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Just lol at this glimpse into the mind of people who think they're smarter and more informed than you. Nothing but smug and snarky remarks. In this case Aurelius was justified, it was not an Ad hominem because the points he was responding to were, in fact, too stupid to merit a proper response.

Except in this case it is 100% justified.

You either still don't get it, or you're doing the typical snarky millennial Jon Stewart 'gotcha' thing of focusing on one point like a lazer beam to catch someone out, but ignoring the main point. Let me break it down for you again. After decades of rule by an establishment that has repeatedly betrayed the average American, the election of Donald Trump is a revolt against that elite. Like I said in my previous post, Americans would have voted for Mao if he stood on the same platform as Trump. People did not vote for him because they were misled. You're trying to hammer the point that Trump lied, but you're missing the forest for the trees. No doubt Trump has lied, everyone knows what they were getting with Trump, but it doesn't matter. There is no lie that caused millions of Americans to vote for him, or for solidly democratic states to support a GOP candidate. People see very clearly the downward trajectory of America's future and chose to repudiate the entire political class. Progressives don't understand this. They equate it with tyranny. But Trump is a creation of the people, a manifestation of their will. Yes, we created Trump. Not the real estate mogul, but the man who talks about draining the swamp. He truly embodies the populist ideology we've been longing for years.

Check out this article from FactCheck.org. You don't understand my point. Pedantically analyzing the accuracy of one of Trump's statements does nothing to understand the motivations of people who voted for him. Most people are not autistic and so don't care about about the individual details or correctness of a statement. No one really analyzes the tiny policy differences between candidates because it truly doesn't matter. Instead they vote according to broader issues and grievances. Fact checking was the swan song for progressives in 2016. You cannot win people over with 'logic' (or more accurately: debased pseudo-rationality). People are emotional creatures, and it is to emotional arguments that they respond. Most people instinctively know that something is fundamentally wrong with America. Donald Trump spoke of saving a once great nation from the abyss. I'm sure he has been given all the facts on immigration, the economy, and the stupid foreign wars, but instead of beating his supporters over the head with worthless data and statistics, he went right for the emotional heart. Obsessiveness over Fact-checking is why progressives don't understand human nature. It appeals to the kind of people who were shoved into lockers at schools. Let me know when someone fact checks the destruction of Libya and Syria, our border being a joke, multinationals screwing over American workers, the disaster of Obamacare, and mass racist Black violence and riots.

Yes, let's get back to discussing the important topic of some idiot's meltdown on reddit.

That's the point. Pundits forget that first and foremost, Trump is a repudiation of the modern GOP. The Republican Party are an empty vessel, they have absolutely no principles except tax cuts for the wealthy and the defense of Israel. They don't put up more than a token fight against the progressive onslaught. The average GOP politician is only good at giving a concession speech. They have surrendered on every important cultural issue to the left and have sold out the American worker to international capital through labor arbitrage. The election of Trump is a reaction to this.

The outbursts we are seeing following Trump's election are very worrying. I have never before seen public meltdowns like this in my life. They represent something deeply wrong with our culture and portend a very dark future. I find it difficult to avoid the conclusion that we are seeing the beginnings of a cold civil war. A lot of people realize that big changes are happening concurrently in the West, but we are yet to assess the exact extent of these changes except to say that what we are witnessing the end of the neoliberal consensus that has dominated for decades.

Germany is a joke. Europe is undergoing one of the biggest migrations in recent history. Hundred of thousands of mostly male Muslim foreigners have walked straight into Europe and have caused enormous social problems. It's insane. If someone had told me twenty years ago that you would have have mass slaughter on the streets of old European cities, trucks mowing into crowds, mass sexual assault of women, priests being beheaded, then I'd have probably said you were a nutjob. Yet here we are in 2017 and people think Russia is the problem!

You just don't get it. At this point in time, many Americans would have voted for Mao if he ran on a ticket of economic nationalism and anti-immigration. Trump is an imperfect messenger for Trumpism (populism + economic nationalism + white identity politics). There is no 'lie'. This is the consequence of the past twenty years of the ideological and physical shrinking of mainstream conservatism.

What is wrong with Canada? These people are mentally ill.

