I once told pizza to 'have sex'. He then proceeded to downvote my comment. He did that without my consent. That was really mean. Do better, 🐝 better ❤️️
You have 4 links and not one of them is to information. The signal to noise ratio of the shit I've read from your links is absolutely abysmal, nobody with a working brain would put time into reading such drivel, let alone attempt to use it in place of information sources. If basic income actually failed, you could give at least some semblance of a concise explanation of the failure, or at least have one of your four links lead to something data-focused, instead of being like "here's an opinion, now immerse yourself in verbose repititions of that opinion for a half hour since hopefully that's enough to make you agree with it." You are a prime brainwashee and the reason Trump will win again.
The few times I've seen him pop up on the sub he's had complete galaxy brain takes coupled with thousands of words trying to explain how he's not actually a retard.
My favorite one was when he claimed he sees no discernable difference in the value he places on the life of some random African and his own community/family.
My favorite one was when he claimed he sees no discernable difference in the value he places on the life of some random African and his own community/family.
My favorite one was when he claimed he sees no discernable difference in the value he places on the life of some random African and his own community/family.
He isnt wrong if you dont count emotional value as anything.
My favorite one was when he claimed he sees no discernable difference in the value he places on the life of some random African and his own community/family.
Half of stupidpol are anarcho-trannies that actively try to ruin the pen, the other half are NazBols that wish they could publicly lynch the former half.
The few times I've seen him pop up on the sub he's had complete galaxy brain takes coupled with thousands of words trying to explain how he's not actually a retard.
Refute a single thing I've said.
My favorite one was when he claimed he sees no discernable difference in the value he places on the life of some random African and his own community/family.
Explain in detail why the life of someone you care about is more valuable than the life of someone else, using an argument other than "just because."
Because that's not a real argument. We're discussing the value of life on a moral basis.
Why do you assume the universal basis for valuing people's lives? It's entirely OK for me to have my valuation, you have your own valuation, and we have a moral system that informs us how to come to a mutually agreeable arrangement.
Well then you're just asking for a descriptive rather than prescriptive answer: lives of my fellow wypipo are more valuable because me and other wypipo find them personally valuable and we have more resources to spend on them than some bare ass Africans on their fellow Africans.
Realistically they are totally more valuable. Consider which diseases kill Africans but don't kill Americans, realistically.
What do you mean by "logically defensible" I have no clue. Like you live in your own autistic universe where that is not so and you expect me to reach in and battle you using logic and reason?
It's a moral stance, one most rational people would agree with. The reason you find it hostile is that you, yourself, are likely a nationalist and have based at least some of your identity on the arbitrary lines on a map you happened to be born within, or your ethnicity, or other factors completely out of your control.
99.999% of rational people would agree that they personally value their life more than the life of a complete stranger.
I'm willing to bet that I, personally, as a matter of fact, have demonstrated more regard for lives of far off people than 99.9% of the western population by actually donating for malaria nets for Africans more than once.
I suspect that I've donated more than you for that matter. And yet here you are, schooling me on what the correct moral stance is. Tfu, tfu.
They'd say they value their own life more - but they wouldn't declare that on an empirical basis their life was somehow worth more than another life.
The fuck do you mean by "empirical basis"?
"I place the life of an American on equal footing with the life of some Mexican, some African, some Canadian or whatever else.", yeah, so we observe (that's what "empirical" means, "based on observation"), we observe you spending money on whatever shit that brings you fleeting pleasure rather than on mosquito nets for Africans and determine that actually you value your own life thousands of times more than lives of Africans.
On the other hand, whatever you say on the subject with your whore mouth is a waste of breath.
eah, so we observe (that's what "empirical" means, "based on observation"), we observe you spending money on whatever shit that brings you fleeting pleasure rather than on mosquito nets for Africans and determine that actually you value your own life thousands of times more than lives of Africans.
The best part about this is I've personally given like 650 grand to various charity orgs in Africa.
And i actually used the wrong word, I meant logically, not empirically.
The best part about this is I've personally given like 650 grand to various charity orgs in Africa.
Sure.
And i actually used the wrong word, I meant logically, not empirically.
