Do you know his stance on healthcare? Do you know his stance on abortion? Do you know his stance on LGBT issues?
He doesn't highlight them on the trail because they're not really popular with the grassroots of the Republican party. Be careful, Trump could be formidable in a general election. He has stances on issues that could pull votes out of both parties. If the Republican party gets fully behind him, he could get Democrats tired of the PC dribble we've been seeing and hearing.
I don't think it's most. You're referring to Totalitarian Theocracies, which being a bit left wing, I'm not going to support either. That's national leadership regimes though, it's not even what the Koran teaches, which would be to accept the non-Muslims and just tax them more (which isn't something I agree with either). By contrast, I'm opposed to the Death penalty; I don't hate all Americans for "supporting" it because the Federal Government use it.
There are many that don't, many that do; there's an awful lot of them with varied levels of tolerance. Saudi Arabia and Iran are probably prime examples of 'least tolerant'. That doesn't mean they impose the same laws in the same ways as Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia for example. Whatever you've been told about Sharia.LEGALLY. IN MOST MUSLIM NATIONS. ie./ NOT A FEW "EXTREMISTS". Even in SA the other week there was news of another person getting thousands of lashes and 10 years for posting Atheist tweets. If you honestly think Muslim countries are all just the same and as accepting of other peoples viewes as everywhere in Europe and USA, but they just happen to worship a different God, you're an idiot.
I am well aware they are very different countries. I'm also well aware that they don't singularly breed Islamist zealots.I don't hate Muslims, I just have serious issues with some of their belifs and I understand that many countries in the world are incredibly different to our own. Few people will admit this, even with overwhelming evidence.
2014 Gamergate: "If you want games without hyper sexualized female characters and representation, then learn to code!"
2023: "What's with all these massively successful games with ugly (realistic) women? How could this have happened?!"
Take a second to fix your sentence. I honestly can't comprehend what you're trying to say.
I will try to extrapolate, and assume that building a wall between US and Mexico is racist because it only targets Mexican illegal immigrants. When you have a problem, you apply fixes that get you closest to fixing the problem. If the solution is to reduce the number of illegal aliens...
and...
...the logical solution is to target Mexico first.Approximately 11 million illegal immigrants are estimated to be living in the United States. Estimates from the Pew Hispanic Center show the number of illegal immigrants has declined to 11.1 million in March 2009 from a peak of 12 million in March 2007. The majority of the illegal immigrants are from Mexico.
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I've seen it, thus I believe it. Seeing one occurrence of it makes it a nation-wide problem right? You use hyperbole and assumptions.
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He waffles on social issues, even sometimes in a single conversation. Other politicians may pander, Trump simply talks out of both sides of his mouth.
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Seeing Hispanic hate nationwide from the right vs seeing one union worker you assumed was left despite the Reicht wingers in unions too. Gotcha.
2014 Gamergate: "If you want games without hyper sexualized female characters and representation, then learn to code!"
2023: "What's with all these massively successful games with ugly (realistic) women? How could this have happened?!"
12 million undocumented workers are not all working on the farm, lets be real. No American wants these jobs because they cant support a family with them. But you will glady support undocumented workers being exploited to fill these jobs? You should be outraged! From illegal immigrants, outsourcing and H1B Visa workers, American Workers are getting the shaft and nobody cares and not one politician has a plan to fix any of it. Except make 12 million people legal which grants them to take higher paying jobs.
The federal government is complicit in this, we should enact tougher laws and enforce them.
Trump, didnt create this, dont try to make him the boogeyman because he is a lightning rod for hate. This has been an ongoing issue for decades. It came to the front under Bush and was talked about almost daily by Lou Dobbs.
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through out political and culture life, nutured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'" —Isaac Asimov
Trump does not like Mexicans, he's made that pretty damn clear. You can quibble over whether that's bigotry mased on race, ethnicity, or nationality... but in the end, it's still bigotry.
And again, because I don't have the patience or energy to type out the same example on every single thread where some claims Donald Trump doesn't say racist things, I will quote my own post showing a couple of his greatest hits. You can pretend all day long it hasn't happened, and I know ignorance is bliss, but the information is out there.
Trump is so racist that for him mexican = latino. and we dont speak spanish we speak mexican also
Yes, because racists often are not racist 15 years later when they're still re-tweeting made up statistics posted by neo-nazis. People in their 50s suddenly change their world views when they turn 70 all the time, especially without proof (or the opposite of)?
But nice not proving any point besides that once again Trump supporters will convince themselves of ANYTHING to provide him a free pass because he's a celebrity. Excellent rambling about "nonsense" you sure proved that he's reformed.
Even if Donald Trump is not himself prejudiced, he's building his campaign on the back of racial/ethnic/religious/nationalist prejudice. Empowering prejudice is even worse than being prejudiced yourself.
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Why anyone would think Trump supporters are racists, with the threads they start on a hourly basis ?
It's not enough to say that Trump 'waffles' or 'panders' - Trump is a liar; almost compulsively so, even when it comes to backing up his own promises to his Stormtrumpers.
“If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, just knock the hell — I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise. I promise.” (video link, youtube)
"I never said I was going to pay for fees." (video and text link, ABC News)
It's an old joke, only in Trump's case it is no joke: How do you know Trump is lying? His mouth is moving.
In a way, I suppose its a good thing - someone with Trump's violent, nationalist, populist platform and campaign style might very well succeed in seizing power in the US with a mix of popular support and threats, but I think Trump's habitual chicanery, is likely to undercut his own success.
"In today’s America, conservatives who actually want to conserve are as rare as liberals who actually want to liberate. The once-significant language of an earlier era has had the meaning sucked right out of it, the better to serve as camouflage for a kleptocratic feeding frenzy in which both establishment parties participate with equal abandon" (Taking a break from the criminal, incompetent liars at the NSA, to bring you the above political observation, from The Archdruid Report.)