Thursday, October 15, 2020

The Ten Most Dangerous Cities in the U.S. are all run by Democrats?!

 

source: https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-think-about-President-Trump-saying-The-Ten-Most-Dangerous-Cities-in-the-U-S-are-all-run-by-Democrats


So I’m assuming he’s referring to violent crime rate rankings, because as Alex Denethorn’s answer points out, “most dangerous” can change depending on what list you use. If you think that violent crime rates is the measure of this, then the top ten do all have Democratic mayors.

But you know what else? So do nine of the top ten largest cities in America, and twenty-five of the top thirty largest cities in America, and four of the five safest large cities in America.

Being controlled by Democrats has nothing to do with the city’s crime rates, it has to do with them being cities.

In general, cities vote for Democrats and rural areas vote for Republicans.

Most of the cities with the highest crime rates are going to elect Democrats because most cities in general elect Democrats. The cities with the lowest crime rates also elect Democrats. Obviously cities are going to have more crime than rural communities because they have more people. If 1% of people are criminals then a town of 10,000 will have 100 criminals but a city of 1,000,000 will have as many criminals as that small town’s population. But you could just as easily say that the most dangerous rural communities in America are run by Republicans, because most rural communities are run by Republicans. Maybe Trump would understand this if he didn’t pay people to take his tests in school but correlation does not equal causation.

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source: https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-think-about-President-Trump-saying-The-Ten-Most-Dangerous-Cities-in-the-U-S-are-all-run-by-Democrats

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Why it's a great idea to vote for trump again

There is no need for brutality, but I will be honest. I was born female. First and foremost for me is that you support sexism, misogyny, Christianized sharia law, the patriarchy, denying me my civil rights (which at this point are not even recognized by our Constitution), denying me the right to have my healthcare decisions be between me and my healthcare provider, and sexual threat/harassment/assault as our normal operating standard. A vote for Trump equals a vote for me being a second-class citizen.

A vote for Trump means agreement with the destruction of our country’s alliance with other nations, some of which were our allies in defeating Hitler in WWII and have been our allies since. Both of my grandfathers fought in that war.

A vote for Trump means you find inhumane treatment of people who come to the US looking for what my forebears came here for: freedom, and a chance for a livable life free from violence and oppression, acceptable. You’re okay with this:

Those are children.

A vote for Trump means you’re okay with mocking disabled people. I’m a blue-haired, composting, filthy hippie, but I was raised in America with American values. Mocking the disabled, or anyone less fortunate than ourselves, is not an American value.

A vote for Trump means a vote for a culture of abuse and disrespect of others, of bullying, of the strong preying on the weak.

A vote for Trump means…

…a vote for racism. Telling American citizens of color to “go back to the the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” Telling Navajo Codetalkers about how he calls Elizabeth Warren, “Pochahontas.” Saying there are “very fine people on both sides” about a white supremacy protest in which a woman was killed.

Nazis. Seriously?

…a vote for Trump (or pretty much any Republican) means agreement with the distribution of wealth to those already obscenely wealthy.

…a vote against fairness in employment, fair wages, fair treatment for American workers.

…a vote against progress and best practices that are informed by facts.

…a vote that supports graft, greed, cronyism, nepotism.

…support for incompetent leadership.

…support for his lawless behavior.

…you agree with our country being in constant, polarized upheaval.

…support for a complete lack of a social safety net in our country.

…support for authoritarianism...

…near daily mass shootings

…incompetence of leadership

…a national culture of incivility, rudeness, and disrespect

…a president who is so focused on himself that he does not serve the people

…graft and corruption

…chaos and instability

…complete incompetence of leadership

…the end of American morality

It means America is okay with this:

But mostly, if you support Donald Trump, the pussy grabber, head of the party that opposes an Equal Rights Amendment, you don’t think I’m a full human being.

I’m voting for Biden.

Source: https://www.quora.com/If-I-tell-you-I-would-vote-for-Trump-again-in-2020-despite-all-his-lawlessness-what-do-you-think-I-support-Be-brutally-honest


Personally I'd even vote for Clarence Thomas; who is undoubtedly cancer in human form before anyone remotely associated with trump - sadly, it's an establishment dem everytime but the DNC is ready and ripe for a thorough enema. 

Friday, February 7, 2020

Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?

Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response: "A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that: * Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are. * You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: 'My God… what… have… I… created? If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."

Source: Top comment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V3nmRDLQ7E