With the Hillary sweep yesterday... Start getting prepared for Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump. With that I take my leave of this toxic thread once more.
There's really not a whole lot of evidence to support that America is accepting of everyone, while there appears to be much to the contrary. We tell that story like it's the gospel and yet we still have a lot of problems. I want everybody to be accepted as much as the next guy, but it just isn't the case right now. I'm glad somebody was willing to say all of that. Good on you. This country feels pretty derailed. Couple of things: - Wow, massive false dichotomy there. - Even if there were only two options, that doesn't automatically make them equally probable. As if those two were opposites... if they're not brothers, they're very close cousins. Hitler was often quite the nationalist himself when it came to his political rhetoric. Guess what? He was still a Nazi. That's funny, because it sounds exactly like the America I grew up in, except that it was fear-mongering, xenophobic nationalists pushing a lot of the bigoted and violent rhetoric.
I know I said I wouldn't post in here again... but... I'm a little curious honestly... This is kind of on-topic and off-topic at the same time though. I guess? What are your guys' thoughts now that Anonymous has officially hacked Donald Trump and released his Social Security Number as well as his Phone Numbers? I'd say mine... but... it may or may not be obvious...
I'll put in spoilers. Cause... well... you know... Spoiler IT'S FREAKING HILARIOUS. I couldn't think of anyone more deserving of this.
It's not gonna do anyone much good, so it was really kind of just a petty and childish thing to do. Plus, now Anonymous has put themselves on the *squee!*list of one of the most powerful men in America. I think that they'll find that they're not as 'anonymous' as they'd like to be.
Please. Trump's so IT ignorant he legitimately thought he could shut down the internet. Also fairly sure Anonymous was on his *squee!*list anyway, along with us and anyone else who uses the mysterious interwebs.
Well, I don't like it. It's my personal opinion that nobody deserve getting their private information leaked. Also it doesn't really do anything. Other then making Trump look like a victim and earn the sympathy of a few persons.
Actually, what he suggested was finding a way to shut down internet service in ISIS-controlled regions. Which is technically possible, but it would be a logistical and political nightmare.
Let's be upfront here. Trump is, at best, an overly-aggressive narcissist. At worst, he's a dangerous sociopath. But at least he's honest about it!
First of all, given the assumption that he's a dangerous sociopath, I don't think honesty alters the moral quality of the situation in any way I would care about. That would be like ticketing someone for speeding, and as you're writing the ticket they're murdering somebody inside their parked car. I mean, yeah, we should worry about speeding, but somehow it doesn't really seem to be the biggest issue at hand. Second of all, Trump is consummately dishonest. He has lied about the majority of Mexicans entering the United States being criminals, he has lied about seeing thousands of Muslims cheering during 9/11, he has lied about the statistics regarding black people and police brutality (retweeting false statistics, technically), and he has even lied about the financial success of a number of his own business endeavors. This isn't even new; Donald Trump has always been like this. The number of times he tried to go after Barrack Obama regarding the current President's birth certificate should have told us all that from the get-go. I would go so far as to say that he's a pathological liar. When the only thing a person is honest about is their bigotry, I would hope it would be safe to say that we don't want them running the country.
Actually, since the majority of Mexicans entering the US are entering illegally, they ARE criminals. Oh, and one more thing. Before Hitler launched the invasion of Poland and the Holocaust, his policies transformed Germany from a country on the brink of social and economic collapse into a world superpower.
1. A world superpower that maintained that status for all of about 6 years before being devastated utterly in a world war it brought upon itself, and was always doomed to do so by it's very nature. 2. You familiar with Kristallnacht? You can't distance Hitler and his policies from the Holocaust and the war, because they are intrinsically connected. The Racial hatred was always there, as was the nationalist desire to expand his own borders. This extreme nationalism was the backbone upon which his economically successful policies were built. Hell, most of the turnaround was achieved through jobs provided by rearmament.
And this rearmament broke multiple treaties forbidding exactly what Hitler did. Thus furthering the point, that the World War was brought upon themselves, by themselves. Yes countries let Hitler take the Rheinland, and some of Austria because we didn't want another World War, but either way, Hitler brought World War upon Germany and that was what he claimed to have wanted to avoid.
