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03-21-2016 , 05:56 PM
Nobody who supports Trump gives a **** about war crimes. Torture and our use of drones are war crimes that the majority of Americans, regardless of who they support, have no problems with despite the inefficiency in the former and the number of innocent casualties in the latter.
03-21-2016 , 06:05 PM
I think a lot of people underestimate how little some people know or care about policy or have paid attention to any of the speeches or quotes or tweets or debates, yet still have a candidate preference.
03-21-2016 , 06:11 PM
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What is the best strategy for talking to a trump supporter?
I'd start with "he's obviously racist why isn't that a problem for you"

But really I wouldn't start. Somebody who couldn't figure it out on their own is not somebody who I think is worth my time. The case against Trump is so obvious that I'd much rather walk away and laugh at how frustrated that person is going to be when he candidate gets crushed and he realizes that the world is moving on without him and his hate.
03-21-2016 , 07:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Dids
I'd start with "he's obviously racist why isn't that a problem for you"

But really I wouldn't start. Somebody who couldn't figure it out on their own is not somebody who I think is worth my time. The case against Trump is so obvious that I'd much rather walk away and laugh at how frustrated that person is going to be when he candidate gets crushed and he realizes that the world is moving on without him and his hate.
I haven't been able to follow every debate and speech as much as I would have liked. Can you point out some quotes and links that prove trump is racist and hateful.
03-21-2016 , 07:21 PM
I just said you weren't worth my time, so no.
03-21-2016 , 07:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Dids
I just said you weren't worth my time, so no.
Typical response when dealing with someone who is anti trump.
03-21-2016 , 07:57 PM
Shift, if Dids believed that you were asking because you were legitimately concerned enough about Trump's racism rather than being a pain in the ass and that he could change your view, he would.

But it's obvious that you're already a Trump supporter and thus it's a waste of time to point them out. Like most people in cults, you'll have to figure things out on your own.
03-21-2016 , 08:12 PM
I'm not a supporter of any candidate. But I see trump being called a racist 25 times a day and haven't seen any evidence of him being one. Just would like to see where it's coming from is all.
03-21-2016 , 08:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Shifty86
I'm not a supporter of any candidate. But I see trump being called a racist 25 times a day and haven't seen any evidence of him being one. Just would like to see where it's coming from is all.
Have you heard of this awesome product called Google?
03-21-2016 , 08:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Shifty86
Typical response when dealing with someone who is anti trump.
What you need to be asking yourself is why it's typical.
03-21-2016 , 08:22 PM
Right, so to deal with a trump supporter say "how can you support a racist". Then when the person says can you prove to me he's a racist. You say google bro.
03-21-2016 , 08:23 PM
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Originally Posted by All-In Flynn
What you need to be asking yourself is why it's typical.
Because the left hates trump, and the left gets really uncomfortable when they are directly challenged about anything.
03-21-2016 , 08:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Shifty86
Because the left hates trump, and the left gets really uncomfortable when they are directly challenged about anything.
OK. What about right-wingers who hate Trump? No shortage of them btw.
03-21-2016 , 08:51 PM
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Originally Posted by DrChesspain
Have you heard of this awesome product called Google?
Answers like this are evasive. Google doesn't show Trump is a racist, it only shows that haters twist his words to get to a phony result that he is racist. No one actually shows him to be racist because the facts necessary to do so do not exist.

Posters in this thread are following standard practice of suggesting that we "just believe us when we say he is racist". Repeat a lie often enough and people think it is true.

Trump has lots of faults but being racist is not one of them.
03-21-2016 , 09:06 PM
If you can't see how stating that Mexico is sending us rapists, that Muslims should wear badges identifying their religion, and refusing to immediately condemn David Duke's approval are not indicative of racist beliefs, then there is no hope for you.

Clear as day that hornbug and Shifty are merely pushing the buttons of anti-Trump supporters by being so obtuse.
03-21-2016 , 09:19 PM
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Originally Posted by SuperUberBob
If you can't see how stating that Mexico is sending us rapists, that Muslims should wear badges identifying their religion, and refusing to immediately condemn David Duke's approval are not indicative of racist beliefs, then there is no hope for you.
Thanks for submitting a good example of incomplete and misleading statements about several things. If you actually looked into these in detail you might catch how you have fallen into the trap of passing on misleading information.
03-21-2016 , 09:25 PM
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Originally Posted by hornbug
Thanks for submitting a good example of incomplete and misleading statements about several things. If you actually looked into these in detail you might catch how you have fallen into the trap of passing on misleading information.
You haven't made one point that isn't a vague assertion, nor tried to refute anyone else's points with actual logic or facts.
03-21-2016 , 09:27 PM
Saying some of them [Mexicans] are good people doesn't exempt him from making racist comments about Mexican immigrants. Disavowing David Duke only after deliberation and watching the negative media backlash doesn't make him tolerant. Claiming that putting badges on Muslims isn't the same as putting them on Jews on the Holocaust does not make his proposal not racist.

