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flick my Mr. Bean
Nov 18, 2014

Minimalist Program posted:

Trump and his cabinet of literal nazis are going to make it so that he can remain president until death at which point Eric Trump will take over.

If the people around me have their way, this will literally happen.

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nomadologique
Mar 9, 2011

DUNK A DILL PICKLE REALDO
my parents were watching that homebuyers show last night, the one w the twin canadian hosts who help you buy and reno a house, blah blah

anyway the couple was multiracial and met during their MBA program, had a couple kids and wanted to upgrade to an open floorplan (aka no walls in my house) to facilitate their growing family

they were lowballing a 720k at 680k and the husband was making some bond supervillain hands thinking of how fun it is to bargain

100% they voted for hillary in the general election, and #spamtehgram w photos of them and their friends at sunday brunch before headng off to the airport protest

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
would you rather they voted for trump? i don't understand your point

a misanthrope
Jun 21, 2010

:burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug:

nomadologique posted:

this is ever so obvious whenever a little baby liberal turns 35, grows its scaly wings, and starts voting republican bc "mortgage, kids, 500$ monthly coffee expenses"

this is some repugnant poo poo when this happens, and i've seen it happen to a lot of friends

i'm 33 and i own a home and have a nice job and if anything i'm getting more liberal with age :shrug:

54 40 or fuck
Jan 4, 2012

No Yanda's allowed
When and why will ww3 start

calusari
Apr 18, 2013

It's mechanical. Seems to come at regular intervals.

cnut posted:

What's the word on the streets, Americanos? Are people pushing for a coup and want their Obamacare back yet?

most people want universal healthcare but neither party is willing to support that

nomadologique
Mar 9, 2011

DUNK A DILL PICKLE REALDO

Mozi posted:

would you rather they voted for trump? i don't understand your point

the power of false alternatives has had a great influence on human history.

americans remain united in a most important respect: if it came down to leveling the playing field btw america and everywhere else, we'd rather murder some brown ppl.

what this means is that we'll thrash against trump's domestic policies and playbook, but the idea of a "coup" is outlandish bc no matter who is in charge, we like the american govt: it keeps us personally solvent and economically untouchable.

everybody made a big to do about the 2008 crash, but the truth is it was way loving worse for everyone else, and the end result was to siphon a ton of money from the rest of the world into the US economy. you can watch this on a smaller scale in the eurozone: "hey guys wanna play with us, we'll guarantee the stability and growth of your economy and you'll benefit from our forward thinking ways and modern institutions" says germany, when what it really means is :getin:

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost

A misanthrope posted:

this is some repugnant poo poo when this happens, and i've seen it happen to a lot of friends

i'm 33 and i own a home and have a nice job and if anything i'm getting more liberal with age :shrug:

same

it's very frustrating and depressing, because the truth is that good ideas implemented well can actually solve many chronic issues in our society and our world but nobody thinks in timescales that are remotely appropriate, or thinks at all

if humans in the past had the power we have now, we would not have the world we are currently engaged in destroying today

a misanthrope
Jun 21, 2010

:burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug:

54 40 or gently caress posted:

When and why will ww3 start

forget ww3

we're going to have a civil war

Cursed Lumberjack
Nov 14, 2006
A rather unfortunate logger indeed.

54 40 or gently caress posted:

When and why will ww3 start

Video of putin peeing on trump is released, and turns out it was recorded in 2015

a misanthrope
Jun 21, 2010

:burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug:

Cursed Lumberjack posted:

Video of putin peeing on trump is released, and turns out it was recorded in 2015

bird with big dick
Oct 21, 2015

A misanthrope posted:

i'm 33 and i own a home and have a nice job and if anything i'm getting more liberal with age :shrug:

Same for everyone in my family. My dad is 70 and well off and he's always been liberal but as he's aged he's now pretty close to being a full blown communist.

a misanthrope
Jun 21, 2010

:burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug:

scrubs season six posted:

Same for everyone in my family. My dad is 70 and well off and he's always been liberal but as he's aged he's now pretty close to being a full blown communist.

