In a discussion of Trump’s alleged literacy you can’t distinguish between adjectives and nouns.
When hosting SNL, Donald Trump ‘struggled to read,’ says former cast member. Can the President read?
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Aren’t the far right in favour of that?
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Why I choose to live here and not there! 
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I’m very fortunate to have friends all over the world and I take the chance whenever I can to go and visit them and talk about life. I was recently in Germany staying with friends and we got around to discussing politics, taxes, etc. Yes, they pay a lot in taxes and they complain about the heavy bureaucracy they sometimes have to deal with. But here’s the thing…their quality of life is SO much better compared to an average American.
They take vacations regularly, they have less stress, and they just enjoy life. They work to live and not the other way around like we do in the US. Their lifestyles are so much more relaxed compared to America. The influx of immigrants coming into their country is a concern but they don’t see it as an invasion like we do here - they see it as a real opportunity to diversify and expand their society. They certainly don’t go around lamenting and bitching about “welfare states” and the like. Their frame of reference is just so different that they don’t see it as a problem - because it’s not.
If that’s what soft-socialism, PC-destroying rot looks like then sign me up.
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This is a bad thing?
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I’d really like to see some evidence for such a claim, too.
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That’s not what I was saying at all. I understand perfectly well that our system limits the range of available options according to the interests of those who run it, but that doesn’t change the fact that voters in 2016 (or, at least, enough of them to win the electoral college) went out of their way to choose the most disgusting possible candidate they were offered. Overtly racist/homophobic/Islamophobic/anti-intellectual propaganda only works on people who already harbor some degree of prejudice, and who—yes—lack the critical thinking faculties (or motivation) to see it for what it is. Roughly 30% of the electorate voted for Trump not because they’re good-hearted people who were duped by propaganda, or because they were making a lesser of two evils choice, but because they enthusiastically support his agenda. There’s very little that can be said of their reasons for doing so that could not also have been said of German voters in the 1930s.
Just look at the Trump supporters on this thread. They’re not thoughtful or circumspect, and if they have time to trolley they clearly have time to inform themselves. They showed up to the BBS to call us libtards, just like they showed up to the polls to eliminate the programs they know we care about.
Relativism is a luxury of the well-credentialed upper 10%.
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Well, you haven’t got there yet. That isn’t good.
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The fact that he’s a dullard is what made him appealing to so many voters. It’s what made it seem that, in spite of being a billionaire born into wealth and privilege, he was “one of them;” someone who spoke their language and shared their way of looking at things. His cleverness in winning consisted in the fact that he was the first to recognize that facts no longer matter matter; that you could build a winning coalition by pandering to bigotry and resentment without fear of being disqualified for office for advocating fascism.
And even if we grant that he’s brilliant politician, those aren’t the skills that qualify him to frame domestic policy (“Who knew that healthcare was so complicated!”) or manage international crises in a world where failure can result in nuclear holocaust. The ability to read may not be so important to a reality star politician, but it’s crucial to a president.
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Not only that, but they don’t even travel within the US. Their jobs don’t require travel, and they live within the same metro area (if not the same zipcode) of where they went to high school.
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I have an old friend from Texas who gradually became more conservative over the years. She used to dream of visiting upstate NY to see the fall colors, but now she refuses to come because she doesn’t like our gun laws.
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Yep. People who think Europe is some commie wasteland also likely think that New York and California are Sodom and Gomorrah, and think Chicago is a literal war zone.
Worldly people just don’t think that bullshit.
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¯_(ツ)_/¯ . I haven’t heard it since it aired … buuuuuut I don’t think it was shop, I think it was English based. As I recall, everyone liked him and his students weren’t any worse for wear thanks to his illiteracy. I’m sure he would have been called out much sooner if his students were consistently a year behind after leaving his class. Strangers is a great program though, and when ya get a chance, I’d definitely recommend giving it a listen!
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How do NY gun laws affect her enjoyment of fall colors? She wants to come out and shoot up a bunch of trees or something?
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I think it’s partly disdain for the culture, but also a reluctance to leave her guns at home even though they’d be totally unnecessary here. I suspect that a lot of open carry types are just addicted to the feeling of being armed.
(to be fair, her husband is a lawyer who handles divorces, and she does get threatened a lot)
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Great, thanks to this image macro now i can’t stop thinking about my saccades ;_;
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Many do fit this description, but you’d be surprised how many parking lot attendants, receptionists, store clerks and other such low-level positions are staffed by foreigners who were teachers, doctors and lawyers in their old homeland. When a country falls apart it tends to be the smart ones with means who GTFO!
This is actually one of the most damning indictments of our education system, having exhausted their resources just getting here they literally cannot pull themselves up by their proverbial bootstraps due to the high costs of education and ineligibility for most forms of aid (some amount of which is required for them to be able to re-certify to American standards).
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You are so right, my apologies!
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But the point is that the person you’re quoting
seems to be saying that “soft-socialism” is somehow associated with the destruction of PC (presumably “political correctness”), and that both are bad despite the fact that the right supposedly wants the end of “political correctness”.
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