Congratulations, Stupid.

[8bitagent]

Ive had close to 200 people de-friend me on Facebook in the last day for stating the obvious. That Trump won because the DNC decided to put up a war corporatist instead of an angry populist who connected with the young and old leftists. Instead we got the angry populist on the right. In 2007 when I joined RI, I dreamt of the day the Bush neocons would be humiliated and destroyed. I just never imagined that anger of the war powers would help
elect what many see as a goofy 80s tv actor turned fascist. Or, least strongman with fascist-esque followers. Seeing my entire facebook/twitter/reddit media feed erupting in grief and anger doesn't make me feel good.
Yet it was this same social media matrix that insulated people from the fact half the country, white, felt left behind. Im a poor Asian gen x-er, but I am dismayed by the "white people must die" shit im seeing online.
Michael Moore called this a long time ago. Trump will win because half of America feels shit canned by the elite.

Do I regret being a loud anti Clinton voice? No. I never cared about white water, lewinski, vince foster, benghazi, emails, etc. But the moment Hillary Clinton lead the invasion of Libya, which lead to a lot of death,
then bragged about it and laughed....she lost me. I saw the same disconnect of human emotion I saw with Rumsfeld and Cheney.

That said, I register and understand the deep pain people like our own SLAD is feeling, and thousands of people Im seeing on social media.

thank you


the venom thrown at me by a couple of people here was a little overwhelming...like shaming me was going to make me leave after 11 years...

Im proud of everyone here, and am sad so many people have been banned.

Btw SLAD, what did you think of this image today? I truly wonder what MLK would think of this moment. Trump looked like a scared, confused child during the press conference
sitting next to the man for years he said was a foreigner....with MLK's face staring at him the whole time. Unreal

[JackRiddler]

A response for Joe from here:

Yes, here in the Communist Metropolis of New York City, I know & have met so many white people who have no problems with racism as a system (their personal prejudices or lack thereof in everyday life may vary). They will be "white ethnic." I'm thinking of several specific people here currently in my life, who are like dozens I've known well. They don't really want to acknowledge racism as a system or talk about it, sort of like guruilla. They may find mention of it offensive or annoying, and do not care about black people being shot. They will more care about BLM making trouble, what are they complaining about again? Others will be more straight-up and say, "yeah I'm racist, whatever." The tendency will be to assume cop shootings are justified. (I've had people say, about videos of shootings of the unarmed, that the victim showed "attitude," why didn't he comply, etc. etc.). Some of them vote D. I doubt very many know or give a shit who Bundy is, though on that I've made no poll. Distant and irrelevant. On the Bundy ally who was killed, almost surely they'd think it's his just desserts for fucking with the government. But there I'm speculating. Most people don't watch FOX and just think all media and all politicians are equally bullshit, they're all crooks, what can you do, etc. The way you fuck with the government is to evade taxes. In fact, their attitude will be that most people are shit, actually. Angry about the world? Sure, mostly. They might hate Donald Trump, or they might think he is a businessman and he must be good at it because he has money, which is always good thing to have. They will hate Clinton. "White" is not an explicit category of pride (people who think that shit are a minority group and tend to be hopeless, indeed deplorable). Pride or in any case affinity will be in the ethnic or cultural group. "White" is just the desirable minimum of normal, the kind of person who is assumed to be non-dangerous and won't annoy, harrass, drive down property values, etc., with whom one might hang out. "Black" is the people you don't want to see around your neighborhood, or have anything to do with besides that everyone runs into everyone else in Midtown and on the subway. Since this is New York, many of the people who might be rednecks in, say, a Kentucky context make plenty of fun of rednecks. (By the prevailing neo-RI logic, that must mean that Trump voters in New York who were snide to the poor helpless flyover people caused the latter to be alienated and vote for Trump.) Stay down, don't get involved, work for yourself & family is more the normal thing.

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[KUAN]

‘Dump the Trump’ American IPA is at half price at my local

Works on a certain level tho, very hoppy and 7.2%

My God! never thought I'd be quoting a beer label on RI

‘This beer will build a wall of hops around your taste buds and make Mexico pay for it. etc

[JackRiddler]

Wow that video. Trump just maybe now realizing shit got real.

[82_28]

I noticed that when it was live, I was all WTF? I couldn't figure out was this occult, a setup, irony or what.

You have a disembodied head of one of the greatest humans to ever live on Earth right behind the single most disgusting figure to ever even let alone live but become this fucking country's president, The amount of disgust most of us feel here is well, disgusting. I did not vote for Clinton but she won the popular vote. It is high time we do away with the electoral college. Personally I have been nauseous since.

But all we can do now is just scream into the sky. As Luther says, there will be protests. Fuck this shit.

World, America does not accept trump. I am sorry. Seriously sorry.

[Sounder]

82-28 wrote...

I did not vote for Clinton but she won the popular vote.

