I mean you are entirely reasonable, and we are past that now. 
also, any personal insults will include the full word you and often a 4 letter follow up. Just FYI, and to avoid confusion.
And thank you for asking before assuming any sideways comment you don’t totally get isn’t some deeply personal insult to be returned instantly (unlike some other comments from last evening currently being digested by our hosts ).
Osmium is rarer than platinum and therefore classier.
Trump should supply literal osmium shirts to his followers.
What if he shot himself?
fatally? i would vote for him after that.
How 'bout “economic violence”? Can you wish that on him? (Pssst: he’s wishing it on you).
I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise, I promise.
See, what he’ll do is offer advice on falsifying credit card applications in order to secure funding to pay the legal fees. Plus, he’ll send a cardboard cutout with which one can pose in one’s jail cell!
well Troglodytes only have natural armor and 2d8 + 4 hit points so I’m thinking it might be worth taking a chance.
That’s one basic piece of internet wisdom that I try to stick to. I never understood why so many people fail to grasp that. There are already plenty of explicit, unambiguous insults on the internet. It’s just irrational to assume that any of the rest that is being said on the internet is intended to be insulting, as well. I already have to assume that in addition to humans, there is a race of virtual beings of unknown origin inhabiting the internet. There is no other explanation for the amount of vitriol that goes around, as real-life people do not insult each other that often.
So early state capitalism is that mystical old state of society when capitalism was benign and just made sense, where all people acted out of enlightened self-interest and, at the same time, reasonably towards each other? Yeah, we’re long past that.
[citation needed].
From this side of the pond, Carson, Cruz and Trump seem equally deranged, just in slightly different ways.
Wikipedia editors seem worse than usual today. That or osmium is so dense it gravitationally collapses to neutronium. Now that would be a fun metal to extract.
They look that way on this side of the pond, too, unless you’re an indoctrinated Jesusite.
You realize this is a thread about Trump? 
Arguable he is not real life, but his supporters are.
Oh, I am perfectly aware that this thread is about Trump.
I am also perfectly aware that Trump is not real life. Of course I know that he’s just a character made up by Dutch media company Endemol as part of their popular “reality” TV franchise, “Who wants to be a president?”. After all, it’s their second-most successful TV show format (they are also responsible for the “Big Brother” franchise). They call it “reality” TV, but of course, all the “candidates” are played by cheap amateur actors.
Personally, I don’t like the current season very much. That Sanders guy, he’s just a rather flat Mary Sue character that the European audience is supposed to identify with. They basically asked their market researchers, “what are the most inoffensive, most reasonable, and most universally agreed upon political positions you can think of?”, and then had Sanders say them. Reasonable politics, but really bad television. If he loses, that will be a sad ending, and totally predictable, but if he wins, it will be a bad break in the continuity of the series. I mean, Americans voting for a “social democrat”, that’s flatly contradicted by canon. It’ll be more like a reboot than a continuation of the series.
As for Trump, I find the character a little over the top. Frankly, I don’t quite approve of how they are playing on the European audience’s prejudices against America. I mean, I’ve visited the United States of America myself, and I’ve found that it’s an impressive country full of very friendly and welcoming people. But Endemol gave us George W. Bush a few seasons back and now Trump. It’s like a smear campaign against America.
I get that it’s all a rather smart satire - they present us with an exaggerated version of our own right-wing politicians, in the hopes that we might notice that they are basically the same kind of idiots, even if they, unlike Trump, pretend that they are sane and reasonable people. But I’m afraid that this subtlety is lost on the majority of the European TV audience. They’ll just say “those Americans are idiots” and then vote for National Front (Front National, France), Alternative for Germany (AfD, Germany), Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ), Fidesz (Hungary), Law and Justice (PiS, Poland), etc.
Now, Trump’s supporters, sure they are real. But, honestly, how many of them are smart enough to use a computer to post stuff on the internet? Can’t be more than a couple of thousand. And the supporters of European right wing parties are probably posting in their native languages only, because surely none of them are smart enough to master two intellectual skills (computer use + a foreign language).
So, all that still doesn’t account for all the uncivilized name-calling going on on the internet.
If that was accounting than the people you seem concerned about are definitely smart enough to get online and be uncivil. My proof, same as yours. Nice talking with you.
Universally agreed upon except in the USA, of course. I sometimes wonder if our entire country is fictional, in much the way you describe. It would explain so much if many of our public figures really were actors.
honestly, how many of them are smart enough to use a computer to post stuff on the internet?
From the videos I’ve seen of his supporters, I’m somewhat surprised that they’re smart enough to operate doorknobs.
The most popular president of the 20th century was. But a lot of them are lawyers, and they are basically actors too. They say stuff they don’t believe and get paid for it.
Sanders voters rule.
When we got our present dog and he wasn’t yet fully sure he wanted to live with us, I had to replace a few door handles with door knobs to stop him getting to places he shouldn’t. He was very annoyed, but after a week he settled down.
As even troglodytes have opposable thumbs, I would think they could manage doorknobs if a dog can. Though I think my dog is probably intelligent enough to want to bite Trump.
Now if you had said “smart enough to understand how a doorknob works”, I would agree with you.