your dad is awesome

Cursed Lumberjack
Nov 14, 2006
A rather unfortunate logger indeed.
I think people who get more conservative as they age probably weren't very liberal to begin with, they just didn't hold strong political beliefs and molded theirs to fit the social group they found themselves in (young liberals)

Its not really a betrayal, just that they were never forced to confront how their ostensible political views affected them until it was visibly taking money out of their pockets, and when you're an adult you can cut people out of your life much easier when, say, they call you on losing your empathy or bring up inconsistencies in your political beliefs

Extra Large Marge
Jan 21, 2004

Fun Shoe

nomadologique posted:

my parents were watching that homebuyers show last night, the one w the twin canadian hosts who help you buy and reno a house, blah blah

anyway the couple was multiracial and met during their MBA program, had a couple kids and wanted to upgrade to an open floorplan (aka no walls in my house) to facilitate their growing family

they were lowballing a 720k at 680k and the husband was making some bond supervillain hands thinking of how fun it is to bargain

100% they voted for hillary in the general election, and #spamtehgram w photos of them and their friends at sunday brunch before headng off to the airport protest

Those shows are scripted you loving retard

King Vidiot
Feb 17, 2007

You think you can take me at Satan's Hollow? Go 'head on!
Yeah, I'm 33 right now and pretty much just this shy of being a full-blown Socialist, I like my useless consumer poo poo and think free trade is good in theory, but I also believe in workers' rights and the people having more power over their work environment, etc. I don't ever see myself becoming conservative at all, in fact if anything the two weeks we've had of Trump have solidified my leftist stance and pushed me even harder to the left. Whatever Trump and Bannon and Pence are, I want to be the complete loving opposite of that because gently caress them.

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
i havent gotten any more conservative yet unless you count being annoyed with how far the identity politics poo poo got taken but at least it is still good intentions for the most part. not really sure how even semi-intelligent and world aware people that vote R sleep at night.

Extra Large Marge
Jan 21, 2004

Fun Shoe
"Huh huh, this guy thinks he can pull a fast one on Rick from Pawn Stars, musta voted for Hilary".

a misanthrope
Jun 21, 2010

:burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug:

Cursed Lumberjack posted:

I think people who get more conservative as they age probably weren't very liberal to begin with, they just didn't hold strong political beliefs and molded theirs to fit the social group they found themselves in (young liberals)

Its not really a betrayal, just that they were never forced to confront how their ostensible political views affected them until it was visibly taking money out of their pockets, and when you're an adult you can cut people out of your life much easier when, say, they call you on losing your empathy or bring up inconsistencies in your political beliefs

i see a similar thing happening with atheists. old atheist friends distanced themselves from it when internet neckbeards made it uncool. i'm like how the gently caress can you suddenly decide you believe in god just because of some nerds in fedoras? must not have had strong convictions to begin with.

ncumbered_by_idgits
Sep 20, 2008

cnut posted:

What's the word on the streets, Americanos? Are people pushing for a coup and want their Obamacare back yet?

Couple guys I work with that are big Trumpers are just super satisfied so far. He's in the process of MAGA and of course there will be liberal roadblocks. :911: will win in the end though. These are guys that literally drive around with Gadsden flag flying from their truck so......

a misanthrope
Jun 21, 2010

:burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug:

ncumbered_by_idgits posted:

Couple guys I work with that are big Trumpers are just super satisfied so far. He's in the process of MAGA and of course there will be liberal roadblocks. :911: will win in the end though. These are guys that literally drive around with Gadsden flag flying from their truck so......

time to find a new job

bird with big dick
Oct 21, 2015

Cursed Lumberjack posted:

I think people who get more conservative as they age probably weren't very liberal to begin with, they just didn't hold strong political beliefs and molded theirs to fit the social group they found themselves in (young liberals)

Its not really a betrayal, just that they were never forced to confront how their ostensible political views affected them until it was visibly taking money out of their pockets, and when you're an adult you can cut people out of your life much easier when, say, they call you on losing your empathy or bring up inconsistencies in your political beliefs

I'd guess there's a lot of truth to that.

It's an interesting subject, I should probably try and find some statistics on this as well as what the stats are on children's vs parent's political leanings. My two sibs and I are liberal and our parents are liberal, but my parents sibs are both split 2-1 liberal vs conservative.

