Trump 2.0

Zero Point Native said:
You're asking the wrong question. You're pinning the notion of deserving to the human ego. Whether I'm ok with it or not is completely irrelevant to the Law of Cause and Effect. However, do carry on...
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Oh no, the Law of Attraction completely destroys the Law of Cause and Effect by simply sprinkling pixie dust on it.
 
James R said:
What defines the male and female genders, according to you?
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Who defines the non-binary fluid genders? If it's unique to each individual then maybe we should just consider that gender is now meaningless and just not use that term or concept?
 
Seattle said:
From Time Magazine

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an organization whose mission is to combat antisemitism and which describes a “Hitler salute” as one with an “outstretched right arm with the palm down,” posted on X shortly after the incident that the billionaire Trump mega-donor “made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute,” and that “all sides should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath.”
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Not surprising, given the ADL's recent reimagining of anti-Zionism as antisemitism:
In a 2022 speech to ADL leaders, Greenblatt said that "anti-Zionism is antisemitism".[118] The Times of Israel noted that the "speech marked a rare moment of the organization unequivocally" making that assertion.[119] The remarks upset activists and Jewish groups critical of Israel, and also set off controversy within the ADL.[17][120] Internal ADL messages seen by The Guardian included a senior manager at ADL's Center on Extremism writing in protest that: "There is no comparison between white supremacists and insurrectionists and those who espouse anti-Israel rhetoric, and to suggest otherwise is both intellectually dishonest and damaging to our reputation as experts in extremism."[17] The newspaper reported that the speech, which "put opposition to Israel on a par with white supremacy as a source of antisemitism", had sparked controversy.[17]
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Anti-Defamation League - Wikipedia

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Still, given Musk's history:
Musk has made a series of public posts and comments that make it awfully hard to conclude he doesn’t actually harbor racist and antisemitic views, and that should at the very least make groups like the ADL think twice before extending the benefit of the doubt. He is loudly supporting a German far-right party with connections to neo-Nazis. He changed his X avatar to Pepe the Frog, a symbol of far-right racism and antisemitism. After violent anti-immigrant riots rocked the U.K. last summer, Musk sided with the rioters: He has been a vocal supporter of the British far-right hatemonger Tommy Robinson, and was incensed by the seven-year jail sentence handed down to a man who posted an image of a map with a mosque circled in red and the caption “TIME FOR WAR”—a post found to have incited some of the riots.
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it might seem that the ADL is simply providing cover to Musk to protect their own interests:
And it makes the ADL’s urging of “the benefit of the doubt” toward Musk a bit credulous, given that he has been extended this benefit many times, and continues to raise serious doubts. And it’s particularly odd to see the ADL standing up for Musk. The ADL, after all, has as its national director a man who has compared wearing a kaffiyeh to wearing a swastika. The group has conflated protests against Israel’s war in Gaza with antisemitism—and while far too many of these protests have indeed veered into the antisemitic, the ADL seems to equate just about any opposition to Israeli militarism with antisemitism, a position that has badly damaged their credibility.
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As actual Holocaust survivors use their last years to fight against the reemergence of the European far right, Musk is supporting some of those same far-right parties. And as Musk yet again behaves in a way that any person with eyes might immediately see as reminiscent of Nazism, the ADL is supporting—or at least excusing, and perhaps covering for, Musk.
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slate.com

It’s Clear Enough What Elon Musk Did. The ADL’s Response Is Pathetic.

The “hand gesture” didn’t happen in a vacuum.
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Seattle said:
Who defines the non-binary fluid genders? If it's unique to each individual then maybe we should just consider that gender is now meaningless and just not use that term or concept?
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?? People's names are unique and they often change them. (i.e. Joseph says "call me Joe" or "call me Mack.") Women and men sometimes even change their last names when they get married. Does that mean that therefore names are meaningless?

Since your given name isn't Seattle, are you meaningless?
 
Seattle said:
From Time Magazine

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an organization whose mission is to combat antisemitism and which describes a “Hitler salute” as one with an “outstretched right arm with the palm down,” posted on X shortly after the incident that the billionaire Trump mega-donor “made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute,” and that “all sides should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath.”
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Ah, well, they are in a bind, aren”t they? The ADL is an important part of the Israel Lobby, so they want to stay close to Trump, who is an unquestioning supporter of whatever Israel does. They don’t want to be picking fights with members of Trump’s team and raising awkward questions about neo-Nazi sympathies.
 
billvon said:
?? People's names are unique and they often change them. (i.e. Joseph says "call me Joe" or "call me Mack.") Women and men sometimes even change their last names when they get married. Does that mean that therefore names are meaningless?

Since your given name isn't Seattle, are you meaningless?
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You need to work on analogies.
 
exchemist said:
Ah, well, they are in a bind, aren”t they? The ADL is an important part of the Israel Lobby, so they want to stay close to Trump, who is an unquestioning supporter of whatever Israel does. They don’t want to be picking fights with members of Trump’s team and raising awkward questions about neo-Nazi sympathies.
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Or they may just recognize that Musk is awkward bordering on spastic.
 
So, day 2 and the Ukraine/Russia war still goes on.

How many broken campaign promises has he already broken? ;)
 
Sarkus said:
So, day 2 and the Ukraine/Russia war still goes on.

How many broken campaign promises has he already broken? ;)
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I think most people, including the more intelligent of his supporters (if that is not a contradiction in terms), know by now that TFG talks out of his arse. So they don't actually expect half the things he promises to come to pass. The fear we all face is we have no idea which half of his mad promises he will actually keep to.
 
Yeah, I know, but no harm in keeping score.

On this matter, though, TOF (The Orange Felon) has a chip on his shoulder about Obama getting the Nobel Peace prize, and while Trump likely did naff-all to secure the ceasefire in Gaza yet claimed credit, the U/R "peace" he promised to obtain would have secured it for him. It still could, to be fair.

A less generous way to look at this is that, given his promise and certainty in being able to achieve peace on day 1, every subsequent death in that war is on his hands, surely? ;)
 
Sarkus said:
So, day 2 and the Ukraine/Russia war still goes on.

How many broken campaign promises has he already broken? ;)
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In his defense when he said a "day" he meant "100 days, which is obvious when you think about it.

I remember once my gf asked me about this new thing she was trying on.
I thought "beautiful darling, you could pass for mid twenties."

What I actually said was "You arse looks fat in that skirt," things can get really confusing with words sometimes.

We split up eventually and never made that trip to the gulf of America. Shame.
 
Trump signed an executive order forcing all film distributors to re-dub or re-subtitle all "Sieg heil!"s, in films with Nazis, as "My heart GOES OUT TO YOU!"s.

Edit: I searched popular video hosting sites for some samples, and, pathetically, no one has done this yet. So here's some re-edited footage from Escape from Sobibor, done in Benny Hill style, instead:
 
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