[Politics] The 2024 US Election - Trump v Harris

Harry Wilson's tackle said:

Wow. So Facebook allows racist tropes. I never knew (because all my Facebook friends are nice).

Into the sea with her.

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Couldn't Be Hyypia said:

Trump claiming he won even though he claims Harris had sight of the questions before the debate. How does he get away with saying this sh1t!

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Harry Wilson's tackle said:

Wow. So Facebook allows racist tropes. I never knew (because all my Facebook friends are nice).

Into the sea with her.

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Psychobilly freakout said:

it is quite simple really, because he believes his own lies,

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nicko31 said:

The sad fact of life is there are tens of millions of people that feel so disenfranchised by a country with 50% higher GDP per capita than our own, they are prepared to turn a blind eye to anything.

Something has gone seriously wrong.

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Triggaaar said:

Exactly. The reasons for voting Trump fall into a few categories:
* He'll make tax cuts or do similar that will help you personally, and to hell with everyone else
* You're racist, homophobic, transphobic etc
* You're think as shit

If you're denying the second two, be honest about the first.




Exactly. Trying to defend something completely illogical with logic is, well, illogical. And that's being kind.

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medwayseagull reborn said:

You might mean "thick" as shit but thinking like a piece of shit also has its merits.

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schmunk said:

That's Xitter, not Facebook.

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Thunder Bolt said:

Have you ever reported posts on Facebook? Nothing is suspended even the spammers.

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Harry Wilson's tackle said:

Entitlement is one issue.

Also.....having visited a lot and lived nearby (Canada) it has always struck me that it is incredibly easy to slip into an extremely monotonic monoculture existence in America, outside the cosmopolitan cities, where conforming to the local norm, and its diet of 'mom', god, apple pie, flag-shagging and fear of 'difference' is reinforced daily by local TV and radio, breathtakingly bland print news and, these days clearly, by the sewer of algorithm-driven internet content.

For many it isn't about whether to vote for Trump. That's already a given. The only question is how bad and wrong it would be if the 'other' were to win. Very bad and very wrong, one imagines. So bad it cannot be true, so it must be a steal.

America is insanely big. The land mass of England is 50,310 sq miiles. The land mass of the US is 3,532,316 sq miles. I can do the math.....wait.....nearly there.....that is 70 times as big. You can fit 70 Englands into the US.

If you look at population, 55.9 million in England, 333.3 million in the US, that's a population ration of 5.9. That means the population density of the US is less than one tenth that of the UK.

A large population in a massive country....easy for individuals to disappear from 'mainstream' life and thinking, and from history itself, finding comon ground with other locals, the neighbours, in a people silo. And with thousands of examples of this all over the country.

Imagine thousand's of Middlesboroughs, Knowsleys, Burnleys, Blackpools, Jaywicks..... but worse, hundreds of miles apart, left to invent their own local lifestyle, led only by the descendants and disciples of primitive versions of Christianity (mixed with frontiersman-style carpetbagging 'upgrades' - the televangelists), the versions of Christianity that were often seen as pernicious by mainstream Europe, leading to the flight from persecution: the Mormons, the Millerites, the 7th day adventists and suchlike. f*** me, what a mess, and what an almost impossible world to reject and escape from if you live there and were brought up there.

We, the 'liberal elite' of NSC would seem very strange and frightening to rural America, and the cities where the populations have been largely local for several hundred years.

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Thunder Bolt said:

Have you ever reported posts on Facebook? Nothing is suspended even the spammers.

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schmunk said:

Nope, I rarely use Facebook, but I'm sure you're correct.

The point I was trying to make was that HWT said "Wow. So Facebook allows racist tropes..." whilst quoting a Xitter (not Facebook) post.

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Westdene Seagull said:

There's nothing wrong with eating a bit of pussy .... nor duck for that matter. I do draw the line at dog though.

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Harry Wilson's tackle said:

Entitlement is one issue.

Also.....having visited a lot and lived nearby (Canada) it has always struck me that it is incredibly easy to slip into an extremely monotonic monoculture existence in America, outside the cosmopolitan cities, where conforming to the local norm, and its diet of 'mom', god, apple pie, flag-shagging and fear of 'difference' is reinforced daily by local TV and radio, breathtakingly bland print news and, these days clearly, by the sewer of algorithm-driven internet content.

For many it isn't about whether to vote for Trump. That's already a given. The only question is how bad and wrong it would be if the 'other' were to win. Very bad and very wrong, one imagines. So bad it cannot be true, so it must be a steal.

America is insanely big. The land mass of England is 50,310 sq miiles. The land mass of the US is 3,532,316 sq miles. I can do the math.....wait.....nearly there.....that is 70 times as big. You can fit 70 Englands into the US.

If you look at population, 55.9 million in England, 333.3 million in the US, that's a population ration of 5.9. That means the population density of the US is less than one tenth that of the UK.

A large population in a massive country....easy for individuals to disappear from 'mainstream' life and thinking, and from history itself, finding comon ground with other locals, the neighbours, in a people silo. And with thousands of examples of this all over the country.

Imagine thousand's of Middlesboroughs, Knowsleys, Burnleys, Blackpools, Jaywicks..... but worse, hundreds of miles apart, left to invent their own local lifestyle, led only by the descendants and disciples of primitive versions of Christianity (mixed with frontiersman-style carpetbagging 'upgrades' - the televangelists), the versions of Christianity that were often seen as pernicious by mainstream Europe, leading to the flight from persecution: the Mormons, the Millerites, the 7th day adventists and suchlike. f*** me, what a mess, and what an almost impossible world to reject and escape from if you live there and were brought up there.

We, the 'liberal elite' of NSC would seem very strange and frightening to rural America, and the cities where the populations have been largely local for several hundred years.

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The Antikythera Mechanism said:

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