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On September 27 2016 20:08 Sent. wrote: Just finished watching the debate and I don't see how Clinton won it as the poll on top suggests. Trump certainly didn't win but it didn't look like a 20-80 defeat to me.
He was completely fact free, policy free and rude. 20% for confidence, which he won on. 80:20 seems about right.
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On September 27 2016 19:52 DickMcFanny wrote:Show nested quote +On September 27 2016 19:25 Grumbels wrote:On September 27 2016 18:57 DickMcFanny wrote: You realise The_Donald is satire, right?
That said, even the comments you collected (and I know you didn't have to try too hard to cherrypick, that's the stuff that's left when you remove the memes) aren't that much more outrageous than what SJWs are posting.
My point is, by demonising everyone who disagrees with you, or who contradicts your narrative of victimhood, you breed resentment that leads to people becoming more extreme.
Look at Germany right now, it's not like 15% of Germans are Neonazis, they just have to vote for a far-right party because that's the only one who will address immigration. All political parties have policies related to immigration and the result of these policies are that immigration is not a problem in Germany. It just isn't, more likely it is neutral or a benefit to the country. Yes, it's a great boon for Germany. Except for the tax payers. Or the countless rape victims. Or women in general. Or that girl in Hanau who was slaughtered (including her unborn child) by her brother because her pregnancy of out wedlock brings shame to her family. Or the countless other cases of 'honour' killings like hers. Or young pupils whose education is compromised because a third of their classmates don't speak German. Or gays and lesbians who can't be openly gay without fear of attacks anymore. Or Jews. Or the Christian refugees who have to flee the refugee shelters because they're under severe attacks. Or the over 1000 documented cases of child marriages in Germany. But I know, all isolated cases of peaceful and innocent refugees who suffered due to the German's failure to integrate them. It's somewhere between hilarious and heartbreaking that people like you manage to demonise Trump supporters for homophobia, supremacy and sexism and adore a religion where homophobia, supremacy and sexism are the basically the mission statement. Linking Muslims to violence against women is part of a racist tradition. (link)
Stories about rape by immigrants in Western countries are hugely exaggerated. (link)
According to studies [...] on general crime, most of the differences in recorded crimes between immigrants and Swedes are explained by socioeconomic factors.
according to official statistics on file with The Swedish Crime Survey, the sexual violence rate in Sweden has remained about the same between 2005 and 2014. In fact, it actually decreased by .3 percent between 2013 and 2014.
Furthermore, please realize you're talking about victims of a civil war who can not always meet your definition of a perfect human being and who might not otherwise be considered for settlement in the country if the circumstances were different. This is how history might judge people who deny refugees.
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On September 27 2016 17:53 zeo wrote: Seeing as how biased the moderator was Trump did fine, made both Clinton and the mod look like fools. Clinton got really desperate with her character assassination attempts and Trump just deflected with turning them into policy driven answers.
All in all Clinton has no chance against a non-biased moderator. Looking forward to the next debates.
edit: Not to mention Clinton wearing that earpiece.
You realize that the moderator was a Republican right? And seeing as how he didn't do his job for 90% of the night- he let Trump get away with dozens of inappropriate interruptions, and he only held Trump accountable to the question he was asked once or twice- Trump looked bad and would have looked far worse if the moderator was competent. I don't think the moderator was biased for Trump, but he sure as hell let Trump get away with a lot of silliness.
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On September 27 2016 20:08 Sent. wrote: Just finished watching the debate and I don't see how Clinton won it as the poll on top suggests. Trump certainly didn't win but it didn't look like a 20-80 defeat to me.
Trump had some early game cheese that looked impressive, but then after the five minute mark he just completely stopped making workers.
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On September 27 2016 20:14 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:Show nested quote +On September 27 2016 20:08 Sent. wrote: Just finished watching the debate and I don't see how Clinton won it as the poll on top suggests. Trump certainly didn't win but it didn't look like a 20-80 defeat to me. Trump had some early game cheese that looked impressive, but then after the five minute mark he just completely stopped making workers.
