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    2020 US Election

    in General Banter

    Posted · Edited by randomsummer

    3 hours ago, zero said:

    yeah I know it'll never happen. but it seems like one way to limit his ability to recruit members to his cult / get more votes, would be to turn off the spotlight that has been on him for all these years. show that he is not of interest anymore. stale. the lies that he spews out at the rallies don't deserve any attention. the equivalent of the loud drunk at a party everyone collectively slowly moves away from.

    idk. logic is out the window. there's no making sense of why this guy is still supported by millions of people in this country after all he did the first time around. a lot of longtime supporters of the R party just can't seem to vote for anything else. vote for party over sanity, I guess. here in TX there are a lot of Bush republicans. they love the Bush family, the 1980s GOP, hate Trump, but can't bring themselves to vote dem. get in the poll booth and just can't do it. can't touch the dem button...

    To me, his voting bloc is very logical.  Maybe I'm oversimplifying it, but I see a large chunk of people (not all obv.) who are rabid about him (not necessarily establishment R voters) as people who:

    • Are fed up with the government for whatever reason
    • Are fed up with what they see as the "status quo" for whatever reason
    • Feel marginalized for whatever reason (sometimes because of their own deficiencies or faults and lack the ability or will to look inwardly and recognize said deficiencies, so they blame others (minorities taking my jobs, system is holding me down, etc.))
    • Have never or rarely voted before because of the above reasons

    In Trump they see someone who (rightly or wrongly):

    • They feel represents them as an "outsider" in the established political system, and will thus fight for them
    • Makes it OK to outwardly act like they inwardly feel (racist, xenophobic, overall hostile, etc.)

    I'm probably missing tons of stuff here, but I feel like he allowed tons of new voters of all ages who felt like no candidate represented them and their feelings / values to "join the party".

    As far as the media goes, left-leaning media just pours gasoline on the fire every time they report on the next "outrageous" thing he does, and that we should all be so outraged at him.  Of course this is because they get more clicks / eyeballs / money if they report in this manner vs. fact-based reporting where emotions are checked at the door.  IMO, this will not change as long as money is what's driving them unless something very drastic happens, more drastic than what we've already seen.

    In the end, I feel like the current climate of large and accelerating wealth gap has created a climate where something like this is much more prone to happen as more and more people are disillusioned as they see the economy doing relatively well while the rich get richer and they either are stagnant or are becoming relatively poorer. 

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    Kanye

    in Music Discussion

    Posted · Edited by randomsummer

    How did that convo go, I wonder?

     

    WIFE:  I just love riding in an open-air boat through Venice

    YE:  Hey babe how 'bout a beej?

    WIFE:  *sighs*

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    The Space Thread

    in General Banter

    Posted · Edited by randomsummer

    45 minutes ago, auxien said:

    initial reports are that India’s south pole rover landing was a success! 

    Great, now India just needs to put someone's uncle on the moon and there will be 100,000 Indians moving there within 2 years [/sarcasm].

    To be clear, I kid because I love, I spent 4 months living in India and loved it.

    What would you do if you won the lottery?

    in General Banter

    Posted · Edited by randomsummer

    Lump sum, invest some, save the rest. Buy a slightly nicer but not huge house near my current house and maybe another house in the Pacific northwest.

    Keep my job but renegotiate my salary down to something like $20 per year and tell them I'll continue working (because I actually enjoy what I do) but that I don't have to go to any stupid fucking team building meetings or participate in performance reviews or any of that incredibly asinine bullshit.

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