Last edited by SuperUberBob; 03-21-2016 at 09:37 PM. Reason: last time I respond to hornbug until a counter-argument is made
03-21-2016 , 09:28 PM
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Originally Posted by hornbug
Answers like this are evasive. Google doesn't show Trump is a racist, it only shows that haters twist his words to get to a phony result that he is racist. No one actually shows him to be racist because the facts necessary to do so do not exist.

Posters in this thread are following standard practice of suggesting that we "just believe us when we say he is racist". Repeat a lie often enough and people think it is true.

Trump has lots of faults but being racist is not one of them.
So I mean Trump's businesses have been accused of discriminatory practices:

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Originally Posted by The New York Times
When a black woman asked to rent an apartment in a Brooklyn complex managed by Donald Trump’s real estate company, she said she was told that nothing was available. A short time later, a white woman who made the same request was invited to choose between two available apartments.

The two would-be renters on that July 1972 day were actually undercover “testers” for a *government-sanctioned investigation to determine whether Trump Management Inc. discriminated against minorities seeking housing at properties across Brooklyn and Queens.

Federal investigators also gathered evidence. Trump employees had secretly marked the applications of minorities with codes, such as “No. 9” and “C” for “colored,” according to government interview accounts filed in federal court. The employees allegedly directed blacks and Puerto Ricans away from buildings with mostly white tenants, and steered them toward properties that had many minorities, the government filings alleged.
Trump took out an ad calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty in the wake of the Central Park Five arrests. Can't find any record of his apologising or even expressing regret after their exoneration.

Trump also took out (anonymous) ads (same link) adverting to the purported criminality of Native Americans:

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Originally Posted by The Guardian
In February 2000, when Trump was again flirting with a run for the White House, he took out anonymous ads in local upstate New York newspapers, in an effort to shut down a rival casino backed by a group of Native Americans. Beneath a picture of needles and drug paraphernalia, the ad stated: “Are these the new neighbors we want?” It added: “The St. Regis Mohawk Indian record of criminal activity is well documented.”
Trump led the charge in the movement calling Obama's legitimacy as POTUS into question. I mean you don't need a link for that. Claims about Obama's birthplace, possibly forged or illegitimate birth certificate, forged or illegitimate college transcripts etc.

Did Trump do all of that because he's clueless enough for it to have all been innocent, or did Trump do that because he's a racist? And I should note: I don't mean a cross-burning, send-them-back-to-Africa racist. I just mean the kind of racist who's generally more inclined to think the worst of black people than of white people.

And let's go one further: If we go with Option A, where Trump is just this Clouseauesque buffoon stumbling innocently from mistaken belief to discriminatory practice and back again... is that really any less reason to object to him as a candidate?
03-21-2016 , 09:32 PM
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Originally Posted by suzzer99
You haven't made one point that isn't a vague assertion, nor tried to refute anyone else's points with actual logic or facts.
The people who make the claims that Trump is racist have the burden of providing complete and accurate details to back up their claims. With all the Trump haters in this thread, we still wait for just one of you to provide this. That's a fail for the Trump haters.
03-21-2016 , 09:38 PM
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Originally Posted by SuperUberBob
Saying some of them [Mexicans] are good people doesn't exempt you from making racist comments about Mexican immigrants. Disavowing David Duke only after deliberation and watching the negative media backlash doesn't make him tolerant. Claiming that putting badges on Muslims isn't the same as putting them on Jews on the Holocaust does not make his proposal not racist.
Adding additional misleading details does not make the original misleading details any less misleading.
03-21-2016 , 09:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Shifty86
Because the left hates trump, and the left gets really uncomfortable when they are directly challenged about anything.
Nah we just get uncomfortable talking to lunatics.
03-21-2016 , 10:23 PM
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Originally Posted by hornbug
The people who make the claims that Trump is racist have the burden of providing complete and accurate details to back up their claims. With all the Trump haters in this thread, we still wait for just one of you to provide this. That's a fail for the Trump haters.
We have provided complete and accurate details, repeatedly. You just keep asserting they don't count while providing zero counter argument.

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Originally Posted by SuperUberBob
If you can't see how stating that Mexico is sending us rapists, that Muslims should wear badges identifying their religion, and refusing to immediately condemn David Duke's approval are not indicative of racist beliefs, then there is no hope for you.

Clear as day that hornbug and Shifty are merely pushing the buttons of anti-Trump supporters by being so obtuse.

Eventually mods are going to assume you're just obtuse-trolling and send you off to the cornfield.
03-21-2016 , 10:29 PM


mother of god
03-21-2016 , 10:31 PM
Huh?

Anyway, no use addressing hornbug. When it comes to Trump, we cannot convince his current supporters. They are long gone under his personality cult.

Anti-Trump advocates have to convince the Cruz and Kasich supporters who may be compelled to support Trump if their favorite loses out to either vote Hillary or just to abstain from voting. That way, his base doesn't get large enough to win the election.

      
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