This sounds like a set up for a joke. "Hey dad, what's the difference between "logically" and "empirically"?" ... "So logically we should be millionaires but empirically we have three useless whores in this house".
This sounds like a set up for a joke. "Hey dad, what's the difference between "logically" and "empirically"?" ... "So logically we should be millionaires but empirically we have three useless whores in this house".
I'm just used to saying "empirically" and kind of just throw it out because most arguments I enter aren't of a "subjective nature." I know the difference for sure, it was just bad word use.
I'll be happy to give you several (assuming you still mean your / a parent vs some rando in Africa);
Do you place value on social/cultural significance? I have two sisters in junior school, my father brings value to society by socialising them and giving them a strong male role model in their life. His absence would ultimately damage society as a whole marginally more than the disappearance of some hermit living in a mud hut in Africa
Do you want to take it from a utilitarian perspective? The aforementioned father owns several businesses; the value brought to society by this life greatly exceeds the potential value offered by the life of that rando in Africa
Religious perspective? A father has accomplished the will of God and brought forth progeny, this hypothetical random man in Africa has done nothing to further His cause, therefore his life is worth less to religious communities at large
There are so many ways one life can be worth more than another, and in so many senses. Saying you place value on the life of your mother/father as much as that on the life of anyone else is pretty bad dude
You're not more valuable than some kid in Africa and neither is your father or sister, get over it. Sorry, you were born in the same lines as some other people, that doesn't make them more important or more valuable than anyone else.
No matter what.
I let this argument go ages ago because I'm not interested in debating morality with obese americans that think they're special.
Your variants of "value" aren't relevant. Making money doesn't mean your life is more valuable. That's not how it works, that argument was so dumb I instantly dismissed you.
You've lost your touch, being defensively dismissive does you no favours
Human lives can always be assigned a relative "value," to say otherwise is to declare no man can be better than any other. As long as you have winners and losers, you will have lives differing in importance
What drives us crazy is that all of his posts are basically
"WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS STUPID BERNIEBROS!"
Obama is a good politician, a hell of a lot better than the old jew that runs around praising Cuba. I honestly hope Bernie loses that election because I have an entire list of Berntards I'm gonna follow around while saying shit like "that's why Trump won, you guys are just so out of touch."
Because it's unaware fanboyism parading as enlightened fact. Not only is calling him "S-tier" just fucking gay language, literally the only people who are calling him great are liberal cheerleaders. All serious opinions about him appear to be pretty mixed
I don't like Obama. He was still a good politician. This has nothing to do with his policies or your opinions of him as a person.
This is about his skill as a politician - which is substantial. Likely one of the best in recent history. You don't get elected as a black guy in America with Hussain in your name without serious political maneuvering. Let alone win a primary vs a dynasty name as a fairly unknown senator.
I am skeptical of whether or not being black helped or hindered him.
Is Trump an SS-tier politician because he was elected despite his character and history? Was it luck? Was it the unpredictability of how tribal politics play into disgust and admiration along personal lines? Were people just dying for a dem in office, and correctly predicted that Hilary Clinton has the smell of a loser about her? I don't know, and disregarding those issues, Obama didn't have a clean record on paper either.
I am skeptical of whether or not being black helped or hindered him.
Are you really skeptical on the question "did being black" help or hurt Obama in an election? Being black makes it fairly hard to navigate racial issues in a country where white people lose their shit over pretty much anything. Almost right after he was elected they tried to smear him as a non-citizen.
Is Trump an SS-tier politician because he was elected despite his character and history? Was it luck?
I don't think it was "luck" per se. I just don't think they were disadvantages in a Republican primary, or a general election. Trump was saying what right-wing talk radio had been saying for years. He wasn't some aberration.
I'd say Trump won in spite of his flaws and political incompetence, and Obama won because of his political competence.
Were people just dying for a dem in office, and correctly predicted that Hilary Clinton has the smell of a loser about her? I don't know, and disregarding those issues, Obama didn't have a clean record on paper either.
The people "predicting" Clinton was X Y and Z weren't basing those predictions on anything empirical or academic. They didn't like Clinton, so they declared she was totally a bad candidate. The climate didn't favor her - but she ran a more skilled campaign than Donald Trump did.