Yeah I agree that he really needs to work on his late game
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Last night's debate was a relieving sight to see
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On September 27 2016 20:17 farvacola wrote:Last night's debate was a relieving sight to see  With you. Clinton even won in memes.
I mean, as reaction gifs go, that pretty good.
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On September 27 2016 20:12 Grumbels wrote:
Furthermore, please realize you're talking about victims of a civil war who can not always meet your definition of a perfect human being
This just takes the cake, really.
Uses the wrong pronoun for a transgender person: literally Hitler. Rapist and honour killers: well we can't all be perfect human beings.
I'm out dude.
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On September 27 2016 20:17 farvacola wrote:Last night's debate was a relieving sight to see 
Indeed it was
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On September 27 2016 20:08 Sent. wrote: Just finished watching the debate and I don't see how Clinton won it as the poll on top suggests. Trump certainly didn't win but it didn't look like a 20-80 defeat to me.
How would you call trump lying and bullshitting for almost an hour not a complete defeat. I know reddit can be a seas pool a lot of the time but just take a look at how how amost all of what trump said was just a blatant lie about stuff he said in the past. That and he all but came out and said he does not pay taxes cause it is smart and thinks its good business when people start to lose there homes.
edit That and people now think he is coke addict too lol
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On September 27 2016 18:10 DickMcFanny wrote:Show nested quote +On September 27 2016 18:05 Grumbels wrote:On September 27 2016 17:57 Ghostcom wrote:On September 27 2016 17:48 Grumbels wrote:On September 27 2016 17:32 DickMcFanny wrote:On September 27 2016 16:36 Grumbels wrote:On September 27 2016 15:54 {ToT}ColmA wrote: as i am not an american who has to vote for either of those two..i am glad. i feel sorry for you guys out there. i can not come to terms that those two are in vote for presidency. what happend america Hillary Clinton is maybe not charismatic, but you can make a case that she is the most qualified, most honest and most transparent candidate in recent history. Obama and Sanders endorsed her, she has the full support of the democratic party. Hatred of HRC is 95% a consequence of right-wing smear campaigns and various types of sexist undercurrents in America. Viewed objectively she is a normal candidate, a normal politician, better than most and with many accomplishments throughout her life, plus the bonus factor of being potentially the first female president. Trump is an unabashedly sexist and racist cretin, literally a threat to world civilization. His ascendency is a total disgrace. Please don't equate these two in any way. . Gotta love this holier-than-though attitude. People like you are just as much to blame for Trump as right wing white supremacists are. "Sexist undercurrent" and "right wing smear", you have to be joking. There's a lot of objectionable shit about Hillary and the Clinton foundation, lots of reasonable concerns that she's just bullshitting. Please read this article which demonstrates what everyone already knows: people support the far right because they are racists and because they feel loss of status compared to minorities (see the whining about political correctness). It's not because of the left alienating people, it's because mainstream politicians can not abandon commitment to tolerance and modern governance to cater to white nationalists. And since no good deed goes unpunished they get called out of touch because of it. By the way, I don't know what you tried to imply, but sexism does exist in the USA and affects how people perceive Clinton. For instance, female authority is rejected. ( example) And there is a long history of right wing smears against Clinton. (some examples here) I might be misunderstanding you here: Are you implying that all of Trumps supporters are racists? Being racist correlates to supporting Trump and supporting the European populist parties. You can draw your own conclusions, but in my view Clinton wasn't wrong when she called half of Trump supporters "deplorable". Of course that's your view, that's the sickening attitude of the left that everyone who disagrees with us is a racist / sexist / homophobe / Islamophobe / whatever stupid SJW buzzword of the week you can come with and morally inferior.
the important question is, would you and other trump supporters still support him if he outright said he was a racist?