It's quite instructive about our society that these non-entities can't even perform a basic civic duty -- one in which they are specifically cast as non-thinking proxies for the general will of their fellow citizens -- without pulling some hysterical fit.

Have you been listening to a word I said? If Trump had invested his inherited fortune in a neutral investment like an index fund, he'd have more money. He has underperformed the market. He is, by definition, a below-average businessman, and all his “deals” have been simple exchanges of money for entertainment and to feed his ego. It amazes me that people are still peddling this BS. Let me break it down for you: Trump was already a billionaire by the time he received his inheritance. There were no index funds when Trump started his career. The ones that developed were largely unproven until the mid/late 1980s when the market started to pick up. Also, let's just lol at not playing the market directly. If he had put his money into an index fund, then there wouldn't be countless physical assets and real estate. He would not have created thousands of jobs or paid millions in local taxes and regulations. Why don't you support the local community MB?

Here is why I will vote for him: after decades of rule by an establishment that has repeatedly betrayed us, it is time to revolt. Not by electing a psychopathic, incompetent, stroke-addled shrew. I will only vote for someone who will preserve the integrity of our nation. The likes of Obama, or Merkel, or Hollande--these people can go to hell. The misery they have fostered around the world is maddening, their venality and amoral behavior is in a class of its own, yet I am supposed to be frightened of Trump? Has it occurred to you that the entire reason we have a national security state is that we insist on importing people who do not belong here? It is blatantly obvious that muslims are, as a group, incompatible with our society. Read up on Rotherham. Read up on the zones of sharia law that have cropped up in Western cities with high concentrations of muslims. Read up on the rioting, the drugs, the prostutition, the dole-leeching aggressive young men that form their sewage product. Perhaps what it will take with you is to be woken up at 5 AM by a call to prayer from the local mosque zoned into your whitebread residential area. The idea that we are all the same and infinitely miscible is patronizing babble from sheltered liberals who think that everyone really is just like them, because who would reject their deracinated, hedonistic outlook? The propaganda of a hyper-partisan left-wing org is intended to lobotomize you. Support Marine Le Pen's National Front. Support Pegida in Germany. Learn something about the immigration crisis abroad. (It is not a "refugee" crisis, for starters--the immigrants are from all over, virtually all of them seeking Europe's generous welfare state, not escape from hardship.) This is no time to stay wed to ignorant leaders and failed policies. They will only produce an endless succession of crises.

Absolutely. We should flood an increasingly aging and childless Western Europe with hostile foreigners that are completely at odds with its culture, history, religion and heritage. As bad as American government is, Europe's is deeply insane. Europeans resist full rebellion because they would rather do anything than be labeled racist. Hopefully in both places people lose their timidity about this.

The good news is that neocons are being unmasked as liberals primarily devoted to an aggressive foreign policy on behalf of you-know-who. Not only does Trump reject bedrock neocon foreign policy, he rejects the bedrock neocon/liberal cultural doctrine of the propisition nation. He embraces nationalism and rejects neocon globalism. Trump has called out the neocon policy of the past 25 years. Right now, Hilary Clinton represents a continuation of the neoconservative consensus.

Young males with foreign flag sucker punching citizens exercising their first amendment rights -- Media: obviously Donald Trump's fault.

It's amusing and pretty disturbing to see how much Trump is getting inside these people's heads. The left cannot stop talking, writing and (probably) thinking about how much they hate Trump, and how everyone who supports him is a stupid proletarian, etc etc. I think some of Trump's most loudmouthed detractors -- who are also some of the most ardent members of the volunteer thought police -- understand that this election is a sort of referendum on political correctness. What happens when Trump wins and people stop listening to them? They have nothing. What are these freaks going to do when their hall monitoring doesn't work anymore?

Win or lose, Trump has changed the American political landscape forever. From this day forward, the Republican voting base will demand a Trump-like candidate to Make America Great Again (or Keep America Great if Trump wins). The Overton window of acceptable public political discourse has firmly shifted rightward, and I can't imagine any current Trump supporter ever throwing his weight behind a guy like Rubio or Cruz or Jeb in future elections. Just as the fake conservatives currently brag about their ties to the Reagan legacy, there will need to be a genuine candidate who promises to carry on the Trump legacy. Otherwise, 50% of the Republican voting base will say "f**k it" and stay home. Trump isn't the last chance or last gasp of this movement. It's just the beginning. But I do believe he is the last chance for our movement to seize power under the current system, because if Hillary wins, two things are going to happen: 1. She will flood the country with 20 million brown people who will all vote Democrat. 2. The Republican establishment will change its rules to guarantee there will never be another Trump-like nominee. Starting by switching every state to a caucus that can be easily controlled and manipulated.

