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Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey Is Secretly Funding Trump's Meme Machine (thedailybeast.com)
The founder of Oculus, Palmer Luckey, has backed a pro-Trump political organization called Nimble America that is dedicated to "shitposting" and spreading inflammatory memes about Hillary Clinton. In 2014, Luckey's virtual-reality company, Oculus, was acquired by Facebook for $2 billion. Forbes estimates his current net worth to be $700 million. The Daily Beast reports: "The 24-year-old told The Daily Beast that he had used the pseudonym "NimbleRichMan" on Reddit with a password given to him by the organization's founders. Nimble America says it's dedicated to providing that "shitposting is powerful and meme magic is real," according to the company's introductory statement, and has taken credit for a billboard its founders say was posted outside of Pittsburgh with a cartoonishly large image of Clinton's face alongside the words "Too Big to Jail." "We conquered Reddit and drive narrative on social media, conquered the [mainstream media], now it's time to get our most delicious memes in front of Americans whether they like it or not," a representative for the group wrote in an introductory post on Reddit. Potential donors from Donald Trump's biggest online community -- Reddit's r/The_Donald, where one of the rules is "no dissenters" -- turned on the organization this weekend, refusing to believe "NimbleRichMan" was the anonymous "near-billionaire" he claimed to be and causing a rift on one of the alt-right's most powerful organizational tools. Luckey insists he's just the group's money man -- a wealthy booster who thought the meddlesome idea was funny. But he is also listed as the vice-president of the group on its website. In another post written under Luckey's Reddit pseudonym, Luckey echoes Peter Thiel, the tech billionaire who used his wealth to secretly bankroll Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker. The Daily Beast adds: "'The American Revolution was funded by wealthy individuals," NimbleRichMan wrote on Saturday. Luckey confirmed to The Daily Beast he penned the posts under his Reddit pseudonym. 'The same has been true of many movements for freedom in history. You can't fight the American elite without serious firepower. They will outspend you and destroy you by any and all means.'"
How mad are you gonna be when Trump wins?
We complain about lobbyists... but this is so much worse
There are a LOT of good reasons to be against Hillary without being for Trump.
A big one is this - after what she and the DNC did to Sanders, you all plan to reward her by voting for Hillary? Do you think the DNC will become more, or less corrupt if Hillary wins.
In the end it will not make that vast a difference in Trump or Clinton wins, two arms springing from the same body politic. So don't vote to destroy whatever shred of goodness was left of the DNC by rewarding corruption and massive corporate backroom deals which will be rewarded lavishly during her time in office (just as they were while she was secretary of state).
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Guess I shouldn't be surprised. Glad I gave up on Oculus the second Facebook bought them.
He's proven himself to be a duplicitous piece of shit since the acquisition. This is not shocking.
Hillary is also a piece of shit, but not one that would immediately alienate 90% of the rest of the planet, and likely plunge us into thermonuclear war within 6 months of taking office.
"Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."; ~ Donald J. Trump
Hillary is an evil candidate, who clearly hates America. While making allegations that Trump is racist, she is busy undermining American freedom and security while covering up her illegal private mail server. Spreading these claims about Trump doesn't change the problems with Hillary, though most liberals will pretend it does.
Let's be honest, for every white police officer who kills a nigger, there are thousands of niggers killing each other and other races. There's a massive outbreak of nigger crime in Charlotte right now, because niggers don't think the police should enforce the laws on them. Meanwhile, you have towelheads entering the country who want to kill us, while Hillary wants to let more in. And then the kikes running the greedy cable companies and other corrupt businesses are quite cozy with Hillary. Let's not forget that she is happy to let chinks in the US to take jobs away from American workers. And then there's the planned policy of letting as many wetbacks as possible stream across the southern border, bringing their crime, drugs, and weapons with them. Hillary is a terrible candidate for all these reasons. The greatest threats to America other than Hillary are the towelheads, niggers, wetbacks, kikes, chinks, and all other types of darkies.
I hate all of those groups because their goal is to undermine America. I know that many of you will label me a racist, but I'm quite certain I'm not racist and I haven't said anything racist in this post. My hate is strong and I'm damned proud of it. In fact, I can feel my hate getting stronger as I talk to you people. Instead of addressing my concerns, all of which are valid and intelligently described, I'll be labeled a racist by liberals, who are incapable of discussing anything in a mature manner.
Let's stop discrediting Trump over bogus allegations and, instead, focus on all of the evil Hillary is carrying out in plain sight of all liberals.
so what? It's his right and I'm all for it. (doesn't mean I "agree" w/ him on everything and that's just dandy) #everythingoutForCmdrTaco
I created a Facebook group where I take memes that are aimed at one candidate and edit them to say that they apply to both candidates. https://m.facebook.com/profile...
We complain about lobbyists... but this is so much worse
I'm curious why you think this is.
We've just had an article about lobbyists that prevent Tesla from selling in Michigan without going through dealerships (which are universally hated), another recent article where lobbyists caused a town to lose it's working gigibit fibre internet.
For contrast, note that the democrats put up a billboard of Trump kissing Cruz, and naked statues of Trump in several cities.
Question 1: Why is this worse than what Democrats do, and
Question 2: Why is this worse than lobbyists who actually screw us over and make our lives miserable?
Really. I honestly want to know. Why should this be of any concern to anyone?
outside of the USA, and if you think there was anti-Americanism before, if Trump is elected, it will be an all-out continuous, and well-deserved shitpost on America.
It's mildly interesting that an apparently technically bright kid can have otherwise no basic common sense, and no common decency about people who aren't white, because let's face it, you pretty much have to be a dumb-ass racist selfish paranoid shit-for-brains to be an ardent Trump supporter.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
I have to wonder if that is mix of "by any means necessary" and "by all means possible." Does the meaning approach asymptotically to, say, a destruction by necessary and sufficient means? Or are we going for an overkill?
"The American Revolution was funded by wealthy individuals,"
Um, yeah.. both sides.
The American Revolution was funded by wealthy individuals
On the one hand, the American Revolution was also lead by philosophers, scientists, judges, generals, etc. These guys had some ideas about how to create a better system than what they inherited.
