You don't see the flaw in forgetting that most of the fortune 500 companies are multinational ? They may have been founded in the US but they are decidedly not American companies - they haven't been for decades.
You havent been paying attention. The means of avoiding taxes is the means of hiding transactions. As a simple matter of course most of the money involved in these leaks are dirty money because slave traders, gun runners, warlords and cartel bosses have more need for this than anybody else. There have aready been some heads of state linked to transactions with such people through this leak but even where that isnt shown these wealthy and powerful elites knew this. In the case of politicians instead of following their oaths to uphold the law and reporting a massive global money laundering scheme - they used it themselves to avoid paying the same taxes they claim from us and allowed their wealthy friends to fo the same. Its a fundamental corruption of the highest order that was used to cover up and profit from extreme atrocties. The global profit from violent crime is higher than the top 50 fortune 500 companies combined. How do you think all that money: a substantial portion of global GDP can be laundered ? Its literally a mathematical impossibility. Unless tge majority of fortune 500 listed profits is tge *same* money. Welcome to the real world of the super rich. The only path to billionairehoid is through a lake of blood.
The problem is not your silly feelings. Its that cops who are not nice have a tendency to leave a trail of corpses in their wake. You cant get a fair trial if you do not survive the unjust arrest.
Except of course that nett US/Mexican migration has been negative for years. More people are moving from the US to Mexico than the other way around. The number of US factories in Mexico now is probably a major reason for that. After all : if you can get a better job close to your family migrant work loses all appeal.
The vast majority of universal healthcare countries has private doctors as well, they exist specifically to cater to the edge cases where universal health care is less effective. But those are the edge cases. Taking your thinking to it's logical conclusion it is perfectly okay to let millions die from no care, in order to ensure to avoid anybody having a waiting list.
Of course universal health care is not perfect, there are no panaceas. But it's outcomes is provably and by the numbers and consistently far better than private healthcare as a main system. It's also true that conservative politicians in Britain have tried to dismantle and privatize much of the healthcare system - something even Thatcher would not have dared. She was right too - it's led to the biggest political backlash the Brits have seen in decades. It was a major factor in why Jeremy Corbyn won the labour leadership contest. The conservatives have dug themselves into a hole with these policies that will make winning the next election require an act of god. Seems those patients and doctors (who also happen to be voters) like the NHS rather more than you credit them with. Truth is people like to complain, they will always have complaints - just because some British people complain doesn't mean anything - everybody complains. What you have to look at is the numbers. There isn't a single number where universal healthcare doesn't beat out private. It costs less. More people can get care - and they can get it when they need it most (which, by definition, is when they are least able to pay for it because generally very ill people cannot work). Child mortality rates are lower. Lifespans are longer and quality of life is higher. Important medical decisions are not politicized as readily - this may seem counterintuitive but it's not, for the same reason universal income grants are more free than welfare - if you don't have qualification requirements for something, you don't need bureaucracies to do the qualifying tests. If you don't have a bureaucracy, you can't abuse it.
Historically, Trump's ideas were actually far more common in the 1800s than now. Right now, he has about a third of the republican vote and he doesn't seem likely to get much more than that (which is good news in the general) in the 1800s people like him rule at least the Southern half of the USA pretty consistently.
He proposed putting American Muslims: law abiding citizens in detention camps.
How did you miss that ?
Ethno nationalism is evil. Opposition to immigration is ethno nationalism. It is all the same evil. The only difference between the the places where it leads to atrocity and the ones where it does not is the presence of strong opposition politicians who moderate the effects. Right now America has that. But throughout the 1920s so did Germany. Hitler gained the presidency with a fully obstructionist governmentbecause he was way too overt in his ethno nationalism. Exactly the scenario Trump would face. Hitler responded by killing all the opposition politicians. One fell swoop known as Kristallnacht in which he murdered every politician in Germany wh opposed his ethnonationalism. In a day Germany went from a liberal democracy like America into a brutal dictatorship. Trump already hinted that he could do that. He told us he could personally murder somebody on 5th avenue and not lose votes. Hitler had less devotion than that in 1930 ! He did not dare pull the trigger himself. He still had others kill his enemies. But even if Trump was not Hitler... he would still be Rhodes and Verwoerd. Take it from somebody who has personally lived through the effects of an ethno nationalist government without strong opposition. Great atrocities are guaranteed and they will happen in secret. It cannot happen otherwise because its physically impissible to pursue ethnonationakist outcomes without committing atrocities. It cannot be done (which is why the idea is evil - because its physically imposible to pursue any semblence of it without atrocity).
