ryanx435

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by ryanx435 10y ago
Maybe the democratics shouldn't have cheated, stolen the nomination from bernie, or coordinated illegally with their super pacs.
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The site linked is a blog/podcast pit on by senior cadets and officers at westpoint, which is just about as apolitical as government institutions come
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the tolerant left: tolerant of everything except someone with a different opinion or belief.
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this analysis completely ignores the fact that reddit.com is the 8th largest website in the united states and a primary source of news for large portions of its users. And I'm sure that pretty much every reddit user ever can attest tha
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what does this have to do with trump?
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Cool.
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Maybe we should build a wall to keep them out
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Government emails are required to go through official government servers for a multitude of reasons, one of which is transparency of government and the ability to fulfil FOIA requests. Encryption doesn't solve the problem because the p
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Or, just as easily, they are trying to signal value to their perceived tribe and just want to validate themselves with the group.
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Are you one of those people who only believe in democracy when your side wins?
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Ah yes, Ddos ing websites of government officials that you disagree with. So tolerant. Much liberal.
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I'm saying that your fundamental premise that trump is racist is based on cherry picked examples aND doesn't represent reality
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Look at you with your outrage culture
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> the fact that 370 economists (among which 8 nobel prize winners) said not to vote for Trump, and newspapers overwhelmingly endorsed Clinton(243-20 [2]), honestly who cares if 370 economists said not to vote for trump? Economics isn&#x2
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its also why he is married to an immigrant.
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as proven by the election, a significant portion of americans have.
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> That's a very dangerous game to play when Russia is waiting for an opening to stomp the baltic countries. politics has always been a dangerous game. This didn't just start this election cycle. > It's not worth risking
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No, you don't understand. I'm coming from the opposite perspective: all of the tone policing and condescending attitudes and elitism of the left is stifling discussion and democracy. It is a soft form of totalitarianism. When you
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He negotiated a better deal. The majority of countries that were not contributing to NATO in accordance with the treaty are now doing so. He very clearly explained his thought process for this type of thing in the Art of the deal. To paraph
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there is a very strong argument to be made that the US's complete domination of the iraqi's in 1991 directly led to the fall of the soviet union because it showed how strong the US had become since the end of the vietnam war and m
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>You're actively engaged in the discussion, which is great! please stop talking to me like i'm a child. its condescending and doesn't "work to improve the situation and make it constructive."
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the vast majority of Americans have either never heard of Peter Theil or straight up don't care what he thinks. Most people don't care about silicon valley because it doesn't affect their day to day lives in an overt manner.
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Trump has only ever been against ILLEGAL immigrants. If you come here legally through a visa program or other legal method, than you are fine. Its the border jumpers and people who overstay their legal welcome that he has always had the pro
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do YOU understand the MAD doctrine? it only works if your enemy believes that you will use nuclear weapons. If they don't think you will use nukes, than the threat of mutually assured destruction isn't a real threat, so MAD doesn&
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Its ignorant for you to assume that people on the right are ignorant and honestly the attitude of people like you were one of the driving forces of me supporting and voting for trump. Here I am, working as a software engineer, with a BS in
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> Having a population of idiots is not something Trump can claim responsibility for. > large fraction of the electorate are ignorant fools. if you think the roughly half of all American voters that voted for trump are idiots or ignora
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> Sigh, the only think positive I can imagine coming out of this is that now, I get four years I can make fun of how stupid American's are. it is this sentiment from the left that propelled trump to victory. Your elitism is disgusti
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Its crazy to me how different the information bubbles you and I exist in are: Everything I've seen over the course of this election pointed to Clinton being the one who would likely start WW3 and end the world in armageddon, while it w
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good. except for the climate accord, that should stay. but obamacare is a disaster and dodd frank sucks.
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world war 2, also korea. I guess you could count vietnam if you think of it as a proxy war between the US and russia (same with us supporting the afghans back in the 70s). Oh, also the iraq war in 1991. The second one not so much. Afghanist

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