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@mariner4life said in US Election Thread 2016:
i didn't finish it because there is only so much tearful over-reaction i can handle. But i think my favourite was the gay guy struggling to remember all the letters he had to include in his label for himself.
I went straight to him as that was the gollum reference. TBH it's all I watched
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@mooshld said in US Election Thread 2016:
Wow so despite 2 years of campaigning and constant media bombardment. The american people voted in fewer numbers.
I guess it show just how apathetic they have become about all this. I wonder is the information overload is starting to contribute to this.
Be interesting to see how people react when the inevitable campaign promises are broken as they always are.
Clinton had a paid army of online posters/trolls who "corrected the record" when they saw criticism of her on social media or in articles.
The effect must've been numbing.
Be nice to Hillary Clinton online — or risk a confrontation with her super PAC
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in US Election Thread 2016:
story of tantrum throwing.
Given that Trump was implicitly encouraging revolt if he lost with all his rigging allegations and the reaction those comments had already gotten I think you're wrong but as you say it's all conjecture
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Do you guys really see any difference between the Far left SJWs and the Far right deplorables? Both sides in their little tit for tat have extremes that make all the noise and get all the attention.
I love how you all laugh about triggering yet the SJWs seem to be able to push certain peoples buttons all day long. Where is the moderate middle? Does it even exist anymore or are they just so tired of the shouting the can't be arsed with it all.
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@reprobate said in US Election Thread 2016:
@mooshld my thoughts exactly. someone puts up a blog post by a crazy and it's treated here as if that is what 'the left' thinks. there is no difference between the nutters at either end of the spectrum.
A few years ago I would have agreed with you, but not based on what's been happening in the last 1 - 2 years. It's not people on here posting random articles from a crazy, it's MSM pushing that agenda. I hear very little from the far right.
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@MN5 said in US Election Thread 2016:
@No-Quarter said in US Election Thread 2016:
These people are basically protesting against a free democratic election. This is getting pretty crazy now, and the media + celebrities are pouring fuel onto the fire. Nobody wins here.
Which celebrities ?
Pretty much all of them from what I can tell. Gaga and Cyrus leading protests, the rest of them expressing their outrage on social media.
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@No-Quarter said in US Election Thread 2016:
@MN5 said in US Election Thread 2016:
@No-Quarter said in US Election Thread 2016:
These people are basically protesting against a free democratic election. This is getting pretty crazy now, and the media + celebrities are pouring fuel onto the fire. Nobody wins here.
Which celebrities ?
Pretty much all of them from what I can tell. Gaga and Cyrus leading protests, the rest of them expressing their outrage on social media.
Ah righto, a couple of screaming Mingas who are about 10% as hot as they think they are.
Good old "social media outrage".....that'll achieve a lot.
Katy Perry is fucken hot though isn't she ?
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@reprobate I'm talking about MSM. The BLM movement is a great example. It's a fucking terrible organisation - basically a racist terrorist group out to create as much conflict as possible between black people and the police. But they get a free pass in 99% of MSM because apparently if you criticise them you are either a racist that needs to check his/her white privilege, or an "uncle Tom" (black person that serves whites).
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@reprobate I think you are underplaying the effect of the SJW movement on this election, but it's a pretty difficult point to argue so may have to agree to disagree. Agree with your other points about Hillary's corruption and cosy relationships to Wall St banks etc that really hurt her as well. All in all Trump ran a much smarter campaign than she did, which is saying something about how fucking poor her campaign was.
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@No-Quarter i dunno bro, i guess i just don't see clinton as representing minority groups, or anything particularly far loony left at all. whereas i 100% do see her as representing corrupt establishment politics.
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@mooshld said in US Election Thread 2016:
Do you guys really see any difference between the Far left SJWs and the Far right deplorables? Both sides in their little tit for tat have extremes that make all the noise and get all the attention.
I love how you all laugh about triggering yet the SJWs seem to be able to push certain peoples buttons all day long. Where is the moderate middle? Does it even exist anymore or are they just so tired of the shouting the can't be arsed with it all.
The big problem is that while the SJWs may be relatively small in number they have a huge amount of power and an enormous voice. Think the media, arts and entertainment and popular culture. The far right may have something of a voice on the internet, but is there a single mainstream far right figure? I don't think so.
It's almost like the church back in the day. The clergy was probably never huge in number and most people probably thought it was all bollocks but the fear of being ostracised kept people in check.
Like the Church it appears the SJWs have also overreached.
If the election of Trump will indeed take down political correctness and the SJWs then maybe him being there isn't so bad after all. Maybe if he can just let Pence do everything...
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What is the deal with all this "letter to my child" bullshit? How fucked in the head are these people? They're kids ffs.
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