I'm not the only one here who feels that Hillary might just decide to burn anything resembling a bridge with Russia and start WW3, in fact someone posted something like this within the last few pages.
Why would she do that? Hillary isn't an idiot, and WW3 would be a disaster. Where's the motive?
Funny, she sure seems like at least as much an idiot as Trump is, what with the emails that she was negligent on and such. And there isn't necessarily motive, she's just REALLY good at making Russia not like us, blaming them for her emails getting out and whatnot.
Perhaps thats a good thing. I'd rather someone who isn't interested in letting the oppressed russian minorities in Eastern Europe cause a scene.
Also I think I'd rather be in the alternate universe where interesting things happen, and Trump is more interesting no doubt there
There's no nice way to put this, but... this is a really petty way to vote. Remember: Even if you aren't LGBT, a person of colour, or an immigrant, plenty of people are. Will you let them suffer, just so that you can see an "interesting" world?
(If this reason is wholly non-serious, I apologize for overreacting.)
Every decision made on the speck we call Earth is petty. We are all sacks of meat and chemicals, organic computers that depend wholly on our bodies to not only perceive the world, but to think and make decisions about it as well.
As far as I'm concerned, the interesting stories we can make are the only thing truly real in all existence. That serious enough for you?
I hope God blesses you to live an interesting life then.
- He will be a bad president for people of colour. Trump has a long history of personal racism against African-Americans, and refuses to distance himself from groups like the KKK. I guess I can't prove that he'll be a bad president for people of colour, but it's hardly a stretch.
Examples? This seems to mostly be based on media lies and half truths. He certainly DID distance himself from the KKK. Vehemently even, as I recall.
Lies and half-truths? So what Trump says on a daily basis?
People of color? Well, first, Mexicans, because they were cursed to be so far from god and so near the United States. Hispanics as well, because they have the misfortune to look and sound like Mexicans, as Trump reminded that judge. Also Arabs, of course, since they look Muslim and are thus potential terrorists. Also because "Muslim insurgency", we can potentially include Chinese, Indonesians, Phillipines, etc. Chinese in particular, of course, because they had the misfortune of not being the foreign almost-superpower that Trump wants to buddy up with. And I have serious doubts Trump will appreciate any concern for police brutality in the US, given his statements recently, so we may as well scratch the black man and recent racial tensions off the list of things Trump cares about, even if he isn't literally the KKK.
So its safe to say Trump will not be much of a healer of racial tensions. Much the opposite in fact. I would expect race riots in the future when Trump says something inflamatory. In fact I would put money on it.
I consider as many factors as possible. Meatsack is only capable of considering so many factors unfortunately. Would love to literally consider every factor on the planet, throughout the billions upon billions of years that will succeed any decision I and everyone else make about those factors, but sadly lack the capacity for that.
So I mostly just go with my gut.
The gut is a great way to digest food and turn it into nutrients, and a poor decision-making organ.
You want to know something I learned a while back that was useful? Parents are morons too. My mother is an amazing woman, absolutely brilliant and accomplished and was once a professor of Political Science at a Ivy League school. And I swear to god the damn woman throws it all out into the freaking trash the moment you aren't talking directly about her field. I mean mind-bogglingly stupid comments, part of an impressively warped world view. And do you know why? Because she was so aware of her intelligence that she started thinking that it meant she was smart everywhere, when in reality she is at the bottom tier of discussion, where most is dank memes and living stereotypes (also known as the Liberal Crime Squad level of discussion). People think that "I'm good at this, I must be really smart" when in reality they are just that: good at that one thing. Ask my mom about US politics and she is not interested or willing to discuss it at a level above hashtags, memes, facebook, etc.
Everyone is a moron the moment they stop being skeptical of how smart they are.
And my problem with Trump is he convinced he is a genius.