The reason the law is not "enforced" is because it cannot be. There is no way to do so without genocidal acts. I know you dont believe that but I have seen it with my own eyes. It cannot be done. Any politician who actually tries to will find that out. But it will happen bit by bit. Little evils tolerated in the name of what is considered a noble end. And then it escalates. Little evils rapidly become big evils.
Only those entirely ignorant of history could fail to see that never has any other outcome occurred and only those who ignorant of math can fail to sed that it is because that putcome is inevitible. As recently as 2007 people saying that same thing "enforce immigration law" took one small step and began enforcing it themselves here. Survivors of appartheid slaughtered hundreds of immigrants in a week. Most of whom were not illegal. The oppressed became the oppressor.
Ethno-nationalism can only ever lead to that and nobody, not even and perhaps not especially, its former victims are immune.
>How is his entire platform racism, exclusion and "NEO-NAZI HATRED"?
He has made numerous denigrating remarks over entire groups of people. That is racism, exclusion and neo-nazi hatred - it's how it *always* sounds *before* they get into power. They always tone down to *exactly* his level while trying to gain power. Consider where some pretty racist republicans are in what they say... and they already HAVE power. Now consider what Trump is saying BEFORE he has it. This is what he is saying when he still hasn't won an election - when he still needs to tone it down. And read the speeches that Verwoerd, Hitler or even Milosovich gave when they were NOT yet in power - it's exactly the same.
>Where has he specifically stated that one race is superior to the other? Nobody ever SAYS that. Hell the appartheid government ruled for 50 years oppressing all but one race without *ever* actually, specifically stating that ! Instead they said "different races cannot live in peace unless they are kept separate. They are just too different". Hell the entire lifetime of apparthied we were told we were supporting seperate-but-equal and defending the right of black people to self-governance ! You can't look for explicitely said - you have to look for what people who used those same guarded terms actually DID. The ones who explicitely say the stuff are not a problem - they hardly ever get into power. It's the ones who say stuff that sounds nice, but nevertheless exagerates differences - they are the ones who actually DO horrible things because they get the MEANS to do them.
>Where has he proposed Nazi ideals? He proposed a ban on Muslim immigration. Religious tests for imigration was one of the very first policies the NAZIs promoted as well. Right there is your first one. He has subtly blamed an entire ethno-religous group for the actions of a few assholes who *claim* to be members of it (and are disavowed by everybody else) - that's NAZI 101 right there. For Hitler it was "Jews control the banks" - and though many banks were owned by Jewish families, they were a tiny minority of Jews - and all of them were Sephardic while German Jews were Ashkanazi, they had nothing in common. But the fear achieved it's goals anyway. Replace "Jew" with "Muslim" and "Bankers" with "Terrorists" and you got Trump. He has even ALREADY proposed putting Muslims in holding camps. That's exactly what Hitler called them.
>Calls for extermination? Really? Where? Again, Hitler never did that either. Not once. He called for EMIGRATION. The final solution was kept secret from pretty much the entire civilian population even while it was happening. What he actually said was "prevent imigration", "forced emigration" and other "acceptable" ways to achieve cultural and racial purity. Just like Trump.
>All he has called for is enforcement of the law and to ensure that we are not allowing people that intend to harm us in this country. Aawww you are so naive. Besides which - he is trying to be a politician. His job is NOT enforcement of the law, it's to propose BETTER laws.
> it shows how crazy the people that violently oppose him are. Excuse me ? Where have the opposition been violent ? If anything there's been way too much appeasement. Hell even protesters at his rallys have by and large been victims of violence, not perpetrators.
>He is nothing like Hitler and it is hilarious that people would compare the two of them. Actually - the entire basis on which that claim is made has shown that you KNOW nothing about Hitler. You don't see that they are identical - simply because you are looking for the post-war Hitler caricature that you heard about in school - and know nothing of the actual man, how he actually got elected, what his speeches actually SAID and how he went about achieving his nefarious ends. The single most enlightening source you can find on who Hitler was is actually Hermann Goring, specifically his defense at Nuremberg. Even there - when the death camps had been found, the bodies dug up - he maintained the lie that Hitler told the people all along: "I had no knowledge of this, ours was a policy of emigration not extermination". What is Trump's key issue again ?
>Advocating for a valid political candidate is not a death threat and/or hate speech, no matter how many jimmies are rustled.
When the candidate's entire platform is racism, exclusion and neo-nazi hatred - yes, yes it is.
>Perhaps the people that think that should listen to what he has actually said, rather than what other people claim he has said.
