He was the best person for the job so he got hired. Imagine if this spread throughout all the land--though big cities and small towns--through large companies and mom-and-pop businesses.
I kinda wanted to see some badass armor, TBH. 🤷🏻♂️ ...I’ll just have to settle for an absolute badass of a president who fights with every fiber of his being -for free- to preserve your freedoms and mine. The true candidate of love, law, order, and prosperity
You still have the idiots out there holding Trump is a Nazi dictator signs, while they freely protest him and nothing happens to them. If your signs Were correct the government would just come in and arrest you and you disappear or shoot you on site and walk away like nothing happened. They are not the smartest bunch of people out there.
it takes a lot to overcome years of programming . smarter people almost always will because they can't help themselves and they want to understand how things work.
i know a lot of somewhat decent coders who dont understand how mask work and will use random fancy words to justify it - but arent looking further than the tip of their nose.
I used to do street magic in my younger days. The "smarter" people were always the easiest to fool because you can lead them down a false train of logic more easily and do the trick while they're distracted and think they have the trick figured out.
There are some ideas that are so stupid that only intellectuals will believe them.
"Stupid" people are better at this sort of thing because they are more likely to simply watch and enjoy a magic trick while it's in process instead of trying to analyze it in detail. To be fooled by a feint, you have to be familiar enough with fighting to know what the usual tells are. This can give rank beginners an edge over amateurs in certain situations.
I think that this is what you are noticing when you manage to fool all those "stupid" intellectuals. It's that these people are smart enough to figure out a few tells, but are not clever enough to understand that those tells are how magicians distract our attention in the first place.
But a few of us smart people are smart enough to know when retaining general awareness and court vision (that is, thoughtlessly meditating upon one's overall sensory experience) is more important than attempting detailed, conscious analysis. This often applies when observing a quick action, or when observing a completely unfamiliar action.
That is to say, in this case, I would know that I know nothing about magic tricks. I'm really smart, but obviously I can only outsmart other specialists within my own specialization, maybe. So my only way to notice anything amiss would be to clear my mind so that my instincts can operate unhindered.
You should not be so quick to dismiss the people who invented and maintain the technology you are typing these words on. Magicians are intellectuals too. It's a fantastically detailed and complicated artform. Every intellectual can do better than other intellectuals who are not trained in their specialization.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but you are not a special snowflake, and you do not have any secret knowledge or superpowers that make you smarter than the rest of us. That's SJW thinking. Maybe your next magic trick should be to vanish your stinking pride.
This is what pisses me off about what people think of my profession. I think I'm a relatively good systems engineer but I'm dumb as rocks. You don't know any the retarded shit I've done. You don't have to be smart to be good at IT.
No, a smart person understands their own capacity for making mistakes, observes the patterns in their mistakes, and implements strategies to prevent them moving forward.
"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field." -Niels Bohr, physicist, Nobel laureate
There are so few transvestites in the population that if such gangs actually did exist, there would be no trans people left to parade themselves all over media.
when i'm in a real tight spot, I remain solidly unapologetic about my '16 vote, and just say, "I don't care, I am not - in any fucking reality- voting for that woman. She is literal mafia. LITERAL MAFIA."
Now I can do the same thing wit Joepedo... "I don't care, I refuse to vote for a fucking pedophile sexual predator. Never gonna happen."
Last I saw of her, she seems just fine. Looks like everyone's still there. Not that she'd ever concede that she was being a hysterical drama queen or anything.
I find that people like that never even realize they were ever hysterical. They manipulate their self-image to always be more reasonable than they were at the time.
She saw the blonde woman pelted with eggs while a hotel employee refused to allow her in to safety. She probably saw a young woman walk a screaming gauntlet with her boyfriend, and get punched in the face,
What made this change ? Mine was before the 2016 elections i was indifferent but people kept approaching me constantly saying "did you hear what trump said". I went nobody can be that stupid so i listened to his speeches and realized they were all lies what they were saying.
I did around 2018. Eventually I just asked myself, “why am I so mad at Trump for?” And started doing my research. Then I started looking into the policies he had created and I liked them. I always felt like I was liberal minded but I always had conservative values and principles. I hate radicalism and have seen how the culture has been completely consumed by it on the left.
I loved the cancellation of TPP, and his Make Federal Buildings Great Again EO. No more marxist oppressive communist-art monstrosities of concrete and ugly shit.
I hated t_d and was astounded they existed and wondered if they were actually serious. One of my friends got a maga hat and was a little trolly about it and it actually made me concerned. Then when Bernie got scammed and started spouting propaganda and suddenly beefery was shoved down our throats and fear mongering and lies started flowing like a river against Trump I started going to t_d for a breath of sanity. As people just got angrier and angrier I realized who the crazies really were.
Unfortunately, this has caused a "get angry, don't change" mentality across the board it seems. Very dividing times. Sad.
