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Are You a Deplorable? Take This Quiz to Find Out
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2016 Dec 19, 12:17pm 5,554 views 12 comments
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Tenpoundbass
2016 Dec 19, 12:19pm
I friends with anyone that makes Hillary shit her pants and grow more cry wrinkles.
marcus
2016 Dec 19, 1:58pm
Yes, and also: if you believe in freedom, family values, good over evil, and America, then you're a republican.
Yes, and also: if you believe in freedom, family values, good over evil, and America, then you're a republican.
What if you want smaller government, reduced laws where laws already exist, and the return of the Guillotine...... Dont forget us Libertfrategalitarians you'all................
marcus
2016 Dec 19, 2:10pm
I've often liked Charles Hugh Smiths observations. But tell me does he (or do any sane Trump voters) actually think Trump is going to:
1) End the war on drugs or substantially alter our prison industiral complex ?
2) Stop the never ending wars and drone strikes ?
3) Change the corporate concentration of the media to just a few major corporations ?
4) Do a better job preventing the entrance of illegal immigrants
5) Change college quotas for admissions
6) Do anything to limit or lessen the dominance of America's neoliberal elites ?
7) Reverse globalization ?
I don't know. I thought "the deplorables" were people that either liked or were willing to overlook a lot of Trumps demogoguery, populist bullshit, his history, his seeming low intelligence and his scary lack of decorum or impulse control.
FuckTheMainstreamMedia
2016 Dec 19, 2:42pm
You keep speaking of low intelligence.
I don't think low intelligence means what you think it means.
I've often liked Charles Hugh Smiths observations. But tell me does he (or do any sane Trump voters) actually think Trump is going to:
CHS doesn't mention Trump. He, I believe, is just trying to explain why the Status Quo, and it's standard bearer Hillary, is so reviled.
Having people hate you can be confusing for anybody, and the Dem's seem desperately confused.
marcus
2016 Dec 19, 4:07pm
No, he's trying to erase the true way the name arose. And replace it with a better meaning. Nifty trick if you can make it stick.
I don't think low intelligence means what you think it means.
Maybe you're right. Trump told us he has words, in fact he said he has the best words.
He said, "I'm like, ..intelligent and shit"
(okay - maybe he didn't say "and shit" but it came off that way.)
marcus
2016 Dec 19, 4:43pm
I guess we're clear then on the amount of nuance in your perspective.
I heard a good quote from Jonathan Haidt the other day, "if you don't understand the other side of the debate, then you don't understand your own side of it either."
Or something to that effect.
marcus
2016 Dec 19, 4:46pm
Great discussion. Not that I would expect you to be interested (CIC), if even capable of taking it in.
marcus
2016 Dec 20, 2:11pm
"if you don't understand the other side of the debate, then you don't understand your own side of it either."
Well, you're the absolute poster boy for that statement.
In that case you must appreciate the work of Jonathan Haidt (video above) much more than I do. Btw, he's not a liberal. Although I guess he's known for in depth interesting analytical discussions, so he might as well be a liberal. Am I right?
Probably way too much neutrality for some. But not someone such as yourself, that understands both sides so well.
I guess we're clear then on the amount of nuance in your perspective.
I heard a good quote from Jonathan Haidt the other day, "if you don't understand the other side of the debate, then you don't understand your own side of it either."
Or something to that effect.
That's a great quote.
The first lesson to learn to be a successful trader/handicapper
Know thy enemy, know thyself
marcus
2016 Dec 20, 5:05pm
That's a great quote.
The actual quote:
"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that."
John Stuart Mill
"Though it was Hillary Clinton who made "the Deplorables" public, the elites of both parties share the same fear and loathing of anyone who questions or resists their control."
"Regardless of your ethnicity, class or religion, if you perceive the institutions that govern American life as corrupted, riddled with favoritism and spin or as broken, you're a Deplorable. If you question or resist the dominance of self-serving neoliberal elites, you're a Deplorable.
This isn't the elites' definition, of course, because resistance to their dominance can't be identified as the defining factor. If this truth were revealed, the various tribes of Deplorables might realize they have more in common than the corporate media will let on."
Take the quiz:
1. If you agree with this characterization of American Elites: "The self-satisfied cosmopolitan culture that sprang up among the affluent 20% or so of the industrial world’s population, who became convinced that the temporary ascendancy of policies that favored their interests was not only permanent but self-evidently right and just."............
http://www.oftwominds.com/blogdec16/deplorable12-16.html