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Darat said:
At the last USA presidential election there was the choice of 2 candidates who could become president, one was a known rapist, one was not a rapist. There was of course the third options of not voting at all, so yes I was wrong to say there was only the choice of the non rapist or the rapist, you could decide not to vote for either.
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Indeed. That was saying that one saw no effective difference between the two. Or at least not one worth voting on.
 
newyorkguy said:
This concerns a trumper -- trump 4ever!!! -- who is a coworker of mine. I don't know him very well, just enough to exchange hellos, but another coworker who I'm buddies with, knows him quite well (they used to work together). He told me the following story which illustrates the mindset of the trumper.

This guy, lets call him Ted, had planned a vacation with his wife and two kids. They were going to drive from New York to the Grand Canyon, stopping along the way overnight. They were really looking forward to it. Before leaving Ted took the car to the auto shop to get it tuned up. This is where everything began to unravel.

Ted told my buddy the mechanic tried to rip him off. The mechanic identified a component that needed to be replaced. The mechanic told him, if he tried driving 8-10 hours a day it was going to fail. Problem was the component was about $500 plus $300 in labor. My pal asked Ted, "So you had it done?" Ted said, "Hell no! Think I'm stupid? That jerk is trying to rip me off." Okay.

First day of the trip, a Sunday. They got as far as Ohio, where they had a motel reservation. They stopped, about fifty miles east of the motel, to have dinner. Very nice place. After eating, on the way to the motel, the car suddenly shut off. Dead. No lights, the starter wouldn't turn over. The Ohio State Highway Patrol responded to Ted's 911 call. The troopers put out flares, called for road service, got the family off to the side of the road. The tow truck driver couldn't get the car started. Said, "Something's wrong, ' identified the systems that were not carrying a charge. The tow truck driver said it would have to go to the shop. "Call them in the morning." The state patrol officer took them to a nearby motel. The next morning the local mechanic identified the problem. It was the component the mechanic in New York predicted would fail. The local shop could fix it but they didn't have the parts in stock. They'd have to be ordered and, this was a mostly rural area of Ohio, they'd have to be ordered from a parts supplier in Columbus, about thirty miles away. The local shop guy said he would try and get them today, that afternoon, but it might be tomorrow. Ted decided to bag the trip. His wife used her phone to cancel their reservations and book a flight from Columbus back to New York City for her and the kids. That meant hiring a local car service to get to the airport in Columbus and it wasn't cheap..

The part didn't arrive Monday afternoon. It came Tuesday afternoon. The local mechanic told him the car would be ready "tomorrow," Wednesday. That the repair required a lot of disassembly and he was too busy to finish it that day. Ted finally got the car back early Wednesday afternoon. He drove back to New York

Vacation ruined.

Ted's takeaway? There had been nothing wrong with the component. The freaking mechanic in New York had done something to it to make it fail. Lousy SOB!!!

MAGA!!!!
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Yeah, that's the wingnut mindset. It's always someone else's fault. No personal responsibility.
 
catsmate said:
Why would Canadians go to Vermont anyway?
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It does seem strange to go on a vacation in a "foreign country" by visiting a place that is similar to what you can get in Canada. (Eg. Why go to Vermont when you get the same sort of climate and tourist experience you can get in Canada)

A few reasons I can think of:
- the Canadian tourists live near the border and it is easier to get to than a place they may go in Canada
- they have family ties in the area (or something similar)
- it is part of a "bigger trip" (for example, visiting Vermont as part of a longer trip to New york city)
 
dudalb said:
My predictions of CIvil War in the US as a strong possibility don't sound as silly now, do they?
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I am sorry, but your predictions of a civil war more often sound like a wish that you could get an opportunity to put your gun collection to use than an actual wish for change. You have been quite vocal about labelling progressive socio-economic reform that could make people's lives better by labelling it communist or claiming that the American people aren't ready for it. That would have been real revolution, But everything has to be dealt with brutish strength. Its like you need to repair a house, but the only tool you have is a hammer.
 
Charlie Kirk getting shot means....they are owning the libtards?
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As you go about your day take note of those who specifically are saying he died for his faith rather than his politics (That’s what classifies him as a martyr). These people are Christian Nationalists.Look for the following language...
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Susheel said:
I am sorry, but your predictions of a civil war more often sound like a wish that you could get an opportunity to put your gun collection to use than an actual wish for change.
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This. Sounds more like a juvenile fantasy than a dire prediction.
 
Haven't posted for quite a while, but since I'm not from the US, nobody around me knows Charlie Kirk or cares that much, so I figured I'd post just to have said something to someone.

I don't think Charlie Kirk was a good person. I think he did damage to the US, and the world. I also think that his death will be used to do even more damage. During the period between the shooting and the proclamation of his death, I caught myself thinking it might be better if he just died.

Then I sat down and watched footage from the Utöya massacre in 2011 and remembered how that made me feel, and how Kirk's death probably make his supporters feel. So I'm just going to let them feel it and be quiet about it.
 
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uke2se said:
Haven't posted for quite a while, but since I'm not from the US, nobody around me knows Charlie Kirk or cares that much, so I figured I'd post just to have said something to someone.

I don't think Charlie Kirk was a good person. I think he did damage to the US, and the world. I also think that his death will be used to do even more damage. During the period between the shooting and the proclamation of his death, I caught myself thinking it might be better if he just died.

Then I sat down and watched footage from the Utöya massacre in 2011 and remembered how that made me feel, and how Kirk's death probably make his supporters feel. So I'm just going to let them feel it and be quiet about it.
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I get what you mean, but at the risk of being pedantic, given how both Kirk's death and Utøya happened because of far-right agitation over decades, there's a pretty big difference. Us liberals and progressives and moderates are allowed to see Utøya unfold and react with shock and grief. The only thing Kirk's supporters should feel (after Kirk's death and Utøya, come to think of it) is 'oh ◊◊◊◊ what have we done?'.

Then again that would require them to be decent people, so.
 
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