Psyral, it's cute that you think i give any fucks at all about why some lgbt people might vote against their best interest.

krunkazphuk said

I'd prefer a shorter, non-partisan set

You heard it here folks. From queen of  MENSA, og Republican of true grit and spit herself just said that anti racism songs are "partisan".

and "We Belong (Wraith Remix)"

Just curious, you think the "all sizes shapes and genders" line isn't partisan tho? I'm just checking because I'm down with adding it to the list.

Bonesaw Wizardstick said
"Terrible" would be a good song for it.  Nice strong anti-racist message.  

GREAT CHOICE YES

Also, the process for refugees coming into our country is incredibly difficult as refugee families don't know where they are going or when would be impossible.

Also, do you know which demographic is most likely to be killed by Muslim terrorists? Hint: other Muslims.

Bonesaw Wizardstick said
Like I said, I don't really follow politics.  Those are all interesting points that should be considered, but they don't come to mind immediately unless you follow the news and specifically look into his history and the history of the issues.

I feel like what I said it what a lot of his voters probably think which is why he is the president.  He could be a complete racist from what I know.  But generally speaking and looking at just the surface of what he's saying and doing, he's not.  That's probably part of the problem that's going on.

Yeah man. That's my point. Racism is insidious and it takes a bit of complex reasoning to really understand. Critical examination of facts is an important part of the political process. 

We have to constantly look deeper than the surface because people who want to manipulate us know how branding works. They make up catch phrases and package things in sweet little bite sized bits of info and hope we don't look beyond the surface.

I don't think anybody thinks that every trump supporter has kkk or neo nazi histories but it's worth considering why do these groups support him and what ideas do they have that we share? Why do we share them?

When people talk about racism and white supremacy they aren't talking about little Hitler wannabes. They're talking about economic trends, social norms, legal practices, and so forth. These things are pervasive in our culture. 

I do believe trump is racist. He was raised by a racist, has done nothing to challenge racism, delights in the support of racists, and has enabled the systemic, ongoing racism that I spoke of earlier. He also follows and occasionally retweets blatantly racist propaganda. 

Again, this doesn't mean every supporter is going to be bleaching their whitest whites before the weekly lynching, but it does mean that our nation is being steered into the skid by someone who at best is willfully and deliberately ignorant of the things he says and does or at worst who is deliberately trying to start a race war.

I'll have to look into some of that since it sounds pretty interesting.  What do you think about Korea, though?  He's catching a lot of flak for threatening them and making military moves that show them that they could become a parking lot if they do something stupid.  Yet if he chose to just let them do their thing, he would be criticized for just sitting back and watching.

And I think it's a little hypocritical that the United States is feeling threatened that they could possibly be targeted by an attack that would be miraculous if it actually worked, but not considering the fact that the whole world knows that we have been able to accurately nuke any pinpoint target between 1" outside of DC and Neptune for a while now.  

International politics are difficult and frustrating because you only have media to go by and all media in the us is obsessed with keeping us locked in for ratings. 

My best understanding is that their current leader is a lot more level headed than his father was and has shown a propensity towards deferring towards Chinese influence. China has no wish to start a war with us. We have a pretty decent trade deal going with them and owe them a lot of money. They have stated outright that if north korea attacks is, they will stand with us. And if we attack North Korea, we are declaring war on China.

So more or less, we should do what we have done for a while now: work towards deescalation and let north korea try to intimidate us. You'll notice before they threatened to attack our territory but when they launched icbms this week, they launched them in the other direction. 

They would love to provoke us into making a first strike and we have to do literally everything we can to prevent that. They would benefit so much, in terms of international clout and support, if we got spooked and over reacted.

I also read that if they launched nukes at us there are safety / defense strategies that may or may not keep us safe. Hawaii, Alaska, our territories in the Pacific, and the West Coast are the most likely of targets. The closer the better. 

But at the same time we need to keep our eyes on the prize and be ready to jump on go if anything does go down to prevent complete catastrophic destruction.