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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. Fair enough, but not being massively incorrect about who voted for Trump and in what numbers would probably help your case.
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cant cook creole bream posted:Welp US goons, it's been fun knowing you, but I guess we have to sever contact now. Your countries gross incompetence and corruption has become a bit to toxic. Well would you look at that. A wild dick-wad in it's natural habitat. I never thought I'd be this lucky. It's Chattanooga, you dummmy.
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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. aren't you an american and an expat 
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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. (Ignores the nationalism, isolationism, and bigotry taking over around the world) The US may be uniquely in the spotlight when it comes to this but the US is not unique in voting for dumb poo poo. It is a giant piece of a much larger puzzle. You're not wrong in your assessment of many Americans. Where you are wrong is pretending this is unique to America.
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Lightning Lord posted:This is not true, and acting like every American is complicit is actually really bad for the rest of the world. It might make you feel good in the short term tho I guess Al Borland Corp. posted:That is incorrect. sean10mm posted:Majority of voters chose Clinton. By millions in fact. Since we evidently need to do this: 2016's voter turnout was about 59% of eligible voters. Of those 59%, more voted for Clinton than for Trump. However, even winning that 59% still leaves her with (around) 28% of eligible American voters. Al Borland Corp. posted: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. Voter disenfranchisement and suppression is a colossal problem and may well have swung the election... and did not occur in anywhere near the numbers that would invalidate the point: The overwhelming majority of eligible voters in the United States, at best, did nothing to prevent the election of Donald Trump.
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BTW, I can't vote in the US. So I had nothing to do with this. In fact I helped elect the handsome sex man who his daughter is gonna run away with.
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Chilichimp posted:Well would you look at that. A wild dick-wad in it's natural habitat. I never thought I'd be this lucky. That feels uncalled for. And yes, I made a typo... But yeah. I apologize if I offended anyone with those generalizations. As I've said, I am well aware of the statistical facts and reasons for Trumps rise in power. Most of you are victims. cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 16:37 on May 28, 2017 |
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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. this is actually most of the world, the us just has more nukes hth
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Al Borland Corp. posted:He truly became president with that tweet Did van jones's career die yet
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try the new taco place posted: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. We never actually interact with those travelling Americans because they're all close to death, and/or terrified of talking to locals.
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https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/868820609068937216 https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/868847971395407872 https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/868838877653553153 https://twitter.com/Shareblue/status/868844565947600896 https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/868854595535208449 https://twitter.com/goldengateblond/status/868652844513017856 Party Plane Jones fucked around with this message at 16:42 on May 28, 2017 |
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stone cold posted:aren't you an american No, I'm a Canadian. Mahoning posted:(Ignores the nationalism, isolationism, and bigotry taking over around the world) Not true. We thought that was happening, looking at Trump and Brexit, but then Netherlands, France, Austria, etc. reminded us that sane people can, in fact, still win elections in countries where the electorate isn't terminally dense.
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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. America made its choice by not rebelling and rioting en masse when it became apparent that the guy who lost the popular vote would become president. In 2000. We've been on the Dark Timeline since then.
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As much as it pleases me that France avoided Le Penn, Britain still did Brexit, a quick look at loving Hungary's actions lately, the most likely fall of Merkel to right wing parties, and the overall tribal nationalism on the rise in many country's and tell me the US is the only one to blame. I will fight to make this country better but don't sit there and claim that the US is the only one loving up. I still pray that we drag he GOP in 2018 to make them pay for Trump's rise
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Lightning Lord posted:BTW, I can't vote in the US. So I had nothing to do with this. In fact I helped elect the handsome sex man who his daughter is gonna run away with. Does Canadian customs still accept bribes in US dollars from refugees fleeing America, or do they insist on hard currency? In any case you're hosed. Europe can go figure out how to be Europe but Canada is locked n here with us.