What he actually said is more than bad enough. I've heard those speeches a few times before. They are the same speeches Hitler was making in the 1920s (before he had the absolute power to dare to say everything), the same speeches the appartheid leaders made (and since I lived through that I speak from experience - those speeches were on my TV every night for most of my youth). They are hate speech only vaguely disguised, calls for extermination wrapped up in a thin veneer of acceptability. I've heard him before. There are always men like him, and it always behooves all good people to stand up to them.
Where in the US ? Since apparently in Texas it's now considered appropriate to walk into an Arby's with an AR15 slung across your shoulder. Of course if a white person does it, it's his second amendment right. If anybody else did that... he would be shot for being a clear and present danger. The fact is that the US has one of the highest gun-death rates in the world and every country that has a higher one is either a third-world hell-hole or in the middle of a war.
And I would say I am the opposite of a coward. Cowards own guns. Brave men feel no need nor desire for them. It takes a special kind of cowardice to only feel safe in the presence of the means to kill.
The only reason the VA fails is because it's NOT universal. Universal healthcare works fantastically everywhere in the world - but it needs to be universal. You can't do it small-scale like the VA is done, that does not work. It's simple economics of scale.
The entire rest of the world manages to have better health-care than the USA and to do it cheaper, yet you take an example that is NOT an example of the same thing and show problems with that as if that is stronger evidence than all the rest ?
Even so - the current state has not gotten rid of health insurance, it's merely regulated the worst abuses out of the system.
And sorry but to describe health insurance as profiting from human misery is not hyperbole, it's literally their business model.
If the best thing you can say about health insurance is "hey it gives us a kind of collective bargaining" - there are many, better, ways to get that and you find them in all sorts of industries.
But here is the thing - one bad story is one too many because we're talking life and death matters here. There isn't room for two stories. If your experience was the only experience, it would be a working system - but the moment there is anybody with an experience like mine that is already a failure of the *entire* system. As it happens - I'm not the exceptional story, you are. Stories like yours are the rare ones.
Thats exactly what they said of Hitler actually. And if you thin they are so different you have not heard Trump's speeches or not heard Hitler's speeches. They are not similar. They are identical.. Trump could be using translations of mein kampf as source material and it would sound the same. I live in the one country where the nazi ideology survived world war 2. It became appartheid. The very first organised protests against it were led by a man called Seaman Malan. Formerly the deadliest fighter pilot in the R.A.F. The allies answer to the red baron. Horified to see the ideology he had fought so hard to defeat become official policy in his homeland. War hero Malan was stripped of his honors for opposing appartheid and buried without so much as an acknowledgement from the air force. And you know who else sounded exactly like Trump ? H.F. Verwoerd. The architect of appartheid. The man Malan protested against. The only nazi who got to implement the policies of the party without the distraction of war.
Will Trump give you a holocaust ? Maybe not. But he will for damn sure give you appartheid. Likewise a crime against humanity. My people went from noble freedom loving farmers to the committers of one if the 20th centurys gravest atrocities in the space of a generation. Partly enabled by having been the victims of one 50 years earlier. I would argue the same thing is happening in Israel today. Do not underestimate the power of ethno-nationalistic demagogues. Germany also had checks and ballances. Hitler found one obscure loophole and turned a meaningless ceremonial position into absolute power in a single day. Verwoerd won the popular vote from a frightened and impoverished citizenry still recovering after surviving the 20th centurys first genocide courtesey Alfred Milner, Kitchener and Cecil Rhodes three names as ignominois as Hitler, Himmler and Goebels.
From the battered survivors of the first concentration camps to disguised NAZIs in the 45 years. We could not rid ourselves of that scourge until 1989 and even then it was only because the Berlin wall fell. When the cold war ended and we were no longer useful to the west we got sanctioned into economic collapse and were forced to change.
Don't tell me I am exagerating. I was fucking there. I listened to P.W. Botha's speeches. I saw the injustices committed in my name when they were revealed later. Almost every adult I knew fought in the army. I have seen where speeches like Trump leads with my own eyes. You underestimate the power of extreme views by a skilled demagogue. I do not. My people suffered under one and committed another.
Aaah yes of course... because "tell the truth about what you sell" is such a burdensome regulation that absolutely no small company could ever manage to survive complying with it.
Give me a break, hell the FCC even gave them a frickin template ready to use - they've made it ridiculously cheap and easy to comply with this. This is pure hassle for big corporate ISPs who have no desire to have to be honest with customers, it will have less than zero effect on small ISPs who have had to rely on "having a better product" all along and who will only benefit from the big boys being forced to be honest about how inferior their products are.
And the amount of Americans like you - is why I will never live in that country. Seriously - I've had more job offers from there than I can remember and I turned them all down because your country is filled with gun nuts with tiny penisses (the tiny penis can be with absolute accuracy determined from the love of guns).