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She looks like she is having a seizure... is that the joke?
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On September 27 2016 20:22 DickMcFanny wrote:Show nested quote +On September 27 2016 20:12 Grumbels wrote:
Furthermore, please realize you're talking about victims of a civil war who can not always meet your definition of a perfect human being This just takes the cake, really. Uses the wrong pronoun for a transgender person: literally Hitler. Rapist and honour killers: well we can't all be perfect human beings. I'm out dude. I phrased that badly, but what I meant was that 1. you're peddling racist theories about refugees and most of what you said is statistically wrong and 2. to some extent refugees and immigrants will be ill adjusted to the new environment and that will reflect itself in negative behavior.
Preventing violence against women is partly related to in-group policing of attitudes and behavior and I don't think it's that odd for these systems to malfunction in these refugee communities that often have to struggle for survival. They might not have had good education or role models and sexism or homophobia might be mainstream in their society.
But they are still refugees and Western society by far is strong enough to survive whatever different customs and beliefs they bring here.
Mostly I think you're being very callous about people who are really victims, by rhetorically turning them into perpetrators.
And why are you talking about transgender all of a sudden? I never mentioned that.
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On September 27 2016 20:26 ImFromPortugal wrote:Show nested quote +On September 27 2016 18:10 DickMcFanny wrote:On September 27 2016 18:05 Grumbels wrote:On September 27 2016 17:57 Ghostcom wrote:On September 27 2016 17:48 Grumbels wrote:On September 27 2016 17:32 DickMcFanny wrote:On September 27 2016 16:36 Grumbels wrote:On September 27 2016 15:54 {ToT}ColmA wrote: as i am not an american who has to vote for either of those two..i am glad. i feel sorry for you guys out there. i can not come to terms that those two are in vote for presidency. what happend america Hillary Clinton is maybe not charismatic, but you can make a case that she is the most qualified, most honest and most transparent candidate in recent history. Obama and Sanders endorsed her, she has the full support of the democratic party. Hatred of HRC is 95% a consequence of right-wing smear campaigns and various types of sexist undercurrents in America. Viewed objectively she is a normal candidate, a normal politician, better than most and with many accomplishments throughout her life, plus the bonus factor of being potentially the first female president. Trump is an unabashedly sexist and racist cretin, literally a threat to world civilization. His ascendency is a total disgrace. Please don't equate these two in any way. . Gotta love this holier-than-though attitude. People like you are just as much to blame for Trump as right wing white supremacists are. "Sexist undercurrent" and "right wing smear", you have to be joking. There's a lot of objectionable shit about Hillary and the Clinton foundation, lots of reasonable concerns that she's just bullshitting. Please read this article which demonstrates what everyone already knows: people support the far right because they are racists and because they feel loss of status compared to minorities (see the whining about political correctness). It's not because of the left alienating people, it's because mainstream politicians can not abandon commitment to tolerance and modern governance to cater to white nationalists. And since no good deed goes unpunished they get called out of touch because of it. By the way, I don't know what you tried to imply, but sexism does exist in the USA and affects how people perceive Clinton. For instance, female authority is rejected. ( example) And there is a long history of right wing smears against Clinton. (some examples here) I might be misunderstanding you here: Are you implying that all of Trumps supporters are racists? Being racist correlates to supporting Trump and supporting the European populist parties. You can draw your own conclusions, but in my view Clinton wasn't wrong when she called half of Trump supporters "deplorable". Of course that's your view, that's the sickening attitude of the left that everyone who disagrees with us is a racist / sexist / homophobe / Islamophobe / whatever stupid SJW buzzword of the week you can come with and morally inferior. the important question is, would you and other trump supporters still support him if he outright said he was a racist?
What the fuck?
I don't support him, at all.
He's a dangerous moron, he's the worst candidate in my lifetime when it comes to the most important issues (climate change and nuclear proliferation), and he's far, far to the right of myself on economic issues.
