No one except children are swayed by emotional arguments and cherry picking individual sufferers to form a platform which is ultimately harmful to society at large.
And yet you just used an emotional argument, and made a broad and unsupported statement about harm to "society at large".
Until we pissed them off to the point the would put a Trump in office.
What you are describing is the behavior of a child. But since you have to be 18 to vote for president in this country, we can safely assume that Trump voters are adults, and are therefore responsible for their actions.
We called them bigots, racists, homophobes, xenophobes, islamaphobes,
"I'm tired of being called a racist so I'll become a racist just to show them" is ridiculous. And, translated, it means, "I was a racist all along, I'm just used to people being too afraid to mention it."
Stop making excuses for Trump voters. They're adults, they're capable of reason, they knew he was, and they voted for him anyway. They put us in this mess.
If you gauge things by the rapid fire OMG TRUMP stories on this site, and the pile on commenters rapidly nodding in agreement in unison, we won't make it to a month
If you gauge things by what Trump has said and done in the week since he became president (and his entire adult life prior to that) and the utter spinelessness shown by Congress in response, the stories and commenters are right.
Since I didn't dare take out my phone to take a photo, I can offer no pictures of said SWAT guy with his rifle aimed at us.
Here's what I will tell you. I work at UCLA and seven months ago there was a shooting on campus. That much you can Google. There was also a false report of a shooting in my building, which brought the SWAT team in, some members of which apparently forget the old rule "Never point a gun at something you're not prepared to destroy." (Or they just didn't care.)
And for the record: I actually have had a gun pointed at me at work, but it wasn't a handgun. It was a rather amped-up SWAT guy with a rifle (who, I'll note, still pointed the rifle at my coworkers and me even after establishing that we weren't a threat, because his flashlight was attached to his rifle).
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Sometime after they've gotten rid of Medicaid, health care coverage, public education, assistance for first-time home buyers, etc etc etc?
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And yet you just used an emotional argument, and made a broad and unsupported statement about harm to "society at large".
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/01/29/trumps-facile-claim-that-his-refugee- policy-is-similar-to-obama-in-2011/?utm_term=.85672de56163
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What you are describing is the behavior of a child. But since you have to be 18 to vote for president in this country, we can safely assume that Trump voters are adults, and are therefore responsible for their actions.
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*she. (Since you're talking about what kind of person I am, you might as well get that right)
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"I'm tired of being called a racist so I'll become a racist just to show them" is ridiculous. And, translated, it means, "I was a racist all along, I'm just used to people being too afraid to mention it."
Stop making excuses for Trump voters. They're adults, they're capable of reason, they knew he was, and they voted for him anyway. They put us in this mess.
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Says the NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/us/politics/president-trump-white-house.html?_r=1
Says Android Central http://m.androidcentral.com/which-android-phone-does-donald-trump-use
Says Nicholas Weaver https://www.lawfareblog.com/president-trumps-insecure-android
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If you gauge things by what Trump has said and done in the week since he became president (and his entire adult life prior to that) and the utter spinelessness shown by Congress in response, the stories and commenters are right.
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Not without doxing myself, no.
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Is he using that same phone for calls?
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Here's what I will tell you. I work at UCLA and seven months ago there was a shooting on campus. That much you can Google. There was also a false report of a shooting in my building, which brought the SWAT team in, some members of which apparently forget the old rule "Never point a gun at something you're not prepared to destroy." (Or they just didn't care.)
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Police being shot at is in fact rare.
And last I checked, police aren't conscripts.
If cops don't think they're capable of doing a job without violating people's rights, then they shouldn't be in the job.
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No one will miss you if you leave, Nazi.
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If I don't do my job, I get fired.
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Bullshit.
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Yes, that's why we're having this discussion. Do try to keep up.
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