Very well written, using intellectual, emotional, and personal experience as an argument. She is better than 90 percent plus of those in media, that includes many in Fox News who are too stupid to see or too corrupt.
Perhaps it does, but if that persuades even one person to re-examine their beliefs, that would be good. Reason based ways of thinking sometimes have to be acquired through experience and hard work - we should support and mentor the rookies.
I have heard this criticism before and though there is probably something to it, writing personal essays comes much more naturally to me than taking an authoritative tone and removing myself from what I write. This probably stems from not wanting to appear to be stating facts when what I’m stating is my opinion. SJWs confuse a lot of opinion for facts or truth and they push it that way. I’ve had enough of that. Plus - though my Unsafe Safe cohost speaks mostly to people who haven’t yet succumb to SJW ideology, I often to try to talk even to people who are still in it. They respond much better to appeals to emotion than to reason.
Don't be deterred by the overly harsh criticisms of some of our more prickly members here. "CancelBLM" is more than welcome to his position, but I think it's petty to rag on someone for their writing style, especially when the purpose of their writing is to shine a light on the unbelievably mainstream nature of one of the chief evils of our time. I believe he is missing the forest for the trees.
The purpose of this comment is not just to blindly come to your defense, nor to throw CancelBLM under the bus for voicing his thoughts. My purpose is to encourage you to keep expressing yourself in whichever way you please when you experience revelations. It's important that newly enlightened people are heard so that others who haven't been can hear a voice that sounds soft and moderate; not one that has been mired in bitterness for so long. Many of us here, myself included, can sound outright mean because we've seen and been subjected to so much evil at this point that it has jaded us immensely.
They respond much better to appeals to emotion than to reason
So this is kind of like when Democrats leave the places they ruin and then keep voting for, and doing, the same garbo that ruined the last place they fled.
It's better if you leave that baggage with the bag holders. I don't really want your vote or support if you are bringing the same emotional garbo that drove the Left off the cliff with you. If that's the case all you are doing is opening the door to the same BS that ruined your last political party, but here.
The mob doesn't care what you use. Orange. Man. Bad. They just want to be mad. You're just watering this movement down if the only thing you bring is tossing your emotions over the wall in the other direction. To be honest, the sniff test smells like you got tired of the Left being your emotional tampon and now you're looking for attention somewhere else.
My thought exactly. Have you read Medium's site rules by chance? They literally say that feelings always overrule facts and science. So no matter how true and/or scientific an article is, if it hurts some NPC's feelings, it's in violation. Pathetic.
Earlier tonight I had a conversation with two friends; one of whom I believe voted for trump because he hated Hillary, and how the other voted is not known to me. Generally, I have been given the impression that they are mostly Moderate people, with a slight left lean.
The one whose vote I do not know has, about 2-3 years ago, made comments that indicate he believed that President Trump is sincerely racist.
Tonight that same friend stated that he thinks "a lot of people who believe Trump is racist probably only feel that way because the news tells them to feel that way." The other friend commented "Well, I just think Obama is an incredibly sick, and evil person." That is not a sentiment that I had ever heard him voice before tonight.
The Left is driving people to us. the longer they keep up these antics, the more people they send our way... Hopefully we get enough to landslide this bitch up in November. Either way i am going to vote like we don't, because the Leftists are going to cheat so damn much that we need to vote in record numbers to offset them.
I just don't understand where the racist argument comes from. I have never heard Trump ever mention any race in a negative way. But I guess people still believe the "fine people" hoax.
Repeat the lie enough and it becomes the truth. My 14 year year old daughter is now totally convinced that Trump is racist but she can’t provide any evidence to support it. She simply believes it because so many other people (on social media) have parroted the lie. It’s maddening.
You ain't gonna be able to do it for ever so the real solution is to instill values and teach the kid how to think properly, become able to understand true from false.
She is just a dumb fickle teenager when it comes to politics etc. A month ago she liked Trump. Now she says he’s racist after staring at the phone and barely leaving the house for a month. The internet is poison
When asked about a wall, compare legal immigration to job interviews.
Why does your company spend a lot of time and resources vetting candidates for the company? Why do you do drug tests and criminal background checks?? Why don't you just let people come in if they wish? Is it not racist to not let anyone who wishes to be there to come in?
I challenge anyone to tell me how immigration and hiring are different in any way.
Another wall argument might be to point out that the Trump administration is going very hard against human trafficking and pedophiles. Paying a human trafficker is how many people enter illegally, and many women and children are molested and raped. Some are also forced into prostitution - well, sexual slavery really, they're not being paid. This was also the reason for separating "families" which happened in Obama's reign too, because not all those children are actually with families, they're being trafficked. The drug cartels and human traffickers that are doing these things are coming in freely because there's no wall.
Actual radical right-winger Nazi types hate Trump because Trump is a Jew-loving New York socialite who graduated from Wharton. And was also a TV star.