Man I wish I could get a job offer from Denmark... I would LOVE to live in Denmark.
> I'd rather deal with the preexisting condition clauses rather than allowing the federal government to dictate health insurance.
And that's the exact reason individualism isn't the way to solve all problems because you utterly failed to consider anything but your own experience.
So, I graduate college, I'm now off my parents health insurance and looking for work. Right now I can't afford to get my own coverage.... I get cancer. But I get a job - my employer gives coverage, my life is saved... oops "pre-existing condition - go directly to death, do not pass go, do no collect 200 dollars"
That happened to a very large number of people.
And that's not counting the thousands, perhaps millions, who had insurance but were killed when they needed a significant medical procedure and suddenly the health insurance company found a billion reasons not to pay. Of course, they have ALL the power there. Sure you could try sue them for breach of contract. You could try take them to court... you may even win... except you have 3 months to live without that operation and all they have to do is wait. They did this many times to many people. Hell we've had former health insurance claims investigators testify to that effect before congress a decade ago. And guess what the first thing is they looked for when trying to find a reason not to pay for your life-saving operation ? Any pre-existing condition that wasn't remembered or reported. You got a prescription for vagisil when you were 12 and didn't fill it in on the form ? You're fucked pal.
Sorry, the system as it was was untenable because health insurance companies are some of the most evil corporations to ever exist, they literally exist for the sole purpose of profiting from human misery. Their profits utterly and entirely depend on letting you die, so they will do it whenever they can somehow manage to get away with it.
I speak from some personal experience. When my daughter was 14-months old, she accidentally breathed in a peanut. It's the kind of thing that happens with babies sometimes, but she needed an endoscope to remove it. We were good parents, we realized something was wrong within hours, it was caught and removed less than a day after the incident. Which prevented complications, inflamation or infection being an issue.
Then the health insurance company refused to pay for the operation. For months it was back and forth with one piece of bullshit after another. Eventually... I was forced to give up - and I paid the hospital by taking out a crapload of credit card debt (like so many have had to do before). I was lucky, she arrived at the hospital in the early hours of the morning when pre-approval is not usually sought... if it had happened a few hours earlier in the day... chances are my little girl would be just another person killed by a health insurance company.
There is nothing you can say that will make me not hate them all and want them so fucking regulated that they can't breath. If it puts them all out of business - good, then we can get universal health care like civilized countries.
Seriously - there's a reason terrorists don't bomb health insurance companies... it would be like the Aryan Brotherhood bombing the KKK headquarters.
Oh the far right's claim is pure politics - it's an attempt to not look like they hate woman and distance themselves from the countries where abortion is a crime and the consequences we see there (like women getting the death penalty for having a miscarriage).
By saying "we don't want to punish the women, they are victims" they are utterly lying about their beliefs and motives, but it's a tactical lie - intended to make an oppressive idea seem more palatable. In reality - the mere unavailability of this healthcare option is, already, punishment, if that could even be achieved (nothing suggests it could - abortion rates are actually slightly *higher* where abortions are banned unfortunately the rate of deaths and injuries during abortions is much higher).
Trump's great sin (and the what got the far right calling him on this one) was admitting the truth about this, perhaps the only time in his entire campaign he actually spoke the truth and he fucks up by speaking a truth the people he was speaking to don't want to admit.
>No issue of context makes his repeated claims about 1000s celebrating in New Jersey on 9/11 any less false
I think I figured that one out, it may be his one honest mistake. He really did see a video, only it wasn't Muslims who were cheering. It was just a bunch of teenagers from Trenton happy to see those snotty New Yorkers get taken down a peg.
No, it's not, Obama and Bernie are both populists (even if their messages were different) - but Trump is something more dangerous than that. Trump is a demagogue: a populist who incites anger and hatred.
Demagogues tend to leave great destruction in their wake.
Plenty of people have left countries because the wrong person got elected before. The world was overrun with people emigrating out of a certain European country when that country elected a guy who sounded a *lot* like Trump. One of them desperately tried to get refugee status in the US, she was denied and would later be murdered while hiding in the netherlands from the hit-squads that, that Trump-like leader was sending after her. You may have heard of her, her name was Anne Frank.
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You don't see the flaw in forgetting that most of the fortune 500 companies are multinational ? They may have been founded in the US but they are decidedly not American companies - they haven't been for decades.