But when you live in a country that values "change" over substance, being more skilled doesn't mean much. I'd actually rate Trump as a pretty bad politician.
Almost right after he was elected they tried to smear him as a non-citizen.
Who did? A majority of voters? Or a losing minority who ended up functioning as a symbol of what the rest of America wanted to repudiate with their vote?
A democrat doesn't need %50 of the republican base to win presidency, Flip the parties again, is Trump a god for being essentially a "Russian puppet/ traitor/ conman" to every last democrat and still winning? I say no. The system is volatile, and being a winner in the face of misinformation from the other party doesn't imply great political skill. Someone has to win, and that person is going to have a character defect the other side hates, and their side will decide to rally against this hatred in disgust.
All of these can be fairly out of your control - where political skill comes in is navigating something that has a chance to seriously reduce your support with a key demographic.
So in the case of Obama - you have racial issues. The Obama campaign had to put very serious thought into how they were going to navigate racial issues in a country where race is still very much important.
An example of a mistake Obama made, when he got careless was the Trayvon fiasco.
I've seen no evidence Trump is a skilled politician. The gaffes, the miscalculations, the doubling down on a shrinking base after a bad mid-term - that's just evidence of political incompetence.
To be honest, I don't really think Trump is all that skilled either. However, despite all his actions which are conventionally thought of as mistakes, he's proven to be remarkably resilient. He has either a strange talent that he found effective by accident. or just advantageously broke many of the "gentleman's rules" of politics which were respected by past presidents.
I think the source of Trump's "moderate support" in some areas is simply hating the system, a protest vote more than support for his platform or worldview.
I heard someone call Trump a political arsonist once, and I think the term fits.
Gonna let you in on a little secret here, hicks, as an American conservative I don't expect you to be aware of this given the conflation of liberalism with the socialist left in conservative circles.
Commies fucking hate liberals, more than conservatives, more than anyone else. A commie will side with a far-right fascist over a liberal.
If your movement sees Pizzashill as a serious threat who needs to be silenced then I'm not really sanguine about the chances of your revolution succeeding.
These faggots got together like a bundle of sticks and banned me too. Its a real shame if they ban him. Pizza like me has only one sub left he’s not banned in
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2 Comrade_Natalie 2020-02-25
I once told pizza to 'have sex'. He then proceeded to downvote my comment. He did that without my consent. That was really mean. Do better, 🐝 better ❤️️
2 heuheu 2020-02-25
I've never downvoted or upvoted a comment on reddit. Only seething faggots downvote comments on reddit.
2 shitpersonality 2020-02-25
You have two post submissions and that is truly pathetic.
0 OrionGaming 2020-02-25
I just downvoted your comment. Fuck you.
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You have 4 links and not one of them is to information. The signal to noise ratio of the shit I've read from your links is absolutely abysmal, nobody with a working brain would put time into reading such drivel, let alone attempt to use it in place of information sources. If basic income actually failed, you could give at least some semblance of a concise explanation of the failure, or at least have one of your four links lead to something data-focused, instead of being like "here's an opinion, now immerse yourself in verbose repititions of that opinion for a half hour since hopefully that's enough to make you agree with it." You are a prime brainwashee and the reason Trump will win again.
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1 Corporal-Hicks 2020-02-25
kinda funny since pizza isnt even larping as a conservative on there, just a slightly-disagreeing liberal and it still drives them crazy
1 HRCsFavoriteSlave 2020-02-25
The few times I've seen him pop up on the sub he's had complete galaxy brain takes coupled with thousands of words trying to explain how he's not actually a retard.
My favorite one was when he claimed he sees no discernable difference in the value he places on the life of some random African and his own community/family.
1 Corporal-Hicks 2020-02-25
bretty baste
1 serialflamingo 2020-02-25
Pizza's family are worth much less than some random African, no contest
2 heuheu 2020-02-25
I'm honestly amazed you're still posting after I baited you with those 2 copy pastes and exposed you as the retard you are.
Unless I'm confusing you with someone else, you're pitter right? I get my pakis mixed up a lot.
1 serialflamingo 2020-02-25
Who? I'm a proud person of colour but I'm of Hibernian descent, not Pakistani.
1 Redactor0 2020-02-25
I thought you were Caledonian. Please don't try to infiltrate our secret society.
