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Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.

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Re: Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.

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Post by agumonkey »

DanBC wrote: post #914
agumonkey wrote: post #907

Whoelse thinks that Trump is and will mostly be a joke. That none of is populist antics will really reach our realm (mexican wall, anti climate research deeds, ...). That he and his team will get a reality check when nature, life, mind changing people will start to resist bits by bits to nonsensical projects ?

Just being elected will unleash all sorts of stuff. After Brexit the rates of hate crime in the UK rose significantly, and they're still at those high levels. Since people were openly chanting "Jew S A" at Trump rallies it's not hard to image that some people will feel that more than speech is fine.

Ah, I thought the violence in UK went back since and was only an event spike.

Concerning state indeed. So a path toward sustained crazy isn't that impossible.

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Post by iuhgdwij »

tmptmp wrote: post #162

It's not surprising. The left-liberal camp was always turning a blind eye towards many important national issues and importantly about the issue of Islam. This reminds me a talk given by Sam Harris about the blunder being done by left-liberals regarding their dishonest/spineless treatment of Islam. His video titled "Sam Harris : Liberals failure to talk honestly about Islam is responsible for the rise of Trump" is ve…

A good first step might be to require a yellow half moon to be attached to every muslims chest while in public. And one starry night, let's go crush the windows of muslim-owned shops.

That is how we started dealing with the Jewish issue here in Europe a couple of years ago.

(this comment is obviously sarcasm)

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Post by elsurudo »

Someone wrote: post #61
sho_hn wrote: post #14

So as a European ... Clinton didn't spend enough time in the Upper Midwest expecting to carry those states, but Trump had an actual message for them (NAFTA, etc.) while Hillary didn't, and they don't care that he is racist and sexist, they want their jobs back, so the election was called by a 40+ white demo in an economically depressed region just like old Middle England called Brexit. About right?

That's fairly close to #1 on Michael Moore's 5 points from July ( http://michaelmoore.com/trumpwillwin/ )

Wow, he was spot on, especially about the rust belt... And Trump ended up getting Florida, too.

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Post by elsurudo »

ohyoutravel wrote: post #949
dang wrote: post #928

It pains me to see HN serving pages so slowly, so I'm going to try an experiment and bury the current thread for a minute or two. Don't worry, we'll restore it or an equivalent; momentous stories like this one (or Brexit) are exceptions to the general rule against politics here. I just want to see if not having to render 2000 comments so often will let us catch a breath. Edit: ok, that definitely helped. I think the…

I am logging out to read as requested, but out of curiosity, why does logging out help the page loads?

Probably due to caching. The page looks exactly the same to all logged-out users, but need customization for logged-in users.

Re: Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.

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Post by manojlds »

ohyoutravel wrote: post #949
dang wrote: post #928

It pains me to see HN serving pages so slowly, so I'm going to try an experiment and bury the current thread for a minute or two. Don't worry, we'll restore it or an equivalent; momentous stories like this one (or Brexit) are exceptions to the general rule against politics here. I just want to see if not having to render 2000 comments so often will let us catch a breath. Edit: ok, that definitely helped. I think the…

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Unauthenticated requests can be and are cached.

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Post by dacox »

nostrademons wrote: post #327
thewarrior wrote: post #44

It is possible to view this as an isolated event or a trend. Coming on the heels of BREXIT this is a trend. The attempts at building an interconnected globalised world are beginning to fail. A bunch of elites decided to create their own trans-national utopia unchecked by borders and dismissed all criticism as racist or bigoted. The globalisation project has been rejected by a majority of the population. Whether it is…

Something I've been wondering about: We're seeing this pattern where the coasts of many countries are cosmopolitan and well-integrated into the world economy, but the interiors are very conservative and nationalistic. Scotland & London vs. Wales & the rest of Britain. The U.S. West Coast & Northeast vs. the Farm Belt, Rust Belt, and Mountain states. Croatia & Slovenia vs. the rest of Yugoslavia. The Baltic Republics…

Those cultural ties practically already are stronger. Living on the west coast of Canada I really feel that - to the south we have Washington, Oregon, California.

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Post by kayamon »

Gatsky wrote: post #781

The general sadness is unwarranted. Trump has already toned it down in the acceptance speech. There is no better way to sedate a demagogue than to let them gain office. There are two types of elections these days - those where candidates are career politicians that are rather moderate, and opposing parties have very similar policies. These elections are always very close, nobody gets much of a majority, and nothing i…

I doubt he wrote that speech. Don't believe for a minute that he's had some kind of change of heart.

Just listen to the non-scripted stuff he's been saying at his rallies lately -- that's the guy we're going to get.

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