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I hope Volo doesnt read this....he will have a field day expressing his horror at BLM being racist ...volo is very sensitive about these things Here's the thing and I wanna ask u a question because I can't seem to get an answer from my friends about this. With the cop killing innocents, why is when it happens to a white/Latino/Asian/etc it's viewed as the cops ****ed up badly, but when it happens to a black person its a racist act and not simply a huge **** up with like with the others? Because there is racial bias. This mostly about white vs black but there's some mentions of hispanics as well: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/07/data-police-racial-bias Also, this doesn't mean that the cop is actively racist, but rather that there is built in prejudice into police behavior. Racist act doesn't necessarily mean the guy who acted is an evil white supremacist.

With Trump the point of him divulging his tax returns is that he made it a positive point of his campaign that he is a sharp businessman who is worth several billion dollars (3? 5? I forget). I assume that his problem with releasing his tax returns is that they would disprove that claim, and Trump is nothing if not a self aggrandizing mook.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-02/nixon-s-failed-effort-to-withhold-his-tax-returns Interesting stuff I didn't know about, regarding the custom of presidential candidates releasing their tax returns.

Autocorrect switched out ahead for rich.

The story of Trump really is insane. A supposed billionaire who made his fortune through cleverly orchestrated bankruptcies and shady tax breaks runs for President , He has a Tax plan that is essentially a gigantic tax break to himself. Even so, people think this billionaire who was born into money, is their chance to buck the system and get someone in power who cares about them. This guy. The one who has enough money to pay for ten Presidential campaigns at the same time has loads of people sending him their hard earned money for nothing at all. Deplorables or not, they certainly are fools. A drivers license is a privilege. The chance to vote is a right. BOTH require responsibility! I don't know about voting requiring responsibility. It is certainly recommended, but people can vote for whoever they want, even if it's not a responsible choice like, say, Muttley or Trump, What about guns, though?

What is a right and what is a privilege? And which ones are accompanied by required responsibility?

Seems to me Meshugger is saying Trump is a prelude to Idiocracy or something.

Wait, what? Where did I say that?

Aluminiumtrioxid is of course right. Clinton is related to the Republicans only in the sense that they are consequences of the same wretched political system. @Guard Dog; Apparently I wasn't clear but the issues enumerated by me aren't my worry regarding America's effect on the world around me. They are separate concerns.

In this election, it is two fold for me. For one, and this is true of any election the US and its policies have a definite effect on the world, so it is something that I feel affects me. The second and more important one is the slow rise of the extreme right in America, of which the Trump phenomenon is a terrible symptom, Regardless of the outcome, this is worrying and it is both a consequence of global forces pushing the population, and the Republican Party pushing an agenda of ignorance among its base over the past 40 years, That the horrible positions taken by Republicans over the past decades in issues like health insurance, women's health, climate change, religion, science, gun control and taxes led to this election. The fact that someone so much in the pocket of corporate interests, like Clinton is, gets my unwavering support is a terrible indictment of Republicans. Republicans talk about how Trump is a terrible break from Republican tradition, but he really is the logical culmination of the party's evolution since the democrats gave them the racist vote on a silver platter. The only thing Trump did to win the primary was go farther in his fear-mongering and extremism than his opponents were willing to go. So the rise of the extreme right in Western civilization interests me because it is in direct opposition to the cushy, relatively safe life we have enjoyed since the extreme right was soundly defeated in WW2.

What is naive about his views as shown in these e-mails?

KeTrumpfka has yet to be defeated, but this thread is over anyway. Continue here.

The VII installment of this thread is here. Complete with too many CG cutscenes, terrible gameplay and the death of Aeris. The latest news are Colin Powell's leaked e-mails, which include lots of juicy bits on both candidates.

Yeah, that's Powell said.

This is a bit small but if you zoom it's readable. Those leaked e-mails sure are juicy. Powell comes off as a nice, smart guy. I like this quote from one of the emails:

And what exactly happens if we stop crying about it?

Trump doesn't do anything himself, except maybe running his mouth.

That idiotic outrage happened on social networks with that picture of Spielberg sitting in front of the Triceratops on Jurassic Park. What actually happened in Africa and is more deserving of outrage was this:

Perhaps I should edit the poll, to somehow emulate the great American tradiftion that underpins the country's democracy. The Electoral College, I mean.

Perhaps I should edit the poll, to somehow emulate the great American tradiftion that underpins the country's democracy. Gerrymandering, I mean.

The problem with the USA's foreign relations isn't that they meddle but rather that they are short sighted at best, woefully incompetent at worst. It has been screw up after screw up since the 60s. I mean I'd understand if they, at least, bungled things up for everyone else while in process of strengthening their own position, but they can't even do that. It's infuriating.

It's not a question of belonging. Symbols mean whatever people want them to mean. If a white dove with an olive branch suddenly was used systematically to represent the KKK, it could perfectly well become a symbol of racial hatred, even if before it wasn't ever used in that sense. An exetreme example of that would be the swastika but it's the same thing as what has happened over the to medical terms for the mentally impaired, for example. I'm not saying that's what happened with Pepe, I really have no idea if that meme fits this bill. I will say, however, that to my mind, he isn't keeping the best of company in that deplorables photoshop.

Maybe it's a total coincidence but I have seen the frog drawing used by the alt-right all over the place. The Codex seems to love it, for example. I don't get the connection, but that deplorables photoshop Trump Jr posted really knocked me for a loop. In any case, I don't see how anyone can state to be proud to be associated with someone like Alex Jones, and not be considered an idiot.

It isn't morally wrong if a coach is using a position of power to force players to do a religious act when they don't believe in it? Especially in a public institution.

She didn't say that in any way. I stand corrected. She said half of Trump's supporters were in a basket of deplorables. Not that that is an improvement. But hey, at least she only insulted 25% of Americans. Obama insulted us all last week. I'd say that 25% of Americans being xenophobes is a fairly conservative estimate. Not that the statistics are any different for other nationalities, though. So the problem with her statement is not that it is untrue but rather that it is offensive. I wonder why Trump and his supporters, of all people, are complainingt. Aren't they on the side of the straight talkers who tell it like it is? I really don't think this is true. Immigrants are welcome here like nowhere else. We just ask that you do it legally! But on your larger point I disagree completely and emphatically that even 25% of us are xenophobic. I thought about all the people I know and could only come up with one but that guy hates everyone. Now I don't know enough people to constitute a sample size but speaking as someone who actually lives here... that is way off base. Actually, despite the USA having become a great country in part precisely due to immigration, the population has always been seriously xenophobic to new immigrants, be they Irish, Chinese, Polish, Italian or whatever you want. Nativism has always been a sizeable seedy undercurrent of US culture, and Trump's candidacy isn't the first time that nativism coalesces into a political force. In fact, immigration was immensely reduced after the 1920s precisely due to laws that were passed due to heavy lobbying from nativists, Again, this is not an attack on American culture, as nativist sentiment is certainly not exclusive to the US, as the growth of far right movements in Europe attests to.