I honestly don't understand how you can consider the guy racist. You could maybe stretch sexist if you're a retarded feminist, but that applies to all millionaire playboy types because they've got willing pussy lined around the block for them.
I mean, given the two choices, seems like you'd have to be an ideological zombie not to vote for him, no? Jew-loving socialite sounds way better than "braindead pedophile", even for the Nazi type, I think.
And it's not like an actual Nazi type will ever get a candidate they don't hate. There are exactly zero other Nazi types on the ballot in any election in the USA.
So really who they vote for, or even if they do it at all, is a completely moot point.
My point is, though, that you don't know anything about these supposed radical right-winger Nazi types. You're making them up to be a strawman that you can dismiss. But I've talked to a lot of them, even here, and they are far better than the communists among us that are taking power.
I think the important part is whether a racist voted for a candidate because they believe that candidate will be an advocate for realizing their hateful desires, or if they voted for a candidate because they believe that their candidate is the best to lead a country in general.
Because either way, all racists, rapists, murders, and thieves that are allowed to vote, are statistically likely to vote for either Trump or Biden. Whether we like it or not.
I will say. I have not jumped on the gay marriage train, and the more I see of their movement, the stronger my resistance to it has grown. Trump being okay with gay marriage is one of my biggest critiques of him.
Doesn't mean I think a gay person shouldn't live their life without interference, so long as they're being decent. Pushing for drag queens, sexualizing schools, or erasing gender doesn't count as being decent in my book. Nor did overturning our votes to force gay marriage down our throats.
But hey, do I have to agree with Trump on 100% of everything? No. But I'd like to see some pushback. Somewhere.
I voted Hillary 2016. When Trump won I was legit scared about police becoming the gestappo or whatever starting to patrol the streets... Then a year went by and I asked the simple question, "is Trump THAT bad???"
Jordan Peterson, John Stossel, and Ben Shapiro were my Red Pill and I'll never vote Democrat again.
No idea in all honesty. I know he's big on Facebook but I completely dismiss him based on the fact he was a Never Trumper. All the stuff the Democrats are supporting today was the same when he supported them against Trump, they're just more vocal now.
No one goes that far left and suddenly supports Trump. He made the move for money. I also heard his wife is a doctor? That's pretty cool.
One type couldn't bring themselves to vote for him in 2016. But once he won, they decided to see how he'd do, and already said they'd vote for him in 2020. (Steve Deace and I guess Ben Shapiro are in this group). Their "never Trump" expired after Election Day in 2016.
Others are joining with Democrats to unseat him in 2020, as well as other Republicans. This is William Kristol and the Lincoln Project and all the rest.
Well, I'm a Jewish supporter of Israel too, so there's that. Hell, my red-pill moment was when I saw the leftists siding with the Israel haters.
I like Shapiro, sometimes. Sometimes he gets a little grating. I think there's a bit of.... well... David French push the ridiculous "Drag queen story hour is the price of freedom." I'm not saying Shapiro is that bad, but he feels a bit like: "World is ending, it all sucks, now it's time for some things that I like and that I hate."
Lol I was purposely looking for conservative voices I thought I would disagree with, only to find out I've been conservative my whole life without realizing it.
i remember 2016 in SF, CA i was just like "heh weird the dude that isnt establishment won thats unexpected"
but then i went to work. empty streets. at work empty desks. I checked the news like wtf? nothing just trump victory. then i realized. the people here were so chocked they called in sick. and from that day on i was on the trump train.
this is because clearly the msm had gotten so deep in the people psyche that it became instantly the enemy. i just hadn't realized how powerful the brainwashing was until then.
the legacy media had not told me this was happening
We should all start using the term "LEGACY" Media, not mainstreet or lamestreet. Mainstreet gives the media credence, it gives the fake news outlets a sense of establishment and sway.
They don't have that, they are 'legacy,' dying dinosaurs that will publish any ridiculous fake story to stay relevant. But they have been left behind, and are slowly losing power and its only a matter of time until they are finally forgotten.
Mark Granovetter proposed threshold theory as a way of understanding riots. He said that there are those in a riot who have a threshold of zero, who will be the first to throw a rock, and there are not many of those. But then there are those with a threshold of 1, who will be emboldened to throw a rock as long as one other person is already doing it. And then there are those with a threshold of 2, and so on, until you get a full on mob or riot happening. I think this theory explains what is happening in the Democratic party today — not only in regards to actual riots, but in regards to why so many are now mindlessly parroting racist and sexist social justice beliefs. Because others are doing it.
Well the opposite is true too. I believe in a threshold theory for truth. I believe there are those, and there are relatively few of them, who have a threshold of zero and who will be the first to speak truth, even when they are mocked and maligned and threatened and lied about. And those brave people encourage others, they encourage those with a threshold of 1, to start speaking truth because they see at least one other person doing it, no matter the consequences. And those people inspire those with a threshold of 2, and so on, until truth prevails. One person turning on their light, can spark others to turn on their light. Martin Luther King Jr famously said, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” Or in the words of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a man who brought down a version of this ideology once before, simply by speaking the truth: “To stand up for truth is nothing. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph…. But not through me.”