On the other hand, you have Donald Trump. His philosophical concept of government is that "Only I can fix it" and "All you need to know is that I'll take care of it. Don't worry about." "There's going to be so much winning." etc. Luckey and Thiel should be so proud.
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refusing to believe "NimbleRichMan" was the anonymous "near-billionaire" he claimed to be and causing a rift
I see what you did there.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
Critical thinking is a challenge for some. Clinton is far more likely to plunge us into another war (she's a well known hawk), she's also far more likely to fuck the poor (just look at who's bankrolling her campaign, if you think they're doing this out of the kindness of their hearts, you're beyond naive). The only thing Clinton has going for her is that she's far more likely to die early into her presidency, but then you get Kaine, who, according to her own words from a few years ago, is "a terrible choice".
outside of the USA, and if you think there was anti-Americanism before, if Trump is elected, it will be an all-out continuous, and well-deserved shitpost on America.
Gasp! The Germans are here!
Allooooo Americans! We love you
Welcome back, Americans!!!
If they don't have any REAL evidence: LIE
It's been the Republican MO since Reagan. The man was a lying sack of shit, and some think he's a saint.
Reagan had the CIA be the middle man for Colombian drug lords to fund insurgents in Iran. All the while claiming there's a war on drugs.
There's an adage in psychology, if you tell a lie enough times you believe it's true. Nazi Germany is a perfect example.
as someone else noted. Trump looks a lot like Hitler.
Never liked her much, but I really can't understand the strong negative feelings unless you've been drinking a lot of Palmer's poisonous cool-aid. Exactly what "piece of shit" things has she done? Unless you're saying that all of the professional politicians are similar turds, in which case I basically agree, but that isn't very helpful or constructive and doesn't lead directly to any solution but Shakespeare's.
Hillary is a lawyer, and I don't like much like 'em. Actually, her primary personal identity is probably "corporate lawyer", and I like them even less. I think she has a number of personal identities that I like much better, but on her list "lawyer" is probably the top. In terms of stopping the Donald, the frightening aspect is that "politician" or even "skilled campaigner" don't seem to be in her top 10, even though I'm convinced Bill's #1 is "politician", and it's probably one of Obama's top 3. I would much prefer someone who has "philosopher" or even "statesman" near the top, but that's not how American politics works these years.
It's possible that Hillary will do some great stuff if she's elected, and pretty unlikely she will do anything terrible. In Trump's case, we really have no idea, but clearly some of his ideas are really terrible, and there is strong evidence he is even more easily manipulated than Dubya was. I'm increasingly convinced that the Donald's secret plan for quickly defeating Daesh involves nuclear weapons. Just a few little ones. "Un-liberally", I don't think a highly limited nuclear strike is such a terrible thing in the big picture, though it will certainly qualify as a war crime, but when have American war crimes ever mattered much to the USA? I think the largest risk is actually global warming, and on that topic Trump doesn't know enough to give "a piece of shit".
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
As long as Hillary wants to 'correct the record' Trump gets his online engine too. The DNC's youth (and staying power online) was mostly behind the Bernie campaign. Any attempt by Hillary to 'connect to the youth' has backfired terribly. Most recently in her Between Two Ferns interview.
After some 'incidents' the high schools around here let students know that their first amendment rights didn't go to football games. Some photo of a bunch of teens with a trump banner saluting. It went 'viral' in this region. If I had to guess knowing teens they're Trump because their parents are "Anyone but". A lot of the 4chan, "shit posting" youth of 2016 is behind Trump and it shows on Reddit (Where there's a strong correlation to "Red Pillers"). [And consequently a lot of Bernie teens because their parents are Trumpers].
It's 21st century political satire. If the memes were in the NY Times as a political cartoon it would be ignored.
Why is this social media political story on slashdot? It's close to pure politics, or is it on slashdot, because a subject of this story is a cofounder of Oculus?
I heard once that this is the classic dilemma in politics: do you vote for the knave, or vote for the fool?
The answer: vote for the knave, because the knave is competent. But watch the knave like a hawk.
I'll leave it to the reader to decide which is which in this discussion.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
The headline implies that he's been funding people to write memes. In fact, within an hour of his post showing up on The_Donald (asking for fucking money, lol), everyone shut him down. The quoted part "we did X Y Z" is from the perspective of the subreddit- that's the "we". Nimble America hasn't (to my knowledge) done anything yet... except ask for money.
I really wish Biden had run as the democrat candidate for POTUS but I completely understand his reasons for not doing so. I'll vote for Hillary but not with any great amount of enthusiam. Trump wants to put the US 5.3 trillion deeper in debt knowing he will be long gone before that debt comes due. I'd rather see the US workforce take the necessary hits to become globally competitive now rather than later on while choking on that debt.
Palmer Luckey: "You can't fight the American elite without serious firepower. They will outspend you and destroy you by any and all means."
Gee, with a net worth of $700M, you yourself are in danger of being a member of the elite you profess to despise but secretly long to join.
It must truly suck to be a member of the 'nouveau nouveau riche', when the 'nouveau riche' won't even give you the time of day, let alone take you seriously, and I feel for you - NOT. The fact that you have to resort to shitposting to gain any audience at all probably has nothing to do with the newness of your wealth. I'm sure it has everything to do with the fact that you're an ignorant, whiny, petulant brat who can afford a seat at the 'grownup table' but who can't act or talk like an adult. (Come to think of it, that makes you the PERFECT Trump shill). If you ever grow up to the point where trolling, bitching, and crowing give way to reasoned, thoughtful discourse, (but I'm not holding my breath), then maybe you'll be taken seriously. Until then, STFU - adults are trying to have a conversation, and we don't need mini-Trump butting in when Big Trump is already making rude noises and sticking his tongue out at us.
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
Chelsea Clinton is on the board of directors of their parent company. Go look.
Slashdot, do better. Put a disclaimer in next time.
Are you really that fucking stupid? You so desperately want to punish Hillary that you're willing to toss the nuclear codes to Trump?
I played by the rules, it took me 6 years to get a green card, and another 5 to become a citizen. I'm a skilled immigrant, and I pay six figures in taxes each year, while _not_ being in management, just for my skill, that I have cultivated over the past 20 years with hard work.
