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They can be swayed to one side or the other

Can they, though? It seems to me that a lot of voters hate 'both' parties and the political system in general and thus do not want to identify with them. That doesn't mean that their views aren't decidedly progressive/conservative.

But leftists seem completely oblivious to their own behavior that leads the silent majority to rather want put up with Trump's shit, than theirs

The majority of voters voted for Hillary Clinton, which invalidates your claim. However, I think the point is more that people were fed up with 'traditional' politics (of which Hillary was pretty much the poster child), not 'leftist shit'. Ironically, the result has been that, at least in part, the USA has been subject to a caricature of traditional politics, with cronyism and corruption running wild and campaign promises being worth the air they loudly displaced.

They have no GDP but they have a number of virtually unpaid military conscripts that they use for building stuff, who work in the fields (e.g. harvest), prisoners too, and women are like caricatural 1950s' American wives too. What little Potemkin socialism they actually do (like building a catfish farm or something) doesn't really directly generate GDP, since they may allocate labor and resources directly. Then fish may be sold (GDP) or just taken away for use by the military (no GDP).

That said, they really do have very little GDP and a small economy. It's fascinating how cities are immediately surrounded by undeveloped rural lands and dirt or gravel roads unless it's a very wide unpainted highway that was likely intended for military trucks, tanks and other military vehicles.
Well, it's agrarian lands with everything made by hand :)

If the pro-choice advocates would treat the decision with the weight it deserves, I'd be more amenable to their position. But they treat it like the expectant mother is.....

Do they really or is that just how the pro-life crowd paints them? Who the fuck are you to say how hard the choice is for them? Have you actually talked to anyone about their choice to have an abortion? Contrary to the caricature, abortion isn't the favored method of birth control for care free socialites. Most women who need abortions are in abusive relationships, sick, or know they will be unable to provide for a baby. Source: Science Vs podcast on abortion.

It's the opposite with his supporters. Most of us view him as a kind of "cousin Vinny" New Yorker, trash-talking his way to success.

He lied, robbed, raped and stole his way to success. Looking up to Trump is like looking up to any corporate asshole, except even more ridiculous because he's even more of a caricature of the 1%.

I understand now how some people think he is dumb and racist.

I don't think he's dumb, I think he's half-demented. But he's actually relatively media savvy. He knows how to manipulate people, but that's literally all he knows. He could not build a successful legal business to save his life.

That's just how New Yorkers talk. And separate things he says from things he does.

The way he talks include "grab 'em by the pussy" and is an outright unacceptable way for a president to speak. He makes us look like rapey shitbirds. And I'm way beyond tired of people making excuses for liars, which is what people with separate "say" and "do" behaviors are.

Trump is a career criminal and con man, and you have been conned.

How is preventing people from getting out on bond HELPING ANYONE?

Not getting ads for a service doesn't mean you won't get the service. You'll still be able to find bail bond places via Google, but you won't have ads popping up for them when you are searching for other stuff.

And the reason people of color...

Does your racism preclude you from reading the fucking headline before launching into your Stormfront diatribe that has nothing whatsoever to do with the story being discussed? What is it that went so wrong in your life to have turned you into such a caricature?

Actually, FM has pretty good fidelity and dynamic range, assuming you have full quieting in your receiving equipment.

Not as wide as a CD, but certainly not terrible. The reason music is compressed so much is that people tended to listen to it in cars, in restaurants, in shopping malls, and in other noisy environments, where even a 12 dB change in volume translates to going from being able to hear the music to not being able to hear it.

Of course, at some point, the reason for doing so got lost, and music became more and more dynamically flat, well beyond the original need. The result is that music became a poor caricature of itself, lacking the subtlety and nuance that gives it beauty.

Actually, it's the lefties who are most uncomfortable with the Mid-east oil and all the despots who prop it up, while it's the far right-wingers who are not only screaming impotently about Muslims, but most eager to buddy-buddy with all the dictators who they can get a cut of their profits from over-exploiting the local people.

And believe it or not, the left is the one who's working for zero-landfill factories, not the right-wing. They're still rolling coal and slavering about the evils of unions. Meanwhile, the left is trying to get us to pay attention to the exploited child laborers, the negligence of corporate owners, and all sorts of things that are only occasionally demonized on the right who otherwise pretends to love free trade and the fair market.

IOW, you're just bitching about some caricature of a political nemesis in order to have somebody to rail against.

It's not a slashdot thing. It's a reality thing. Plenty of people in the real world notice that feminists and Islamists are more alike than they are different. It's one (of many) reasons Hillary lost.

Feminists may SAY they're pro-women or pro-trans or whatever, but when it comes to ACTION, those priorities often take a back seat when it's between calling out Islam and attacking those evil racist bigoted conservatives for daring to criticize the religion of peace.