This is all I ask of a real democrat. Someone who is willing to talk, listen, and compromise, instead of the new brainwashed SJW marxist sexist racist.
I don't aim to force my views on others. But I will also not allow their views to be forced upon me.
In my point of view, this liberal deserves respect for their realization, as well as the eloquence of the description of the harsh moments when their eyes were first opened.
I know there are many more who have made those same hard realizations.
You have our support.
Well said, thank you for sharing what it means to be American. We don't all have to think alike, we just need to respect each other first and foremost. The real problem lies in those who seek to control others thoughts... Those are the ones who divide us by color, age, sex or any other category they can.
What they REALLY mean is that we must speak their ideology, and only their ideology, or else remain quiet. They are the FIRST to use racist and sexist and homophobic slurs against anyone brave enough to stand up to their backwards beliefs.
EXACTLY. This is how you differentiate a liberal from a TDS lefty.
I had friends who legitimately thought gay people would be rounded up into concentration camps...
I was promised the gays would be put in camps Mr Trump! You have let me down!!!!
Instead he put them in the Director of National Intelligence!!!! How dare he!!!! LOL Richard Grenell was the best person ever hired by Trump!
I 'member when Trump said we're gonna decriminalize homosexuality worldwide. (And appointed Richard Grenell to lead the way!)
A leftist wrote an article saying Trump was just a racist trying to use lgbtq issues to weaken Iran.
Admitting for the first time that the left uses lgbtq issues to weaken countries they don't like.
So what are we doing, then, if it weakens us?
Gen Z will fix that problem. There is a record amount of us fed up with the alphabet mafia. We will put them back in the closet where they belong.
Good luck, and G-d speed.
SHADILAY
He really is good.
Idk man, that's a really tough one. His economic/trade/financial team is a pack of wolverines. Lighthizer and Navarro in particular.
Ross' distillation of the trade war with Canada to 4 cents on a tin of soup was great.
Ya i agree. Grenell is great, but I wouldn't say the best hires.
Mr. Grenell is a true patriot and a pretty hilarious dude at that. What a pick!
He was the best person for the job so he got hired. Imagine if this spread throughout all the land--though big cities and small towns--through large companies and mom-and-pop businesses.
-Donald J. Trump, probably
I own complicatedbusiness.com. what should I do with it?
🐸 👑 ❤️
Just put up a bunch of conspiracy flowcharts and screencapped Q threads.
Message u/justthenews
He made a post the other day about a liberal that screwed him on a web development contract. You two pedes may have something worth collaborating on.
WHERE ARE THE DEATH SQUADS ??? I WAS PROMISED MOON MAN AND ZYKLON BEN WOULD GAS ALL THE GAYS
I kinda wanted to see some badass armor, TBH. 🤷🏻♂️ ...I’ll just have to settle for an absolute badass of a president who fights with every fiber of his being -for free- to preserve your freedoms and mine. The true candidate of love, law, order, and prosperity
Sad, really.
now do the bohemian grove quote! :D
Pretty sure the fun word is banned on stormfront too. Thank God for voat.
We’ll Just Get Rid of All Whites in the United States’ Who Refuse Vaccines.
You still have the idiots out there holding Trump is a Nazi dictator signs, while they freely protest him and nothing happens to them. If your signs Were correct the government would just come in and arrest you and you disappear or shoot you on site and walk away like nothing happened. They are not the smartest bunch of people out there.
I got in that exchange with a coworker once.
Her: Trump is a dictator!
Me: If he were a dictator, you wouldn't be allowed to say he was a dictator.
Her: That's only because others in government are fighting back against him!
Me: If they can fight back against him, he's not a dictator.
Her: [npc face]
She was brainwashed by DNC gaslighting to believe white men are racist, woman hating bigots.
And if a Trump supporter holds a "Heil Witmer" sign, then somehow the signholder is called a Nazi.
I have relatives that think white supremacist gangs are hunting down transvestites and murdering them.
Sounds like it would be pretty easy to scare such idiots. I would start "crying wolf" to them:
"Trump said he's about to hunt down your relatives."
Try it. Try calling wolf a few times until they wake up lol
well i mean its the people who adjust their cotton mask when you pass by without one because they think that'll make it more likely to save them.
a lot of people are just pretty dumbed down inside...
That reminds me of someone I know who did that. Dude's an excellent coder but somehow so retarded too.
it takes a lot to overcome years of programming . smarter people almost always will because they can't help themselves and they want to understand how things work.
i know a lot of somewhat decent coders who dont understand how mask work and will use random fancy words to justify it - but arent looking further than the tip of their nose.
Being smart or intelligent doesn't mean that you were taught how to think critically as a child, sadly.