2 serialflamingo 2020-02-25
I'm a Hibernian infiltrator in Caledonia and unless you want to go the way of Rangers you'll pretend you didn't notice
1 PUBLIQclopAccountant 2020-02-25
1 Lysis10 2020-02-25
That was very rude to say to you!
1 Tzar-Romulus-Dos 2020-02-25
Tbf Balkanoids are basically Africans.
1 MikeStoklasa-cel 2020-02-25
Most based thing he's ever said
1 allendrio 2020-02-25
He isnt wrong if you dont count emotional value as anything.
1 Adramolino 2020-02-25
That's standard for stupidpol tho
1 HRCsFavoriteSlave 2020-02-25
Half of stupidpol are anarcho-trannies that actively try to ruin the pen, the other half are NazBols that wish they could publicly lynch the former half.
1 Adramolino 2020-02-25
Name a more iconic duo
-1 heuheu 2020-02-25
Refute a single thing I've said.
Explain in detail why the life of someone you care about is more valuable than the life of someone else, using an argument other than "just because."
2 zergling_Lester 2020-02-25
Why not?
2 heuheu 2020-02-25
Because that's not a real argument. We're discussing the value of life on a moral basis.
You don't get to call an argument that says "all life is equal" retarded while your only counter-argument is "you're wrong just because."
3 zergling_Lester 2020-02-25
Why do you assume the universal basis for valuing people's lives? It's entirely OK for me to have my valuation, you have your own valuation, and we have a moral system that informs us how to come to a mutually agreeable arrangement.
1 heuheu 2020-02-25
Because the context of the discussion wasn't "what you find personally valuable" but "what is valuable."
2 totally_not_ac3 2020-02-25
Pizza nothing has inherent value, not even people. The only things that have value are what you personally assign them.
1 heuheu 2020-02-25
That's just retarded.
1 totally_not_ac3 2020-02-25
Why is it retarded?
1 darth_stroyer 2020-02-25
'just because' :4)
1 dabibbybb 2020-02-25
Can you use an argument other than "just because."
1 DaYooper 2020-02-25
Then describe value without referencing human judgement
1 zergling_Lester 2020-02-25
Well then you're just asking for a descriptive rather than prescriptive answer: lives of my fellow wypipo are more valuable because me and other wypipo find them personally valuable and we have more resources to spend on them than some bare ass Africans on their fellow Africans.
1 heuheu 2020-02-25
It's still not logically defensible. Your lives aren't more valuable, realistically.
1 zergling_Lester 2020-02-25
Realistically they are totally more valuable. Consider which diseases kill Africans but don't kill Americans, realistically.
What do you mean by "logically defensible" I have no clue. Like you live in your own autistic universe where that is not so and you expect me to reach in and battle you using logic and reason?
1 heuheu 2020-02-25
A life is a life, no life is greater or worth more than another life morally.
1 zergling_Lester 2020-02-25
This is a statement, not an argument. It is a statement that doesn't even know what kind of statement it is.
You're an intellectual midget.
1 heuheu 2020-02-25
It's a moral stance, one most rational people would agree with. The reason you find it hostile is that you, yourself, are likely a nationalist and have based at least some of your identity on the arbitrary lines on a map you happened to be born within, or your ethnicity, or other factors completely out of your control.
1 zergling_Lester 2020-02-25
99.999% of rational people would agree that they personally value their life more than the life of a complete stranger.
I'm willing to bet that I, personally, as a matter of fact, have demonstrated more regard for lives of far off people than 99.9% of the western population by actually donating for malaria nets for Africans more than once.
I suspect that I've donated more than you for that matter. And yet here you are, schooling me on what the correct moral stance is. Tfu, tfu.
1 heuheu 2020-02-25
They'd say they value their own life more - but they wouldn't declare logically their life is more valuable than the life of an African.
You can take whatever stance you'd like - I'm simply pointing out your life isn't worth more than the life of some African child or anyone else.
I place the life of an American on equal footing with the life of some Mexican, some African, some Canadian or whatever else.
1 zergling_Lester 2020-02-25
The fuck do you mean by "empirical basis"?
