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I'll Vote Trump in the Election: Here's Why You Should Too by Tarrock in politics

[–]Reimu 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The guy is President already and the censorship/woke politics hasn't gotten better, it's only gotten worse and will continue to get worse.

But most of the increase in censorship/woke politics are the establishment's response to him and his supporters. At the very least he has harped on and brought attention to big tech censorship and biased media. Throwing your vote away in some meaningless protest is the definition of a futile action. So I'm supposed to look at someone who publicly declares that big tech censorship is a problem, and someone who represents the establishment that promulgates and enables said censorship, and conclude one of these isn't a worse evil? Protest votes are almost always pointless.

He's part of the problem because he does the same thing from the other side.

???

Also, because he's so terrible a lot of reasonable people who recoil from woke politics (which is the vast majority) still side with the far left.

This is not my experience at all. If anything, the far left getting crazier and crazier over the past few years has scared more people away from them. Don is whacky but he's kept it pretty constant. The left has done noting but slowly raise the intensity of their derangement since 2015. November will prove me right here.

I'll Vote Trump in the Election: Here's Why You Should Too by Tarrock in politics

[–]Reimu 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There are very few people who are against any and all immigration. But even legal immigration should be strictly limited and mostly merit based. For example, if you want to immigrate to Japan, you need to speak great Japanese, be highly educated, not be old, and have some work experience or the chances you are accepted are virtually nil. Even with all those things your chances are small.

No reason why the US shouldn't be the same way. We aren't a charity case. 75% of the world's population would rather live in the US. We can and should be picky, lest we get overrun by the third world, which largely consists of people who don't support the values that western societies are founded upon and who have no intentions of assimilating.

I'll Vote Trump in the Election: Here's Why You Should Too by Tarrock in politics

[–]Reimu 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

He is a total Israel-first shill

He is definitely way too pro-Israel, but I don't think he's their shill. He panders to them because it energizes a part of the base. The old, religious, conservative faction unfortunately eats that shit up. He moved that embassy like two years ago and my grandma still brings it up. Honestly I don't mind a move like that even if I'm not pro-Israel because it doesn't actually do much except increase odds he gets re-elected.