Well said.
Right, book sense versus common sense.
I used to do street magic in my younger days. The "smarter" people were always the easiest to fool because you can lead them down a false train of logic more easily and do the trick while they're distracted and think they have the trick figured out.
There are some ideas that are so stupid that only intellectuals will believe them.
Excellent! Throw us some stories!
that argument sounds like 2+2=5 to me
"Stupid" people are better at this sort of thing because they are more likely to simply watch and enjoy a magic trick while it's in process instead of trying to analyze it in detail. To be fooled by a feint, you have to be familiar enough with fighting to know what the usual tells are. This can give rank beginners an edge over amateurs in certain situations.
I think that this is what you are noticing when you manage to fool all those "stupid" intellectuals. It's that these people are smart enough to figure out a few tells, but are not clever enough to understand that those tells are how magicians distract our attention in the first place.
But a few of us smart people are smart enough to know when retaining general awareness and court vision (that is, thoughtlessly meditating upon one's overall sensory experience) is more important than attempting detailed, conscious analysis. This often applies when observing a quick action, or when observing a completely unfamiliar action.
That is to say, in this case, I would know that I know nothing about magic tricks. I'm really smart, but obviously I can only outsmart other specialists within my own specialization, maybe. So my only way to notice anything amiss would be to clear my mind so that my instincts can operate unhindered.
You should not be so quick to dismiss the people who invented and maintain the technology you are typing these words on. Magicians are intellectuals too. It's a fantastically detailed and complicated artform. Every intellectual can do better than other intellectuals who are not trained in their specialization.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but you are not a special snowflake, and you do not have any secret knowledge or superpowers that make you smarter than the rest of us. That's SJW thinking. Maybe your next magic trick should be to vanish your stinking pride.
This is what pisses me off about what people think of my profession. I think I'm a relatively good systems engineer but I'm dumb as rocks. You don't know any the retarded shit I've done. You don't have to be smart to be good at IT.
No, a smart person understands their own capacity for making mistakes, observes the patterns in their mistakes, and implements strategies to prevent them moving forward.
"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field." -Niels Bohr, physicist, Nobel laureate
A smart person is one who knows they are not the smartest person and one who knows how to turn failure into success.
Maybe the media will show the "peaceful protests" and try to proclaim that is what is habbening.
There are so few transvestites in the population that if such gangs actually did exist, there would be no trans people left to parade themselves all over media.
I got lectured by a boomer about how Trump was literally Hitler when I did some intern crap and everyone thought I was a Nazi for not hating him.
when i'm in a real tight spot, I remain solidly unapologetic about my '16 vote, and just say, "I don't care, I am not - in any fucking reality- voting for that woman. She is literal mafia. LITERAL MAFIA."
Now I can do the same thing wit Joepedo... "I don't care, I refuse to vote for a fucking pedophile sexual predator. Never gonna happen."
sup fellow nazi
A gay woman I'm acquainted with was in a panic because Trump was surely going to annul her marriage and take her kids away.
How's she doing now?
Probably lost her kids to CPS for being a psycho
Or injected hormones into the kids and sent them off to drag queen hour with Bill Clinton
Better than driving them off a cliff into the ocean
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Last I saw of her, she seems just fine. Looks like everyone's still there. Not that she'd ever concede that she was being a hysterical drama queen or anything.
I find that people like that never even realize they were ever hysterical. They manipulate their self-image to always be more reasonable than they were at the time.
He was going to send in the Christan bakers to rip up their marriage licenses, it was all part of the plan, but Mueller ruined it!
That's St. Mueller of Purview to you, bigot.
2 things he should have done. But not everyone is perfect.
Well shit, this chick woke up all by herself. Kudos lady.
kek! not an easy feat, and she didnt even have to read the pedosta dumps to get there. nicely done, keri.
Sort of. She doesn't understand that Marxism was always the end result of liberalism.
Indeed. She can get a coat.
rip bots
She saw the blonde woman pelted with eggs while a hotel employee refused to allow her in to safety. She probably saw a young woman walk a screaming gauntlet with her boyfriend, and get punched in the face,
What made this change ? Mine was before the 2016 elections i was indifferent but people kept approaching me constantly saying "did you hear what trump said". I went nobody can be that stupid so i listened to his speeches and realized they were all lies what they were saying.
I did around 2018. Eventually I just asked myself, “why am I so mad at Trump for?” And started doing my research. Then I started looking into the policies he had created and I liked them. I always felt like I was liberal minded but I always had conservative values and principles. I hate radicalism and have seen how the culture has been completely consumed by it on the left.
I loved the cancellation of TPP, and his Make Federal Buildings Great Again EO. No more marxist oppressive communist-art monstrosities of concrete and ugly shit.
Did you notice Trump's tweets that seem crazy age really well? Like 'I just found out my wires were tapped'?
Russia hoax and the metoo bullshit did it for me.