Nevertheless I agree with Trump. You can't leave the border wide open. Especially not when you have more and more people in poverty. It's supply and demand, it is not even a question for anyone not blinded by liberal demagoguery that staggering influx of people from Mexico creates oversupply of low-skilled labor and drives down the wages. Same as H1-B (thanks to which I was able to immigrate and naturalize, BTW) creates an oversupply of skilled workers on the lower end of the market, and keeps the wages in check there.
Trump also suggests good things for H1-B as far as I'm concerned: raise the prevailing wage, and abolish restrictions on moving between employers. Currently H1-B is little more than an indentured servitude visa. While moving from one employer to another is allowed, it is fraught with danger and requires filing additional paperwork. If your employer lays off or fires you, you have to GTFO of the country in very short order. This means the employer has near complete control over you, and doesn't really have to pay you more to retain you: you're likely too chickenshit to move and risk losing the visa anyway. All of that shit needs to be nuked from the orbit, with extreme prejudice. Give H1-Bs freedom to change jobs, and give them _at least_ 6 months grace period to find a job if they leave their employer or if they get fired or laid off. That will massively cut down the appetite for H1-Bs. It's not a secret abuse is widespread.
Finally, Trump (with his typical foot-in-mouth eloquence) even suggests rational things for immigration from the middle east. It's IDIOTIC to willingly import military age males from the countries _we're at war with_. At the very least, not without extremely thorough vetting, which we currently don't do. And that's all Trump is suggesting. Stop the flow temporarily, figure out how to vet, open things up in a controlled way. How is this controversial? I don't get it.
Oh the holier than though left
https://youtu.be/0EyoKB3ZHSc
That's the face of progressives, an overly entitled crazy old woman suffering from incontinence and dementia.
If Hillary didn't had completely insane control freaks dictating her to hunt internet memes because they offend em.
But if this keeps going, she will lose because people will think she is too busy fighting twitter to care for the actual problems america faces.
I can only assume by 'this' you mean the HUNDREDS of millions USD of union members uniontax being given to the Dems?
I dont support either side, as I can watch from a long long way away, but really, the Dems complaining about anyone at this point rather than desperately trying to clean up their own back yard is laughable.
Vote Cthulhu! but he is no longer the most evil (in fact, compared to the two clowns running to control the 'most powerful country in the world' he may be the least evil option).
Who really cares, your control was reduced to pure spin some time ago.. Can you not see that?
When posts on /. were intelligent and the users replied with equal intelligence. Now it's no better than comment sections on any other website on the internet.
That's everything you need to know, right there.
Nobody loves their "safe spaces" like the alt-right.
You are welcome on my lawn.
"This funny, and/or inflammatory picture of Hillary Clinton has changed my mind. I was going to vote for HER, but now that I've seen enough of these 'memes,' I've decided to vote for Donald Trump instead..." SAID NO SANE PERSON EVER.
we need no one to get 270 and then we will see some real shit like maybe an Hillary / Pence or an Trump / Kaine.
bernie sanders or ralph nader?
Vote C'thulhu. Why vote for the lesser evil?
How did he get so much time and Hillary get's off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Ok, guys. Lets be honest. Democrats have been spamming propaganda on every form of media at every level 24/7 for over a year now. We know the Democrats have a much larger presence on the net. But this article comes off as so painfully obvious as a shallow attack ad that I don't know how it's even relevant. Do we see anything about Soros or the left wing propaganda machine on slashdot? No? Did you know that both parties pay people to spam memes and FUD on every chan, image board, forum on the net? Do you know that there are actual companies that actually do this? Do you have any idea how much money is being spent on this election propaganda? Sometimes the sheeple mentality on slashdot is embarrassing. No one wants to talk about political bias in our internet media. Instead it's all SJW crap and Trump is durr her herr Hitler!
Let's face it, Clinton has every liberal media outlet and the vast majority of Hollywood doing this for her every day and it's a big deal when we hear of one occurrence of it on the other side?
Wow, good thing everyone on the internet is non-biased huh.. :)
because nothing is more important then helping to elect a small fingered oozing, painful hemorrhoid nazi that belches pus with a hair weave for president.
> My dad hates Obama, and calls him a communist. That is, of course, absurd.
> Calling Trump a Nazi is equally absurd
Both are incorrect, one is utterly cuckoo.
Obama is the leader of the Democrat party this year.
Also this year, Bernie Sanders was a serious contender to succede Obama as head of the Democrats (and the country).
The ideology of the Democrat party, led by Obama, is similar to the ideology of Bernie Sanders.
Bernie Sanders says Bernie Sanders is a Communist, the country's best-known Communist.
Obama might not exactly *be* a communist, but he's on the same team as the leading US Communist.
Further, Obama has written that he made it a point to hang out with Communists and learn from them. He's quoted notable Communists.
Obama may not technically be a Communist, but he likes them, he quotes them, and he leads the party that nearly nominated a Communist president.
On the other side, Hitler killed 12 million people. Trump played reality TV star during a campaign.
One comparison is slightly incorrect. The other is completely insane.
by giving power to Trump. Words fail me.
Quattuor res in hoc mundo sanctae sunt: libri, liberi, libertas et liberalitas.
This is not a game. Slandering either side because you think it will be fun is not cool.
Having millions of dollars means you can afford to buy yourself out of whatever damage either side might actually impose.
But shitposting to sway the election affects a lot of people who can't afford to buy their way out of damage that either side can do.
If you want to spend your money showing why your guy is better for the economy or your girl is better for foreign diplomacy, have at it. The more information people have, the more informed their vote will be.
But junk like "too big to jail" or "wearing a white power tie" is just trash that makes everyone look bad, including you.
Why would you believe it? Because it's in the left-leaning rag the Daily Beast? Lol! https://pics.onsizzle.com/hillary-declares-war-on-pepe-the-frog-embattled-candidate-calls-3849952.png
I didn't get paid anything for that meme :(, see how it works?
Finally all doubt removed: He's a true asshole, the perfect person to be rich, powerful guy!
Not that some of the Occulus stuff left much doubt about the asshole status, but some people still had hope it was just Facebook's influence and he was still fighting for the users...
