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The Inauguration (1 Viewer)

Thunderlips said:
That popular  vote thing really seems to chap the asses of Trump supporters.  People....it doesn't really matter. 
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It only seems to bother the left because they keep bringing it up like it matters! :lmao:

We have to remind them it doesn't matter!

 
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Captain Quinoa said:
ok let's see your facts
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From a 2011 Pew Research survey on the statement "Our people are not perfect, but our culture is superior to others", 63% of conservatives agree with the statement, compared to 45% of moderates and 34% of liberals. I'm sure you'll argue that believing "our culture is superior to others" isn't the exact statement that Americans are "better" than people in other countries, but that's about as close as you're going to get without funding the survey yourself.

 
Loves You said:
The people who agree with him.
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Speaking as the voice of "The people" / "my people" / "our people" is the common parlance of demagogues.

Third person (Lincoln): Ok, even beautiful.

First person proxy (no American president I can think of): worrisome.

 
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Koya said:
Technically he won the Electoral college, and the election. He lost the actual vote bigly.
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I'm so sick of hearing this.

The man, like any rationally thinking and acting politician would (though notably, not his opponent) tried to win the election given the rules associated with it (namely, win the electoral college vote and become president).  100% of his campaign effort was directed towards maximizing chances of winning the electoral college.  Exactly 0% of his campaign effort went towards winning the popular vote.  You are changing the rules of the game, after it has already been played, and not acknowledging any possible ramifications that change may have had on participants' strategies and, ultimately, the results.  Imagine starting a game of chess and then, after your opponent says "checkmate", exclaiming flippantly that you captured more of his pawns.  Indeed, the largest pawn deficit in the history of chess!  More pawns, in fact, than any white man has ever captured in the game's long and storied history!

Come on.

 
Peyton Marino said:
I'm so sick of hearing this.

The man, like any rationally thinking and acting politician would (though notably, not his opponent) tried to win the election given the rules associated with it (namely, win the electoral college vote and become president).  100% of his campaign effort was directed towards maximizing chances of winning the electoral college.  Exactly 0% of his campaign effort went towards winning the popular vote.  You are changing the rules of the game, after it has already been played, and not acknowledging any possible ramifications that change may have had on participants' strategies and, ultimately, the results.  Imagine starting a game of chess and then, after your opponent says "checkmate", exclaiming flippantly that you captured more of his pawns.  Indeed, the largest pawn deficit in the history of chess!  More pawns, in fact, than any white man has ever captured in the game's long and storied history!

Come on.
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:own3d:

 
sublimeone said:
I think you want to think people think a certain way and so you've convinced yourself that your feelings provide enough validation to make the sorts of proclamations you've made in this thread. How's that working out for you?
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Or, I've got two eyes, two ears, and a functioning brain. Between personal experience of growing up as a liberal in a very conservative area, the extreme jingoism/racism toward people from other countries you can encounter at any number of conservative areas online, and polling data like I linked above, I'm pretty confident is my "feelings."  

 
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