I hated t_d and was astounded they existed and wondered if they were actually serious. One of my friends got a maga hat and was a little trolly about it and it actually made me concerned. Then when Bernie got scammed and started spouting propaganda and suddenly beefery was shoved down our throats and fear mongering and lies started flowing like a river against Trump I started going to t_d for a breath of sanity. As people just got angrier and angrier I realized who the crazies really were.
Unfortunately, this has caused a "get angry, don't change" mentality across the board it seems. Very dividing times. Sad.
To clarify i didnt view him as stupid. I meant nobody can be that stupid to continuously say the wild stuff they accused him of. Let me look into it.
All good I was thinking to add that in originally but decided not to.
Very well written, using intellectual, emotional, and personal experience as an argument. She is better than 90 percent plus of those in media, that includes many in Fox News who are too stupid to see or too corrupt.
It still reads like every emotional masturbatory rag a leftist writes. Count how many times they can fit "I" in a paragraph
Perhaps it does, but if that persuades even one person to re-examine their beliefs, that would be good. Reason based ways of thinking sometimes have to be acquired through experience and hard work - we should support and mentor the rookies.
Well yea, thats how you know she is being authentic
I have heard this criticism before and though there is probably something to it, writing personal essays comes much more naturally to me than taking an authoritative tone and removing myself from what I write. This probably stems from not wanting to appear to be stating facts when what I’m stating is my opinion. SJWs confuse a lot of opinion for facts or truth and they push it that way. I’ve had enough of that. Plus - though my Unsafe Safe cohost speaks mostly to people who haven’t yet succumb to SJW ideology, I often to try to talk even to people who are still in it. They respond much better to appeals to emotion than to reason.
Don't be deterred by the overly harsh criticisms of some of our more prickly members here. "CancelBLM" is more than welcome to his position, but I think it's petty to rag on someone for their writing style, especially when the purpose of their writing is to shine a light on the unbelievably mainstream nature of one of the chief evils of our time. I believe he is missing the forest for the trees.
The purpose of this comment is not just to blindly come to your defense, nor to throw CancelBLM under the bus for voicing his thoughts. My purpose is to encourage you to keep expressing yourself in whichever way you please when you experience revelations. It's important that newly enlightened people are heard so that others who haven't been can hear a voice that sounds soft and moderate; not one that has been mired in bitterness for so long. Many of us here, myself included, can sound outright mean because we've seen and been subjected to so much evil at this point that it has jaded us immensely.
Keep doing what you are doing. It's valued.
So this is kind of like when Democrats leave the places they ruin and then keep voting for, and doing, the same garbo that ruined the last place they fled.
It's better if you leave that baggage with the bag holders. I don't really want your vote or support if you are bringing the same emotional garbo that drove the Left off the cliff with you. If that's the case all you are doing is opening the door to the same BS that ruined your last political party, but here.
The mob doesn't care what you use. Orange. Man. Bad. They just want to be mad. You're just watering this movement down if the only thing you bring is tossing your emotions over the wall in the other direction. To be honest, the sniff test smells like you got tired of the Left being your emotional tampon and now you're looking for attention somewhere else.
Fair point. I took it as someone describing their own experience, which was the point of the piece.
Welcome to MAGA party Keri Smith... Together we will protect America from democratic parties onslaught.
And welcome to thedonald.win :)
Trump needs to win. This is the fight bruddas. Lets hope we can make the founding fathers proud
They also left us the second amendment 😉
i hope they are... we're all just holding the line and it aint always easy.
Wow I can't believe Medium.com allows something like this.
They are probably sleeping. Will get deleted soon and CNN will Doxx the author.
Yeah this. Archive now or it's gone forever.
Best we've got is this for now. And you have to view it with javascript disabled.
Archive.is has "read all the free medium articles" it can this month, so it can't capture it until next month?
Perhaps archive.is could archive archive.org.
FBI raid with news crew there ahead of time, comrade
My thought exactly. Have you read Medium's site rules by chance? They literally say that feelings always overrule facts and science. So no matter how true and/or scientific an article is, if it hurts some NPC's feelings, it's in violation. Pathetic.
I guess that's why this article was created under a section called "Unsafe Space", and it's the first time I'm hearing about it.
Earlier tonight I had a conversation with two friends; one of whom I believe voted for trump because he hated Hillary, and how the other voted is not known to me. Generally, I have been given the impression that they are mostly Moderate people, with a slight left lean.
The one whose vote I do not know has, about 2-3 years ago, made comments that indicate he believed that President Trump is sincerely racist.
Tonight that same friend stated that he thinks "a lot of people who believe Trump is racist probably only feel that way because the news tells them to feel that way." The other friend commented "Well, I just think Obama is an incredibly sick, and evil person." That is not a sentiment that I had ever heard him voice before tonight.
