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The far left is dunking on the center / Clinton establishment pretty hard all across the internet, which has been immensely satisfying. That being said, Clinto
by and0 9y ago
The far left is dunking on the center / Clinton establishment pretty hard all across the internet, which has been immensely satisfying.
That being said, Clinton was pretty tepid and corrupt, not openly offensive and terrifying the way Trump is. Unless you're REALLY desperate you can't honestly say supporting one or the other is the same.
- boobsbr 9y ago> not openly offensive Basket of deplorables...
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- leereeves 9y agoClinton was pretty terrifying in a different way. A big part of her campaign strategy was to generalize from a few actual white supremacists and paint everyone who opposed her as a deplorable sexist Nazi white-supremacist who couldn't stand the idea of a woman President. That kind of McCarthyism is always a threat, but it was doubly dangerous in the current environment, with leftist groups declaring that violence was justified against anyone they thought fit that description.
- and0 9y agoThe "basket of deplorables" remark was accurate as hell and hilarious, but you're wildly exaggerating anything she actually claimed. Sounds like you're still stuck in an echo chamber where people blew her beliefs out of proportion, probably most of it being attributed to her most extreme followers. Trump, meanwhile, actually hired open white nationalists and people with Nazi ties. Cool! The existential threat from Clinton was definitely the same because she.. opposed exactly that.
- leereeves 9y agoI'm not just talking about that one remark. > “I suppose it’s fair to say: don’t you someday want to see a woman president?” Hillary repeatedly pressed the "I'm a woman" button, and the "Trump supporters are white supremacists" button. Then she generalized to insult all Trump supporters with remarks like the one you mentioned. https://www.hillaryclinton.com/feed/donald-trump-pepe-the-frog-and-white-supremacists-an-explainer/ https://www.hillaryclinton.com/feed/donald-trump-pepe-the-fr... https://www.hillaryclinton.com/feed/theres-a-reason-why-white-supremacists-like-donald-trump/ https://www.hillaryclinton.com/feed/theres-a-reason-why-whit... My opinions here aren't based on "an echo chamber" but on her own words and her own site.
- and0 9y agoOh dear, she claimed white supremacists liked Donald Trump. That's some serious egg on her face, seeing as he hasn't filled his cabinet and White House with white supremacists and people with Nazi since being elected, which I literally mentioned in the comment you replied to. Serious bungle on her part.
- leereeves 9y agoHe's filled his cabinet with Nazis? For example?
- marcoperaza 9y ago>Trump, meanwhile, actually hired open white nationalists and people with Nazi ties. That's just not true, unless you use a twisted definition of "white nationalist" that means "anyone who has ever said anything acknowledging that white people are a group with interests".
- and0 9y agoBannon is a literal white nationalist. Gorka has an actual Nazi background. These are literal undeniable truths. Please do your research and don't try to be coy.
- jansho 9y agoCompared to Trump's rhetoric during the campaign, "basket of deplorables" is about as mild as it can get...
- leereeves 9y agoShe didn't stop there... > racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic > ... irredeemable