Re: Trump
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2019 12:36 am
Woah there sea biscuit. Who is pushing for open borders?
Puja, I think you might find that most people in this cruel world think of the wellbeing of their loved ones first. It is sort of like drowning... it is impossible to save anyone if youre drowning, too. Terrible analogy but youre smart enough to understand what I mean.Puja wrote:Then, with all due respect, you are voting for "this shit." You are voting for imprisoning innocent people and innocent children in cages that it is illegal to keep a dog in, because of their ethnicity.Coco wrote:So far, I do plan on voting for Trump again. That could always change though... I am not a party voter and often vote for Democrats, Libertarians or Independents... just depends on issues and how their promises or plans might be implemented in reality vs. Utopia.Puja wrote:
Fair point - it can be argued that this situation could not be extrapolated from 2016.
Do you intend to vote for him in 2020?
Puja
Your rationale might be because of his economic policies, but that just means you regard economic policies that help you as being more important than treating people like human beings.
Puja
Huh? Im sorry... what?cashead wrote:You're trying to rationalise voting for someone who is responsible for concentration camps. Fuck you.Coco wrote:Do you read and understand, take in to consideration anything that doesnt align with your opinion?cashead wrote:"How could I have known the President I voted for would do what he's done! BTW, voting for him again next year."
Unbelievable.
Or, if you’re short of time, what Coco said about the drowning business.Mellsblue wrote:Wow. I read this thread very irregularly and then only to have a giggle about what has triggered morepork and to read his subsequent articulate meltdown. I’d say the same about cashead but he gets triggered by, well, anything.
So, here we are having a go at someone who has voted, and will vote, because they think it will save their career/livelihood and prevent the myriad of sh!t that could happen if that career/livelihood isn’t saved. Here we are criticising someone when we have no idea of their situation, of the context. You’re all sat here safe in the knowledge that your disgust at what is happening, and I agree that Trump is a racist simpleton, is superior to Coco’s realities of life. This preaching is supercilious BS and pisses me off. It’s really simple when you’re sat behind a keyboard in the UK/NZ/some laboratory surrounded by the real world Big Bang Theory cast (minus the fit blonde one) with no real idea of the hollowing out of some US industries and towns/districts and the direct consequences of this. Ffs, some on here arguing with Coco argue that only those subject to certain sufferings can truly understand that suffering and formulate policy to end that suffering, yet here you are lecturing Coco when you have no comprehension of her situation. That strikes me highly hypocritical. Ffs (again) ol’ Donald has more posts on here than any domestic politics thread. This final point may be what puzzles me most.
Fark me, now I’ve been triggered.
Oh, yeah. To reiterate. I think Trump is a racist simpleton.
Fair enough - I don't understand all of Coco's situation and will back off, although I will note that there's more than a bit of a false equivalence comparing what I tend to argue and accepting concentration camps as a reasonable price to pay for a better economic policy.Mellsblue wrote:Ffs, some on here arguing with Coco argue that only those subject to certain sufferings can truly understand that suffering and formulate policy to end that suffering, yet here you are lecturing Coco when you have no comprehension of her situation. That strikes me highly hypocritical.
Yeah. That’s a strange one.Puja wrote:Fair enough - I don't understand all of Coco's situation and will back off, although I will note that there's more than a bit of a false equivalence comparing what I tend to argue and accepting concentration camps as a reasonable price to pay for a better economic policy.Mellsblue wrote:Ffs, some on here arguing with Coco argue that only those subject to certain sufferings can truly understand that suffering and formulate policy to end that suffering, yet here you are lecturing Coco when you have no comprehension of her situation. That strikes me highly hypocritical.
Anyway, back on topic - what do we think he's trying to deflect attention from with this hissy fit at Denmark over them not being willing to discuss selling him Greenland?
Puja
Oh, the irony.cashead wrote: Whatever, edgelord.
The Greenland thing is just bizarre.Puja wrote:Fair enough - I don't understand all of Coco's situation and will back off, although I will note that there's more than a bit of a false equivalence comparing what I tend to argue and accepting concentration camps as a reasonable price to pay for a better economic policy.Mellsblue wrote:Ffs, some on here arguing with Coco argue that only those subject to certain sufferings can truly understand that suffering and formulate policy to end that suffering, yet here you are lecturing Coco when you have no comprehension of her situation. That strikes me highly hypocritical.
Anyway, back on topic - what do we think he's trying to deflect attention from with this hissy fit at Denmark over them not being willing to discuss selling him Greenland?