For my money, the two best moments of the debate came when Trump courageously opposed establishment dogma. They will, of course, go unreported by our brilliant media analysts because they haven't the slightest clue what's happening in our country. The first moment was when Trump reiterated that he won't let people "die in the streets". Both Ted and Rubio took autistic, doctrinaire positions about "socialized medicine". Ted then claimed helping the desperately sick and poor wasn't a conservative principle. Then Trump brilliantly summed up his entire phenomenon by saying, "Call it what you want, Ted." He then repeated the line that as President people won't die in the streets. This is the difference between a conservative and a clear-thinking pragmatist. If Ted and Marco thought their masters would pat them on the head for it, they would gladly watch your grandmother die of Hep-C in a gutter. Leftists have been saying this for years, and they've been absolutely right. Abstract Buckleyite ideas are literally more important to men like Ted Cruz than human lives. The second great moment was when the affirmative action Latina asked about broadening the base. Rubio and Cruz both took the opportunity to cuck for Hispanics. Rubio doubled down on the GOP being "the REAL party of diversity" (a statement that literally no one believes). Trump then took the opportunity to say he was appealing to "other kinds of people" (aka working-class whites). He then said they were building a "bigger, stronger Republican Party". This was the greatest moment of the evening because it shows Trump's awareness of what's going on. He knows what this means historically and demographically. And one could easily see that it excited him. For the first time in many minutes, his eyes lit up. He knows exactly what he's doing.

Trump's campaign is a dream come true. He has shifted the overton window of political discussion 'rightward' and has destroyed the modern GOP of neocons, pseudo-conservatives, and bow-tie wearing libertarians. Finally, the USA gets a populist candidate. Trump is supposed to be the narcissist blowhard celebrity candidate, and yet he is the only one who's introduced an issue into this campaign - and the most important issue of all: national survival.

TRUMP 2016: Vote the gay away!

Video games have always been and will always be commodities tailored to the lowest common denominator. It always amuses me how personally invested some people become when you point out video games for what they are: escapist, poorly written, man-child entertainment. Probably because most of them have too much free time, and yet zero real hobbies. I see a lot of young kids headed this way, all they do is play video games and watch video game Youtube channels. They struggle to talk about anything other than video games. While the normal kids are awkwardly flirting and learning social skills, these kids just want to play on their phones so they can listen to video game soundtracks or whatever. One of my friends has a kid like this. He is morbidly obese, and had a high-pitched voice from excess estrogen. All he ever does is talk about video games. He had this sneering contempt for all of his classmates, who he assumed were stupid because they cared about athletics and girls instead of intellectual pursuits like video games and anime cartoons. When some of the nicer kids would try to talk to him about video games, he'd call them stupid for playing popular games like Call of Duty instead of obscure games. The internet really makes it worse, because he could get on Steam and talk to dozens of other kids just as lost as he was and not feel alienated. He had zero motivation to improve himself, no real life friends, and zero dating prospects. But he was arrogant as hell.

*TIPS FEDORA*

What you are saying validates black violence. It puts black violence in its own special category, where Americans are prohibited from interfering until blacks feel ‘respected’ by the Police, or grow out of their resentment. This is both pathetic and dangerous. What group of people in the world would permit their inner cities to turn into civilization wastelands and then be morally blackmailed to stop policing those areas? This is exactly what is happening in America. The media’s hysteria over dead black criminals has created a culture among Police where they now fear arresting blacks in case they end up like Darren Wilson.

Daedthr, so Mike Brown and the Baltimore rioters acted the way they did because of slavery? They lost control of any rational thought process, empathy, civic duty or shame and devolved into rampaging trolls because of generations of inequality caused by slavery? Where is their moral agency? Mike Brown was killed because he acted impulsively and violently. His death is the consequence of his own actions. Your argument regarding slavery is questionable, Britain never had a sizable slave population and yet has inequality between races, why?