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Author Topic: Murrican Politics Megathread 2016: There Will Be Hell Toupée  (Read 1582298 times)

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Re: Donald J. Trump's Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams 2016 Megathread
« Reply #13800 on: March 07, 2016, 10:25:30 pm »

Ted Cruz about to receive Endorsements from senators. The people who generally hate him.
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Re: Donald J. Trump's Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams 2016 Megathread
« Reply #13801 on: March 07, 2016, 10:36:23 pm »

Bloomberg is so full of shit when he calls Abraham Lincoln the father of the Republican party. No, that was then -- before LBJ, Civil Rights Act, and before Strom Thurmond became the father of the Republican Party. And the t-party, boiling over with veiled racism, are his good little children.
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Re: Donald J. Trump's Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams 2016 Megathread
« Reply #13802 on: March 07, 2016, 11:18:27 pm »

Ted Cruz about to receive Endorsements from senators. The people who generally hate him.

I wonder who? Some of his tea party friends maybe?
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Re: Donald J. Trump's Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams 2016 Megathread
« Reply #13803 on: March 07, 2016, 11:21:42 pm »

Ted Cruz about to receive Endorsements from senators. The people who generally hate him.

Which was corrected to not actually be correct: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/432464/correction-cruz-senate-endorsements

edit: why the darn did I double post?
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Re: Donald J. Trump's Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams 2016 Megathread
« Reply #13804 on: March 08, 2016, 12:18:30 am »

Ted Cruz about to receive Endorsements from senators. The people who generally hate him.

Which was corrected to not actually be correct: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/432464/correction-cruz-senate-endorsements

edit: why the darn did I double post?
Oh media... Reliable as ever...
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Re: Donald J. Trump's Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams 2016 Megathread
« Reply #13805 on: March 08, 2016, 12:19:40 am »

Let's not restart the racist argument though (I only responded because you were specifically asking if I hadn't heard/did/didn't believe). It's all the media have talked about as it is, and if Trump gets the nomination, it's only going to continue being dredged up over the coming months. Let's save ourselves some of the fun for later.

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Re: Donald J. Trump's Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams 2016 Megathread
« Reply #13806 on: March 08, 2016, 12:47:57 am »

It's convenient to be able to blame Mexicans (also blacks!) for rape, murder, and stealing jobs, to blame China for "beating us" at trade, to blame Muslims for terrorism and call for a halt on all Muslims traveling to the country and for the ones in the country to be looked at real hard because they're all potential terrorists...
But apply that standard fairly. There are more white rapists than illegal immigrant rapists
Not to re-start the flame war, but just something I wanna clear up.
To "fairly" apply this standard, note that while there are more white rapists, that's probably because there are MORE WHITE PEOPLE.

Now if a higher percentage of all white people become rapists then the percentage of all illegal immigrants that become rapists, then you can make that point work.
But as stated it boils down to "there happen to be more whites in america then not"
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Re: Donald J. Trump's Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams 2016 Megathread
« Reply #13807 on: March 08, 2016, 03:13:37 am »

Socialist democracy is a thing in Europe. And yeah, they're having issues, but as far as I can tell, UK is mostly alright, and meanwhile there's a distinct possible of Trump being in charge of nuclear weapons.
Our socialist candidate just destroyed our entire left-wing and has conducted about 3 purges of moderates from 2015-2016 whilst maintaining the Paris attacks were justified retaliation by ISIS, he also wants to destroy our nuclear arsenal, give the Falklands to Argentina and scrap our blue water navy whilst reducing our armed forces to the territorial (even including our minesweepers for some reason), and Vladimir Putin likes him very much :P

I want you to think about that for a second. Just put your response on pause, I promise I'll still read it, but just take a second and think about Donald Trump having access and control of our country's nuclear arsenal.
If that doesn't scare you shitless, you are a more optimistic individual than I.
If the notion of Trump being in charge of nuclear weapons scares you, you should get into Israeli and Pakistani politics. Well gud
Heck, you should jump into the nuclear armaments of everyone more often. Consider Putin making casual reminders that he could vaporize Murrica or RN Captains not needing permission from anyone to deploy missiles. DO YOU FEEL SAFER? :D:D:D:D

Okay fine, I am going to call Bernie Sanders a racist in every post from here to november.  Apparently that is the behavior that people want to see.