The Left is driving people to us. the longer they keep up these antics, the more people they send our way... Hopefully we get enough to landslide this bitch up in November. Either way i am going to vote like we don't, because the Leftists are going to cheat so damn much that we need to vote in record numbers to offset them.
I just don't understand where the racist argument comes from. I have never heard Trump ever mention any race in a negative way. But I guess people still believe the "fine people" hoax.
Repeat the lie enough and it becomes the truth. My 14 year year old daughter is now totally convinced that Trump is racist but she can’t provide any evidence to support it. She simply believes it because so many other people (on social media) have parroted the lie. It’s maddening.
You ain't gonna be able to do it for ever so the real solution is to instill values and teach the kid how to think properly, become able to understand true from false.
That's so sad to hear.. I hope you're able to get her to see the truth in the near future.
Should have taught her the "Would you jump off a cliff if everyone else is doing it?" lesson before her rebellious teen years.
Will she go out and Burn Loot Murder if her friends are doing it?
She is just a dumb fickle teenager when it comes to politics etc. A month ago she liked Trump. Now she says he’s racist after staring at the phone and barely leaving the house for a month. The internet is poison
"Have you ever had a friend that was spouting lies about you and you only learned about it from another person?"
When asked about a wall, compare legal immigration to job interviews.
Why does your company spend a lot of time and resources vetting candidates for the company? Why do you do drug tests and criminal background checks?? Why don't you just let people come in if they wish? Is it not racist to not let anyone who wishes to be there to come in?
I challenge anyone to tell me how immigration and hiring are different in any way.
Very welcome, pretty sure I came up with it but sometimes it'shard to remember with as many ideas as we share with each other...spread far and wide.
Another wall argument might be to point out that the Trump administration is going very hard against human trafficking and pedophiles. Paying a human trafficker is how many people enter illegally, and many women and children are molested and raped. Some are also forced into prostitution - well, sexual slavery really, they're not being paid. This was also the reason for separating "families" which happened in Obama's reign too, because not all those children are actually with families, they're being trafficked. The drug cartels and human traffickers that are doing these things are coming in freely because there's no wall.
Actual radical right-winger Nazi types hate Trump because Trump is a Jew-loving New York socialite who graduated from Wharton. And was also a TV star.
I honestly don't understand how you can consider the guy racist. You could maybe stretch sexist if you're a retarded feminist, but that applies to all millionaire playboy types because they've got willing pussy lined around the block for them.
If I remember right, Trump gave his first building contract to a woman.
I'm not sure I would call Nazi's rightwing. They are called national socialists for a reason.
Nazis were pretty centrists. They created a welfare state but allowed private businesses. Scandinavia + militarist nationalism.
Yes, but the right-left dichotomy isn't actually a single measure.
You can be right-wing (nationalist) when it comes to borders, but be mostly left-wing on economics. Are you right or left in this case? I don't know.
But they would vote for him.
I mean, given the two choices, seems like you'd have to be an ideological zombie not to vote for him, no? Jew-loving socialite sounds way better than "braindead pedophile", even for the Nazi type, I think.
And it's not like an actual Nazi type will ever get a candidate they don't hate. There are exactly zero other Nazi types on the ballot in any election in the USA.
So really who they vote for, or even if they do it at all, is a completely moot point.
My point is, though, that you don't know anything about these supposed radical right-winger Nazi types. You're making them up to be a strawman that you can dismiss. But I've talked to a lot of them, even here, and they are far better than the communists among us that are taking power.
I think the important part is whether a racist voted for a candidate because they believe that candidate will be an advocate for realizing their hateful desires, or if they voted for a candidate because they believe that their candidate is the best to lead a country in general.
Because either way, all racists, rapists, murders, and thieves that are allowed to vote, are statistically likely to vote for either Trump or Biden. Whether we like it or not.
They said Trump would put gay people into camps yet all he did was put gay people into some of the highest levels of government
Based Richard Grenell!
Ric Grenell is a true centipede.
Nice guy.
If you are MAGA you're welcome under the tent.
I will say. I have not jumped on the gay marriage train, and the more I see of their movement, the stronger my resistance to it has grown. Trump being okay with gay marriage is one of my biggest critiques of him.
Doesn't mean I think a gay person shouldn't live their life without interference, so long as they're being decent. Pushing for drag queens, sexualizing schools, or erasing gender doesn't count as being decent in my book. Nor did overturning our votes to force gay marriage down our throats.
But hey, do I have to agree with Trump on 100% of everything? No. But I'd like to see some pushback. Somewhere.
I voted Hillary 2016. When Trump won I was legit scared about police becoming the gestappo or whatever starting to patrol the streets... Then a year went by and I asked the simple question, "is Trump THAT bad???"
Jordan Peterson, John Stossel, and Ben Shapiro were my Red Pill and I'll never vote Democrat again.
Congrats being the first person to ever be red pilled by Ben Shapiro haha
I think he red pills more than you think. Isn't Youtube full of Shapiro demolishing left wing ideologies?
