What the fuck man. That’s the worst luck ever. I’m shocked you’re posting this I would have assumed a piano had fallen on your head from the a building by now.
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Just look at all the angst in this thread, about someone who will be gone in a couple of months.
It’s beyond my ken.
As long as our gov’t lets the rabble eat cake, this won’t happen. Well, maybe in Portland…
The issue is you have so many people who are so cavalier with Trump. They spent four years handwaving away everything he said or tweeted. “Oh come on yeah what he’s saying is illegal you know he just says stuff. Oh come on he didn’t mean that. Oh he doesn’t speak like a typical person who considers their words. That’s why people like him! Orange man bad.”
So when you get to something like this where you’re saying giant fraud has taken place and throwing wild accusations it’s just another typical thing to dismiss. “Oh come on let him do what he wants he’s going to be gone soon.”
You and I see it as something serious that’s potentially taking place. But a lot of people don’t care. This is just one more thing that guy does that isn’t a big deal.
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That’s why I always bring an umbrella when I leave the house.
Edit: I also missed out on seeing Motörhead due to Lemmy dying 2 weeks before the date.
I’m sorry to all the Motörheads on the forum, I fear I may be responsible for his death.
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And let’s all remember that in 2016, the same MSM and people all a’twitter (“pun” intended) now, even after they’ve “won”, are the same folk who were complicit in letting Trump get the GOP nomination in 2016, because “well, the guy’s a joke, no way he gets elected, he’s the weakest possible guy they have etc. etc.”.
That’s why I have zero empathy.
I think this is clear to people who’ve read books or interacted with people about shitty places where agency is either stolen or never existed.
It’s not about which party is good and which is bad ideologically, it’s about that ideology has been abandoned and replaced with something cancerous.
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Empathy over what? What do you think is at stake?
Sorry for taking so long to get back to you, and I don’t want to derail the thread again, but thanks for the answer. Honestly, this stuff is just all so interesting. Not to sound, what, woke? but the crazy amount of diversity in the world and peoples’ different viewpoints is so cool. Like race is a big thing in the U.S., then here you go mentioning a bunch of different things about race in Asia that most Americans have no idea about. Very interesting to me, and I hope to learn more about it someday.
Only reason I really have any clue who/what they are is because they’re kinda considered some of the more gangster Asians. Some of my black friends from bigger cities here will say they lock the car doors when they run into the corner store if they see some Hmongs hanging out on the corner. Struck me as funny.
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Agree.
That IS funny. In social work school we had to learn about the Hmongs. Specifically, I can’t for the life of me think why, as they’re nowhere near where I went to college/s. At any rate! lol
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Nah, it’s not woke at all. I find the different variations, beliefs, philosophy, lifestyles and viewpoints of Western culture fascinating as well. People used to call me a banana(yellow on the outside and white on the inside) partly because my family converted to Catholics and partly because I was reading so much about Western stuff and putting so much effort into trying to improve my English.
So don’t ever let anyone call you “woke” as a derogatory term just because you want to learn about Asian culture. We’re always proud to share it. It’s only the really woke morons who call it “cultural misappropriation”. Asians in Asia would NEVER call it that.
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It’s kinda like “what do you call a Brazilian nut in Brazil?” lol. We don’t identify as “Asians” here simply because we’re ALL Asians and we need some way to identify people based on culture, language, skin color, nationality, etc. It’ also how we avoid unwittingly offending some people or knowing how to entertain some people of different races and/or nationalities.
For example, if I meet a brown dude from Malaysia, I’m going to assume he’s a Malay Muslim Malaysian since 99% of Malays are Muslims there and most of the indigenous ethnicities whom are also brown are also Muslim. I’ll know some cultural stuff and the kind of food he likes too and remember to only take him out to halal restaurants. If the dude is Eurasian I’ll be able to tell from his facial features, manner of speaking and/or accent so I’ll ask him directly if he’s Muslim.