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On September 27 2016 20:31 Grumbels wrote:Show nested quote +On September 27 2016 20:22 DickMcFanny wrote:On September 27 2016 20:12 Grumbels wrote:
Furthermore, please realize you're talking about victims of a civil war who can not always meet your definition of a perfect human being This just takes the cake, really. Uses the wrong pronoun for a transgender person: literally Hitler. Rapist and honour killers: well we can't all be perfect human beings. I'm out dude. Mostly I think you're being very callous about people who are really victims, by rhetorically turning them into perpetrators.
You don't have to be either or, you can be both. Though to put their suffering in perspective, most migrants to Germany go to vacation in the countries they're fleeing from.
Are they fleeing from a war they haven't caused? Absolutely. But that's not why they're in Germany or Sweden. They go to Germany, Sweden or Holland because of the welfare, plain and simple.
Their routes goes through in Turkey / Greece, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Austria. I don't think you can make a case for them being refugees.
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On September 27 2016 20:08 Sent. wrote: Just finished watching the debate and I don't see how Clinton won it as the poll on top suggests. Trump certainly didn't win but it didn't look like a 20-80 defeat to me.
Well I would say Clinton won ~75% of the debate (once Trump fell off his scripted rails). And most of that was concentrated at the end. So that's a big part of the poll result.
I mean, one of his final rhetorical points was actually "I'm a good guy because I was going to say something really nasty about the Clintons and their personal lives but then held myself back." And he hilariously stopped saying "you're wrong" at the end of Clinton's list of misogyny, which makes it look like she was right about the last one.
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If trump tries to bring up bill's past with women i am sure Hillary is going to tear him a new one. I really dont think trump wants to open up the Marla Maples bag of worms. Who knows though he might be that dumb.
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On September 27 2016 20:37 DickMcFanny wrote:Show nested quote +On September 27 2016 20:31 Grumbels wrote:On September 27 2016 20:22 DickMcFanny wrote:On September 27 2016 20:12 Grumbels wrote:
Furthermore, please realize you're talking about victims of a civil war who can not always meet your definition of a perfect human being This just takes the cake, really. Uses the wrong pronoun for a transgender person: literally Hitler. Rapist and honour killers: well we can't all be perfect human beings. I'm out dude. Mostly I think you're being very callous about people who are really victims, by rhetorically turning them into perpetrators. You don't have to be either or, you can be both. Though to put their suffering in perspective, most migrants to Germany go to vacation in the countries they're fleeing from. Yeah, all those Syrian migrants just itching to go on vacation to Aleppo.
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On September 27 2016 20:54 Grumbels wrote:Show nested quote +On September 27 2016 20:37 DickMcFanny wrote:On September 27 2016 20:31 Grumbels wrote:On September 27 2016 20:22 DickMcFanny wrote:On September 27 2016 20:12 Grumbels wrote:
Furthermore, please realize you're talking about victims of a civil war who can not always meet your definition of a perfect human being This just takes the cake, really. Uses the wrong pronoun for a transgender person: literally Hitler. Rapist and honour killers: well we can't all be perfect human beings. I'm out dude. Mostly I think you're being very callous about people who are really victims, by rhetorically turning them into perpetrators. You don't have to be either or, you can be both. Though to put their suffering in perspective, most migrants to Germany go to vacation in the countries they're fleeing from. Yeah, all those Syrian migrants just itching to go on vacation to Aleppo.
Take out your "pretense to dismiss news as illegitimate"-dice: https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article158049400/Fluechtlinge-machen-Urlaub-wo-sie-angeblich-verfolgt-werden.html
Again, if they're in Germany, they passed at least six different safe countries, so they're not refugees, they're welfare tourists.
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If you two really want to have that discussion again, might I suggest either the Syrian civil war thread or the EU politicis thread? (Or you could just read through the EU politics thread again and realize that neither of you are going to convince the other as the truth is somewhere in the middle of both of you).
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