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"At least he tells it like it is" right? Forget that he's an asshole about it. Pretty much the same reason everybody voted for Trump.

by opmac 9y ago

benburleson 9y ago
Except Linus is technically right, where Trump is normally technically wrong, and an asshole.
- opmac 9y ago
  I agree with you, but without getting too political, the people who voted for Trump most likely think he's technically correct as well.
musage 9y ago
> Pretty much the same reason everybody voted for Trump. "Everybody"? Sanders also said a bunch of things like they are, and he said them politely. Especially factoring in grass roots support, he was more popular than Hillary and would have wiped the floor with Trump. If you allow your media and "leaders" to sweep people like Sanders under the rug, you make people like Trump inevitable. And then you still don't learn. There can be worse things than Trump, so much infinitely worse; and they will come to pass if you insist on this trajectory.
- opmac 9y ago
  Bernie didn't win. More people voted for Trump than Bernie. One was an asshole, the other wasn't. > Especially factoring in grass roots support, he was more popular than Hillary If that is objectively true, he should have won the primary. He didn't. > and would have wiped the floor with Trump. [CITATION NEEDED] > If you allow > And then you still don't learn > if you insist Why are you calling me out? I didn't vote for him. Go project somewhere else.
  - digi_owl 9y ago
    Bernie didn't get a chance because "everyone" had already decided to go with the "gender issue"...
- zimpenfish 9y ago
  > would have wiped the floor with Trump. Unprovable counterfactual (and disputed by actual facts but ho hum.) > you make people like Trump inevitable. No, it was nothing to do with Sanders - it was Comey, gerrymandering, gutting the VRA, voter suppression, a complicit media, an electoral system that vastly overpowers the southern states, and astonishing institutionalised countrywide racism and sexism.

"At least he tells it like it is" right? Forget that he's an asshole about it. Pretty much the same reason everybody voted for Trump.

by opmac 9y ago

"At least he tells it like it is" right? Forget that he's an asshole about it. Pretty much the same reason everybody voted for Trump.

benburleson 9y ago

Except Linus is technically right, where Trump is normally technically wrong, and an asshole.

opmac 9y ago
I agree with you, but without getting too political, the people who voted for Trump most likely think he's technically correct as well.

musage 9y ago

> Pretty much the same reason everybody voted for Trump. "Everybody"? Sanders also said a bunch of things like they are, and he said them politely. Especially factoring in grass roots support, he was more popular than Hillary and would have wiped the floor with Trump. If you allow your media and "leaders" to sweep people like Sanders under the rug, you make people like Trump inevitable. And then you still don't learn. There can be worse things than Trump, so much infinitely worse; and they will come to pass if you insist on this trajectory.

opmac 9y ago
Bernie didn't win. More people voted for Trump than Bernie. One was an asshole, the other wasn't. > Especially factoring in grass roots support, he was more popular than Hillary If that is objectively true, he should have won the primary. He didn't. > and would have wiped the floor with Trump. [CITATION NEEDED] > If you allow > And then you still don't learn > if you insist Why are you calling me out? I didn't vote for him. Go project somewhere else.
- digi_owl 9y ago
  Bernie didn't get a chance because "everyone" had already decided to go with the "gender issue"...
zimpenfish 9y ago
> would have wiped the floor with Trump. Unprovable counterfactual (and disputed by actual facts but ho hum.) > you make people like Trump inevitable. No, it was nothing to do with Sanders - it was Comey, gerrymandering, gutting the VRA, voter suppression, a complicit media, an electoral system that vastly overpowers the southern states, and astonishing institutionalised countrywide racism and sexism.