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Another liberal who hasnt understand Trump's appeal in the slightest. How you can put "political correctness is bad" and then say literally 2 sentences after that "he is a racist and a misogynist" I mean the level of brainwashing is amazing.
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I'm curious why this comment has been so aggressively down-voted. Do we now eschew fact-checking on HN?
It's not fact checking, it's repeating Trump's spin on what he's said, and it's just not true.
- he is being unfair, so now I say "why"
Now people invert this argument and say Trump is saying "He can't do his job because of his heritage". That's completely different from saying "he is not doing his job, and the most probable reason is his heritage".
Now you can certainly say that even the latter argument is racist or xenophobic or morally wrong, but why fabricate something that he never said or implied?
While I think Trump is a bad choice, I think comparing him to Hitler is overzealous and irresponsible. There are no doubt similarities between the two but Hitler wrote an entire book about the "Jewish Peril" and how it was destroying society and needed to be dealt with. It was clear that Hitler had an agenda that was anti-semetic, and the charisma/ability to execute on it. Trump is a racist and a bigot, but he is far…
Finally someone speaking up. Based on the plethora of bad news I keep reading about the US (CIA, FBI, ISPs, Hillary Clinton etc) which portray a very dark picture about Americans, one of them being taken advantage of by their own system. And yet no one doesn't seem to be doing anything and it makes them look egoistic so I really admire Sam for writing this. He has a lot to lose by voicing his concern and yet he's doi…
Trump is right about the problem. His solutions are a more verbose than most. I am reminded of a quote "We must not paint with pale pastels, but with bold colors" Trump is using bold colors to address change.
Mexican Judge - When has it not been heard that many white judges have shown prejudice against a black person or poorer individual. Its not a long shot to say another race can practice prejudice against a white man, when white men and white judges have been doing it for so long.
I have seen many Bernie and Hillary supports cast hatred, throw eggs, beat up their fellow citizen in the name of democracy. Yet our leaders choose to say nothing. To down play it. But those same leaders look for support of those exact same people throwing the punches and the eggs.
Why when choosing to bring up bold colors, do people float to Hitler and Germany? Its extremely hard to understand the reference when all it forces the reader to do is visualize the reference and then creating a connection between Trump and Hitler. Its horribly sad to see such a connection being made, when it seems the Writer, that being Sam, is naive on the issues of Hitler and Germany.
Sam makes references to Immigrants. When in fact TRUMP supports immigrants. Make no mistake between the two. Trump is PRO IMMIGRANT. But he is also PRO-LEGAL IMMIGRANT. Sam makes another naive comment when he believes Trump is anti immigrant. I doubt he is aware, but there are millions of immigrants WAITING in LINE for a LEGAL way to enter the United States. When what is happening is the illegals choose to do it ILLEGALLY, and we say fuck it. Just give them status. No says Trump and No says America. Obey the laws FIRST. Then you can come in. Make no mistake, Trump is PRO immigrant. Just anti Illegal.
No serious growth of economics? Cut Taxes, choose a tax plan, that CBO says will drastically cut out DEBT per taxpayer. That is $1,000,000 per family owed in debt. That is $1,000,000 owned per tax payer in debt. He has chosen his plan and its Sam's naive writing that describes it differently.
With Trump, you MUST start reading between the lines. For every single time he has said he wants LEGAL immigration, he has said 100 times he wants to build a wall.
Sam Altman is too naive within this article to read past main stream media. Its saddening that someone I respect soo much is not as intelligent politically as I would have hoped.
Demagogic hate-monger seems a little strong.
Hardly. Demagoguery appeals to people's emotions and prejudices, rather than rational argument. There can be no doubt that Trump takes exactly such an approach. And he has vocally encouraged violence and identified specific groups to serve as targets, based on race and religion. That description is entirely apt.
Disappointed to see Sam repeat things that are plainly false. Everyone says that Trump says such horrible things, but why is it that so often those same people have to misquote him to make it seem horrible? > He has said that a judge of Mexican descent couldn’t treat him fairly because of his heritage and that we should ban Muslims from entering the country. He said that a judge of Mexican descent isn't treating him…
Given that many believe Trump to be literally Hitler, bending the facts is a small price to pay to stop him.
## We are already in the midst of a global trade war that will have billions of dollars of impact on the US and impact the livlihoods of tens of thousands (or hundreds) of thousands of people:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Websites_blocked_in_mainland_C... http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/20/technology/google-android-la... http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/technology/eu-fines-micros...
^^above or easy low hanging examples, there are dozens of cases across many industries
## Most people of Muslim nations are already not freely allowed to enter the US (ever try sponsoring an H1B?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_Waiver_Program
^^making an expedient point here rather than typing up all the ways it is challenging for anyone outside of western Europe to travel to the US
3. governments have consistently posed the biggest threats to a free society. this one has broken major dangerous precedents
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/irs-admits-t...
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/05/26/more-than-40-secr...
http://mashable.com/2014/06/05/edward-snowden-revelations/#d...
This certainly doesn't match what I've seen. All the people who think Trump is unfit seem perfectly willing to say so. All of the people who support him seem to be completely sincere in their belief that Trump would make a good president. I don't see anyone giving any indication that they think Trump shouldn't be president, but that they're afraid to say so. There is no "charade," as the author puts it. It's possible…