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PT6A posted:No, I'm a Canadian. blaming the electorate and not the dumbass racist electoral college hey pt6a why don't you go up to some pocs who had their votes suppressed and explain why they deserve trump lmao
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cant cook creole bream posted:That feels uncalled for. And yes, I made a typo... You read about american politics for 3-4 months... a lot of the people in this thread continuously fought with friends and family for over a year about the direction of our country. I know otherwise politically inactive people who were working for Bernie and Hilary's campaigns, trying to produce something better. Donald Trump won the white house without even winning the plurality of the national popular vote. Him being in the oval office, representing us on the world stage, is about the lowest many of us have been in our political awareness. Take the knife out of our backs and get some fuckin' perspective. Germany, though flawed, is a lot better than America today. Do yourself a favor and start combating the anti-muslim rhetoric in your country before the rubes decide hating Muslims and Turks is more important that continuing to have UHC. Don't let your good poo poo slip away through complacency. Chilichimp fucked around with this message at 16:43 on May 28, 2017 |
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PT6A posted:No, I'm a Canadian. Oh, so youre essentially an American
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Meme Emulator posted:Oh, so youre essentially an American American with health care and no electoral college basically
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he's not wrong, and if the gop doesn't loving act fast to impeach the best we can hope for is that the history books disparage every one of them in whatever language of the country that takes over the crumbling us in a decade.
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Spiffster posted:As much as it pleases me that France avoided Le Penn, Britain still did Brexit, a quick look at loving Hungary's actions lately, the most likely fall of Merkel to right wing parties, and the overall tribal nationalism on the rise in many country's and tell me the US is the only one to blame. Right wing parties haven't really gained any ground in germany.
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I'm amazed at how many of you assume that all Americans vote. Significantly more than 50% of the adult population either voted for Trump or did not vote against him. I can't believe I have to explain this.
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"In my opinion[...] it's very possible that[...]" drat, that is a very soft tone for trump. When is he going to start using "I'm not an analyst but..."? Of course this is all because he's tired. After an extended weekend of golfing he'll be back to his bullshit.
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Lightning Lord posted:American with health care and no electoral college basically and super dire stuff towards first nations actually who is worse on native rights my heart says america but my brain says canada
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skylined! posted:he's not wrong, and if the gop doesn't loving act fast to impeach the best we can hope for is that the history books disparage every one of them in whatever language of the country that takes over the crumbling us in a decade. We're doomed to 4-8 years of Trump. The Republicans will never impeach him, he'll get better at hiding his repugnant poo poo, and his base will continue to support every evil thing he does, because they want those evil things... and the raging political debate will continue to suppress action from the center, because neither side looks particularly appealing amidst the shouting match. Liberal criticism of the right wing movement isn't hyperbolic, and the center-right are very defensive of even the far-righties amongst them. Every argument, every talking point, every strategy, every move entrenches the right deeper.
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Chilichimp posted:You read about american politics for 3-4 months... a lot of the people in this thread fought with friends and family for over a year about the direction of our country. I know otherwise politically inactive people who were working for Bernie and Hilary's campaigns, trying to produce something better. Donald Trump won the white house without even winning the plurality of the national popular vote. Fair enough. I was kind of an rear end in a top hat there. Thanks for giving me that bit of opposition.
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eyebeem posted:I'm amazed at how many of you assume that all Americans vote. Significantly more than 50% of the adult population either voted for Trump or did not vote against him. Its cool how you are equating action with inaction in this post. Sounds like you are trying to convince yourself why its cool to dump 74% of Americans in the garbage can instead of saying anything actually of worth.
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cant cook creole bream posted:Fair enough. I was kind of an rear end in a top hat there. Thanks for giving me that bit of opposition. Thanks for recognizing it, my dude. 
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Dear Americans who didnt vote against trump: I cant believe you DIPSHITS didnt use your time machine back when the election of Hillary was treated as a foregone conclusion by the media and get off your asses and voted. Anyway, youre all garbagepeople now for not seeing the future and I am the smart one 
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stone cold posted:and super dire stuff towards first nations It's probably a tossup really Chilichimp posted:We're doomed to 4-8 years of Trump. The Republicans will never impeach him, he'll get better at hiding his repugnant poo poo, and his base will continue to support every evil thing he does, because they want those evil things... and the raging political debate will continue to suppress action from the center, because neither side looks particularly appealing amidst the shouting match. I think it all depends on how brainwashed people are towards healthcare. If people really do accept "Obamacare did this! That's why it costs $90k for insurance and your doctor is using leeches!" then we boned
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I'm Dutch and I'd like to remind this thread that Geert Wilders' PVV was the second biggest party last election among a highly splintered political landscape. Getting 'just' 11% of the votes is still huge for Dutch standards. Another reason why he isn't bigger is because other center-right parties took a lot of his anti-immigration policies, albeit in a less extreme form. As far as I can tell the only real difference between the US alt-right and its closest Dutch analogue is that they generally don't care as much about black people (most Dutch have no issues with them), it's just the muslim minorities they despise. Same anti-establishment sentiment, same idolization of neo-fascists like Putin (even after MH17), etc.
