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Trump went from majority support to majority support. He will win the nomination because conservatives, Republicans in particular are terrible, awful people. None of this is really even new, they've been terrible for decades and decades.
Its astounding how gullible a majority of them actually are.
We need to find some way to meet their needs that isn't politics, because the needs they are meeting have nothing to do with governance.
There is nothing you can do that they won't turn into politics. They turned the existence of groups of people into politics. That's right by simply existing its politics. And there is no way you can avoid it.
Except that's not politics. Not in any meaningful, constructive sense. It's partisan but it's not political, and I think there's a pretty big difference.
But that's the problem you and I may think that way but a lot of people don't. It has allowed them to make a myriad of non-political subjects political.
Uhh, an MMO where they can run around shooting at minorities and yelling racial epithets into their mics?
They're scared. They are powerless to affect an uncertain future. They'll get worse the longer they have to live like this. I guess we have to fix the world?
They need to stop actively working against that then.
Yeah, and a drowning man needs to stop thrashing and pulling down his rescuers, but he's fucking drowning.
They are easily scared you mean? For people who are so easily scared of everything, they sure seem to embrace guns and COVID like it's their new Jesus.
An acquaintance of mine and I were discussing a physical altercation that occurred between him and a random other customer at a convenience store and the ubiquitousness of guns. A scary (jumpy;nervous) person with a firearm is perhaps more dangerous than the habitual criminal with a gun because they’re more likely to fire without reason.
Your false bravado isn't fooling anyone. If you're not scared, you should be. If you feel in control of your future 20 years from now, you're lying to yourself.
They've been so annoying since burning crosses fell out of style.
More to do with enforcement than fashion. Which means it is still happening where they can get away with it.
Bullets? That will definitely work
When so many people make comments like this and "basket of deplorables", is it any wonder that so many people are so enthusiastic about Trump? It's clear to them that people like you think very little of people like them, and they see him as "their guy". Turns out people don't like it when others make sweeping generalizations by calling them, and nearly half the country, evil.
They actively call my family members "pedophiles" for being gay. I don't like it when they make sweeping generalisations and call my family evil.
So forgive me for thinking you're a reprehensible person if you support a person as vile as Trump. He started the mudslinging, not us.
Again, you are making a generalisation that they think your family members are pedophiles.
"I don't like people who are actively supporting a bigoted criminal trying to get more power."
"See, this is why they are supporting the bigoted criminal."
Okay then...
Everyone is responsible for their reprehensible behaviour but them.
I am not responsible for conservatives abhorrent attitudes. If someone pointing out how absolutely shitty you are being makes you even more shitty, that is entirely on you.
Nah. I just despise traitors.
They're not the bad guys! They just support the bad guys!
It is kind of telling how emotionally fragile republicans are based on how the deplorables comment devastated them.
And this is why democrats throw on the shocked pikachu face every election they lose. When you shit on a person for years, have kneejerk reactions to whatever they think and generalize half the population, don't be shocked when they don't vote for "your guy". Also, your slightly racist grandma will go out and vote every time, when your asses won't.
Rhetoric like that is absolutely going to make them more willing to work with you, you should keep it up.
I don't want them to work with me, I want them to fuck off
They're not going to, though. Believing they will makes you naive or stupid. What happens then?
Lol, I'm certainly not getting sucked into a concern trolling argument about compromising with fascists
Literally nothing works on them so why bother? They never change.
Because they're not going away, to be honest. I'm a conservative but I'm not one of them (call me a libertarian if it makes it easier to classify). I'm pro choice, and pro gay marriage, and pro drug legalization, but I think the tenth amendment matters more than you do and I'm pro gun. That makes me a conservative, fine. But we agree on a fuck load of things, and I'm not the only one like me. There's lots of people who think like I do. And they're enough people they're a margin of victory. If you're ok with them voting for Donald Trump then, by all means, keep it up. But if you want to be a fucking adult about this shit and understand that different people value different things there's a lot of dialogue to be had, and that language (on both sides) is how we got as fucked up as we have.
10th amendment, states rights, sure sure. Let me guess what right…
How close did I guess?
They're Libertarian, so it's probably more about lowering the age of consent...
Say what you want, you aren't going to get under my skin with nonsense. But I'm right, and I'm smarter than you are, especially about this, and you guys better get your shit together before you really cost the country.
I then enlighten us, libertarians generally want unrealistic deregulation in areas that result in poorer educational, health, and economic outcomes for groups of people that aren’t themselves.
Cutting taxes while giving roads, power lines, municipal waste and water systems, schools and whatever else to a public private partnership or free market that can do “better” doesn’t work. It’s unrealistic and the reason libertarians are a joke.
If you’re really a liberal who likes guns and disagrees with the left on a few other issues, get in line and welcome to the left. Where disorganized leaderless handwringing at least doesn’t lead to (as many) dead lgbt teens and (such exacerbated) globe ending pollution.
The issues with which I disagree with the left are literally the role of the State. That's what the original line was, and why I don't call myself a liberal, and I think there's common ground to be found or compromise to be had.
Ah yes, that's why you're saying things like
Those are the words of someone trying to work together and find compromises.
You assume by "you guys" I'm only talking about you.
No, I assume you're being pompus and trying really hard to act like you're superior to everyone while offering nothing of substance to the conversation.
Are you going to say something?
I'm fine with people being conservative. I'm not okay with people who are still supporting Trump and all the lies of the MAGA crowd.
You and me both.
Go far enough left and keep your guns.
Lol yeah They haven't been seriously trying to work with anyone since before Newt Gingrich.