And of course it's not surprising, seeing as they support famed racist Bernie Sanders.
This whole election has been precious

I've seen white liberals calling the black race illiterate idiots for not voting in "their" "racial interest" by butt blasting Bernie bros and calling Latin Americans self-hating race traitors for voting Trump against "their" "racial interest", one of the best ones was on reddit where some precious college kid was seething with venom at the possibility of black voters giving Trump any power - truly, I was moistened, moistened by the prospect, moistened by the showing of true colours.

Basically stop being racists and treating people high up on the progressive stack as racial inferiors to be commanded in their best interest at hearts, truly. I mean you don't even pretend to be talking about one another as Americans, nah you're supposed to be putting race against race, religion against religion. MOISTURIZE ME ALREADY

"My skin doesn't define everything about me - I have other preferences, too", and "Fuck people telling me who I'm supposed to like because I'm black".
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In the UK we did this sort of politics in our general election, it was the culmination of our left-wing (back then they were left-centre) progressive party's 15 year plan to replace their working class support with black, asian (Indian-subcontinentals, not east asians), minority and ethnic (just anything not covered by black or asian that's not British) votes. Labour made the assumption that the party that appealed to identity politics, that treated people not as individuals, but cogs of a greater racial machine would win their support no matter what. They were crushed so heavily in the general election by a centre-right party that wanted to curb immigration that campaigned on the basis of better economy, more jobs. This is because people don't think in terms of racial blocs, that's not how minorities think. If there's any europol crossposters here you'll note I am the most vocal critic of immigration and I was born fresh off boat, with cultural enrichment in my skin - yet white liberals cannot fathom why I would be opposed to mass immigration "from your people." Point being is this politics failed so hard that Labour, our traditional left-wing party which has existed since the start of the 20th century, dropped their working class support, dropped their culturally enriched support, and all that was left were crazy left-wing SJW students who don't understand politics is about building up, not destroying everyone who disagrees with you. It's been zero days since the last sexism row, zero days since the last time our crazy socialist called out "dissidents", 2 days since the last antisemitism row, three days since the last public row within the party and one month since the last public mass resignation.

If you play this sort of politic that only caters to rich white liberal college students you're going to hand the world to Clinton or Trump ez pz, and that's what we're seeing now.
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The whole "Hilary/Bernie is SJW" conversation seems oddly prescient now that this thing is flooding my facebook page. TIL white people cannot be poor and that $CURRENTYEAR.
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Re: Donald J. Trump's Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams 2016 Megathread
« Reply #13808 on: March 08, 2016, 08:55:23 am »

Wait, you're a second-generation immigrant? Huh.
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Re: Donald J. Trump's Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams 2016 Megathread
« Reply #13809 on: March 08, 2016, 09:44:14 am »

I think we should stop calling these political figures racists because it undermines how horrible real racists are.

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Re: Donald J. Trump's Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams 2016 Megathread
« Reply #13810 on: March 08, 2016, 09:54:52 am »

I think we should stop calling these political figures racists because it undermines how horrible real racists are.
But what if a hypothetical political figure is a real racist?
(Also, what is a "real racist"?)
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Re: Donald J. Trump's Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams 2016 Megathread
« Reply #13811 on: March 08, 2016, 10:07:05 am »

... being somewhat familiar on a personal level with political figures that are only somewhat below the totem pole than the current candidates, I can quite assure you that political figures such as the ones running and those of similar position are most definitely capable of being racist like goddamn. Sometimes less overt about it than dropping racial slurs every other word when talking about minorities, but no less horrible for it, especially when combined with power outside of the immediately personal.

We do no justice to continuing to undermine the effects of racism by turning our heads away from the ones in power that are more careful about their expression of it.
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Re: Donald J. Trump's Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams 2016 Megathread
« Reply #13812 on: March 08, 2016, 10:44:02 am »

(Also, what is a "real racist"?)

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« Reply #13813 on: March 08, 2016, 10:51:08 am »

Lyin' Ted sheneinighans

Instead of looking like jumping the gun on an ambigous campaign statement, this is looking like 'opportunistically doing anything to win'.
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Re: Donald J. Trump's Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams 2016 Megathread
« Reply #13814 on: March 08, 2016, 10:53:14 am »

Wait, you're a second-generation immigrant? Huh.
Who said second? M8 I'm so culturally enriched you wouldn't even believe, I've already stolen your job
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