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Argument in the post was pretty weak.

My point was the election was very close. Personally I didn't find it surprising Trump won. I know a lot of older people that were all in. It was shocking to see the change in rhetoric this year. Instead of debating traditional topics of economics etc, I dealt with a bombardment of videos/memes/etc that were either obviously fake or obviously strawman arguments. I know some conservative kids my age, most of them wanted nothing to do with Donald Trump. The ones that did, started calling themselves "nationalist" and talking as if they were apart of some great "race war". It was insane.

It saddens me to see the older generation sell my future because their fear of brown people and their inability to determine whats BS spam links.

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What's with the ageist discrimination? Old people are people too.

4 years of presidency is not going to sell anyone's future. The worst that will happen, not counting a nuclear war, is

1) more gas/oil/coal gets mined, driving the prices down, and making the renewables unattractive.

2) increased CO2 emissions due to cheaper gas/oil/coal.

3) make the rich richer, everyone else poorer, which has been happening for decades in the US

Neither of these are particularly scary, it just sets the humanity a few years back, but maybe will force us to come up with some technological solutions to fight CO2 and other climate change issues.

Stop being so alarmist, he won fair, it's his turn to drive the bus. I don't like him, but things don't always go our way.

"it just sets the humanity a few years back"

Life is short man. Its not like in four years we can just simple turn back the clock and fix everything. We elected someone who openly molested women, I can't imagine how that must feel to a woman.

We don't know yet what the federal government will do about climate change. It doesn't look like they will do a lot tho. We still don't fully understand the problem, who knows. "a few years" could be meaningless or it could be everything...

He didn't openly molest women. Listen to the recording. He talks about the women who let him do it, which is consensual.

4 years will not destroy the planet, even China failed at that in their crazy building spree in the last decades.

Trump: Yeah, that’s her. With the gold. I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.

Bush: Whatever you want.

Trump: Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.

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You are saying that's not misogyny?

He's talking about using his celebrity status to take advantage of women.

Yeah, you just didn't provide the full quote. Be ashamed for trying to BS our readers.

wut r u talking about? -_-

"Let him do it" in the sense that if they'd told anyone about it, he had the money and power to make them pretty miserable. That's hardly consensual in any meaningful sense.

And four years absolutely could destroy the planet (or at least the parts all the humans are living in), under the right circumstances. Putting a hothead like Donald Trump in charge of the American nuclear arsenal was the height of irresponsibility.

It just sets the humanity a few years back,

The point is we don't have that many years left to stop irreversible change from happening. And the effect of his actions (for example, in almost single-handedly reinvigorating an entire generation of rabid climate change deniers) may be with us for many years after he leaves office.

If someone grabs the wheel of a car you're riding in, steps on the gas and sends it barreling toward a sharp cliff -- you don't just think, "this just sends us a few tens of meters further toward the cliff" (simply because the cliff is still a few hundred meters away).

Nor would you describe any of your fellow passengers who seem overly concerned about the sudden turn in the state of affairs as "alarmist". Nor would you say "I don't like him, and I agree that rapidly approaching cliff edge looks linda scary -- but things don't always go our way." You'd do everything you can to grab the wheel back from him before it's too late.

That's the situation we're in.

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