Moonlit_Angel
Blue Crack Addict
Yeah, that kinda jumped out at me, too.
*Grew up in a trailer park*
*Grew up in a trailer park*
Holy shit. I never said "don't talk about the major party candidate." I implied that people should stop listening to his obvious troll bait, as it only benefits him.
But how does it "only benefit him"? It doesn't benefit him if it turns people away. It doesn't benefit him if it finally opens some eyes.
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Who is it turning away that it already hasn't turned away? Who the hell thinks "oh Donald, that was the last straw. The first 47 comments you made that were racist and 86 that were xenophobic... I gave you passes. But now, no way. That was the straw that broke this voter's back!!"
The only people who haven't made their mind up on Trump don't give a flying fuck about those comments.
Who does it turn towards him? You haven't explained the benefit.
There have been plenty of people that have changed their mind about him, your cynicism is getting the best of you.
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At least it won't be much of a surprise if in 2020 we get more reality tv stars running for office.
Trump is showing that you really need to be savvy with Marketing, Advertising, Labeling...and manipulation.
Curious to see if elections spiral way downhill from here, or if we start looking to elect the best that we've got. Would bet the former.
Trailer Trash?
Nice.
Who does it turn towards him? The people that fucking hate Hilary Clinton with a passion but hate him too. When Trump Trump Trump Trump is shoved down their throats and they're already 'fiscal' Republicans who don't care about social issues, all press is good press.
Try living in itTry going on different alleys of the Internet. Where being progressive might not be the majority.
Well since these are the only people left who are undecided, what should the media concentrate on? Everyone's made up their minds anyways, so let's not cover the campaign.
Try living in it
do you know how annoying it is when a discussion turns into someone repeatedly asserting that you're taking a position that you have clarified isn't the case, multiple times?
Why yes I do.
This conversation is annoying because you're pretending everyone fits into an either/ or category and that it all stacks up on one side. Most will disagree with you; this is an important conversation to have, it's gotten Hispanic republicans to speak out against him and say they're not sure how they're going to vote now, it's made allies such as Newt speak out against him, and I think you're being rather tone deaf to dismiss it as not being news.
And when Donald Trump is president and you ask yourself "how could this happen?" you can look back at the absurd amount of free press he got for manipulating the media and you alike.
If you read some parts of Trump's books, he's basically laid out the gameplan on how to manipulate people to get a deal. He's doing the same things for his campaign.
Guess he really does know the art of a deal
"Tone deaf." Let me pull a comment that might come from BVS. "I don't think you even know what that means." There's nothing "tone deaf" about what I'm saying. You're entirely evading the point of the political spotlight. Call it an important discussion, fine. And when Donald Trump is president and you ask yourself "how could this happen?" you can look back at the absurd amount of free press he got for manipulating the media and you alike.
Or maybe we can do both?Instead, we can just talk about his economic plans, or lack thereof. Or we can discuss his plans for bettering race relations. Or lack thereof. Or we can talk about the illegitimacy of his immigration policy, and how he can't possibly enact anything he's saying in tandem with the absurd economic plan he has put forth.
Donald Trump, if elected, won't be elected because BVS et al. discussed Trump's daily idiocies.
The free press criticism is correct but there is nothing we can do about it. Even if every person who thinks that Trump is ridiculous stops watching TV entirely which is some sort of fantasy la-la land that doesn't exist, the media would continue to cover him because he would make news among the rest of the people and the global media. He is regularly on the front page of local papers in countries you'd probably struggle to identify on a map. I'm not sure how the solution to that is to tell people on this board to talk about the issues...
Free press. Yes we all agree with you, but you're the one being manipulated if you think all press is good press. You keep skirting around this. This story alone has turned people against him that weren't against him last week.
I'm being manipulated? What, manipulated into not clicking on the click bait on CNN and instead choosing something else to read? How am I being manipulated?
What would happen if in a few months, Trump comes out and says "You've been Punk'd!!!"
You're manipulated into thinking that all press is good press and that this story somehow is in Trump's favor.
And less of these BigMacphisto vs. everyone else walls of text that drag on for 5 pages at a time.
Can we have a separate thread for the BMP vs BVS vs LN7 disputatious three-way action?
Trump said he's the least racist guy around, so there's that. I think I'll vote for him now.