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I’ll add that colonization also had a major part in this since different countris were colonized by different Western countries, e.g, Indonesia and the Philippines were mostly by the Dutch and Spaniards respectively while others were by the British so we even have some minor overlaps with different aspects of Western culture which resulted in all the different cultures being so different. Japan had major Us intervention in their government post WW2 and Thailand didn’t take shit from the British while places like Singapore became a British colony like India and follows the British legal system and adopted the Indian criminal law system(also from the British).
It’s REALLY COMPLICATED lol. I assume it’s equally complex in the West, especially Europe as well.
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Empathy for people who actually believe that our president should be representative of a certain level of dignity, behave with a minimal level of decorum, stuff like that. Trump was supposed to be a clown show sacrificed at the altar of first woman president of the US. Well, everyone’s got a plan until they get twittered to death.
I expected 4 years of disaster. I turned off all “news”, all MSM, post 2016 because I was so pissed. Four years later, I realize the man hasn’t actually done anything that would classify as a disaster, that the dude just wants to be in his own reality show, and the lowly apparatchik can do all the work and just give him the papers to sign when they’re done.
If all the “fraud”! and “conspiracy”! nonsense can get some of these states to get their voting system up to where they definitely should be (see Florida post Bush/Gore bruhahah), then this might not be such a bad thing?
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I think some of the poorer immigrants from commie countries like Vietnam are more prone to committing crime. It’s not a racial thing, but a cultural one formed from decades of horrific oppression and suffering. The Vietnamese gangs in Asia scare the fuck out of even the Chinese gangs lol. This is probably because they have balls made of titanium and really act like they have nothing to lose since Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos went through the most shit of all the countries here. Look up Pol Pot(the dictator) if you’re interested and work your way around the region from there.
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I’m not following. It seems like you’re trying to make a case that Democrats are the reason Trump won the GOP nomination?
The GOP candidates didn’t take him seriously and said those type of things until it was too late. I’m not blaming them at all he wasn’t listed as a front-runner and it would have been weird to target him from the beginning if you were a hopeful. By the time the GOP candidates did take him seriously the momentum was too much.
The MSM may be complicit in the coverage given but so would the right wing media. For the most part they didn’t all come out against him even though he was running left of Obama on some things. He was trolling Democrats and that was good enough. Hell it still is for some of them.
The GOP had a chance to coalesce around someone different and they didn’t do it. Clearly that was the right play for the power given in 2016 but we don’t know yet if they would have obtained and then retained the power had they gone a different direction.
Dems absolutely deserve blame for running someone as shitty as Clinton though.
I truly hope people change their mind on this if they feel that way. Aragorn is center right and likely a typical GOP voter more often than not. But he isn’t supporting Trump for this reason and this reason alone. This should be an expectation of all elected officials but none more than the President.
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Two more ideas go down.
On Election Day, the members of the Mission were present at polling places in Georgia, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan and the District of Columbia, and observed the process from the opening of the polling centers through to the close of polls and the deposit of voting materials with the appropriate local authorities,” the report states. “Members of the Mission also visited tabulations centers to observe the tallying of result. In the jurisdictions that it observed, the Mission found that the day progressed in a peaceful manner.”
I missed Rammstein this summer. First it was rescheduled and eventually cancelled. Not sure if I’ll get the opportunity again.
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Dead Kennedy’s got ya covered.
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LOL. Man, I can’t stand going to these places. They take you to the nice tourist spots but since I grew up in a shithole myself, I only notice the real shitty parts that they always try to distract you from and it just depresses me.
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You’re like a living talking point. Seriously.
You never read anyone’s posts trying to understand what they’re trying to say. You interpret them based on your own personal biases.
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Will Trump attempt a self-pardon right before he leaves office? It would make for an interesting precedent if it goes all the way to SCOTUS, where 1/3 of them were appointed by Trump. A lot of juicy TV coming in the next year.