"I place the life of an American on equal footing with the life of some Mexican, some African, some Canadian or whatever else.", yeah, so we observe (that's what "empirical" means, "based on observation"), we observe you spending money on whatever shit that brings you fleeting pleasure rather than on mosquito nets for Africans and determine that actually you value your own life thousands of times more than lives of Africans.
On the other hand, whatever you say on the subject with your whore mouth is a waste of breath.
1 heuheu 2020-02-25
The best part about this is I've personally given like 650 grand to various charity orgs in Africa.
And i actually used the wrong word, I meant logically, not empirically.
1 zergling_Lester 2020-02-25
Sure.
This sounds like a set up for a joke. "Hey dad, what's the difference between "logically" and "empirically"?" ... "So logically we should be millionaires but empirically we have three useless whores in this house".
1 heuheu 2020-02-25
You can believe whatever you'd like.
I'm just used to saying "empirically" and kind of just throw it out because most arguments I enter aren't of a "subjective nature." I know the difference for sure, it was just bad word use.
1 zergling_Lester 2020-02-25
The point still stands tho. "Logically" we have a world full of egalitarians, empirically...
1 heuheu 2020-02-25
Well, I'm not going to claim the world is as it should be. empirically most people are probably shitheads.
1 zergling_Lester 2020-02-25
... and don't deserve anything better 😆😂🤣😏😏
1 _Reason_Bernie_Lost 2020-02-25
Hammurabi disagrees.
1 ReddneckwithaD 2020-02-25
I'll be happy to give you several (assuming you still mean your / a parent vs some rando in Africa);
Do you place value on social/cultural significance? I have two sisters in junior school, my father brings value to society by socialising them and giving them a strong male role model in their life. His absence would ultimately damage society as a whole marginally more than the disappearance of some hermit living in a mud hut in Africa
Do you want to take it from a utilitarian perspective? The aforementioned father owns several businesses; the value brought to society by this life greatly exceeds the potential value offered by the life of that rando in Africa
Religious perspective? A father has accomplished the will of God and brought forth progeny, this hypothetical random man in Africa has done nothing to further His cause, therefore his life is worth less to religious communities at large
There are so many ways one life can be worth more than another, and in so many senses. Saying you place value on the life of your mother/father as much as that on the life of anyone else is pretty bad dude
1 heuheu 2020-02-25
You're not more valuable than some kid in Africa and neither is your father or sister, get over it. Sorry, you were born in the same lines as some other people, that doesn't make them more important or more valuable than anyone else.
No matter what.
I let this argument go ages ago because I'm not interested in debating morality with obese americans that think they're special.
1 ReddneckwithaD 2020-02-25
Aite gg then
1 heuheu 2020-02-25
Being too stupid you aren't worth a real argument is not "no rebuttal" it's you being dismissed, in the same vein as Alex Jones.
1 ReddneckwithaD 2020-02-25
I've given several variants of "value", you haven't. What's good nigga
1 heuheu 2020-02-25
Your variants of "value" aren't relevant. Making money doesn't mean your life is more valuable. That's not how it works, that argument was so dumb I instantly dismissed you.
1 ReddneckwithaD 2020-02-25
And you've yet to suggest a quantifiable meaning of value yourself
Surely this isn't a poorly prepared larp 🤔🤔
1 heuheu 2020-02-25
There's no larp here. If someone walks up to you and says "lizard jews run the moon" you dismiss them.
That's about the tier I consider your points on.
1 ReddneckwithaD 2020-02-25
You've lost your touch, being defensively dismissive does you no favours
Human lives can always be assigned a relative "value," to say otherwise is to declare no man can be better than any other. As long as you have winners and losers, you will have lives differing in importance
1 JustAThrowaway4563 2020-02-25
google egoism then kill yourself
1 Monomach2 2020-02-25
What drives us crazy is that all of his posts are basically
"WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS STUPID BERNIEBROS!"
1 amanrobbedofhisdrama 2020-02-25
Just call him a fag and move on you stupid bitch
1 600_lbs_of_sin 2020-02-25
well don't fuckin read them u turbosperg 🤷🏿
1 theabsolutestateof 2020-02-25
Lol he was strongly asserting that Obama is “an S-tier politician”, that’s not slightly disagreeable liberal, that’s annoying faggot
2 heuheu 2020-02-25
Are you going to deny reality there or what?