You havent been paying attention. The means of avoiding taxes is the means of hiding transactions. As a simple matter of course most of the money involved in these leaks are dirty money because slave traders, gun runners, warlords and cartel bosses have more need for this than anybody else. There have aready been some heads of state linked to transactions with such people through this leak but even where that isnt shown these wealthy and powerful elites knew this. In the case of politicians instead of following their oaths to uphold the law and reporting a massive global money laundering scheme - they used it themselves to avoid paying the same taxes they claim from us and allowed their wealthy friends to fo the same. Its a fundamental corruption of the highest order that was used to cover up and profit from extreme atrocties. The global profit from violent crime is higher than the top 50 fortune 500 companies combined. How do you think all that money: a substantial portion of global GDP can be laundered ? Its literally a mathematical impossibility. Unless tge majority of fortune 500 listed profits is tge *same* money. Welcome to the real world of the super rich. The only path to billionairehoid is through a lake of blood.
The problem is not your silly feelings. Its that cops who are not nice have a tendency to leave a trail of corpses in their wake. You cant get a fair trial if you do not survive the unjust arrest.
Except of course that nett US/Mexican migration has been negative for years. More people are moving from the US to Mexico than the other way around. The number of US factories in Mexico now is probably a major reason for that. After all : if you can get a better job close to your family migrant work loses all appeal.
True... but you could say the same about a Big Mac thats been lying in the sun since 1964.
The vast majority of universal healthcare countries has private doctors as well, they exist specifically to cater to the edge cases where universal health care is less effective.
But those are the edge cases. Taking your thinking to it's logical conclusion it is perfectly okay to let millions die from no care, in order to ensure to avoid anybody having a waiting list.
Of course universal health care is not perfect, there are no panaceas. But it's outcomes is provably and by the numbers and consistently far better than private healthcare as a main system. It's also true that conservative politicians in Britain have tried to dismantle and privatize much of the healthcare system - something even Thatcher would not have dared.
She was right too - it's led to the biggest political backlash the Brits have seen in decades. It was a major factor in why Jeremy Corbyn won the labour leadership contest. The conservatives have dug themselves into a hole with these policies that will make winning the next election require an act of god. Seems those patients and doctors (who also happen to be voters) like the NHS rather more than you credit them with.
Truth is people like to complain, they will always have complaints - just because some British people complain doesn't mean anything - everybody complains. What you have to look at is the numbers. There isn't a single number where universal healthcare doesn't beat out private. It costs less. More people can get care - and they can get it when they need it most (which, by definition, is when they are least able to pay for it because generally very ill people cannot work). Child mortality rates are lower. Lifespans are longer and quality of life is higher. Important medical decisions are not politicized as readily - this may seem counterintuitive but it's not, for the same reason universal income grants are more free than welfare - if you don't have qualification requirements for something, you don't need bureaucracies to do the qualifying tests. If you don't have a bureaucracy, you can't abuse it.
Historically, Trump's ideas were actually far more common in the 1800s than now. Right now, he has about a third of the republican vote and he doesn't seem likely to get much more than that (which is good news in the general) in the 1800s people like him rule at least the Southern half of the USA pretty consistently.
He proposed putting American Muslims: law abiding citizens in detention camps.
How did you miss that ?
Ethno nationalism is evil. Opposition to immigration is ethno nationalism. It is all the same evil. The only difference between the the places where it leads to atrocity and the ones where it does not is the presence of strong opposition politicians who moderate the effects. Right now America has that. But throughout the 1920s so did Germany. Hitler gained the presidency with a fully obstructionist governmentbecause he was way too overt in his ethno nationalism. Exactly the scenario Trump would face. Hitler responded by killing all the opposition politicians. One fell swoop known as Kristallnacht in which he murdered every politician in Germany wh opposed his ethnonationalism. In a day Germany went from a liberal democracy like America into a brutal dictatorship. Trump already hinted that he could do that. He told us he could personally murder somebody on 5th avenue and not lose votes. Hitler had less devotion than that in 1930 ! He did not dare pull the trigger himself. He still had others kill his enemies.
But even if Trump was not Hitler... he would still be Rhodes and Verwoerd. Take it from somebody who has personally lived through the effects of an ethno nationalist government without strong opposition. Great atrocities are guaranteed and they will happen in secret. It cannot happen otherwise because its physically impissible to pursue ethnonationakist outcomes without committing atrocities. It cannot be done (which is why the idea is evil - because its physically imposible to pursue any semblence of it without atrocity).
The reason the law is not "enforced" is because it cannot be. There is no way to do so without genocidal acts. I know you dont believe that but I have seen it with my own eyes. It cannot be done. Any politician who actually tries to will find that out. But it will happen bit by bit. Little evils tolerated in the name of what is considered a noble end. And then it escalates. Little evils rapidly become big evils.
