ChatterBank2 mins ago
U S Presidential Election
Any predictions on the result?
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“As the OP notes "uninformed" was in my original assertion.”I hate to labour the point but it wasn’t. “Uninformed” did not rear its head until much later.
15:51 Thu 07th Nov 2024
my partner has a friend who's currently living in a very rural part of the deep south. being British she can't vote and being british, she asked her local friends why there was so much support for Trump, even among those who would not normally bother to vote in a presidential election. This was summed up by a girl who runs a local shop, who said "I don't like him. I don't have to like him. but last time he was president was the best time financially for working people in rural America, and they'd rather like to have that back".
"He was asked why he voted for Trump and he replied that he did so because he thought that he was the best hope of seeing improvements in the country in future and was the best for him and his family and everybody in the USA"
the person you describe has reached that judgement about a person who incited an insurrection against the American state in order to remain in power. he has also reached that judgement about a party who is quite open about its intention to revoke abortion rights everywhere possible (including nationally), to ban books and entertainments that they disapprove of and to liquidate elements of the population that they dislike.
I do not believe your Honduran chef is ignorant of these things. I think he knows about them and either doesn't care or supports them... such a person is a fascist. if you're comfortable with a government doing all these things so long as it might benefit you then... yes I feel comfortable describing that person as a fascist.
i did not see your reply until now because i think you mistakenly posted it here rather than in toratoratora's thread.
Michael Knowles is a political commentator who spoke about transgenderism rather than transgender people. (I had to google him). He is not Donald Trump. Furthermore I listened to Mr Trump the other day on the subject of abortion. He said he will leave the decision to each individual state. (I disagree with him on that, by the way). You really need to get a grip, untitled. You're falling for too much spin.
leaving it to the states means letting state-level republicans ban it. that's the plan.
i know that knowles isn't donald trump. he is a republican and quite a prominent one. there is also no difference between "transgenderism" and trans people. it's like hitler saying he wanted to get rid of "judaeo-bolshevism".
your googling obviously did not go so far as to learn where he was speaking naomi. he was addressing CPAC when he made those comments and received an enthusiastic response from his audience. he is a member of the republican party and quite a prominent one who delivered those comments at a political event. so yes. you have republicans openly talking about eradicating sections of the population they don't like.
When you say 'they' who are 'they', untitled? You make the narrow-minded error of lumping everyone who votes 'right' into one constricting box as if they were all clones without a thought of their own in their heads. That appears to be how your politics - as naively misinformed as they are - work but rest assured, it doesn't apply to all.