We all form our own echo chambers. People who think they are interacing with the rest of the world are still only intetacting with people who are interested in interacting with them. On Steam, I interact with a person in the Ukraine and a person in Iraq. Both are quite interested in what game keys I have and haven't expressed the slightest bit of interest in politics, American or otherwise.
Palmer Luckey is just another ignorant dweeb. Wealth doesn't make you wise, or even smart; it just gives you power. I hope Oculus fails, and that Luckey, one *lucky* SOB meets karma real soon!
But really what did the DNC do do Sanders (who was not a Democrat prior to trying to run for President as one)?
They said mean things in private? They stacked the deck for her prior to Bernie running? And you think it is worth fucking-over America (the globe even!) so that she is not "rewarded"?
Early this year, when Bernie raised $60 million and Clinton had raised only $20, the DNC moved $60 million in funds earmarked for local campaigns directly into Clinton's account.
Bernie and Clinton won popular votes by roughly the ratio of their campaign spending, so the extra $60 million made a huge difference.
Bernie had momentum at the time, and would have outspent Clinton 3-to-1 in political ads. The extra advertizing would have very likely won him many of the early state primaries, and would have likely won him the national primary as a result.
Moving the money as they did is almost certainly a violation of federal election law, likely a violation of money-laundering law, and goes completely against any sense of neutrality in the DNC towards candidates. (Additionally, they short-sheeted all the local campaigns, giving republicans an edge in many areas.)
Effectively, they took all the campaign contributions people gave to Bernie and wasted them.
And you think it is worth fucking-over America (the globe even!) so that she is not "rewarded"?
It's worth standing up and saying "no" to corruption.
The people who gave support to Bernie Sanders should not have had their efforts wasted due to cheating.
You're saying this is bad, right? Have ya *heard* of George Soros?
You're fighting against him, too, right?
I had a sucky sig.
HAH. Yes, an online game is totally the best forum for interacting with someone and discussing their politics. I guarantee that Ukranian has an interest in politics, the fact that you didn't ask him doesn't mean anything. I got in an Uber last month with a driver from Ukraine and talked about a bunch of random things. Eventually when I asked him what he thought of Putin, he said "Fuck Putin, and fuck Trump for supporting him!"
Daily at my workplace I "interact" with - in person - a person from Ukraine, 4 more persons from Russia, one from Latvia, two from Germany, two from UK, one from France, four from China, a half dozen from India, two from Japan, one from Jordan, one from Uganda, one from Egypt, one from Israel... ok, it's just getting tiring now, I could name 20 other countries. Sounds like a real echo chamber!
And you know what the weirdest thing is? Almost every one of them thinks Trump is utterly dangerous to the US and the rest of the world and doesn't understand how he got to where he is when there were a half dozen actually qualified Republicans running. Lucky for Trump the whole world doesn't vote on the US president, or he'd lose in an utter landslide.
I have to say, your post was well constructed and cogent, with no insults.
You make good points which are lost within fairly large paragraphs. The reader has to slog through a lot of words and actually parse them out to see your meaning. Consider making your point with short sentences and edit for terseness, I think you'll find that gives your position much more power.
If I came across your post in a different thread I would mod it up. I hope you'll keep posting here, it's rare to find someone who can compose an insightful post.
This is exactly the sort of debate we should be having on this site.
Not a natural born citizen.
Really? Shows what you know about C'thulhu! Not only are his innards literally Hell, being eaten by him is a relief in comparison to experiencing him from the outside!
Brought to you by the campaign to elect C'thulhu. Why vote for the lesser evil? The more you know.
I too work daily with an international crew. And you know what the weirdest thing is? Almost every one of them thinks Trump is utterly dangerous to the US and the rest of the world and doesn't understand how he got to where he is when there were a half dozen actually qualified Republicans running.
Sorry. Guess there's an echo in here today. ;-)
The non-echo part: My Russian colleagues don't seem to like Putin much, either, but they are very cagey about it when it comes to saying so online--even the ones who don't actually live in Russia. They're much less reticent about it in person. Gee, I wonder why.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Reddit's The_Donald has a late night thread where some are talking about this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_D...
"This" being the media trying to spin "NimbleRichMan" as a secret funder. He is not. He just begged for money.
The articles really go through a lot of effort to hide this fact, to give a false impression. One interesting thing: the mod that promoted NimbleAmerica was Milo, lol.
Never underestimate the power of C'thulhu's evilness! Not being a natural born citizen will not stop C'thulhu from claiming the presidency and everyone's souls! Now pray that you will be eaten first!
Brought to you by the C'thulhu candidacy initiative.
Seriously. How many *paid sockpupets* are here? Show of hands?
But cost is relative. The shills and gaymer gators are gonna feel this though. Once again, useful idiot's massive meme magic backfires.
that Slashdot follows this up with a post about all the ill-gotten kike money funneling into the Clinton campaign. That'd be fun. The top donors to the Clinton campaign are filthy, rat-faced kike billionaires - every single one of them, to the man. How about shedding a little light on the JQ, Slashdot? Show us how this tribe of parasites has established a stranglehold on American media, academia, finance; and thus american politics.
Well done. Can't understand why not +5 funny. Great post to shitpost on.
Almost all the money that Luckey/Oculus own came from Facebook, which has been in the news quite a bit for thinking about what they can do to help Trump lose the election. I imagine Zuck won't be very happy that the money he gave Oculus is being (indirectly) spent to go against his aims.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
How about the US stops training operatives in Ukraine to start a rebellion? How about the US doesn't put fucking nuclear missiles within 100 miles of Saint Petersburg, and doesn't push Ukraine (which is right next to Russia's densely populated and at times explosive North Caucasus) into NATO, no doubt to "protect everyone against Iran" by putting missile bases there? How would you like if fucking Putin talks Mexico into hosting Russian nuclear missiles? That's exactly how he perceives US actions in Ukraine. Just because it's not on Clinton News Network doesn't mean it's not going on.
As a US taxpayer, I'm 100% in favor of the US minding its own business, and minding it well. Let Europe, Iran and Israel deal with the Middle East bullshit somehow. It's right next to them, they should figure it out. Fuck the freeloaders.
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Here it's BeauHD who's making shitposts.