Only those entirely ignorant of history could fail to see that never has any other outcome occurred and only those who ignorant of math can fail to sed that it is because that putcome is inevitible.
As recently as 2007 people saying that same thing "enforce immigration law" took one small step and began enforcing it themselves here. Survivors of appartheid slaughtered hundreds of immigrants in a week. Most of whom were not illegal. The oppressed became the oppressor.
Ethno-nationalism can only ever lead to that and nobody, not even and perhaps not especially, its former victims are immune.
Group based discrimination is not less evil depending on whether the group is a race or not.
>How is his entire platform racism, exclusion and "NEO-NAZI HATRED"?
He has made numerous denigrating remarks over entire groups of people. That is racism, exclusion and neo-nazi hatred - it's how it *always* sounds *before* they get into power. They always tone down to *exactly* his level while trying to gain power. Consider where some pretty racist republicans are in what they say... and they already HAVE power. Now consider what Trump is saying BEFORE he has it. This is what he is saying when he still hasn't won an election - when he still needs to tone it down.
And read the speeches that Verwoerd, Hitler or even Milosovich gave when they were NOT yet in power - it's exactly the same.
>Where has he specifically stated that one race is superior to the other?
Nobody ever SAYS that. Hell the appartheid government ruled for 50 years oppressing all but one race without *ever* actually, specifically stating that ! Instead they said "different races cannot live in peace unless they are kept separate. They are just too different". Hell the entire lifetime of apparthied we were told we were supporting seperate-but-equal and defending the right of black people to self-governance ! You can't look for explicitely said - you have to look for what people who used those same guarded terms actually DID.
The ones who explicitely say the stuff are not a problem - they hardly ever get into power. It's the ones who say stuff that sounds nice, but nevertheless exagerates differences - they are the ones who actually DO horrible things because they get the MEANS to do them.
>Where has he proposed Nazi ideals?
He proposed a ban on Muslim immigration. Religious tests for imigration was one of the very first policies the NAZIs promoted as well. Right there is your first one. He has subtly blamed an entire ethno-religous group for the actions of a few assholes who *claim* to be members of it (and are disavowed by everybody else) - that's NAZI 101 right there. For Hitler it was "Jews control the banks" - and though many banks were owned by Jewish families, they were a tiny minority of Jews - and all of them were Sephardic while German Jews were Ashkanazi, they had nothing in common. But the fear achieved it's goals anyway. Replace "Jew" with "Muslim" and "Bankers" with "Terrorists" and you got Trump. He has even ALREADY proposed putting Muslims in holding camps. That's exactly what Hitler called them.
>Calls for extermination? Really? Where? Again,
Hitler never did that either. Not once. He called for EMIGRATION. The final solution was kept secret from pretty much the entire civilian population even while it was happening. What he actually said was "prevent imigration", "forced emigration" and other "acceptable" ways to achieve cultural and racial purity. Just like Trump.
>All he has called for is enforcement of the law and to ensure that we are not allowing people that intend to harm us in this country.
Aawww you are so naive. Besides which - he is trying to be a politician. His job is NOT enforcement of the law, it's to propose BETTER laws.
> it shows how crazy the people that violently oppose him are.
Excuse me ? Where have the opposition been violent ? If anything there's been way too much appeasement. Hell even protesters at his rallys have by and large been victims of violence, not perpetrators.
>He is nothing like Hitler and it is hilarious that people would compare the two of them.
Actually - the entire basis on which that claim is made has shown that you KNOW nothing about Hitler. You don't see that they are identical - simply because you are looking for the post-war Hitler caricature that you heard about in school - and know nothing of the actual man, how he actually got elected, what his speeches actually SAID and how he went about achieving his nefarious ends.
The single most enlightening source you can find on who Hitler was is actually Hermann Goring, specifically his defense at Nuremberg. Even there - when the death camps had been found, the bodies dug up - he maintained the lie that Hitler told the people all along: "I had no knowledge of this, ours was a policy of emigration not extermination".
What is Trump's key issue again ?
>Advocating for a valid political candidate is not a death threat and/or hate speech, no matter how many jimmies are rustled.
When the candidate's entire platform is racism, exclusion and neo-nazi hatred - yes, yes it is.
>Perhaps the people that think that should listen to what he has actually said, rather than what other people claim he has said.
What he actually said is more than bad enough. I've heard those speeches a few times before. They are the same speeches Hitler was making in the 1920s (before he had the absolute power to dare to say everything), the same speeches the appartheid leaders made (and since I lived through that I speak from experience - those speeches were on my TV every night for most of my youth). They are hate speech only vaguely disguised, calls for extermination wrapped up in a thin veneer of acceptability.
