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Re:Tech Workers Backing Candidates Looking to Break Up Their... by dlp211 on Sunday November 03, 2019 @02:01PM (#21435823)
"I know there are only 60 days left to make our case – and don't get complacent; don't see the latest outrageous, offensive, inappropriate comment and think, "Well, he's done this time." We are living in a volatile political environment.

You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. (Laughter/applause) Right? (Laughter/applause) They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic – Islamophobic – you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people – now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks – they are irredeemable, but thankfully, they are not America.

But the "other" basket – the other basket – and I know because I look at this crowd I see friends from all over America here: I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas and — as well as, you know, New York and California — but that "other" basket of people are people who feel the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures; and they're just desperate for change. It doesn't really even matter where it comes from. They don't buy everything he says, but — he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won't wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they're in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well."

-Hillary Clinton

Re:Tech Workers Backing Candidates Looking to Break Up Their... by nec4b on Saturday November 09, 2019 @08:15AM (#21491322)
That is even worse than I thought. You were lucky she didn't get elected.
Re:Tech Workers Backing Candidates Looking to Break Up Their... by jki275 on Monday November 04, 2019 @08:11AM (#21441269)
Oh sorry, it was half of the people who don't agree with her.

What she was doing was clearly trying to paint any idiot who would vote for trump as racist, xxist, "deplorable" people -- just as I said.

Re:Tech Workers Backing Candidates Looking to Break Up Their... by perl4ever on Sunday November 03, 2019 @09:05PM (#21438376)
According to the quote I've seen, she called "half" of Trump's supporters deplorable. I think it's clear in hindsight that essentially all of them supported the things she was deploring, which is why it was a bad move, but she wasn't claiming that.
Re:Tech Workers Backing Candidates Looking to Break Up Their... by jki275 on Monday November 04, 2019 @09:46PM (#21449129)
No, it's clear in hindsight that the statement was false then and is still false now.

You have demonized anyone who doesn't support left wing ideology to the point that nobody wants to talk to you about it anymore. There are probably many trump supporters working with you that you'll never know about.

Re:Tech Workers Backing Candidates Looking to Break Up Their... by perl4ever on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @08:00PM (#21469401)
I'm working for state government, and every one of my co-workers is a woman, and my boss, and my bosses' boss. Also, they're union members, and some of them belong to a coven.

Also also, nobody wants to talk to me about right wing ideology? Well, https://xkcd.com/810/

...but seriously, nobody I know wants to talk about the president, practically since the election, but it's obvious when someone is following the latest talking point of the right. Like right now in NY with the bail reform.

Re:Tech Workers Backing Candidates Looking to Break Up Their... by rayiner on Sunday November 03, 2019 @01:21PM (#21435557)
Don’t forget how they “cling to their guns and religion.”