Obama is a good politician, a hell of a lot better than the old jew that runs around praising Cuba. I honestly hope Bernie loses that election because I have an entire list of Berntards I'm gonna follow around while saying shit like "that's why Trump won, you guys are just so out of touch."
1 theabsolutestateof 2020-02-25
"deny reality there"
You're telling me using the words "Obama is an S tier politician" doesnt make you a faggot?
1 heuheu 2020-02-25
How does it?
1 theabsolutestateof 2020-02-25
Because it's unaware fanboyism parading as enlightened fact. Not only is calling him "S-tier" just fucking gay language, literally the only people who are calling him great are liberal cheerleaders. All serious opinions about him appear to be pretty mixed
1 heuheu 2020-02-25
I don't like Obama. He was still a good politician. This has nothing to do with his policies or your opinions of him as a person.
This is about his skill as a politician - which is substantial. Likely one of the best in recent history. You don't get elected as a black guy in America with Hussain in your name without serious political maneuvering. Let alone win a primary vs a dynasty name as a fairly unknown senator.
1 theabsolutestateof 2020-02-25
I am skeptical of whether or not being black helped or hindered him.
Is Trump an SS-tier politician because he was elected despite his character and history? Was it luck? Was it the unpredictability of how tribal politics play into disgust and admiration along personal lines? Were people just dying for a dem in office, and correctly predicted that Hilary Clinton has the smell of a loser about her? I don't know, and disregarding those issues, Obama didn't have a clean record on paper either.
1 heuheu 2020-02-25
Are you really skeptical on the question "did being black" help or hurt Obama in an election? Being black makes it fairly hard to navigate racial issues in a country where white people lose their shit over pretty much anything. Almost right after he was elected they tried to smear him as a non-citizen.
I don't think it was "luck" per se. I just don't think they were disadvantages in a Republican primary, or a general election. Trump was saying what right-wing talk radio had been saying for years. He wasn't some aberration.
I'd say Trump won in spite of his flaws and political incompetence, and Obama won because of his political competence.
The people "predicting" Clinton was X Y and Z weren't basing those predictions on anything empirical or academic. They didn't like Clinton, so they declared she was totally a bad candidate. The climate didn't favor her - but she ran a more skilled campaign than Donald Trump did.
But when you live in a country that values "change" over substance, being more skilled doesn't mean much. I'd actually rate Trump as a pretty bad politician.
1 theabsolutestateof 2020-02-25
Who did? A majority of voters? Or a losing minority who ended up functioning as a symbol of what the rest of America wanted to repudiate with their vote?
1 heuheu 2020-02-25
Over 50% of the Republican base believed he wasn't a citizen and it was an argument repeated by fairly mainstream GOPers.
They then weaponized white backlash against him in state elections.
1 theabsolutestateof 2020-02-25
A democrat doesn't need %50 of the republican base to win presidency, Flip the parties again, is Trump a god for being essentially a "Russian puppet/ traitor/ conman" to every last democrat and still winning? I say no. The system is volatile, and being a winner in the face of misinformation from the other party doesn't imply great political skill. Someone has to win, and that person is going to have a character defect the other side hates, and their side will decide to rally against this hatred in disgust.
1 heuheu 2020-02-25
I think you're misunderstanding me.
not all elections come down to political skill.
You have:
fundamentals.
support floors.
world events.
All of these can be fairly out of your control - where political skill comes in is navigating something that has a chance to seriously reduce your support with a key demographic.
So in the case of Obama - you have racial issues. The Obama campaign had to put very serious thought into how they were going to navigate racial issues in a country where race is still very much important.
An example of a mistake Obama made, when he got careless was the Trayvon fiasco.
I've seen no evidence Trump is a skilled politician. The gaffes, the miscalculations, the doubling down on a shrinking base after a bad mid-term - that's just evidence of political incompetence.
1 theabsolutestateof 2020-02-25
To be honest, I don't really think Trump is all that skilled either. However, despite all his actions which are conventionally thought of as mistakes, he's proven to be remarkably resilient. He has either a strange talent that he found effective by accident. or just advantageously broke many of the "gentleman's rules" of politics which were respected by past presidents.