No idea in all honesty. I know he's big on Facebook but I completely dismiss him based on the fact he was a Never Trumper. All the stuff the Democrats are supporting today was the same when he supported them against Trump, they're just more vocal now.
No one goes that far left and suddenly supports Trump. He made the move for money. I also heard his wife is a doctor? That's pretty cool.
Well, there's two types of Never Trumpers.
One type couldn't bring themselves to vote for him in 2016. But once he won, they decided to see how he'd do, and already said they'd vote for him in 2020. (Steve Deace and I guess Ben Shapiro are in this group). Their "never Trump" expired after Election Day in 2016.
Others are joining with Democrats to unseat him in 2020, as well as other Republicans. This is William Kristol and the Lincoln Project and all the rest.
Well, I'm a Jewish supporter of Israel too, so there's that. Hell, my red-pill moment was when I saw the leftists siding with the Israel haters.
I like Shapiro, sometimes. Sometimes he gets a little grating. I think there's a bit of.... well... David French push the ridiculous "Drag queen story hour is the price of freedom." I'm not saying Shapiro is that bad, but he feels a bit like: "World is ending, it all sucks, now it's time for some things that I like and that I hate."
Lol I was purposely looking for conservative voices I thought I would disagree with, only to find out I've been conservative my whole life without realizing it.
I love you - welcome home, and bring all your friends who love America with you!
i remember 2016 in SF, CA i was just like "heh weird the dude that isnt establishment won thats unexpected"
but then i went to work. empty streets. at work empty desks. I checked the news like wtf? nothing just trump victory. then i realized. the people here were so chocked they called in sick. and from that day on i was on the trump train.
this is because clearly the msm had gotten so deep in the people psyche that it became instantly the enemy. i just hadn't realized how powerful the brainwashing was until then.
Red Pills everywhere!
We should all start using the term "LEGACY" Media, not mainstreet or lamestreet. Mainstreet gives the media credence, it gives the fake news outlets a sense of establishment and sway.
They don't have that, they are 'legacy,' dying dinosaurs that will publish any ridiculous fake story to stay relevant. But they have been left behind, and are slowly losing power and its only a matter of time until they are finally forgotten.
SPOT ON. Holy shit, this is so well written.
I too cried the night Trump won, because i was so happy God answered my prayers!
This needs to be spread far and wide. Brilliant.
This is all I ask of a real democrat. Someone who is willing to talk, listen, and compromise, instead of the new brainwashed SJW marxist sexist racist.
I don't aim to force my views on others. But I will also not allow their views to be forced upon me.
In my point of view, this liberal deserves respect for their realization, as well as the eloquence of the description of the harsh moments when their eyes were first opened.
I know there are many more who have made those same hard realizations. You have our support.
Help us take our country back.
Well said, thank you for sharing what it means to be American. We don't all have to think alike, we just need to respect each other first and foremost. The real problem lies in those who seek to control others thoughts... Those are the ones who divide us by color, age, sex or any other category they can.
Great read! Trump should tweet this
With just a simple "Thank you, Keri!!"
Reminds me of Dr Karlyn:
http://archive.vn/z6tTK
Yep, these 2 are indicative of the overall trend.
Trump needs to tweet this article.
idk man. Antifa will find her and try to kill her.
Maga is the ultimate big tent.
He could talk back then! Crazy anyone would think him okay for any office after seeing his chance in speech.
EXACTLY. This is how you differentiate a liberal from a TDS lefty.
Somehow I don't think she would appreciate that response... but it made me chuckle so I'm probably just as guilty of any offense.
I don’t take offense to compliments anymore. ;)
https://imgur.com/r/the_Donald/5Jm31
This deserves the sticky for at least a week.
Hey guys I only had to get second and third degree burns before I realized fire was hot!
Love seeing this
Time to share this with some family members.
The red pill is an amazing drug. Side effect is you gain critical thinking skills.
This was well written and I'll be sharing it with my friend feeling lost over the Kamala pick. Thank you
That was great
I'm annoyed I can only give 50 "claps"...
Trump is really a liberal. But a True Blueblood America Liberal. Not the Commies that have taken over the Democrat party liberal scum.
Choo Choo! Welcome aboard!
"All this Marxism isn't real liberalism!"
Oh, honey. Yes it is.
Remember the whole "The stock market will crash" lies that they kept repeating?
WOW!!!!
So well written!
This needs to be shared far and wide.
I cried too.
Tears of joy.
Posted days ago about my own dissonance. This was quite an experience.
At least I can say I wasn't full on SJW, though.
So, do you still believe those things?
Did you WANT them to be true to justify your dislike of him?
MUST READ. Good redpoll you send to Trump hating former friends . I just did .
Lots of people with a similar story
Isn’t Medium super liberal? I’m shocked and happy that this story on there.
Give her some support, send her a note of encouragement or something.
I cried too. Out of pure joy and happiness.