If I have one major ing to apolgize for its that you just had to read through my old posts here, I can’t imagine a much more relentlessly dull task than that!
It actually took no time at all to find those quotes just because for some odd reason I remembered your post about “Yoga ass” but aside from that. I actually kept reading after I found them 'cause some of those old threads were fun as hell. especially the “women’s curling” thread. Man that was a great thread read.
My problem with this whole thing is that many people I’ve seen freaking out over Trump like it’s the apocalypse we’re the same ones who couldn’t be arsed to give two shits for Clinton. If this dude is really the second coming of Satan, why on earth weren’t people out trying to further the conversation before the election?
Because Clinton made herself so unlikeable nobody wanted to be associated with her. I don’t think anybody actively endorsed her because it was just assumed she would win out over the buffoon in the room. But Every time we turned around she was being caught in a lie, or changing her stance on something and flashing that fake plastic grin. In retrospect I can’t help be reminded of this with the forgone conclusion she’d win.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn7OBOvJ2kI
To answer your question in the other thread, I didn’t really bring up the election here because I know I get long winded and peeps here get bored by it, So I tried to keep low key but as the election 2016 thread got going the flood gates just opened and there I was venting. Couldn’t stop it.
As much as I didn’t want to vote for Clinton because I certainly didn’t want to reward the (unethical) behavior of Clinton’s primary campaign, I did so anyway because Trump was against our country’s best interest and I really believed a vote for anybody else would be a vote for trump. but my attitude on this whole fucked up situation really comes to this. I’m glad Clinton, lost but I’m more upset that Trump won.
When I saw you give Ice shit for not being scared despite the fact that you spent what appeared to me to more time talking shit about Clinton than Trump, that’s when I got on your case. I expect you to be better than that.
I can see that and I understand your rational about my responses to Ice. but specifically, I was talking shit about Clinton because I’m still pissed off she literally cheated the country out of Bernie. And I still stand by my assessments of the debates. She was horrible and I think it was because she felt like she was a lock and didn’t have to try. and the caliber of questions they asked Trump and the way they spun his answers and wouldn’t let him finish his answers was fucked up. I suppose it didn’t come off this way when I was bitching but it was a complete statement on the ends justifying the means. I don’t like the guy but don’t make me sympathetic to that asshole by overtly trying to fuck him over. I still stand my assessments of the debate they were lopsided and unfair. but just because she really wants to be president doesn’t mean that’s right.
Did you read that Cracked article I posted? It gave me a lot of empathy for the other side. I hadn’t realized that the suicide rate for young people is twice as high in rural areas than urban. There were a lot of points there that I hadn’t given thought to. It’s good to realize that people had valid reasons to vote for Trump and it wasn’t just a bunch of racist homophobic assholes.
I have not, read the article but I will tonight. I think racist, homophobes, assholes made up his core (majority) voting block but I agree that’s silly to say that everyone that did vote for him was one. How many protest votes went his way? More than a few. I’ll admit, even I, after the Democratic primary, gave more thought than I should have to voting for him. But by the time the debates came around I had gotten myself together.
I saw a yoga teacher friend of mine wishing someone would assassinate Trump on Facebook. This is a problem. We have to be better than fear. We have to be better than hate.
Total agreement that’s fuckin’ bullshit. That is not helping.
On a personal note, I’m doing great. I’m at a resort hotel in Vietnam right now with my girlfriend sitting by a fancy pool after eating a great breakfast. I’ve been with my gf for a year and a half and that’s going great and a number of exciting career opportunities have opened up for me.
That’s great, man. I’m happy things are booming for ya’.
The big thing that causes me pain right now is political. This is really the first public forum I’ve posted anything to, because I’m trying to figure out how to speak about this better before I talk to friends and students about it. A lot of my job is talking to people about the real issues of their lives and I don’t know how to do this yet. Im a huge proponent of inclusivity and I’m very saddened to see the great lack of that happening. I’m hoping I have some better idea of how to talk about this without making either side wrong. We’ll see.
Well good luck, man. I don’t think anybody is really ready to talk about it. Gut reaction and fear has taken hold… And I would estimate with good reason. When the KKK is having parades to celebrate your victory… I make it a personal rule to never vote along the same lines as the KKK.
Sorry to babble. I really do wish you and your family the best. I can tell how much you care about them and I believe that you’re a good person. Just a good person whose debate style sometimes gets under my skin.
Thanks, Sorry about the debate style. [:P] This is just how it was always done in my house. If you have an opinion you better be able to support it because you’re gonna get questioned on it. we need to see how solid your opinion is or is it you just talking to get some attention?
