Way to go SJWs, anything else you'd like to make reactionaries do?

Is Juan another POGger?

Yeah, was just checking. Wholeheartedly agree that gerrymandering undermines democracy and is responsible for a republican House advantage and state legislatures as well.

Disagree however on the electoral college and the presidency (at least to the degree I am inferring you place on it). Though that is not to say I do not support a complete overhaul of the national election process, both primary and general.

C'mon. Your thoughts have some merit in that center-right people, or casual voters, might get pushed towards someone like Trump when they otherwise wouldn't be because they feel insulted by the so-called "coastal elites", but the bolded are just over the top examples. Very few people in real life care about these things, or make a big deal about them; they get talked about in the dark corners of the Internet by an infinitesimal part of the population, and Stan can ignore them anytime he wants. Stan's life doesn't include many daily instances where gender-based pronoun use becomes an issue.

Stan doesn't have to walk on eggshells to avoid being an outright racist or homophobe.

As far as fighting for true equality, yes, we libs really do want women to have control over their own bodies, religion not to rule all, gun violence cut down, and LGBTQ members to be able to marry who they choose. These aren't just talking points. Are we supposed to just throw up our hands and say, "hey, that's no problem, it's your opinion and we respect it. Let's go have a beer!" to Stan when he announces that Jim and John can't marry because Jesus told him it's bad in some book?

Out of morbid curiosity, was there a Republican candidate in this year's field you'd have voted for > HRC?

You'd think a few people on a poker forum would realize that "Do the opposite of whatever my right-wing news sites tell me liberals want me to do" is a somewhat exploitable strategy.

That Palladino guy who wished death on Obama and called Michelle a gorilla has indeed confirmed that he is not, himself, a racist. Not even close. The farthest thing from it.

Nakedly obvious.

2017: FoxNews is telling me SJWs REALLY REALLY don't want tax cuts for the rich. **** those *******s. Oh man those tax cuts are going to make them squirm. Take THAT SJWS!!!

2018: Drudge is telling me SJWs love Medicare and Social Security. Oh man can you imagine the looks on their faces when we kill it? Totally worth it.

2019: Breitbart is telling me SJWs are totally in love with the 40-hour work week, national holidays, national parks, US Mail, child labor laws, OSHA, the USDA, and the clean air, clean water and Americans for disabilities acts. EAT **** LIBTARDS, REPEAL REPEAL REPEAL

2020: Mike Cernovich is telling me SJWs think tactical nukes are dangerous. ****ing PUSSIES!!!

Depends who you talk to. As a teenager, I lived in white bread Pennsylvania. We had the token black family and token Latino kid in my graduating class. Multiculturalism was never really brought up but neither was assimilation.

It wasn't until college that I learned all about being PC and words for this group and that group. Wasn't really much discussion on whether or not cultural diversity was good or bad. We were just told it was and that was that.

It's all a matter of degrees. America IMO would be a much worse place if a) every immigrant group immediately assimilated to some weird white bread idea of American culture or b) never assimilated at all.

I love living in LA and being exposed to a seemingly infinite number of other cultures. But obviously if those cultures stayed as isolated as say Muslims in France (from what I've read anyway) - that would be no good.

Above all either keep the food, or fuse it with local ingredients and cultures - but please never lose it. Well unless you're from somewhere like Romania or Burma where the food supposedly sucks.

I went to a Burmese restaurant for the first time a few weeks ago. It was Daw Yee Myanmar Corner on Sunset in Silverlake and it was good. Different. Certainly not sucky.

They probably cleaned it up for your American palate.

I don't know much about Burmese food but given the proximity to India, China and Thailand, there is almost no way that it is terrible.

A simple google image search looks amazing.

My gf says it's greasy and weird. She's from the area and likes most other foods. Maybe it's just the one all the rest of the countries in the region make fun of.

Completely agree with all of this. No question that I've become enriched through be exposed to other cultures and other ways of life.

I'm not entirely sold on how Stan gets from point A to B, much less point X to Y.

(grunching the Stan dissection a bit)

Everybody's aware of it being possible to have minority friends and still be racist, but the other part of, "I'm not racist, some of my best are _____," is a comic trope where the person is lying, because the mailman doesn't count, and the bag boy at the grocer doesn't count, and even the coworker you occasionally have lunch with in the break room doesn't count. Chris Rock has arguably the most famous bit (cracker-ass-cracker) but there are variations after and before, going back decades that predate most of us being born (Dick Gregory et al).

Despite the comedy there's much truth here. Sure, people can grow up in a racist environment, then make minority friends, yet still harbor some racism. Sure. But if the people are your actual friends, like, what, the godfather of Stan's child is black, and he barbecues and watches the Sunday games with another, Stan has black friends coming in the windows, it gets exponentially harder to not support and vote against their interests, along with simply buying in to racist ballyhoo and malarkey. Trump says black folk live in hellholes and shoot each other, and Stan says, you mean Black Bob and Black Joe, they're just dudes who put their pants on in the morning, same as I do, wtf are u even talking about?

This concept received a lot of attention this election, but it's nothing new. Overlay a map of even marginally integrated communities on a map of blue counties and they line up to a shocking degree, not just cities but any little backwoods place where white people get more exposure to minorities than just Science Fiction As Brought To You by FoxNews.

Basically, I reject the mere notion of hypo-Stan without more info.

Bolded is funny given the the paragraph that preceded it.


Even going down the rabbit hole and agreeing it was the dems who got Trump elected, at least the dems wanted Clinton to win the election, that's gotta be worth something, right? Or does the rabbit hole go so deep that not only is it the dems who are responsible for Trump's win, it was the dems who actually wanted Trump to win because they would have behaved differently if they truly wanted Clinton to win?

You didn't break up?

Aye, and people came up "racial/cultural insensitivity" and "microagression" and so forth but that's when All Hell Really Broke Loose, so, *cough*, I guess.

And hypo-Stan is losing even more credibility. It sounds to me like he's the token racist white friend in a group of black dudes, and they bring him around for some good-natured clowning, like, "Stan here thinks we all love watermelon but I eat that stuff maybe once or twice year on the 4th of July and other holidays, if that. Crazy, right?"

I maybe...maybe... would've considered Kasich. But I'd have grimaced. Take away Trump's complete unfitness for the office, and I dislike Cruz even more than Trump. I used to consider myself a full fledged Democrat, but I now think BOTH parties are corrupt as ****!

And for my "out of morbid curiosity" question to all those saying only a racist could vote for Trump... How do you explain all the black and Hispanic people who voted for him? Are they racist too?

Why? Why would you think that?! You're black, right? Why can't Fred be a middle class black dude, from a middle class mixed neighborhood, hanging out with black and white friends alike? Are you a ****ing racist?!?!

Fred can be all those things (although middle class mixed neighbourhood doesn't sound like the rural America I hear about), but if Stan finds himself getting into quagmires over bolded:

doesn't it follow that he'd also believe that black people love watermelon?

This makes 0 sense.