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Lol people keep talking as if Trump has some landslide victory and massive voter turn out. So far he's accumulated less votes than Mitt Romney in 2012.

imaginenore 10y ago
That's not the point. It was supposed to be a very easy win for Hillary. Almost every serious forecast said so, almost every poll said so.
- devsquid 10y ago
  Argument in the post was pretty weak. My point was the election was very close. Personally I didn't find it surprising Trump won. I know a lot of older people that were all in. It was shocking to see the change in rhetoric this year. Instead of debating traditional topics of economics etc, I dealt with a bombardment of videos/memes/etc that were either obviously fake or obviously strawman arguments. I know some conservative kids my age, most of them wanted nothing to do with Donald Trump. The ones that did, started calling themselves "nationalist" and talking as if they were apart of some great "race war". It was insane. It saddens me to see the older generation sell my future because their fear of brown people and their inability to determine whats BS spam links.
  - imaginenore 10y ago
    What's with the ageist discrimination? Old people are people too. 4 years of presidency is not going to sell anyone's future. The worst that will happen, not counting a nuclear war, is 1) more gas/oil/coal gets mined, driving the prices down, and making the renewables unattractive. 2) increased CO2 emissions due to cheaper gas/oil/coal. 3) make the rich richer, everyone else poorer, which has been happening for decades in the US Neither of these are particularly scary, it just sets the humanity a few years back, but maybe will force us to come up with some technological solutions to fight CO2 and other climate change issues. Stop being so alarmist, he won fair, it's his turn to drive the bus. I don't like him, but things don't always go our way.
    - devsquid 10y ago
      "it just sets the humanity a few years back" Life is short man. Its not like in four years we can just simple turn back the clock and fix everything. We elected someone who openly molested women, I can't imagine how that must feel to a woman. We don't know yet what the federal government will do about climate change. It doesn't look like they will do a lot tho. We still don't fully understand the problem, who knows. "a few years" could be meaningless or it could be everything...
      - imaginenore 10y ago
        He didn't openly molest women. Listen to the recording. He talks about the women who let him do it, which is consensual. 4 years will not destroy the planet, even China failed at that in their crazy building spree in the last decades.
        devsquid 10y ago
        Trump: Yeah, that’s her. With the gold. I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Bush: Whatever you want. Trump: Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything. ----- You are saying that's not misogyny? He's talking about using his celebrity status to take advantage of women.
        imaginenore 10y ago
        Yeah, you just didn't provide the full quote. Be ashamed for trying to BS our readers.
        devsquid 10y ago
        wut r u talking about? -_-
        vannevar 10y ago

imaginenore 10y ago

That's not the point. It was supposed to be a very easy win for Hillary. Almost every serious forecast said so, almost every poll said so.

devsquid 10y ago
Argument in the post was pretty weak. My point was the election was very close. Personally I didn't find it surprising Trump won. I know a lot of older people that were all in. It was shocking to see the change in rhetoric this year. Instead of debating traditional topics of economics etc, I dealt with a bombardment of videos/memes/etc that were either obviously fake or obviously strawman arguments. I know some conservative kids my age, most of them wanted nothing to do with Donald Trump. The ones that did, started calling themselves "nationalist" and talking as if they were apart of some great "race war". It was insane. It saddens me to see the older generation sell my future because their fear of brown people and their inability to determine whats BS spam links.
- imaginenore 10y ago
  What's with the ageist discrimination? Old people are people too. 4 years of presidency is not going to sell anyone's future. The worst that will happen, not counting a nuclear war, is 1) more gas/oil/coal gets mined, driving the prices down, and making the renewables unattractive. 2) increased CO2 emissions due to cheaper gas/oil/coal. 3) make the rich richer, everyone else poorer, which has been happening for decades in the US Neither of these are particularly scary, it just sets the humanity a few years back, but maybe will force us to come up with some technological solutions to fight CO2 and other climate change issues. Stop being so alarmist, he won fair, it's his turn to drive the bus. I don't like him, but things don't always go our way.
  - devsquid 10y ago
    "it just sets the humanity a few years back" Life is short man. Its not like in four years we can just simple turn back the clock and fix everything. We elected someone who openly molested women, I can't imagine how that must feel to a woman. We don't know yet what the federal government will do about climate change. It doesn't look like they will do a lot tho. We still don't fully understand the problem, who knows. "a few years" could be meaningless or it could be everything...
    - imaginenore 10y ago
      He didn't openly molest women. Listen to the recording. He talks about the women who let him do it, which is consensual. 4 years will not destroy the planet, even China failed at that in their crazy building spree in the last decades.
      - devsquid 10y ago
        Trump: Yeah, that’s her. With the gold. I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Bush: Whatever you want. Trump: Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything. ----- You are saying that's not misogyny? He's talking about using his celebrity status to take advantage of women.
        imaginenore 10y ago
        Yeah, you just didn't provide the full quote. Be ashamed for trying to BS our readers.
        devsquid 10y ago
        wut r u talking about? -_-
      - vannevar 10y ago