From the recent election cycle, I would say people started to notice around the time Sam Harris dared criticized Islam, and Ben Affleck flipped out on him. That's one reason for the left's loss in that election cycle.

See, people in reality don't think all Muslims are rapists, while still believe in tougher immigration controls. Your caricature of what they're thinking is just that, a highly inaccurate caricature (word of advice: you really shouldn't tell other people what they think, AmiMojo evens writes in his journal how much he hates it when it's done to him)

I dunno, I felt MUCH more free to say things in the past, humorists were able to say more things, be more controversial (at least post the 50's)....

Your feelings don't match reality. The 50s is right around when the Cold War started and the second red scare (McCarthyism) happened.

When McCarthyism waned after the late 50s things might have FELT better, but it was still practically taboo to show support for communism or socialism. You can see this in fiction where the bad guys are usually some caricature of communism and/or fascism. No room for marketplace of ideas here.

Instead of blaming video games as they do today, people back then blamed comic books (as they would blame DnD before blaming video games). In response the comic industry self regulated, staying away from controversial topics in their stories. Thus Silver Age comics had all those campy stories, and Adam West's (RIP) career was what it was.

Having watched most of the groups you list as I actually want to know what my political opponents think, your utter lack of even basic understanding of their platforms is baffling. You literally built a massive caricature of what you think these groups are, based on maybe seeing some mentally unstable individual rant somewhere.

All of the platforms you mention have far more complex ideologies then "kill/disappear/etc people we disagree with".

Or, as is fairly apparent if you actually bother to read the whole post, the GP is most likely a gay or lesbian who was treated like crap in their midwestern hometown, found California much more welcoming, and doesn't want to back to the abuse. And while the GLBTQ examples are more vehement; I have observed that most of the flyover state haters I've known were in fact people from there who left and found the west coast more palatable. The born and raised "coastal elite" who unjustifiably looks down on the red states with no first hand knowledge of it's like there is largely a caricature invented by those very same red staters.

You're still grasping to the same caricature. Read my actual argument.

And then, you read my actual argument instead of just stating caricatures you've built in your head to justify why certain beliefs are not going to be tyrannical this time.

Same can be said about Trump and âoeshithole countryâ.

But yes what? MSM doesnâ(TM)t need proof any more, just some guy who was there that said someone said something.

It's completely in character for the orange-tinted asshat and it's amusing that some of the GOP asslickers who were present and trying to defend him are claiming he he said "shithouse" but not "shithole"

https://www.vox.com/2018/1/16/...

"Anonymous Republican sources have pushed the story that Trump in fact used the phrase “shithouse countries.” According to the Washington Post’s Josh Dawsey, Robert Costa, and Ashley Parker, Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and David Perdue (R-GA) told the White House that’s what they remember Trump saying in the meeting.

Trump has apparently decided that the controversy is hurting him politically, so his allies are using this minor discrepancy to justify public denials that he said “shithole.” This, the Post reporters wrote, was Cotton and Perdue’s private rationale for their Friday statement claiming they “do not recall the President saying those [shithole] comments specifically.”

Now, some anonymous Republican spinners are going even further, telling reporters that the term “shithouse” gets Trump off the hook from accusations of racism. Michael Isikoff said he was told that Trump was “thinking about real estate,” and Scott Wong said he was told Trump simply meant countries without plumbing.

The bigger picture: We have reports of Trump using either vulgar or racist language to disparage immigration from predominantly black or Muslim countries in the Oval Office — in two separate instances. (The New York Times reported a similar incident in December.)

Regardless of whether the disparaging term used in one of these cases was “shithole” or “shithouse,” our president’s private opinions are clear: He views certain countries as inferior and their people as unfit for immigration to the United States.

“I want them to come in from everywhere,” Trump told the White House press pool Tuesday afternoon. In private, though, he appears to say very different things.

This wasn’t the first report of Trump offensively disparaging immigrants’ home countries in private
Last week’s report of Trump’s vulgar language against certain immigrants’ home countries in the Oval Office shouldn’t have come as a surprise — because the New York Times published a remarkably similar report weeks earlier, in a separate meeting months before.

The Times’s Michael Shear and Julie Hirschfeld Davis wrote that Trump “stormed into the Oval Office one day in June, plainly enraged,” reading off a document his hardline adviser Stephen Miller had given him. What he reportedly said made him look like a crude, racist caricature:

The document listed how many immigrants had received visas to enter the United States in 2017. More than 2,500 were from Afghanistan, a terrorist haven, the president complained.

Haiti had sent 15,000 people. They “all have AIDS,” he grumbled, according to one person who attended the meeting and another person who was briefed about it by a different person who was there.

Forty thousand had come from Nigeria, Mr. Trump added. Once they had seen the United States, they would never “go back to their huts” in Africa, recalled the two officials, who asked for anonymity to discuss a sensitive conversation in the Oval Office.