I've heard him before. There are always men like him, and it always behooves all good people to stand up to them.
Where in the US ?
Since apparently in Texas it's now considered appropriate to walk into an Arby's with an AR15 slung across your shoulder. Of course if a white person does it, it's his second amendment right. If anybody else did that... he would be shot for being a clear and present danger. The fact is that the US has one of the highest gun-death rates in the world and every country that has a higher one is either a third-world hell-hole or in the middle of a war.
And I would say I am the opposite of a coward. Cowards own guns. Brave men feel no need nor desire for them. It takes a special kind of cowardice to only feel safe in the presence of the means to kill.
The only reason the VA fails is because it's NOT universal. Universal healthcare works fantastically everywhere in the world - but it needs to be universal. You can't do it small-scale like the VA is done, that does not work. It's simple economics of scale.
The entire rest of the world manages to have better health-care than the USA and to do it cheaper, yet you take an example that is NOT an example of the same thing and show problems with that as if that is stronger evidence than all the rest ?
Even so - the current state has not gotten rid of health insurance, it's merely regulated the worst abuses out of the system.
And sorry but to describe health insurance as profiting from human misery is not hyperbole, it's literally their business model.
If the best thing you can say about health insurance is "hey it gives us a kind of collective bargaining" - there are many, better, ways to get that and you find them in all sorts of industries.
But here is the thing - one bad story is one too many because we're talking life and death matters here. There isn't room for two stories. If your experience was the only experience, it would be a working system - but the moment there is anybody with an experience like mine that is already a failure of the *entire* system. As it happens - I'm not the exceptional story, you are. Stories like yours are the rare ones.
Oh btw: do you know who else thinks Trump sounds like Hitler ? Germans.
Thats exactly what they said of Hitler actually. And if you thin they are so different you have not heard Trump's speeches or not heard Hitler's speeches. They are not similar. They are identical.. Trump could be using translations of mein kampf as source material and it would sound the same. I live in the one country where the nazi ideology survived world war 2. It became appartheid. The very first organised protests against it were led by a man called Seaman Malan. Formerly the deadliest fighter pilot in the R.A.F. The allies answer to the red baron. Horified to see the ideology he had fought so hard to defeat become official policy in his homeland. War hero Malan was stripped of his honors for opposing appartheid and buried without so much as an acknowledgement from the air force. And you know who else sounded exactly like Trump ? H.F. Verwoerd. The architect of appartheid. The man Malan protested against. The only nazi who got to implement the policies of the party without the distraction of war.
Will Trump give you a holocaust ? Maybe not. But he will for damn sure give you appartheid. Likewise a crime against humanity. My people went from noble freedom loving farmers to the committers of one if the 20th centurys gravest atrocities in the space of a generation. Partly enabled by having been the victims of one 50 years earlier. I would argue the same thing is happening in Israel today.
Do not underestimate the power of ethno-nationalistic demagogues. Germany also had checks and ballances. Hitler found one obscure loophole and turned a meaningless ceremonial position into absolute power in a single day. Verwoerd won the popular vote from a frightened and impoverished citizenry still recovering after surviving the 20th centurys first genocide courtesey Alfred Milner, Kitchener and Cecil Rhodes three names as ignominois as Hitler, Himmler and Goebels.
From the battered survivors of the first concentration camps to disguised NAZIs in the 45 years. We could not rid ourselves of that scourge until 1989 and even then it was only because the Berlin wall fell. When the cold war ended and we were no longer useful to the west we got sanctioned into economic collapse and were forced to change.
Don't tell me I am exagerating. I was fucking there. I listened to P.W. Botha's speeches. I saw the injustices committed in my name when they were revealed later. Almost every adult I knew fought in the army. I have seen where speeches like Trump leads with my own eyes. You underestimate the power of extreme views by a skilled demagogue. I do not. My people suffered under one and committed another.
Do not become us.
Aaah yes of course... because "tell the truth about what you sell" is such a burdensome regulation that absolutely no small company could ever manage to survive complying with it.
Give me a break, hell the FCC even gave them a frickin template ready to use - they've made it ridiculously cheap and easy to comply with this. This is pure hassle for big corporate ISPs who have no desire to have to be honest with customers, it will have less than zero effect on small ISPs who have had to rely on "having a better product" all along and who will only benefit from the big boys being forced to be honest about how inferior their products are.
Unless it's fibre it's definitely not. If it is fibre, only if the cables are plastic, not glass, plastic being carbon-based.
Copper is not organic. Neither is glass-fibre.
