Good for Palmer.
I was sad to see all of the negativity in the various comment threads on this story around the Internet.
The McCarthyist-style witch hunt against Trump supporters is far scarier than anything Trump has ever said.
I was sad to see all of the negativity in the various comment threads on this story around the Internet.
The McCarthyist-style witch hunt against Trump supporters is far scarier than anything Trump has ever said.
Palmer wants to directly fund Trump with your Rift expenditures:
> Our adversaries have enormous power, and the best way I can continue to fight the good fight is to keep doing well in business and funding good causes with the proceeeds.
https://archive.is/4OuYq#selection-3341.176-3341.346
This isn't some citizen sharing his opinion proportionately to his vote or his social status, this is him using money to amplify his voice and control discourse.
Hillary has PACs, etc. that do the same. We should work to get money out of politics, but in the meantime it seems fine to vote with your wallet in cases where your money is being used as speech and you disagree with the speech.
He wiped Bush, Cruz, and even the superstar politician Rubio off the map, spending a fraction of what they did in doing it as well.
Say what you will about his views, many of which I personally find refreshing, but saying he isn't a good politician flies completely in the face of the facts of this election cycle.
That Trump could avoid the bad press if he wanted, but doesn't, suggests that he welcomes it. And, to his credit, it seems to be working for him. He's been able to harness a sense of mass disenfranchisement and anti-establishment rage that the Republican Party has been unable to tap into, despite their best efforts.
This sort of "Trump is literally Hitler" rhetoric is anything but constructive. I'm sad to see that so many in the tech community are willing to operate at this level.
Republicans are not Nazis. Good people support Trump. They are your neighbors and colleagues.
You're behaving like the fear-mongering oppressors you claim to despise.
Hanna Arendt documented "the banality of evil" quite well. That nice neighbor who always smiles and says hello, but votes to ship Muslims to a concentration camp? They're evil.
Frankly, the most intolerant voices I've been hearing this election cycle come from the left -- calling for conservatives to be purged and blacklisted at every turn.
Progressives seem to have whipped themselves up into a moral panic.
Sad times.
'When asked whether he would have supported Japanese internment camps, Trump told Time that he could not say for certain.
"I would have had to be there at the time to tell you, to give you a proper answer," he told the magazine. "I certainly hate the concept of it. But I would have had to be there at the time to give you a proper answer."'[1]
1). https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/12...
There are activists who routinely call for mass disarmament of citizens (entirely seriously and not as a form of rhetorical exploration), and it is unreasonable to conclude that the activists are "hinting" at or condone any kind of authoritarianism or genocide that may coincidentally result after such a policy is implemented. Don't muddle the discourse further with similarly unreasonable conclusions.
(And before anyone responds, please recognize that calling it "Neo-Nazi" isn't some liberal smear. They're 100% open about this.)