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« on: December 20, 2016, 05:19:11 pm »
One of these days I'll learn never to discuss politics with strangers. Or more preferably, anyone.
Another truck driver and I were waiting to get some paperwork processed. The dude said something about how ridiculous it was that all the Democrats were throwing tantrums over how Trump won the election.
I, in a temporary fit of insanity, decided to play the middle road and remarked that this election season had been so ugly, that if Hillary had won instead then the Republicans would likely be doing the same thing, and that it was a damn shame that tensions were running so high.
His immediate response was that if Hillary had won, then he and I (both white males, which I have the unfortunate feeling was the point he was trying to make) would have chains around our necks at this very moment. He then went into some sort of rant about Nelson Mandela and gang-style executions, then finished by saying that Hillary should be thrown in jail for life and that Obama had ruined this country and should be killed.
All I could do at that point was just sort of nod along, because screw trying to get into a debate with something like that.