He mostly stole it from his idiotic voter base, so it's a net positive in my book.
You are willfully obtuse if you believe these are equivocal examples.
And not that it matters, but the plane in question was 'gifted' from the Qatari royal family, not 'the Saudis'.
Some of it was done to receive bribes in exchange of favors from the govt. We all paid for that shit.
Have some empathy. With your attitude, we'll have many more Trumps to come.
One of my favorite books is Excellent Cadavers. It's about two judges in Sicily who systematically rooted out the Mafia. And were both assassinated for their work.
The moral is: action is necessary. Trump is hoping we all stop at trying to find empathy for his team.
I'm not talking about his team, I'm talking about the people who voted for him.
For instance, he wouldn't have even got off the ground if free trade hadn't decimated the US manufacturing sector. I won't fault anyone with a blue-collar job for voting for him, because the choice was him vs. some neoliberal. When the choices are bad, I understand making a desperate move.
And now we have even worse polarization, which fuels his type even more. More and deeper polarized "action" (like the snide remark I responded to upthread) is not the way to make things better.
And I would agree with you for the 2016 election. However, when Trump lost more manufacturing jobs under his first term than were lost under Obama despite all his bluster about saving and restoring said jobs, and his administration's only legislative win was a big tax cut for the wealthy, it's no longer a valid reason to vote for the guy in 2020 or 2024.
And, the joke's on any who did vote for him a second and third time: he's lost even more manufacturing jobs.
The tragedy is if you look at the actual data, manufacturing jobs generally recover under Democrat administrations, and they tend to be lost in significant numbers under Republican administrations. People are more easily swayed by memes and sound bites than actual data, though.
That's some pretty messed up shit you wrote there. I'm sure you imagine yourself as somehow better than Trump, but you're just like him. You're part of the problem, and for the sake of all that is good: stop being such a terrible person.
Also, what you wrote is also embarrassingly dumb and short-sighted. Like, do you have any understanding how your ideas sound outside your own head? Saying such things, especially in public, harms your cause.
I have empathy for those wronged by our messed up economic systems, and I believe the policies and candidates I advocate for will help everyone in the end, but I reserve the right to not extend my empathy to those who consistently chose mindless hate over actual solutions. At some point, there must be consequences for siding with these evil fucks over and over and over again. Let these consequences be a very negative public perception of the views they hold, which is very much deserved at this point.
Also, I am absolutely better than Trump and his supporters: I'm not a child rapist and I don't support those who are. And even suggesting that calling out pedophilia is equivalent to practicing it is very messed up.
If it does, it's a pyrrhic victory. You'll complete the destruction of everything the Democrats claim to defend.
> Weakness toward the fascist idiots currently tearing this world appart only made them stronger, and worsened the situation.
Has Donald Trump corrupted you, turning you into your own kind of fascist? That kind of strong(=being vindictive)/weak binary thinking is very Trumpian.
> but I reserve the right to not extend my empathy to those who consistently chose mindless hate over actual solutions.
FYI, that's what one kind of mindless hate looks like to the hater. Especially since you're being very broad with it (e.g. including "his idotic voter base").
> Also, I am absolutely better than Trump and his supporters: I'm not a child rapist and I don't support those who are.
I don't think so: the vast majority of Trump's supporters are also not child rapists and don't support those who are.
I'd suggest you give politics a rest, unless you want to turn into what you seem to despise.
You mean feckless neoliberalism? That would be great. In all seriousness, aggressively calling out actual fascist tendencies in the opposition is healthy behavior. Letting it flourish on the other hand...
> Has Donald Trump corrupted you, turning you into your own kind of fascist?
You do not know what fascism is. Educate yourself.
> FYI, that's what one kind of mindless hate looks like to the hater.
Good try. "You hating racism makes you the real racist". FFS.
> I don't think so: the vast majority of Trump's supporters are also not child rapists and don't support those who are.
Really? I have yet to meet a single republican that re-examined their support of Trump in light of the overwhelming evidence to his pedophilia. I can only conclude that they're all fine with it.
Overall, good attempt at the classic "anti-fascism is the same as fascism". We're done talking.
> You mean feckless neoliberalism?
No, empathy. And a country were people more-or-less get along, even if they disagree, instead of one of hateful factions engaged in bitter battle for power and dominance.
>> Has Donald Trump corrupted you, turning you into your own kind of fascist?
> You do not know what fascism is. Educate yourself.
Read more carefully. I said your own kind of fascist, as in drawing parallels to bad behavior that you understand, in an attempt to get to see it in a different light.
>> FYI, that's what one kind of mindless hate looks like to the hater.
> Good try. "You hating racism makes you the real racist". FFS.
"FFS," read more carefully. Do you think racism is the only kind of hate?
> Trump in light of the overwhelming evidence to his pedophilia.
Please share the New York Times article with that bombshell, so succinctly stated. I must've missed that one.
> Overall, good attempt at the classic "anti-fascism is the same as fascism". We're done talking.
Actually it wasn't an attempt at that at all.
But you're right, we're done talking. You seem to seem to be retreating into an angry defensiveness of your Trump-like tendencies, and resorting to pretty blatant distortions to [checks notes] resist the idea of having empathy for others.