
Nov 12, 2016

PT6A posted:

Please just stop. Your country is full of utter loving morons, who elected an utter loving moron for president. You can quibble about the exact numbers, but in the end, America made its choice, and it chose a man in its own image: an intellectually incurious, bigoted, fat sack of poo poo. All the protests and hand-waving in the world can't change that, until we (the rest of the world) see Trump dragged out of the white house in handcuffs like he deserves.

You could help us there.

Loel
Jun 4, 2012

"For the Emperor."

There was a terrible noise.
There was a terrible silence.



PT6A posted:

Please just stop. Your country is full of utter loving morons, who elected an utter loving moron for president. You can quibble about the exact numbers, but in the end, America made its choice, and it chose a man in its own image: an intellectually incurious, bigoted, fat sack of poo poo. All the protests and hand-waving in the world can't change that, until we (the rest of the world) see Trump dragged out of the white house in handcuffs like he deserves.

The electoral college made its choice, yes :v:

theres a will theres moe
Jan 10, 2007


Hair Elf
Yeah at least throw a hashtag resist at the end dang

There Bias Two
Jan 13, 2009
I'm not a good person


I'd guess he'd better kill himself for screwing up the whole Christian forgiveness thing.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

twice burned ice posted:

Less than 30% of eligible voters did vote for Trump.
Fair enough. 80% will claim they did something against him then.

But yeah, the electoral college is archaic nonsense, specifically designed to take control from stupid plebs and should have been removed, or at least updated based on proper population data, a long time ago. Remember 2000? That legislature turned out great too.

Sorry. I don't want to be to offensive. I know that there are plenty of good people. But as I've said, Donald Trump, a perverted old, white, senile, corrupt, racist narcissistic is your international representation now. That leaves a mark. And I don't know how the next president will be able to fix those relations.
He wont. Pence will only focus on domestic issues, like his urgent need to convert all homosexual people.

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try the new taco place
Jan 4, 2004

hey mister... can u play drums while I sing and play plastic guitar???
Americans abroad are mostly Republicans because only rich people can afford to cross the ocean and buy a passport that's more than rent. And rich people are astonishingly republican.

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