more russia sanctions, sounds like trump is putin's puppet, amirite?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45122723

No. Birdman thinks everyone but hardcore socialists is the right...which in one sense he is right. He probably does believe in authoritarian tactics to advance his aims, but I'm talking about the MSM fake left (which also believes in authoritarian tactics).

It gets really awkward though to say the right is going after conservatives.

Mets really approves of Trump!

there's way to much derp on this page for me to even concentrate on a post. im giving up until the next page.

So Obama improved unemployment by 8 points and Trump has improved it by 1, and that's a ****ing accomplishment? You're ****ing warped mate

Cliffs: not much makes trump look bad in your eyes.

Here was the quote: "****hole countries" wasn't the part that made it unquestionably racist. "Why" was.

Especially after he followed it up with asking why couldn't we have more immigration from places like Norway.

Insanely racist.

Seems like a comment/question on sociocio economic status.

We obviously assume it's racist because it's Trump, so it probably is.

The Papa John's thing came up and if it was racist or not. I thought the comment was incredibly mundane and more like "People in the 1800s said N***** a lot". It's probably a secondary language meaning like how you assume someone who says "ain't" or "know what I'm saying" is less educated and not the actual phrase. And also a read on the individual itself.

Also if you wrote an algorithm of if a term would be determined racist I'm sure the number of people who hear the phrase would be involved, probably because it's socially advantageous to remove yourself and show you aren't racist.

I saw something interesting recently on the racism Haitians face even from Dominicans.. Where there are markets set up on the border to encourage trade, the Haitians aren't allowed to set up shop before their Dominican counterparts and Haitians in the Dominican are mistreated.

This was it.
https://youtu.be/4WvKeYuwifc

everything trump does is racist amirite?

Nope, some of it’s sexist and a fair amount is just idiotic. But most of it is about feeding trump’s various insecurities

Does it even matter if Trump is confirmed racist or not, as long as he keeps the economy going?

The economy is currently powered by 52% liberal hatred, and 48% republican **** you if you think I’m backing down.

Survival is a strong motivation.

The man is toxic. He is an admitted charlatan and an unrepentant doomsayer. He has zero journalistic integrity, yet he portrays himself as the savior of news media. He convinces broad swaths of insecure and/or ignorant people to believe the worst about others; he captures healthy skepticism and corrupts it into a fatalistic misanthropy.

His sole redeeming quality, sheer entertainment value, is grossly outweighed by the social detriment he sews in holding himself out as one telling truth-to-power.

If I ran a newspaper, I would not publish his editorials.

Aside from my issue with using the phrase, "the left", I guess a soft "yes" is appropriate, in that most people want to stifle freedom of thought - I don't want you to think about robbing me, for example.

Technically, what we (charitably) see here is not an attack on freedom of thought but on freedom of expression. Still, I don't want you to tell everybody that I fornicate with pigs or that I pointed a gun at you.

The stroke, "to stifle freedom of thought/expression", is too broadly applied the way you are doing so. We are not presented with a situation in which one presents evidence and then is excluded from the public space simply because the evidence makes people uncomfortable. Our situation is rather one in which one fabricates evidence, is exposed for fabricating said evidence (or said evidence is so facially ridiculous that nobody could reasonably believe it to be true, ie "Obama attracts flies because he is a literal demon"), and then continues to propound such evidence to some drastic and destructive end.

oh sweet irony

Counterpoint, if enough people believe it...

Anyone a fan of making lying a criminal offense? It's even a commandment!

that would make it hard to play ww

not the way I wolf

A lot of hedging there ianaww

cliffs:

good riddance

no, not in the way you assess it

I only used the "stifling freedom of thought" verbiage as that was what you originally used when discussing your friend. I would probably just call it censorship.

Every time I feel myself getting riled up by it, I just remember the time mets really snidely tried to correct me re the meaning of "couldn't care less"

and it works like a sort of serenity now

And now, thanks to young folks trying to cause some semantic drift, we have " I literally couldn't care less."