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
im so glad i work at a company where anyone who supports trump (no doubt there are some) is too scared to say so in public

Cursed Lumberjack
Nov 14, 2006
A rather unfortunate logger indeed.

thathonkey posted:

im so glad i work at a company where anyone who supports trump (no doubt there are some) is too scared to say so in public

Before the election our IT guy smugly told some of us about how untrustworthy hillery is but now that trumps going insane he hasn't wanted to talk about politics and asks us not to bring it up lol

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
yeah i know some people who didnt support trump but were so critical of hillary and kept up with all the email leaks and poo poo all throughout havent said a loving word since the election. these folks probably voted independent or not at all but are intelligent enough to know they were wrong

the only people i know who outright supported and definitely voted trump are in my family :doh:

xjohnson
Sep 7, 2006
Johnson?
Young Orc
1445 days. maybe more

fake edit math

temple
Jul 29, 2006

I have actual skeletons in my closet

thathonkey posted:

yeah i know some people who didnt support trump but were so critical of hillary and kept up with all the email leaks and poo poo all throughout havent said a loving word since the election. these folks probably voted independent or not at all but are intelligent enough to know they were wrong

the only people i know who outright supported and definitely voted trump are in my family :doh:

Or maybe they aren't crybabies about their flawed candidate losing?

Cursed Lumberjack
Nov 14, 2006
A rather unfortunate logger indeed.

xjohnson posted:

1445 days. maybe more

fake edit math

You did the math wrong even with your edit

You forgot to count the second term, the 'maybe more' is the third term

Romes128
Dec 28, 2008


Fun Shoe

A misanthrope posted:

time to find a new job

Or not

Might shock you, but people are entitled to their opinions

Cursed Lumberjack
Nov 14, 2006
A rather unfortunate logger indeed.

Romes128 posted:

Or not

Might shock you, but people are entitled to their opinions

Lol and so you're saying he's not entitled to want a job elsewhere? This is America you stupid fucker, he can leave his job for any reason he wants

Romes128
Dec 28, 2008


Fun Shoe

Cursed Lumberjack posted:

Lol and so you're saying he's not entitled to want a job elsewhere? This is America you stupid fucker, he can leave his job for any reason he wants

Hopefully he's in a union so that decision will be made for him soon lmao

Cursed Lumberjack
Nov 14, 2006
A rather unfortunate logger indeed.

Romes128 posted:

Hopefully he's in a union so that decision will be made for him soon lmao

Not sure you understand unions

Hardawn
Mar 15, 2004

Don't look at the sun, but rather what it illuminates
College Slice
i only understand onions, they have layers

Cursed Lumberjack
Nov 14, 2006
A rather unfortunate logger indeed.
Person: *jokes about leaving job cuz coworkers are idiots*

Romes: free speech means you can't leave and you have to listen to everything I say about trump or you're Hitler and a *shifty eyes, makes four scare quotes* *In a whisper* union member!!!

Cursed Lumberjack fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Feb 5, 2017

Romes128
Dec 28, 2008


Fun Shoe

Cursed Lumberjack posted:

Not sure you understand unions

So

Cursed Lumberjack
Nov 14, 2006
A rather unfortunate logger indeed.

Welcome to the Republican party!

Romes128
Dec 28, 2008


Fun Shoe

Cursed Lumberjack posted:

Person: *jokes about leaving job cuz coworkers are idiots*

Romes: free speech means you can't leave and you have to listen to everything I say about trump or you're Hitler and a *makes shifty eyes, four scare quotes* *In a whisper* union member!!!

To be fair my union is pretty awesome and actually works for its members unlike most

Also now I wish I voted for trump

Romes128
Dec 28, 2008


Fun Shoe
I'm a Republican now I think?

How do I get this whole cuck thing started

Cursed Lumberjack
Nov 14, 2006
A rather unfortunate logger indeed.

Romes128 posted:

I'm a Republican now I think?

How do I get this whole cuck thing started

Sorry I thought as someone with an old regdate you'd get that reference, didn't mean to impugn your honor

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flick my Mr. Bean
Nov 18, 2014

Romes128 posted:

How do I get this whole cuck thing started

lol just leave work and go home early one day

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