Nimble America, didn't the peeps on the Trump subreddit flips tables and scream about how it was suspicious, and that the "endorsement" from Milo Yiannopolis seemed to be completely off, and the mods of dubious legitimacy (as in all but the entire mod team changed overnight) started deleting any and all dissent about it?
Lookup unbiased analysis of what we know of their plans and particularly look at who has been more consistent over time. Like it or not with Hillary you know pretty well what your going to get. Four more years of pretty much the same.
Yes, I know what I would get with Hillary. Four more years of lies, federal overreach, and globalist dismantling of the U.S.
The stock market has almost doubled under Obama.
The stock market is not the same as the economy. The stock market started out low because of the crash in 2008 (possibly caused by George Soro's electioneering attempts). The stock market rose greatly not because of economic strength, but because the Federal Reserve pumped tuns of free money into Wall Street instead of Main Street.
Osama died under Obama (and Hillary).
The military killed Osama, not Obama and Hillary. You are being plainly deceptive making this statement unless you also bring up all the extrajudicial civilian drone deaths.
Jobs are recovering.
The manipulated unemployment numbers are recovering. A better measure would be to look at the labor participation rate. That tells a very different story.
Despite complaints crime, on average, continues to decrease.
The decrease in violent crimes is a trend that started long before Obama. And yet, Democrats take every opportunity to try to take guns away from law-abiding citizens by citing how horrible the crime incidents are.
Even wages are beginning to increase finally.
The government understates inflation by 1.5%-2%. Some experts say much more. Since wages have been growing by less for a number of years under Obama, it means people (other than Wall Street) have been doing much worse under Obama.
Do you really want to give that up? So far all the unbiased analysis of Trump's plan are anything but good, and no, "Make america great again" is not a plan. That is part of the job description.
Why do you assume that anything good would disappear under Trump, or that it would continue under Hillary? Globalists (both Republicans and Democrats) hate Trump because he isn't guaranteed to do their bidding. He has enough money that he can't be easily bought. Hillary has proven time and again that she *can* be bought, just not cheaply.
That might be because Trump is unapologetic in his avocation for prioritizing American interests over those of the world at large - in foreign trade, in overseas military action and in diplomacy. Naturally this will annoy denizens of European nations that've drastically under-spent on their armed forces for decades, preferring to freeload off the guaranteed protection of US/UK forces. Even former defense secretary Robert Gates - who's gotten snippy with Trump's foreign policy statements - himself said that NATO was becoming a "two-tier" alliance of fighters and freeloaders. It's taken repeated and persistent Russian aggression to finally reverse that trend, and it might already be too little, too late. Someone rattling Europe's cage to stimulate defense spending is exactly what they've needed - a little more rattling can only produce more spending.
Some Americans have a strange fascination with the opinions of foreigners on our politics - the American left wing holds them in particularly high regard - for reasons I cannot fathom. Said people often cite said opinions as if they're significant to our internal discourse as American citizens.
When these foreigners pay taxes to the American government, then I'll care about their opinion. Until then, they can take a flying fuck at a rolling donut.
They're used to someone listening in on every kind of conversation that's not strictly face to face. Old habits die hard.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
That might be because Trump is unapologetic in his avocation for prioritizing American interests over those of the world at large - in foreign trade, in overseas military action and in diplomacy.
I, for one, am happy that we are reaching the end of candidates' formative years being the glorious 1950s. When we had the only major economic infrastructure not destroyed by WWII and post-war reconstruction let 80% of men and 30% of women get jobs. Before all that silly civil rights stuff, when the country was less than 8% foreign-born and the census bureau didn't even bother reporting stats on Asian and African descent. McCarthyism, Elvis, and Marylin Monroe.
It's time we let this anachronistic fantasy world die.
This country needs to return to the tax system in the mid 20th century. These rich kids have nothing more to do than use their money to buy elections. The ordinary citizen gets left out and as a result we have all the money going to the Imperial USA interfering in numerous countries, keeping up endless wars, getting blowback from all sorts of actors that we have generated. This kid is something else.
I'm shocked.
They demonize Trump because he wants to reign into their (NY finance, Corporations) megalomaniac plans.
Apple wants to stash more than 100 billion dollars in the banks, cheat paying taxes by building all their hardware in China and then selling the high priced stuff to Americans on credit. God beware they would only have 10 billions in the bank and would employ 20000 American workers !
Hillary has vowed to protect the interests of the 1%, that is why they demonize Trump.
Who is TODAY killing people for the "wrong" religion in cold blood ? Yes, Hillary's friends and donors from Riad and their goons in Syria and Yemen.
But we know it is a typical bankster tactic to be the worst kind of human and then blame exactly that on somebody else. PROFIT RULEZ !
Bush and Obama somehow managed to smooth the crash of 2008/9. But Hillary will make sure the Banksters can realize their endgame, which is the complete and utter destruction of their host nation. They do not even care they can run anywhere else. Russia has already kicked them out, China knows too much about them and the Indians,too.
Vote Trump to protect yourself and the Banksters from their own craziness.
Whoever does not subscribe to your brutal ideology must be a "fascist".
Let me help you...
GOP was given the House to stop Obama policies, like Obamacare for instance, and ended up supporting nearly every single Obama policy and said they need the Senate to stop him.
GOP was given the Senate while saying they would stop his executive actions on illegal immigration, which they chose to fully fund once they had the Senate. This ONE action ended the GOP, anyone tells you different they don't know or are lying. The GOP will not be able to return to what they were.
GOP had, I think, 19 people running, DNC had 3, Libertarians 1, Greens 1. Of those 23 people running for president only ONE said they would stop illegal immigration. It was that single issue that won the GOP the Senate and not one of their candidates had that stance, until well after Trump started winning on it.
When I heard in June 2015 Trump say "I'm going to build a wall along Mexico's border and stop illegal immigration once and for all" I said no one can beat him, he was polling about 14% at the time. Everyone thought I was off my rocker. I don't necessarily think Trump will be a good president, I just knew the backlash the GOP was going to get.
What I want to know, if he can win on a single issue, why none of the other candidate would have a similar stance. Illegal immigration causes a lot of problems in the US, and not a single person in DNC or GOP will do anything to stop it or even slow it down. Both parties hate the middle class / average citizen, and Trump has made that obvious. That is why he is supported by the people and every news story about him is about how horrible he is.
