Trump Wins: Lets Roll up our sleeves, because All Improvements start with us!
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Kaladin wrote:
they .... use different means of reclaiming that honor
True. ISIS uses sharpened steel to remove people they don't want. Trump uses only a finger.
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Honor in the sense I'm talking about isn't a personal moral state but something that is perceived by everyone else. And regardless of whether of your or my opinions of her, there are many people that perceive her as good and just and whatnot.
And regardless of your or my opinion of Trump, comparing the position given by one of his supporters to ISIS is meant to be demeaning. Trying to mince words in order to back up that comparison is not the right thing to do, which is very much what this feels like.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." - Benjamin Disraeli
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I don't mean honor as acting justly but as...I guess esteem/respect in the eyes of everyone else? The opposite of being mocked. Very different from our Western morality of innocence and guilt. Trump's rhetoric of deriding is opponents is an attempt to shame them thereby gaining more honor for himself
Probably. But then, Ms. Clinton did the same, and in my opinion, perhaps because I loath her more than Trump, she did so with the type of labeling and name-calling that demonized his character. The media took up the narrative and spread it around so that everyone demonized him, to the point where we now have Democrats and immigrants freaking out, irrationally thinking he's going to either destroy America or deport all immigrants, or both. With the exception of the few conservative media outlets, the media did not take up his derisive comments against Hillary or others, expect as "proof" of Hillary's narrative.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
The poor rich always blame the rich poor for their problems.
Life's funny, that way. Actually, it's not funny; it's just human. Let's go with "Everyone blames someone else for their problems". So, because I don't wish to appear to be too inhuman, I'm laying the blame for all my problems at your feet!
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
The poor rich always blame the rich poor for their problems.
Do they? You may be right, but I can't think of any straightforward examples of which troubles they blame on the poor. Help me out with a few.
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