The Current Events Thread

[Kamak]

Think I'm gonna call the White House the Legion of Doom for the foreseeable future.

Now we just need the Superfriends.

[Noffletoff]

Can't help but feel that is taken out of context.

I think Trump will do great, he seems like a genuine person, people freaking out over his picks for office because of their opinions. People forget that just because those people have opinions, doesn't mean that it will be enforced or acted upon because they have a job, Trump makes the decisions not them.

[Great Eyewarp]

Yeah, he sounds like a genuinely awful person. Don't give me any of that bullshit about these just being "opinions." These are people who will be put into positions of power, and considering views that they have made abundantly clear, we cannot trust them with that power.

[Syobon]

Trump makes the decisions not them.

That's not how a government works.

[Airra]

If it were, the Republicans wouldn't have shut the government down... what, three times over Obamacare?

[Great Eyewarp]

North Carolina's resident Garbodor gijinka is a sore loser.

[TheStranger]

For all the arguments FOR Trump (and admittedly there are quite a few) 2017 is going to be absolute shit, even worse than 2016 and its all your fault for voting for him.

But, I've washed my hands of politics. This past year has shown me that voters the world over are nothing but sheep, with zero thought for the future. I'm done discussing, I'm done yelling, I'm done rationalizing. It's clear you want a shithole world of climate change, racism and fundamentalism, as long as you can prolong your stone age jobs another year or so even if the people you elect cant fulfill it. So fuck it, I'm done reasoning with you. I'm going to drink, do drugs and fuck my way to the social collapse you've set yourself up fir within 10 years.

[Riku]

Well golly gee, try not to set our hopes to high, would you?

[Great Eyewarp]

I dunno, Stranger, you're sounding a little too optimistic. Maybe tone it down a notch.

[Cori]

[TheStranger]

Thats the thing, I CANT argue against him. He followed the rules to a T, and thus, I have nothing left to add. You mihgt not care, but this matters to me. There are rules you follow, and if you win by those rules, you win fair. He WON FAIR AND SQUARE. Yes, he won by electoral college vote, but within the system, he won by the rules. Thats how it works. If you win by the rules, you won correctly. Nothing else matters! The facts dont matter, opinion doesnt matter, ideals dont matter, BECAUSE HE WON.

Okay, I dont think I've explained this fullu before, but I'm fucking autistic. I HAVE to follow the rules for my own peace of mind. And Trump won by following the rules, so then, nothing else matters. I HAVE to abandon everything else because otherwise I'll lose my fucking mind! Morals dont matter, ideals dont matter, facts dont matter, because the votes all line up for this guy. Its all completely pointless. I KNOW its the wrong choice by every goddamn number imaginable, but my fucking brain forces me to accept it, BECAUSE HE WON. He didnt cheat, he didnt lie more than anyone else, and he won. End of story.

None of you get it. THERE ARE GODDAMN NUMBERS AND YOU WONT FOLLOW THEM!!!

[Wry Bread]

Now that absentee and abroad ballots are finally being tallied, Hillary is winning by over 1.5 million votes, BY FAR the largest popular vote margin in American history (the next biggest was Gore's half a million over Bush). http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/poli ... /94214826/

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary- ... d=43667918

http://www.aol.com/article/news/2016/11 ... /21611007/

I could keep linking articles but I'm not going to because you can look it up yourself at this point.

Also: I didn't get to vote because my state's voter ID laws prevented me from doing so. I was registered and eligible, but my state requires that you have a current photo ID whose picture closely matches your current appearance with accurate up-to-date information on it, and it must be the permanent laminated copy you get from the state, not the paper you get while you wait for yours to be mailed out.

And although it's the law that you be allowed to go vote, in practice, that's not how things work in many places. Saying "you can't fire someone for taking time to go vote" only works if you have a way to force them to admit that that's why they fired someone, and you can't. Because of at-will employment laws, your employer is not required to provide a reason for firing you, and since they can fire you for "any or no reason except as protected by law," they can just say they felt like it for no particular reason even if asked by a lawyer or judge and at that point you've just wasted your time and cheddar and fucked up your employability because now no one wants to hire you; you're clearly one of those finicky "I have rights" types that's not worth the trouble.

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Finally, Steve Bannon, Trump's pick for Senior Counselor in his cabinet, is the one of the acknowledged leaders of the alt-right movement. His news website, Breitbart, frequented almost entirely by violent, sexist, racist, homophobic neo-nazis, features such thinkpieces as:

"How To Make Women pop flyin': Uninvent The Washing Machine And The Pill" (excerpts: "In fact every study shows the same thing: as women become freer, richer, better educated and have more choices, they get progressively more miserable. ") ("In fact, [housework is] one of the most important things a woman can do with her life and may be one of the only things women can actually do better than men." )

'Gay rights have made us dumber, it's time to get back in the closet'

"Bill Kristol: Republican Spoiler, Renegade Jew"

"Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy"

'Trannies whine about hilarious Bruce Jenner billboard'

'Suck it up buttercups: Dangerous Faggot Tour returns to colleges in September'

"Would you rather your child had feminism or cancer?"

'Science proves it: Fat-shaming works'

"There's no hiring bias against women in tech, they just suck!"

"Does feminism make women ugly?"

"The Smartest People In The World Are All Men"

"Here's Why There Ought to Be a Cap on Women Studying Science"

"It's Time To Be Honest About Women's Football" (quote, "Now, I know the polite thing to do is to pretend it’s just as thrilling as the men’s version. But I’m not trying to sleep with any blue-rinse bints on Gender Studies programmes, so I don’t have to pretend to like terrible things just to get a shag.")

"Feminism And Islam Both ‘Set On Destroying The American Way Of Life’"

Inb4 "He didn't personally write those articles! Just because he owns the website and puts his name on it doesn't mean he should be affiliated with what his employees write!", which... Yes. Yes, I absolutely can, and it is nothing but reasonable of me to do so. He owns this website and pays these people to be writers on it and either directly approves the articles himself or pays someone to do so with the understanding that he has absolute veto power and control over the direction the website takes in its tone and content.

[Syobon]

Maybe start protesting against the electoral college before you lose the election next time. System's been around quite a while as far as I understand.

[D-vid]

And people protested it the last time it fucked up when Gore lost far as I know. Nothing happened.
Before that everything was hunky dory and Electoral college and popular vote matched for over 100 years. Last time it didn't match before Gore was in the 1800s. People don't see a reason to protest a system as long as it works as intended, and if you did anyway, people would call you a whiner.

[Syobon]

People don't see a reason to protest a system as long as it works as intended, and if you did anyway, people would call you a whiner.

That is the problem yeah, people just don't care unless it's something flashy like a kid being shot in the street.