It has nothing to do with foreign policy. He is where he is based on a single issue that 19 people should have had the same view and refused to. I suspect the GOP as we know is done for at this point.
Do you think self-discrediting would help? It would involve a check before a reply, and if a reply will not be seen by the ostensible recipient, then the person (possibly a troll) would get a warning, and if the person insisted on replying anyway, then it would get marked with a prefix like: "Insincere post never seen by ostensible recipient."
I think that should be combine with easier ways to avoid seeing the time-wasting trollage. For example, I want a maturity filter to render young identities invisible. I wish I could see the exact stats for Slashdot, but I think that most sock puppets only live a few days, so a 3-month setting should keep most of them out of my sight.
(Then again, I think the entire moderation system should be simplified and made symmetric with karma.)
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
If you hate women, vote Trump. If you love Citizens' United, vote Trump.
It really is that stark a choice.
As a long time observer and A.C, I can't help but wonder just how many of those paid trolls are posting in Slashdot comments as we speak. Many of the pro-Trump and/or anti-Hillary comments we see here perfectly mirror the false narrative he has been trying to shape.
Money man for what? People have been posting memes on reddit for years, long before this election. It doesn't cost any money to post a silly picture on the internet. This guy didn't / doesn't do jackshit. They call themselves "nimble America" but memes like nimble, centipede, coats, were established a year ago. He is just trying jump on the hype train. Expect to see some merchandise or or PAC get spun out of this.
I hate Trump... but I love my Oculus Rift. Although initially bothered, this is just like the whole situation with Chick-Fil-A, private citizens doing their own thing is fine by me so long as their product are worth consuming.
Palmer, I don't care who you support. Keep doing what you're doing.
Here is a link to the live post, not the archived one. There was a huge backlash in the community because of this post, ultimately resulting in the resignation of several mods. You can clearly see that NimbleRichMan whose account has since been deleted is not funding anything. They are on their own.
Therefore, since no attempt at electing politicians who would do what the people wanted has worked, the decision was taken to elect someone who will just fuck things up royally. Trolling the oligarchy, as it were.
That's it in a nutshell.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
Yes, an online game is totally the best forum for interacting with someone and discussing their politics.
It's better than Slashdot.
Besides being a flashy Facebook meme thing, this is just another wunderkind riding a dotcom bubble. In 10 years he'll start an electric car business, because he's proven to be good at suckering people.
Instead of trying to coherently present his plan for America, should he become President, Trump seems to think that running down the opposition is the way to win. He's his own worst enemy. Every time he opens his mouth, he offends another voter bloc. Let's just hope he doesn't get the chance to run the country into the ground.
Lobbying and "this" are both about citizens exercising their First Amendment rights. Deal with it.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
faceless electors can really mess stuff up.
They're both fucking idiots... why not have some fun and fund two opposing Meme Machines? You could literally become the Shitpost King
"They will outspend you and destroy you by any and all means." You know, anyone who couches their political speech in violent metaphors like this is probably no friend of mine. Who is he talking about here? Who is he going to destroy? My family, my neighbors, people who think like me or vote like me?
I don't want to destroy anybody.
His opponents are all about violence. They openly advocate it. Trump's rally in Chicago had to be cancelled, because of the threats of violence. A US President better be ready to respond to violent threats with overwhelming violence of our own. The era of apologizing and paying off the little bullies is over.
Now, has Donald Trump used violence in personal matters? Evidently not...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Glad to see Slashdot is a part of Correct-The-Record. How much did you get paid to front-page this shill post?
I've been doing it for free.
Dark Reflection
What the wast majority are is being uninformed. I.e. Uneducated.
Fortunately, Trump and his cohorts are providing so much education he is going to make McCain's 2008 numbers look like a distant impossible dream.
He has successfully and completely alienated and keeps alienating over a quarter of US population.
And that's not even counting the expected 40-50% that either party gets anyway.
Hell... he may make both Bush and Dole numbers against that other Clinton look like an impossible dream.
He might create a landslide for Hillary likes of which hasn't been seen since Nixon obliterated McGovern.
All the while making idiots come out of their holes to explain to the entire internet just how big idiots they are.
Mostly by being racist and by aligning themselves with racists.
Which is something I'm sure their grandkids will appreciate.
What with being related to a known racists being SO popular even know, let alone in a future world which will be far less white than this one.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
These pigfuckers will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
""shitposting is powerful and meme magic is real"
No, it's not. The vast, vast majority of people won't even see your "shitposting" or memes, and of those that do, virtually none will be swayed by them.
Do you really think that people change sides or form their political opinions because of memes or shitposts? If you do, get your head examined.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
"shitposting" (wow, that's objective) and spreading, "inflammatory memes"? Oh noes! Someone sounds butthurt. It's not like Democrats haven't done this for ages, basically having the majority of college age youth on their side.
Ideally, neither party would do it, but neither one is going to quit while the other one does it. They lecture about how dangerous Trump is, or would be, but any self-justified fascist calling for censorship is far more dangerous.
Look back up at my post, now look back down, you're on the Internet. Now look back up. I'm a signature.
This is insane, please don't compare Trump to Hitler.
Hitler never EVER had a 40% chance of gaining control of a world-ending nuclear arsenal within the year
OMG! You mean most political memes spreading on social media is produced by well funded political action committees working with advertising firms to create astroturf? Noooooooooooooo!
There are hundreds of techie Hillary backers including the largest tech organizations on the planet.. such as Google and Facebook... One guy supports Trump and you make it seem there is something nefarious going on... Slashdot == biased;
5 out of 6 people enjoy Russian Roulette & 6 out of 7 Dwarfs are not Happy
If Trump wins it will be confirmation that democracy is failing in the English speaking world.
To use the ever popular car analogy and to refer to that old misquote about educated citizenry and democracy...
What you are seeing is not a failure of a car as a means of transport - it's the driver who doesn't know how to read signs and signals and who is trying to drive along the wrong side of the road, while his passengers are asleep.
I.e. Democracy is fine.
It's just that for it to work for the benefit of all, people need to vote, need to understand the political process (which is not about your side winning - it's about everyone winning) - and need to have a better (as in more accurate) informed understanding of the world in general.