Here, again, the White House press team didn’t deny the thrust of what Trump said, but they did deny whether he used the words “AIDS” or “huts.” However, the Times reporters wrote that two sources in the meeting recalled Trump using those words, and found them “so noteworthy t

This sounds like the caricature bad-guy dictatorships in "V for Vendetta" or even "Escape from LA". To fix this we need either:

1) Snake Plissken and a black glider

OR

2) Hugo Weaving, a subway, a lot of fertilizer, and a map to China parliment

Right. Because liberals are constantly campaigning for increased police power

Proponents of hate speech laws, increased protected classes with special rights that others do not have.

more government surveillance

Se above. Also the outing and persecution of "Nazis", "fascists", and "white supremacists".

and less protection of civil rights

Anti second amendment. Pro censorship and de-platforming, i.e. anti first amendment. And against equal enforcement of the law via protected classes.

Yes liberals are doing what you caricature the right as doing, showing the most liberal thing of all: projection.

Well, whatever. I Know I'm Right Anyway.

Projection. Why do you think the dems lost so badly in 2016? People from across the spectrum see the reality above, where postmodern liberals are behaving oh so badly and claiming the same righteousness you are by projecting their nastiness on to others.

Never said anything about Trump, just responded to your nonsense that Clinton would have given a rat's ass about insider trading when she's a part of the system herself.

It must be strange arguing against people who aren't caricatures who just support the other totalitarian. You might actually have to consider that there's more than two positions to any given issue. How stressful!

No the troll mod is appropriate. How is generalizing millions of people to a caricature and a stereotype in any way not a troll?

Also, wtf do you mean "dealt with"? That alone is retarded trollery. Are you going to have a Final Solution to the "nazi" problem? Seriously, are you one of those morons that think that the only way to have free speech is to restrict free speech for opinions you don't like? You do realize that the point of free speech is to protect the speech that is hated not what is universally accepted? You do realize that in that last half century that allowing nazi's/kkk/racists/whateverlabelyoubemoan to speak has had their numbers decreased? You and people that think like you are fuckin moronic.

Karma be damned but you are a idiotic troll.

You once again attribute negative factors to my personality to avoid addressing my point. Your intolerance for any views that do not match your religiously dogmaic views is unfortunate, and indeed reinforces the point I made above. I made no statement that can be even remotely described with your first sentence. You're literally fighting a caricature from your imagination and avoiding any kind of interaction with my argument. Read what I actually said and stop trying really hard to pretend that I'm something I'm not to avoid addressing my points.

On your second sentence, I will remind you once more that while you can indeed ignore reality, you cannot ignore consequences of reality. Such as school shootings like this one.

Answer 3 questions & prove things you say about yourself: 1.) Are you paid off by Soros to spew crap https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11729899&cid=56102973/ & https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11669511&cid=56024869/ or are those 2 links just you lying?

2.) You're a PhD in English (lol - a degree for idiots) & you were a "pwufessuh" (those who can DO, those who CAN'T, teach fatzo)??

3.) You're a martial artist (lol, maybe in the old Ninja Gaiden game) too??

On that 3rd one - just to let you TRY PROVE IT fairly?

Come try prove that w/ me directly fatboy - you're the RICH MAN, take a flight here & we'll see what's what on that - No weapons, just man to man (you're no man though).

No threat either: Who'd I 'threaten'? YOU, you FAKE NAME for a FAKE LIE OF A LIFE Mooley - you're all LIES & not even REAL behind your FAKE NAME for your FAKE LIE of a "life", lol.

You called the 1st lady a whore today https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11801469&cid=56198439/ ?

Your ALLEGED WIFE's a whore MOOLEY https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11806784&cid=56202673/ so let her read that you no balls (& certainly no dick per your photo) punk.

Bugs Bunny's better than you & I'm challenging a fake in yourself. A grotesque DELUSIONAL liar & mere caricature in yourself (just like bugs bunny), nothing more.

* By the way: CNN & Anderson Cooper disappearing nose greenscreen work is ALL ANYONE NEEDS TO SEE about "Cock Nozzle Network", lol!

APK

P.S.=> Either way you answer, you're cornered (like the "RATZO" you are): You're either a LIAR or you're a 'souled-out' traitor PopeFATZO!

Do I blame you? Yes!

HOWEVER:

I understand your motives (desperation) & what makes you a perfect candidate for Soros hiring you (He goes for easily paid off disgruntled losers & heroin/meth junkies looking for 'fix' $) You're so FAT & UGLY you deformed MUTANT https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QqAn6jRY748/UP906Z4OONI/AAAAAAAAMBw/4UJL1sLYx2E/s1600/Gun+Nut+Article+for+Bell+of+Lost+Souls2.jpg// you need money to TRY to get laid (& even THEN, you get zero)... apk