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Being an American abroad with Trump as President really sucks. I was actually planning to move back, I'd sold a bunch of my stuff, started applying for jobs, got a green card for my wife.... then BLAMMO. My (German) wife was already skeptical of the US but agreed to go with me... until this happened. Luckily I got an online job so I can still survive even though neither of us are legal to work in the country where we live. I was so looking forward to living in a first world country again. But any time I'm with a group of people who aren't Americans and the conversation turns to Trump... I feel really ashamed even though I donated and voted for Clinton. You definitely have this feeling like, you're being judged. And you want to avoid being a stereotype. I am quite fat, so I do confirm that one but I try to otherwise not be a complete idiot or rear end in a top hat. Also, the whole "Americans abroad are likely to be Democrats" thing is, well, I don't have stats but I'm not 100% I'd buy it. For every person who came abroad because they wanted to see another country/culture, there's one who left because "of the government." So you get all types at least where I live. All of my gringo friends are Democrat or libertarian, I don't have any friends here who supported Trump but that doesn't mean there aren't any.
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eyebeem posted:I'm amazed at how many of you assume that all Americans vote. Significantly more than 50% of the adult population either voted for Trump or did not vote against him. An even bigger majority either voted for Clinton or did not vote against her.
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sean10mm posted:An even bigger majority either voted for Clinton or did not vote against her. Please dont post something that makes sense, this is the Trump thread
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bencreateddisco posted:There's no reason to think he'll get better at hiding his poo poo wtf are you talking about. They're going to stop having press conferences soon and he'll purge the white house of careerist civil servants in favor of rich assholes and idealists who just want the agenda. The leaks will die to a trickle, and although the press (which is credible) will continue to report every evil and repugnant thing the Republicans do, they're preaching to the choir. Every true and heinous thing that's reported will be spun through right-wing media as a snowflakes response, with alternative interpretations reassuring the right that policy matches their "conservative" goals. We just saw a white supremacist verbally assault 2 Muslim-looking women in Oregon and kill 2 men for defending them, and have him painted by right-wing outlets as an anti-fa bernie bro. Even in THAT STORY, America has two different narratives.
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Meme Emulator posted:Dear Americans who didnt vote against trump: I cant believe you DIPSHITS didnt use your time machine back when the election of Hillary was treated as a foregone conclusion by the media and get off your asses and voted. Anyway, youre all garbagepeople now for not seeing the future and I am the smart one "I mean, I could have gotten off of my rear end and actually voted against the man who confessed to serial sexual assaults, who paid off state officials to avoid being punished for intentionally defrauding the poor and the elderly, who was vocal in his plans to shred the concept of religious freedom, and who was obvious and forthright in his intent to use the office to enrich himself and his family... but instead I didn't, and you're the rear end in a top hat for pointing this out"* * does not apply to those who had their voting rights stripped and suppressed, who are a tiny sliver of the 41ish% of the eligible population who didn't vote
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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. No, people are actually making a legitimate point here, no matter how much you want to use the US election to feel better about yourself. Pick any state whose electors voted for Hillary Clinton - the population of that state did literally as much as they could with their votes to stop Trump from being elected. It doesn't matter how many people in that state actually voted, because the ones that stayed home and who would have voted for Clinton couldn't actually affect the outcome. The American electoral system is fundamentally broken and you aren't helping anyone when you try to paper over that fact by blaming Americans in general for a president who failed to even earn more votes than his opponent.
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Meme Emulator posted:Its cool how you are equating action with inaction in this post. A wise Canadian once said, "if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."
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