Anyway, I don't think you're a dumbass,
1 heuheu 2020-02-25
I think the source of Trump's "moderate support" in some areas is simply hating the system, a protest vote more than support for his platform or worldview.
I heard someone call Trump a political arsonist once, and I think the term fits.
1 Volhar 2020-02-25
Cuck
1 heuheu 2020-02-25
Gonna let you in on a little secret here, hicks, as an American conservative I don't expect you to be aware of this given the conflation of liberalism with the socialist left in conservative circles.
Commies fucking hate liberals, more than conservatives, more than anyone else. A commie will side with a far-right fascist over a liberal.
1 MikeStoklasa-cel 2020-02-25
If Pizzashill is truly cut off from Reddit he'll either run for office or shoot up a sorority house.
1 Kat_B0T 2020-02-25
Or diddle kids. We are truly helping our fellow man by keeping him occupied
1 AnalDestruxion 2020-02-25
Why not all three?
1 CMDR-FusionCor3 2020-02-25
run for office at a kid diddling society he shot up
1 AnalDestruxion 2020-02-25
Pretty based tbh
1 PUBLIQclopAccountant 2020-02-25
Came here to say this
1 ironicshitpostr 2020-02-25
Hopefully he’ll learn to multitask I believe in him
1 CucksLoveTrump 2020-02-25
I've attempted to get him run for his local city council twice
3 MikeStoklasa-cel 2020-02-25
He lives in Florida right? He should be a perfect fit
1 Volhar 2020-02-25
He is the ideal florida man
1 PUBLIQclopAccountant 2020-02-25
hopefully both
1 serialflamingo 2020-02-25
If you faggot paypigs didn't spend REAL MONEY banning him from hwre this wouldn't be an issue 😒 🐽
3 tHeSiD 2020-02-25
I thought you'd have better tard wranglers in your ranch than this wilderness
2 serialflamingo 2020-02-25
Honey I can get away with being a Stalinist here better than I can in the damn Marxist sub.
Cryptoanarchists the lot of them.
2 HRCsFavoriteSlave 2020-02-25
Its is pretty fun to get in arguements over there then slowly leaking half ironic NazBol arguements.
1 serialflamingo 2020-02-25
I'm turning them all gay 🥴
2 HRCsFavoriteSlave 2020-02-25
I thought an admin came in to ban him
1 serialflamingo 2020-02-25
Idk tbh I haven't looked at the modmail in like a year
1 FloggingJonna 2020-02-25
Doing 0 moderating puts in the running for best mod imo.
2 serialflamingo 2020-02-25
I've never topped any polls smdh. I'm a cult fave tho
1 CountChadvonCisberg 2020-02-25
I have literally no idea who you are so I vote for you as best mod
1 -M-o-X- 2020-02-25
Imagine actually thinking your arguing online is changing hearts and minds.
1 Redactor0 2020-02-25
If your movement sees Pizzashill as a serious threat who needs to be silenced then I'm not really sanguine about the chances of your revolution succeeding.
1 HRCsFavoriteSlave 2020-02-25
It's 50/50 people that want to ban him because itd be funny and non-dramacultured people who have no idea who he is.
1 WarSanchez 2020-02-25
He's been banned from 169 countries and has over 6 gorrillion nuked accounts.
Plus I heard his family controls Reddit Community Coins. 🤔
1 Comrade_Natalie 2020-02-25
This but as literal facts
1 DaeshMeOutside 2020-02-25
Thus begins his redemption arc.
1 companyfry 2020-02-25
I just imagine him debating on default subs to rocky theme music while he trains up for his glorious return to r/drama
1 collectijism 2020-02-25
These faggots got together like a bundle of sticks and banned me too. Its a real shame if they ban him. Pizza like me has only one sub left he’s not banned in
1 heuheu 2020-02-25
I'm not banned from most subs.
1 HRCsFavoriteSlave 2020-02-25
They finally got to you?
What was the last straw?
2 collectijism 2020-02-25
I said they were enslaving black people
1 HRCsFavoriteSlave 2020-02-25
Nothing wrong with that.
1 Protista_of_Peace 2020-02-25
That place has gone to shit.