I like when Becca gets mad.
Good ol' Straw man, a rebuttal often abused by pseudo intellectuals.
Alas the days of making an off-handed and sarcastic comment are long gone.
I try to stay away from Trump talk, simply because he's a total moron and every decision he makes seems like he shook a magic 8-ball. But the real problem isn't Trump, it's the people who believe in him. The people, like in the OP, that believe he is standing up for their rights as Americans. He isn't doing shit for the little guy on the street. All of these people trying so hard to defend their 'rights' just make me incurable angry.
I have a few responses to this, and they're all at least a little sarcastic.
1) Who made you the spokesperson for everyone? Does it pay? Are they hiring?
2) That must be why there haven't been any new assault accusations after the Golden Globes. That must be why there haven't been people who have come forward and SPECIFICALLY CITED the bravery of the black out at the Globes as one of their inspirations.
3) Yes, everyone has agreed that the culture in Hollywood has been bad. There certainly haven't been any pockets of people who have voiced opposition to the Me Too movement. It's not like the President of the United States came out in defense of the accused while lending no support to the accusers thus far.
I think it's important to note that Trump plays the moron; he isn't actually the moron he presents himself to be. To me, that's far worse in my mind: He's willing to dumb down the rhetoric of political conversation so that he can generate conversation about himself and other individuals, instead of actually touching on the issues.
It is entirely unrealistic to go to each individual person engaging in the shit-flinging fest between pro and anti-Trump and getting them to stop. Rather, you need to take a top down approach by making pragmatic attacks on Trump and not rising to bait from the idiotic portion of Trump's audience. You also need to criticise the celebrities (your Lily Allen's, Meryl Streep's, Wil Wheaton's) and university professors who both have a heavy-liberal bias (this is objectively true) and have zero idea about what they're talking about either because of lack of information or bias affecting their perception of reality. This is not a partisan issue between conservatives and liberals, and should be treated accordingly; so singling out Trump and conservatives as the only people who muddy the discourse is less than half the problem in my view, and it could be argued might actually make things worse in many ways.
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