Organic means made from "carbon based molecules".
Symbolism... seriously "symbology" means something entirely different.
And the amount of Americans like you - is why I will never live in that country. Seriously - I've had more job offers from there than I can remember and I turned them all down because your country is filled with gun nuts with tiny penisses (the tiny penis can be with absolute accuracy determined from the love of guns).
Man I wish I could get a job offer from Denmark ... I would LOVE to live in Denmark.
> I'd rather deal with the preexisting condition clauses rather than allowing the federal government to dictate health insurance.
And that's the exact reason individualism isn't the way to solve all problems because you utterly failed to consider anything but your own experience.
So, I graduate college, I'm now off my parents health insurance and looking for work. Right now I can't afford to get my own coverage.... I get cancer. But I get a job - my employer gives coverage, my life is saved... oops "pre-existing condition - go directly to death, do not pass go, do no collect 200 dollars"
That happened to a very large number of people.
And that's not counting the thousands, perhaps millions, who had insurance but were killed when they needed a significant medical procedure and suddenly the health insurance company found a billion reasons not to pay. Of course, they have ALL the power there. Sure you could try sue them for breach of contract. You could try take them to court... you may even win... except you have 3 months to live without that operation and all they have to do is wait. They did this many times to many people. Hell we've had former health insurance claims investigators testify to that effect before congress a decade ago.
And guess what the first thing is they looked for when trying to find a reason not to pay for your life-saving operation ? Any pre-existing condition that wasn't remembered or reported. You got a prescription for vagisil when you were 12 and didn't fill it in on the form ? You're fucked pal.
Sorry, the system as it was was untenable because health insurance companies are some of the most evil corporations to ever exist, they literally exist for the sole purpose of profiting from human misery. Their profits utterly and entirely depend on letting you die, so they will do it whenever they can somehow manage to get away with it.
I speak from some personal experience. When my daughter was 14-months old, she accidentally breathed in a peanut. It's the kind of thing that happens with babies sometimes, but she needed an endoscope to remove it. We were good parents, we realized something was wrong within hours, it was caught and removed less than a day after the incident. Which prevented complications, inflamation or infection being an issue.
Then the health insurance company refused to pay for the operation. For months it was back and forth with one piece of bullshit after another. Eventually... I was forced to give up - and I paid the hospital by taking out a crapload of credit card debt (like so many have had to do before).
I was lucky, she arrived at the hospital in the early hours of the morning when pre-approval is not usually sought... if it had happened a few hours earlier in the day... chances are my little girl would be just another person killed by a health insurance company.
There is nothing you can say that will make me not hate them all and want them so fucking regulated that they can't breath. If it puts them all out of business - good, then we can get universal health care like civilized countries.
Seriously - there's a reason terrorists don't bomb health insurance companies... it would be like the Aryan Brotherhood bombing the KKK headquarters.
Oh the far right's claim is pure politics - it's an attempt to not look like they hate woman and distance themselves from the countries where abortion is a crime and the consequences we see there (like women getting the death penalty for having a miscarriage).
By saying "we don't want to punish the women, they are victims" they are utterly lying about their beliefs and motives, but it's a tactical lie - intended to make an oppressive idea seem more palatable. In reality - the mere unavailability of this healthcare option is, already, punishment, if that could even be achieved (nothing suggests it could - abortion rates are actually slightly *higher* where abortions are banned unfortunately the rate of deaths and injuries during abortions is much higher).
Trump's great sin (and the what got the far right calling him on this one) was admitting the truth about this, perhaps the only time in his entire campaign he actually spoke the truth and he fucks up by speaking a truth the people he was speaking to don't want to admit.
>No issue of context makes his repeated claims about 1000s celebrating in New Jersey on 9/11 any less false
I think I figured that one out, it may be his one honest mistake. He really did see a video, only it wasn't Muslims who were cheering. It was just a bunch of teenagers from Trenton happy to see those snotty New Yorkers get taken down a peg.
No, it's not, Obama and Bernie are both populists (even if their messages were different) - but Trump is something more dangerous than that. Trump is a demagogue: a populist who incites anger and hatred.
Demagogues tend to leave great destruction in their wake.
Plenty of people have left countries because the wrong person got elected before. The world was overrun with people emigrating out of a certain European country when that country elected a guy who sounded a *lot* like Trump. One of them desperately tried to get refugee status in the US, she was denied and would later be murdered while hiding in the netherlands from the hit-squads that, that Trump-like leader was sending after her. You may have heard of her, her name was Anne Frank.
Sorry, bad news, it's the few nice Americans who want to leave. The assholes are all voting for Trump.