Yeah, and you believe the MS narrative here? OK, but they have not exactly been truthful in the past. Her people could not electronically switch quite enough votes, so ha, ha, she still lost. The programmers probably forgot to switch enough 'white women' voters because they thought they were already in the bag.

[2012 Countdown]

White supremacists urge trolling Clinton supporters to suicide
Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States has emboldened white supremacists to target Hillary Clinton supporters and others with online harassment.

The neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer published a list of more than 50 Twitter users who had expressed fear about the outcome of the 2016 election, urging its readers to “punish” them with a barrage of tweets that would drive them to suicide.

“You can troll these people and definitely get some of them to kill themselves,” wrote the Daily Stormer’s publisher, Andrew Anglin.

Experts who have studied hate groups say white supremacists see Trump’s election as a victory for their ideology and a repudiation of multiculturalism. The outcome of the race has emboldened those who lurk in the Internet’s dark recesses to step up their attacks.

“We’re going to be hearing more about this — many different kinds of harassment of women, of people of color, of Muslims, linked directly to either Trump’s rhetoric or the alt right,” said Sophie Bjork-James, a post-doctoral scholar at Vanderbilt University’s anthropology department.

The Daily Stormer urged its readers to accost Muslim women, and “yell at them, tell them to go home.” At least two women whose Twitter names were circulated by The Daily Stormer said they had been subject to violent tweets.

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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ ... li=BBnb7Kz

[DrEvil]

DrEvil did the Clinton campaign pay her Norwegian donors back yet? Good riddance to the now-irrelevant pundits who backed her!

LOL

The Clinton foundation, not the campaign, and I'm not sure a government counts as a pundit. But who cares about facts anymore? It's Trump time!

I despise my government, but not nearly as much as I despise Trump. You seem to be OK with a racist misogynist who advocates war crimes in the White house. LOL?

[coffin_dodger]

It must be depressing living in a mind with such a limited, binary outlook. Plenty of room for hatred, though. Strange world.

[Burnt Hill]

It must be depressing living in a mind with such a limited, binary outlook. Plenty of room for hatred, though. Strange world.

When the binaries are misogyny vs. philogyny
racism vs tolerance - etc.
then what is the problem?

[seemslikeadream]

he is too full of himself and needs to take it down a notch

[seemslikeadream]

half the country did not vote.....the really stupid ones


1/4 voted for trump

1/4 voted for clinton ....more voted for her

[coffin_dodger]

Tell you what, chaps - RI isn't the same place I joined a few years ago - it's morphed from an interesting, intriguing mix of ideas and personalities into a politically correct wet dream, policed by zealots. I'll give Wom an hour or two to ban me - then I'll start bumping AD's nazi threads continuously until he does.
Cheers to search, sounder, wom, slomo, savant, chump, brandon d, canadian watcher, antiaristo, fruh, harvey, willow, griz, semper, tap, nord, slim, iani, elfi, allegro and anyone else missed unintentionally.
Toodle-pip.

[bks]

Show me the numbers of how Trump won more votes than Romney or McCain. Show them in the swing states, in the Rust Belt, among the masses who would not have turned to Trump if not for the mean mean media and the liberal insults to their precious, precious identities. You cannot, because the numbers say something opposite: fewer votes for Trump than Romney or McCain, and, in the country as a whole, fewer votes for Trump than for Clinton.

Nate CohnVerified account
‏@Nate_Cohn
.@nickgourevitch @LoganDobson at the moment, Clinton 63.4m, Trump 61.2m


It's not over yet either. electorate grew, but your argument may need updating.

[bks]

Congratulations. The length of time one? I like the numbers.

Anyway you should be proud of it because an effort like that (no matter how trivial it might seem) does the limits of what humans are capable of a bit further than they were previously.

just saying.

eh, I was working some shit out. Some people close to me died, and I got into old games to escape instead of self-destruct.

Yes, length of time, eighty-five hours. Broke a thirty year old record. Lots of people tried and failed. I failed a few times before I finally did it, too.

I find it fitting that I'm talking about this in the 'congratulations, stupid' thread. haha

The endurance game is no big thing, any monkey can do it with a bit of practice and training. I also have the qbert 'tournament' world record, you only get five lives. I lasted eight hours on that one. That took some skill, attention, and concentration at least.

There's much more to this story, all of it trivial and oh so fascinating. Maybe another thread, another time.

For those who aren't familiar, the qbert game is a color puzzle played on a pyramid of cubes. Staring at the screen for as long as I did, does not make you the secret inner head of the illuminati. However, it does make you secret grand master of the rosicrucians. Don't believe it.

Here's a picture of me and my friend Walter, the 'patron saint of video games.' My hair is short now.

duncanandwalter1.jpg

Do you know where I can find a Defender and Robotron machine, dada? Gonna be a long 4 years