It's Going to Be Okay

Re:It's Going to Be Okay by reitanqild on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @12:22PM (#12912277)

> and yes, the people that voted for Trump are racists, sexists, etc.,

Not a Trump supporter, I don't like him and I live on another continent, but I do not like the way some of you want to paint everyone who doesn't agree with you as morally corrupt and divide USA even more.

Please guys, for your own good, stop, take a step back and think about why this happened.

I argue that if the reason was that 50% of the voters are stupid haters then you would had an real problem long before this election.

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Re:It's Going to Be Okay by mikeash on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @12:33PM (#12912411)

We did have a real problem long before this election. Now it has finally come to a head.

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Re:It's Going to Be Okay by maldusiecle on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @12:33PM (#12912420)

We have had real problems, and continue to have them. It's not implausible at all, given the US's (recent!) history, to suggest that 50+% of Americans are racist or sexist. In some ways, it would be more surprising if the number was less than 50%.

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Re:It's Going to Be Okay by totalZero on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @10:04PM (#12917355)

...... please, stop.

This kind of absurd social justice rampage is exactly why people stayed quiet in public, but privately voted for Trump at the ballot box.

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Re:It's Going to Be Okay by reitanqild on Thursday November 10, 2016 @12:44AM (#12918055)

Agreed.

I notice you have been downvoted. This post election shaming campaign is really making certain "democrats" look bad.

I won't attribute it to all democrats but a few people here have been behaving in what I see as a very undemocratic way over the last 24 hours.

That said, here is a protip: don't mention SJ, it just fuels the fire.

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Re:It's Going to Be Okay by grzm on Thursday November 10, 2016 @12:54AM (#12918087)

Are you basing the 50+% on the election results? Is that fair, given a voter has to coalesce all of the positions they may have on a variety of issues into a single, effectively binary choice? If you were in an eligible voter and voted in the US election, do you subscribe to all of the positions of the candidates you voted for or have ever supported?

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Re:It's Going to Be Okay by rabboRubble on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @12:30PM (#12912384)

It isn't a concern about moral corruption with Trump and Trump supporters, it's a concern for physical safety.

We've seen Trump enable and condone his supporters assaulting people.

Will he reign in the violent supporters? This is what I want to know. To date, he has not.

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Re:It's Going to Be Okay by tomp on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @01:00PM (#12912744)

The DNC leaks show that Democrats also incited violence on Trump rallies. So you didn't really have a choice.

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Re:It's Going to Be Okay by rabboRubble on Thursday November 10, 2016 @03:09PM (#12923815)

I actually do have a choice. I see behavior like this and I reject it vocally and unequivocally. The guy in the hat [0] is 100% responsible for his own abhorrent behavior.

By Trump's own words, Trump expressed a desire to sucker punch somebody at a convention earlier in the campaign cycle [1]. I do not wish to associate myself with Trump or either party at this point.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LX4Q643aEU

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/02/2...

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