Puja
I am, and I do get the issue of self-interest here. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few sounds great when you're not one of the few. But the price of that is concentration camps - sounds like the ones near you are pretty good, but that's really not the case in Texas from people I know there. I can't conceive of how someone can hear about the situations in El Paso and Clint, things caused by active decisions by this administration, and be willing to continue supporting them. That, to me, is beyond the pale, regardless of anything else that administration might do or promise to do.Coco wrote:Puja, I think you might find that most people in this cruel world think of the wellbeing of their loved ones first. It is sort of like drowning... it is impossible to save anyone if youre drowning, too. Terrible analogy but youre smart enough to understand what I mean.Puja wrote:Then, with all due respect, you are voting for "this shit." You are voting for imprisoning innocent people and innocent children in cages that it is illegal to keep a dog in, because of their ethnicity.Coco wrote:
So far, I do plan on voting for Trump again. That could always change though... I am not a party voter and often vote for Democrats, Libertarians or Independents... just depends on issues and how their promises or plans might be implemented in reality vs. Utopia.
Your rationale might be because of his economic policies, but that just means you regard economic policies that help you as being more important than treating people like human beings.
Puja
What MP said.morepork wrote:Mells has a point. I am articulate. He is also on the money with acknowledging the contribution of Coco to this debate. She is at ground zero. And has an important perspective. I disagree profoundly with her priorities, but I am in no position to judge her. The consensus of the entire world is that the current US administration is inept, and Coco, you will have to weather this with good grace, as indeed you have done thus far. Your input is an invaluable contribution to the thinking minds on here, although your vote less so. You have to appreciate both the history of our British Isles based posters and the fact that other posters , as far flung as Polynesia are being affected by the narrative coming from the hill.
You really should... *wipes a tear*Mellsblue wrote:Bloody hell. I should have a couple of bottles of red and post on here more often. Obama won a bloody Nobel Peace Prize for less than this. (I say that only half in jest).
Oh yeah? Well you arent concerned so you can rest well, Brenda.cashead wrote:Even if you had no idea that the GOP and White House's behaviour would extend to building concentration camps, that doesn't excuse your ongoing support for a government and President that is willing to sink to that level. Any support for it is inexcusable because it makes you complicit, regardless of whatever rationalisations you want to come up - and as far as I'm concerned, getting yelled at for supporting a government that is demonstrating the tenets of fascism is still letting you off lightly.Coco wrote:Huh? Im sorry... what?cashead wrote: You're trying to rationalise voting for someone who is responsible for concentration camps. Fuck you.
Greenland is a potential source of rare-earths, which are currently largely sourced from China. My theory is that one of his advisers told him that his strategic genius would be apparent to everyone if he purchased Greenland and broke the reliance on China of the forthcoming electric vehicle era.WaspInWales wrote:The Greenland thing is just bizarre.Puja wrote:Fair enough - I don't understand all of Coco's situation and will back off, although I will note that there's more than a bit of a false equivalence comparing what I tend to argue and accepting concentration camps as a reasonable price to pay for a better economic policy.Mellsblue wrote:Ffs, some on here arguing with Coco argue that only those subject to certain sufferings can truly understand that suffering and formulate policy to end that suffering, yet here you are lecturing Coco when you have no comprehension of her situation. That strikes me highly hypocritical.
Anyway, back on topic - what do we think he's trying to deflect attention from with this hissy fit at Denmark over them not being willing to discuss selling him Greenland?
Puja
It seems he is pissed off more that the response has been that it was laughable to try to buy Greenland.
Tiny hands doesn't like to be ridiculed in public by anyone....let alone a woman!
His recent tweets and comments about being the chosen one are quite frankly more disturbing tbh.
Stones of granite wrote:Greenland is a potential source of rare-earths, which are currently largely sourced from China. My theory is that one of his advisers told him that his strategic genius would be apparent to everyone if he purchased Greenland and broke the reliance on China of the forthcoming electric vehicle era.WaspInWales wrote:The Greenland thing is just bizarre.Puja wrote:
Fair enough - I don't understand all of Coco's situation and will back off, although I will note that there's more than a bit of a false equivalence comparing what I tend to argue and accepting concentration camps as a reasonable price to pay for a better economic policy.
Anyway, back on topic - what do we think he's trying to deflect attention from with this hissy fit at Denmark over them not being willing to discuss selling him Greenland?
Puja
It seems he is pissed off more that the response has been that it was laughable to try to buy Greenland.
Tiny hands doesn't like to be ridiculed in public by anyone....let alone a woman!
His recent tweets and comments about being the chosen one are quite frankly more disturbing tbh.
I hereby order a stop to this kinda talk MP!morepork wrote:I can’t help it . I am compelled to provide the following critique of Orange Jesus’s economic and diplomatic acumen :
What
A
Fucking
Muppet.