On Thursday, 3 November 2016 12:11:20 PM AEDT Rick Moen via luv-talk wrote:
Quoting Russell Coker (russell@coker.com.au):
http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/11/02/starbucks-sticks-it-to-donald-trump -with-awesome-new-to-go-cup-trump-livid-image/
This makes as much sense as the crazy anti-systemd stuff. Why and how does it happen?
Um....
It happens because social media hands random, attention-seeking crazy people both a big megaphone and pseudonymity with total freedom from consequence. The batshit crazy are free to speak for some entire movement, because nobody can claim they don't (or at least, it doesn't help much if/when they do). And then other people like you can then claim whatever-movement-in-question is inherently crazy because random crazy pseudonymous people have claimed to speak for it.
I'm sure that there are crazy people who support Hillary Clinton. But there is a clear difference between crazy people and her official representatives. With all the crazy stuff that Donald Trump does and his official representatives defend there is no clear difference. In fact there have been people who have been sacked for doing exactly what Donald asked them too, Donald isn't merely following the crazy, he's leading it. People who might have been law-abiding citizens with more responsible leadership are ending up as criminals after following Trump's advice.
What part of social media, crazy people, a 7.4 billion population count, and drive-by Internet rage-mobbing have you been unclear about, Russell? Because this has been the way it works for at least a decade. I can only guess you've been hiding in a hermit cave or lost at sea.
Name one first-world country other than the US and Italy who has had a candidate as awful as Trump in recent times. Trump makes Ronald Raygun's joke about a nuclear launch seem like it wasn't a big deal. He makes Thatcher and Raygun's support of Pinochet and assorted other nasties seem like a reasonable way of running government. His stated plans for running government would make him more of a crook than Nixon and more generally corrupt than Raygun if he ever managed to implement them. http://www.salon.com/2016/09/15/gamergater/ http://www.smh.com.au/world/us-election/gamergate-meme-war-shares-dna-with-p... GamerGate has been around for a while. But Trump is the first GamerGate candidate for high office. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/