Will Trump Supporters Listen To The Warnings?

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Balbus, Jan 26, 2017.

  1. Wu Li Heron

    Wu Li Heron Members

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    In over ten years of routinely asking I discovered half the people I was talking to online were suspicious of their own dictionary and preferred to sometimes make up their own definitions, despite almost none of them being aware it merely contains popular definitions.

    People and the courts and judges are all idiots who prefer arguing for whatever they want anyway they can to actually allowing the truth to speak for itself. Hence, the reason Trump was elected in the first place despite contradicting every other word that comes out of his own mouth.
     
  2. Beutsecks

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    And why not? Isn't that how politics works these days? Who needs "truth" when so many lies can be so easily cultivated from fragments? Or does it only suck in one direction, but not the other?
     
  3. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    Assuming you're correct, why would you contribute?
     
  4. Beutsecks

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    Because I can. That's the incredible thing about US politics and the US in general, we can all spew pure bullshit and nobody cares. Well, the ones who think they have moral high ground care, but they're fools. There is no moral high ground. Each of us is only a few weeks of starving from craving their neighbor's roasted arm. We're all primitive beasts with horrific knowledge.
     
  5. Okiefreak

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    So there is no objective truth, no morality, we're all just spouting our bullshit? Now that you've made us aware of that, why should we listen to you?
     
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  6. newo

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    Trump's campaign strategy
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  7. Beutsecks

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    Who asked you to? It certainly wasn't me.
     
  8. Okiefreak

    Okiefreak Senior Member

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    I thought this was a discussion forum. My mistake.
     
  9. pensfan13

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    And we are discussing the bullshit of politics
     
  10. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    Actually this thread is about Trump supporters and how they will react to warnings from various legal experts, etc. about Donald Trump in relation to his demeanor, his treating of foreign heads of state, his Tweeting, his inner circle, etc.

    Not about the bullshit of politics.
     
  11. pensfan13

    pensfan13 Senior Member

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    All that stuff you mentioned....bullshit.
     
  12. Wu Li Heron

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    The back of the lower leg is actually considered a delicacy.
     
  13. Beutsecks

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    Right, give all the tricks and secrets away.

    I have a selection of spices and herbs in my bugout bag. You just never know what dinner might be. Enough garlic and rosemary will even make your neighbor's annoying mutt into a feast fit for company.
     
  14. Wu Li Heron

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    They taste better if they're overfed and, if you can, feed them nothing but beer for a few days before eating them.
     
  15. Beutsecks

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    Naaa, I'll need the beer first if I'm expected to eat Rover-Over-Rice. I WAS a sailor after all.
     
  16. Balbus

    Balbus Senior Member

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    People can do a lot of things the question is should they? They can cheat, they can be abusive they can be nasty and they can lie – but is that a good thing – should people be proud of doing such things?



    But do you want to work toward having a decent, happy and rational society or one that is fearful, angry and knee deep in bullshit?



    Is that the kind of society you would wish to live in?



    If that is your thought then wouldn’t you want to work toward having a society where that scenario was unlikely to happen?
     
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  17. Balbus

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    I remember hearing a news item on the BBC and it was basically about where many Trump supporters got their new and the answer for a lot of them was not from mainstream news. The reason seemed to be that they had been told that it was too ‘liberal’ so many had gone first to Fox because it was more ‘balanced’ but it now it seems many are moving away from it seeing it as becoming also ‘too liberal’.

    I’ve seen the same thing here with people saying that they get there news about what’s going on from ‘other’ sources that then turn out to be places like ‘infowars’.

    In that situation Trump supporters might not even see any warnings because any ‘warning’ is spun to be seen as liberal hysteria or conspiracy in which case warnings are seen as malicious attacks rather than red flags about real concerns.

    For example people warned about the dangers of a financial crisis before 2007 and many warned about what neoliberal economic globalisation could do to jobs and inequality, but many dismissed these as hysteria or conspiracy, but that was when this got widely reported and distributed so even those on the right where hearing it. I fear that now such warning might not even get a hearing on the right unless some way of breaking through the bubble they live in can be breached
     
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  19. Wu Li Heron

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    If you're short on beer, feed them candy.
     
  20. Beutsecks

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    Back to the subject at hand. I wonder how many might interpret this as a "warning"?
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    Then there's this.......

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    So how should the "warning" be interpreted? Because it sure looks like all of these claims of "racism" et al are nothing more than cheap political stunts. Unless, of course, the assumption is that they're "racists" because of their color. Although I suspect Jefferson Beauregard Sessions is going to catch it for having a very confederate-sounding name (how dare he, he should have changed it to Ralph Smith).

    Is anyone tired of the warning signs of all the butt-hurt losers out there who seem to think all of this whining and blubbering about impeachment is actually winning the hearts and minds of anyone above a 6th grade education? I was never a Trump supporter, but I'm over that now. I'm not inclined to get on this whiner's bandwagon and "protest" something that has already happened.

    Look how Feinstein has begun to flip. And does anyone take Maxine Waters seriously? The "warning" I see applies to everyone as politics in the US is making a dramatic shift, most of it legally. The fools burning and destroying shit will poke the bear one too many times and it will all come to an end, just as it did the last time. Only now we don't have an actual war to righteously protest.
     
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