And Brexit is a fantastic example of exactly that.
NOT a failure of democracy, but a failure of the public to properly inform themselves.
It's not the stars dear Brutus - it's that you are an uneducated idiot who reads horoscopes and celebrity gossip instead of the political section.
Fortunately, in this case Trump has been doing YUGE amounts of educating the populace just how YUGELY incompetent, racist, stupid, lying, cowardly, did I say incompetent? etc. he really is.
And unlike with Brexit, not only is it very clear TO EVERYONE that this will be a really real McRealFace vote - he is also actively campaigning against about 28% of US population.
And that's not counting the Asians. But there's still time for him to propose a wall to keep the Chinese away.
There's even a bonus of all those racists crawling up from their lairs outside in the sun for everyone to see them for what they really are.
And you know how they say... Build a hundred bridges, but fuck ONE goat...
All this education he's providing is not going away.
Tree of liberty might grow from blood, but its roots grow much deeper when certain "radical thinkers" decide to start taking a dump on it.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Another self-serving, better-than-thou, Ayn Rand-whorshiping little homo with money.
"They will outspend you and destroy you by any and all means.'"
says the man with a large bankroll and no sense of irony.
Love this word.
Indeed many western nations under spend on defense but at the same time it's absolutely clear that the US drastically overspend. That military industrial complex dictates "normal". The US military budget has nothing to do with the needs of others.
Several lists available...just listing a couple,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditure_per_capita
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures
Incidentally, there is only so far you can go when ignoring "foreigners", your current trading partners.
I've not seen an anti-hillary meme on facebook. ever.
I'm proposing only that Clinton is a horrid person to vote for, that many seem to be supporting only because she is a Democrat and a woman, otherwise they would demand vociferously and at length that she be jailed (were she a Republican).
That said Gary Johnson is an excellent choice to vote for if for either Democrat or Republican that does not like their own candidate. Or there's always the green party, but that's just silly (apologies to you Green supporters, but that's how I see it this year).
I vote for Johnson is not a vote for Trump or a vote for Clinton. It is a vote for sanity. The government you get depends on what you vote for, if you keep voting for less and less sane choices do not expect a sane ruling class to magically materialize.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Yeah, that's the sad part. People surround themselves with people that superficially seem diverse, but they are going to be more representative of the people in the group than they are the places they are from.
Most of the people who moved here from places such as Russia and ex-soviet countries are the ones who wanted to leave in the first place. Of course they are going to be the first ones to wave the US flag and tell you how much they love America.
Guess what, 140 million people stayed in Russia and many of them are quite happy living there.
At one point there was an exodus of brilliant Russian and Soviet Bloc minds to the West, primarily during and right after the Soviet years. But that is not the case anymore. US companies are no longer able to poach intellectuals from Russia and Eastern Europe because those individuals have realized that they now have opportunities that are just as good if not better right at home. The only people who still come here from Europe and Russia are generally unskilled and uneducated believers in the old American Dream. Same as any immigrant from Mexico or the Middle East who will kiss your butt and tell you what you want to hear.
Hahahahaha! Funniest thing I've read in weeks.
You understand the Washington Times is not real journalism, and not owned for the purposes of real journalism, right?
It's owned by the Moonies, and it's as close to being the GOP's pet newspaper as Fox is to being the GOP's pet channel.
Find yourself another source.
Captcha: 'fallible'. ISYN.
No coincidence this is posted exactly the same time the New York Times puts up an article about Hillary's "Outrage Machine":
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09...
Slashdot needs to kick out editors with agendas.
The LIbertarians had at least four people running. They only put one on the ballot, because Libertarians do not believe the government should be a part of ANY political party's election. Libertarians don't have any problem with political parties putting their own candidate (singular) on the ballot, what they oppose is the Government sponsoring party politics via the "primary" process.
Can you give me one good reason why the government should sponsor (private) party elections?
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Rightist: "I have every RIGHT to be a complete asshole and have my private police force shoot you if you disagree."
Advanced Rightist: "Oh and that will make things better for everyone, as something something (the blood?) trickles down."
The problem with that as a political philosophy is that it's the default configuration of caveman human nature, implemented by bullies for millenia, if you substitute clubs for guns.
Other political philosophies are evolved social memes attempting to have a slight counterweight to that brutal individualist/autocratic default.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
I could give 2 shits about Facebook or Oculus, but this is amazing.
I was reading your posts with interest, until you claimed that the American ambassador somehow had the power to orchestrate a false impeachment of President Rousseff. That's just batshit paranoid.
On to someone with a little credibility.
If you dislike murder, as I do, you should examine this list of 33 suspicious deaths.
Are you suggesting that the views of an ex-US Defense Secretary are unbiased? NATO has been irrelevant, apart from the expense, since 1989.
Said the guy that didn't pay taxes ever...
When you stop electing retarded morons and corrupt criminals that mess with my economy and the rest of the world. perhaps I can stop bothering about US politics.
P.S you are free collect your tin soldiers at your convenience we don't need them around here
Now enjoy the day you bible thumping, killing things or whatever you do around the barn
outside of the USA, and if you think there was anti-Americanism before, if Trump is elected, we will finally cease giving a shit about what other countries think.
That might be because Trump is unapologetic in his avocation for prioritizing American interests over those of the world at large
What absolute bulltshit. Trump is saying what his base wants. Almost every one of his "opinions" is the polar opposite of what it was 10 years ago.
It's already known many of his creditors are international (including Russian) since most American banks have learned their lesson a while ago. A guy who kisses Putin's ass while putting down powerless refugees and immigrants is not prioritizing American interests, he's prioritizing his OWN INTERESTS.
No, really, it's not. Read this thread. While I don't agree with all of the posts, they are certainly better than a 13 year old yelling "U PNWED MF!"
Exactly my point. There's a lot of pretentious grandstanding here. Not a lot of communication. Game playing gets away from that.
We were not discussing getting AWAY from politics, but discussing IT intelligently. To be honest /. is in the 90th percentile in that compared to most other social media sites.
If you want to get AWAY from that, I totally agree to play a game, have fun, and stay off the big boy discussions. Two different things.
We were not discussing getting AWAY from politics, but discussing IT intelligently. To be honest /. is in the 90th percentile in that compared to most other social media sites.
