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  1. 4 hours ago, Yagoda said:

    So they can stick their noses in the air and tell us, with a sniff, how much better and cultured they are while they suck the money out of us to finance their lifestyle.

     

    History demonstrates that Europeans are utter thieves.

     

    This. Let Europe pony up to fight their own battles... the need for which are largely due to the stupidity of the left. Propping Russia up by buying their oil and gas, for example.

     

    I'm tired of my taxes going to pay for the endless folly of trying to support and police the entire world.

  2. 11 hours ago, digbeth said:

    they need to worry about trump, green card or citizenship - revoked 

     

    What disingenuous nonsense are you peddling?

     

    Please point out where President Trump has ever suggested revoking green cards as a remedy for the USA's illegal immigrant problem.

     

    As for citizenship, definitely not. It's (purposefully) very difficult to revoke American citizenship. Unless a naturalized citizen is accused of something that rises to the level of a very serious crime, it basically Does. Not. Happen. (Think: lying about having been a murderous guard at a nazi concentration camp.)

     

    To suggest that a Trump administration would attempt mass green card or citizenship revocations is completely ridiculous, and you know it.

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  3. 5 hours ago, thaipo7 said:

    No thugs on the Left right?  Every hear of BLM, Antifa as in the summer of 2020.

     

    Indeed. Thuggery in the US is fairly unique to the left these days.

     

    Another difference? I see right-wing thugs, I denounce them -- loudly.

     

    Of course, we don't have a common understanding of the definition of "thug" any more. The left calls anyone it disagrees with "thugs". The right calls rioting criminal mobs "thugs". A bit different...

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  4. 5 hours ago, Jingthing said:

    The vast majority of that red stuff includes empty fields and wilderness.

    People vote (sometimes). LAND never does.

     

    Are you claiming no people live in those red-delineated areas, amongst the empty fields and wilderness? On the contrary, there are voters in literally every single one of them…

     

    And there are vacant lots inside cities also.

     

    What’s your point, really?

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  5. 2 hours ago, jimmybcool said:

    is part of who they are and is looked at by HR when they graduate and apply for a job in the real world?  Might be OK to have a mental breakdown when they are applying for barista at Starbucks but jobs in business management or other mainstream corporate America don't want people who can't cope with life's letdowns in an adult manner

     

    Unfortunately, this kind of rational thinking is rapidly being cast aside as “boomer” logic.

     

    The younger generation will be completely running the HR departments and corporate America in time, and theirs is a world in which social factors play an outsized role in perceptions of competence. We already see safe spaces (etc.) all over the place, and the coddling effect is directly related to how irrational social justice-related behavior won’t be an impediment to navigating a “real job” in the future (or even now).

     

    IOW I don’t think these people really fear repercussions on their futures. “Consequences” are (a) passé these days, and (b) becoming reserved for truly heinous skeletons in one’s closet such as having accidentally mis-pronouned someone on a long-forgotten social media post, or having made a mildly distasteful joke at an identity group’s expense 10 years ago.

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  6. 1 hour ago, BangkokReady said:

    Very likely it's a case of cognitive dissonance:

     

    "Cognitive dissonance is the mental discomfort that results from holding two conflicting beliefs, values, or attitudes."

    https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-cognitive-dissonance-2795012

     

    What I think is probably happening is that some individuals are finding it very hard to come to terms with the fact that more than half the voting public chose to elect Donald Trump.  The reason this causes cognitive dissonance is the two conflicting beliefs their brains are struggling to cope with.

     

    Due to their strong disliking to Donald Trump, many people have constructed an imaginary image in their heads of who he is.  This makes it easier to hate him and see him as the bad guy, without admitting that what they are doing is irrational.  The knock-on effect from this imaginary image is that they had to create imaginary people to support Trump, the "MAGA, Nazi, racist, Fascists".

     

    Deep down, these people know that 73,500,000 people cannot all be "MAGA, Nazi, racist, Fascists", so the result of the election threatens to shatter the image these people have created that allowed them to hate Trump and Trump supporters so passionately.  With this image shattered, what they are left with is the idea that it is actually them with the problem, and people find this hard to accept, leading to emotional distress.

     

    Thanks for that. I can respect this analysis.

     

    I think, though, that there is a significant number of people on the left who truly do now believe that tens of millions of their fellow citizens actually are racist, sexist, transphobic, fascist, et al.

     

    They’ve spent big parts of their recent lives in their social media-driven ideologically leftist echo chambers, which has reinforced and amplified all their worst impluses and reduced their ability to think critically. The result is fragile, fearful, ignorant people who believe and act on all the worst victimization tropes circulating with gusto in their edenic bubbles.

  7. 37 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

    That I'm not Thai. Duh.

     

    That’s just a convenient rationalization. Living somewhere by choice for an extended period of time under a regime installed by a coup, which some people consider anti-democratic, etc. is somewhere between “endorsement” and “I don’t care about its negatives”.

     

    Most of us don’t care about either of those labels and people should just do what they need to do in their own lives! But if you are going to talk the talk about a Trump administration being bad for… all the reasons people are quick to jump on President Trump, then not walking the walk elsewhere in life is a wee bit hypocritical.

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  8. 12 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

    Trump is not conservative!

     

    I’m not using word “conservative” here in some obscure pointy-headed way whose nuance would require me to post a reference to a PhD thesis as justification.

     

    I meant it in its plain, commonly understood facility as a synonym for “Republican”. So my post says that I’ve enjoyed meeting non-leftist Americans of all stripes in Thailand.

     

    Of course, I’ve also enjoyed meeting leftist ones too… Certain kinds of people — to their detriment and great experiential loss — assess the value of everything and everyone they encounter in life through a political lens. I am more open-minded, and thus am not such an experientially limited person.

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  9. 10 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

    The republican party no longer exists.

    It's 100 percent the Trump maga party now.

     

    Such is the power of a unified movement and party? That’s actually a good thing; dunno what to tell ya.

     

    Contrast with the Democrats, who are seemingly in disarray, practically a civil war even, because the ones least palatable to the electorate refuse to compromise in any way.

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  10. 3 hours ago, Jingthing said:

    Yeah well living in Pattaya, I can tell you that there are many Maga Americans here. Perhaps the majority. No hat needed. Less so in Bangkok and Chiang Mai. 

     

    Don’t kid yourself. There are plenty of us MAGA types in Bangkok too… including Thai people with American citizenship. It’s been super-fun and awesome meeting conservative people of many stripes — including Trumpers — over the past months and years. It makes a nice break half the year for me and wife, who live in a strongly leftist part of the USA during the other half of the year.

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