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[Vilanat]

Honestly, when it comes to climate change, I've already given up on the thought that the world will actually hold things steady. At this point it's bail or bust.

Lucky for us Renewable are gradually becoming a better financial investment than fossils so that change is inevitable from Bottom to Top and not dependent on policies from Top to Bottom. so at least on this part we're covered.

[Neonivek]

If people are too afraid to walk around a college campus, then we have pretty amazing problems even without Trump. Calling the millennial generation ridiculously pampered and fragile is pretty cliche, but it is 100% accurate from my observations.

https://theintercept.com/2016/05/05/hate-crimes-rise-along-with-donald-trumps-anti-muslim-rhetoric/

Statistics disagree but whatever.

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Sorry but it happens... Surges in hate crime do sometimes follow patterns and I don't blame anyone who is in the firing line to be genuinely afraid.

As for "Pampered and fragile" a lot of it has to do with the fact that the poor fragile Millennials don't put up with half the crap that the people before them were more then willing to put up with. Far better they be spoiled then abused in my mind...

[EnigmaticHat]

Even if we space colonies that don't rely on Earth are in our immediate future (unlikely but possible I guess), there isn't enough rocket fuel on earth to get a single percent of a single percent of the population into space, so most of us are going to have to deal with the consequences of what happens.

[SaberToothTiger]

Good night and good luck you queer as folk yanks.

[smjjames]

Good night and good luck you queer as folk yanks.

Um, thanks? Ya dinky European or wherever you are.

[Kot]

Don't crash this page.

[Frumple]

Honestly, when it comes to climate change, I've already given up on the thought that the world will actually hold things steady. At this point it's bail or bust.

Lucky for us Renewable are gradually becoming a better financial investment than fossils so that change is inevitable from Bottom to Top and not dependent on policies from Top to Bottom. so at least on this part we're covered.

Covered, maybe, but if trump and the GOP go through the energy plans they've been outlining, it's a too-bloody-good chance we're about to see things set back years or decades so far as how soon that happens. And if the arctic's anything to by this year, how much we can afford that is questionable

[Vilanat]

If people are too afraid to walk around a college campus, then we have pretty amazing problems even without Trump. Calling the millennial generation ridiculously pampered and fragile is pretty cliche, but it is 100% accurate from my observations.

https://theintercept.com/2016/05/05/hate-crimes-rise-along-with-donald-trumps-anti-muslim-rhetoric/

Statistics disagree but whatever.

That "study" is laughably unconvincing and biased.

[Silverthrone]

I could understand, hey Prof. We stayed all night biting our fingernails only to end up dreading in bed snatching a few horror filled lapses of sleep so we're too tired to take a test,

but,

We are too scared to show up at class today? really? and you guys think the baby boomers is your problem?!

I will say, I might be more different from my own generation than I thought. Growing up as an immigrant with a family that embodies the idea that the world doesn't hand you jack shit really does make you view the world differently.

Hell, I grew up in a cozy native majority in a time and place that could give you at least an inch if you needed it, and I still didn't turn out like that. I mean goodness me. Being sheltered likely contributes, but I was (comparatively) Young Sir Sheltered von Sheltersafe, from Safeboda Parish, and still never really cultivated that sentiment.

With that said, it's reasonably warranted to be afraid, considering what he has expressed during the election and his choice of vice president. And while there are no organised Trumpist sturmabteilungers prowling every university, it's not unreasonable to be afraid of gangs still feeling high and mighty after the victory, if they consider you a target. But; it's a possibility, not a certainty.

[smjjames]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/09/politics/omarosa-list-donald-trump/index.html

A list of enemies sounds incredibly Nixonian. Though it's one thing to remember who stayed loyal to you and who weren't loyal, it's another to do the same and actively go after those people......

Anyhow, now that the Democrats are effectively without a leader and Clinton has pretty much stifled any rising stars, at least any with presidential ambitions, any ideas who the next possible rising stars candidates for 2020 might be?

Kamala Harris might be one, but it'd be better for her to get a few senate terms under her belt.

[pisskop]

Al Gore is ready.  Again.

[Kot]

It seems the joke flew over your heads.

[martinuzz]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/09/politics/omarosa-list-donald-trump/index.html

A list of enemies sounds incredibly Nixonian. Though it's one thing to remember who stayed loyal to you and who weren't loyal, it's another to do the same and actively go after those people......

Anyhow, now that the Democrats are effectively without a leader and Clinton has pretty much stifled any rising stars, at least any with presidential ambitions, any ideas who the next possible rising stars candidates for 2020 might be?

Kamala Harris might be one, but it'd be better for her to get a few senate terms under her belt.

Obama. In 4 years from now, people will want Obama back.

[MasterFancyPants]

If people are too afraid to walk around a college campus, then we have pretty amazing problems even without Trump. Calling the millennial generation ridiculously pampered and fragile is pretty cliche, but it is 100% accurate from my observations.

https://theintercept.com/2016/05/05/hate-crimes-rise-along-with-donald-trumps-anti-muslim-rhetoric/

Statistics disagree but whatever.

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Sorry but it happens...

As for "Pampered and fragile" a lot of it has to do with the fact that the poor fragile Millennials don't put up with half the crap that the people before them were more then willing to put up with. Far better they be spoiled then abused in my mind...

That's showing a correlation between Trump and Anti-Muslim violence (on a website that has clear anti-Trump Bias see: https://theintercept.com/2016/11/09/donald-trump-will-be-president-this-is-what-we-do-next/ ).
As we all know correlation =/= causation.

More realistic reasons for both Trump's calls for more scrutiny of Muslims AND anti-Muslim violence:
The increase in high profile Islamic Terrorist attacks. (San Bernardino, Orlando, Nice, Charlie Hebdo, etc.)
The Syrian Crisis (close to 1 million refugees that are likely never going back home)


Many people (not just whites 1/3 of hispanics voted for Trump) feel, sometimes for justified reasons, that their way of life is under attack. Many of these people are going to push back to various extents.

[TheBiggerFish]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/09/politics/omarosa-list-donald-trump/index.html

A list of enemies sounds incredibly Nixonian. Though it's one thing to remember who stayed loyal to you and who weren't loyal, it's another to do the same and actively go after those people......

Anyhow, now that the Democrats are effectively without a leader and Clinton has pretty much stifled any rising stars, at least any with presidential ambitions, any ideas who the next possible rising stars candidates for 2020 might be?

Kamala Harris might be one, but it'd be better for her to get a few senate terms under her belt.

Obama. In 4 years from now, people will want Obama back.

and we can't have him