Sure, we were, Mr. "I listen to people who just so happen to agree with me". Out of curiosity, how many of those knowledgeable, international, coworking groupthinkers you like to brag about thought Obama was hot stuff in 2008 and not so hot today? There's a problem with listening to ignorant political opinion even when it's sincere. Maybe you could figure out what that problem is.
Also, we don't have the social status thing going on in game play which you do have in an office setting. What's going to happen to the sap who professes that Trump may not be entirely utter crap? How much respect is that coworker going to get from you or the rest of your office?
My view is that listening to the opinion of people who don't understand US politics and who don't share the interests of US citizens, is pretty iffy. When you throw in a groupthink situation like an office or online echo chamber, then it's pointless to try to get relevant opinion.
Obama was hot stuff in 2008 and not so hot today
Seriously, what is your financial situation today vs 2008? I'm really interested in the details here. I'll provide mine in the same way Trump WILL NOT. Provide details of how you were so oppressed over the last 8 years or shut the fuck up.
In 2008 my gross income was maybe ~130K. Last year it was 450K+. What possible fucking reason do I have to regret the last 8 years? I should love Trump's positions, but I have the extra personal burden of social MORALITY. Gotta admit, Obama was a reasonably socially liberal and pitifully financially conservative President. Based on his own statements Trump would be a horribly socially AND financially REGRESSIVE President.
I probably could have dropped the mike there, but can't... I realize I have been extremely fortunate compared to the average in the last 8 years (I am not in the 1%, but definitely the 2-3%) and have donated significantly to various charities. Have you? We know Trump hasn't, outside of his charity that paid for various lawsuits...
Seriously, what is your financial situation today vs 2008? I'm really interested in the details here. I'll provide mine in the same way Trump WILL NOT. Provide details of how you were so oppressed over the last 8 years or shut the fuck up.
Gotcha, didn't I? But to answer your question. Worse off than if Obama wasn't "helping". Weaker job market and higher health insurance costs. But sure, I'm doing better than I was in 2008. But I could be doing better.
In 2008 my gross income was maybe ~130K. Last year it was 450K+. What possible fucking reason do I have to regret the last 8 years? I should love Trump's positions, but I have the extra personal burden of social MORALITY. Gotta admit, Obama was a reasonably socially liberal and pitifully financially conservative President. Based on his own statements Trump would be a horribly socially AND financially REGRESSIVE President.
Ah, the awesome burdens of the virtue signaler. Well, if you ever learn what "social MORALITY" is, you please let us too!
As to your money, do whatever you like with it as long as it doesn't hurt anyone. Donate it, hoard it, buy a shiny boat, same difference to me. I have yet to care. But what exactly did Obama do to get that money for you?
I probably could have dropped the mike there, but can't... I realize I have been extremely fortunate compared to the average in the last 8 years (I am not in the 1%, but definitely the 2-3%) and have donated significantly to various charities. Have you? We know Trump hasn't, outside of his charity that paid for various lawsuits...
Can't say I'm in the top 2-3%. And I'm not playing the charity game. I loathe this sort of grandstanding as I've indicated before.
I notice here that you are heavily implying that any economic progress, no matter how painfully slow is only due to Obama helping it along. This sort of reasoning ignores that the US could have done absolutely nothing about the latest recession and still see an economic recovery by now. I think it'd be better than present due to an absence of "help" from a certain president, but opportunity cost is invisible.
You can't be pro hillary without being anti trump and vice versa you can't be anti hillary and not being pro trump. The way the election are in the US, if you are anti-one you are automatically supporting the other. All you can do, is see which one you think is worst for the US, and vote for the other, thus supporting him/her. The only other solution is abstaining, which unfortunately nobody look at.
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What absolute bulltshit. Trump is saying what his base wants. Almost every one of his "opinions" is the polar opposite of what it was 10 years ago.
Funny coincidence - I remember when conservatives were the ones seeing wicked Russians behind every lamp and underneath every sofa cushion, and Democrats were the ones tut-tutting and saying "Red scare!" Oh, how times have changed.
outside of the USA, and if you think there was anti-Americanism before, if Trump is elected, it will be an all-out continuous, and well-deserved shitpost on America.
Gasp! The Germans are here!
Allooooo Americans! We love you
Welcome back, Americans!!!
Canadian Immigration is gearing up for new refugees. Americans mostly. Comparison with USA. No Trump, No guns, Medicare, Low low cost education, safety living, happy living, prosperous living, and divorce rates below 54 percent.
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A virtual reality zillionaire backs a candidate who resembles max headroom for voters who live in a fantasy bubble of their own reality.
Star Trek transporters are just 3d printers.
Praise Kek
Meme magic is real
Hilary needs to embrace the pepe not associate them with white supremacy, but she's using logic instead of emotion so she won't actually do what will help her win these young votes.
No guns?
Canada has twice as many guns per capita than America,
I know when I want serious political discourse I go to Steam to chat with other 13 year olds. Really?
Daily at my workplace I "interact" with - in person - a person from Ukraine, 4 more persons from Russia, one from Latvia, two from Germany, two from UK, one from France, four from China, a half dozen from India, two from Japan, one from Jordan, one from Uganda, one from Egypt, one from Israel... ok, it's just getting tiring now, I could name 20 other countries. Sounds like a real echo chamber!
Same here. Being in IT it's a regular United Nations, mostly Asians (Japan, Korea, China, Vietnam, Thai, Malaysian, Sri Lankan, Indian, Armenian, Ukraine, Russia Iran etc... It is universal disgust for Trump across the board. No-one is Hillary "supporter" either, but the general impression is that she is just another politician, so at least will know how to handle the role, more of the same etc. Trump really has the potential to burn the place to the ground. That is the risk potential on offer here.
Some Americans have a strange fascination with the opinions of foreigners on our politics - the American left wing holds them in particularly high regard - for reasons I cannot fathom.
Um, because peace requires that we get along with our neighbours, and peace is good for business. It's not too hard if you use a brain cell or two...
If this guy stopped, would anyone notice? It seems the Democrats are shooting themselves in the foot these days. If it weren't for mainstream media spinning for them, Hillary's campaign would be in tatters.
...secretly, apparently!