Vegas Free-for-All - A snowflake's article of heartbreak

Don

Nov 13, 2016
10:08pm

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Originally posted by: friedmush
I have a number of friends who have shown a great deal of emotion on Facebook and around the "water cooler." They are not so much upset that their candidate didn't win -- most of them are not Hillary fans -- but they worry deeply about the impact of a Trump Presidency on issues they care about, including Roe v Wade, also the way women are treated, minorities are treated, and many other issues based on the rhetoric of the campaign. They are also frustrated with the Electoral College now that Hillary leads the popular vote by about 2 million.

I'm not joining this snowflake bandwagon. I respect a wide range of views on complex topics.

DonDiego also respects most others' viewpoints. He agrees and disagrees with lots of people, . . . lots of different people on lots of different subjects. And possibly even a few people on jes' about any subject.

But he doesn't assume that someone who disagrees with him disagrees with him on everything. And he isn't immediately filled with love or filled with hate or filled with fear when he encounters disagreement.

He also doesn't join the snowflakes' bandwagon. He hopes he is not a minority on this matter, . . . but he's beginning to doubt it.

It's becoming a real problem on college campuses nowadays. The environment creates these precious, tearful, fearful snowflakes.
College used to be a place where, among other things, a student met people with whom he disagreed, . . . and a person confronted and discussed disagreement without somehow allowing fear of such disagreements to traumatize him and send him into some sort've torpor, unable to function.

Here's an exposition of how "[w]ith puppies, Play-doh and coloring books, safe spaces and therapy sessions turn universities into a joke": USA Today

How are these "students" going to face adversity in the real world when it happens, . . . and it does happen, . . . and it will happen. How will they hold a job with any responsibility? What will they do when a safe-space is unavailable?

Will the real Nanny-State take care of them? DonDiego doubts it.

Buck up, kiddies !

pjstroh

Nov 13, 2016
11:35pm

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Originally posted by: DonDiego

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Originally posted by: friedmush
I have a number of friends who have shown a great deal of emotion on Facebook and around the "water cooler." They are not so much upset that their candidate didn't win -- most of them are not Hillary fans -- but they worry deeply about the impact of a Trump Presidency on issues they care about, including Roe v Wade, also the way women are treated, minorities are treated, and many other issues based on the rhetoric of the campaign. They are also frustrated with the Electoral College now that Hillary leads the popular vote by about 2 million.

I'm not joining this snowflake bandwagon. I respect a wide range of views on complex topics.

DonDiego also respects most others' viewpoints. He agrees and disagrees with lots of people, . . . lots of different people on lots of different subjects. And possibly even a few people on jes' about any subject.

But he doesn't assume that someone who disagrees with him disagrees with him on everything. And he isn't immediately filled with love or filled with hate or filled with fear when he encounters disagreement.

He also doesn't join the snowflakes' bandwagon. He hopes he is not a minority on this matter, . . . but he's beginning to doubt it.

It's becoming a real problem on college campuses nowadays. The environment creates these precious, tearful, fearful snowflakes.
College used to be a place where, among other things, a student met people with whom he disagreed, . . . and a person confronted and discussed disagreement without somehow allowing fear of such disagreements to traumatize him and send him into some sort've torpor, unable to function.

Here's an exposition of how "[w]ith puppies, Play-doh and coloring books, safe spaces and therapy sessions turn universities into a joke": USA Today

How are these "students" going to face adversity in the real world when it happens, . . . and it does happen, . . . and it will happen. How will they hold a job with any responsibility? What will they do when a safe-space is unavailable?

Will the real Nanny-State take care of them? DonDiego doubts it.

Buck up, kiddies !

True that! Just don't say "Happy Holidays" around Christmas time to a Trump supporter....or refuse to kneel during the national anthem at a Football game...or claim people cling to their guns during tough economic times..or call people "deplorable". It makes Bill O'Reilly's blood pressure rise. But - true - don't cry after an election loss either - its not becoming.

I suspect Trump will be walking back most if not all of his divisive, stereotyped rhetoric that he used to rouse the David-Duke wing of the Republican party. Although with a Breitbart.com executive in his inner circle who can know?

In the meantime, there are millions of people who fell directly under the umbrella of Trump's callous rheotric and threats. Elections have consequences - and so does careless propaganda.

There will be incidents of police shootings, family-breaking deportations, Muslim hate crimes, and military rapes that occur over the next 4 years. How Trump responds to them will be a large measure of his ability to unite the country. If Steve Bannon is advising him in these matters then you can expect the 1960's all over again.

Good luck

IndyBoilerman

Nov 13, 2016
11:55pm

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Boiler again points out that he argued 1 year ago that the way for a Republican to win the election was to campaign just as the Democrats do. Trump did. Trump won.

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Originally posted by: pjstroh

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Originally posted by: DonDiego
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Originally posted by: friedmush
I have a number of friends who have shown a great deal of emotion on Facebook and around the "water cooler." They are not so much upset that their candidate didn't win -- most of them are not Hillary fans -- but they worry deeply about the impact of a Trump Presidency on issues they care about, including Roe v Wade, also the way women are treated, minorities are treated, and many other issues based on the rhetoric of the campaign. They are also frustrated with the Electoral College now that Hillary leads the popular vote by about 2 million.

I'm not joining this snowflake bandwagon. I respect a wide range of views on complex topics.
DonDiego also respects most others' viewpoints. He agrees and disagrees with lots of people, . . . lots of different people on lots of different subjects. And possibly even a few people on jes' about any subject.

But he doesn't assume that someone who disagrees with him disagrees with him on everything. And he isn't immediately filled with love or filled with hate or filled with fear when he encounters disagreement.

He also doesn't join the snowflakes' bandwagon. He hopes he is not a minority on this matter, . . . but he's beginning to doubt it.

It's becoming a real problem on college campuses nowadays. The environment creates these precious, tearful, fearful snowflakes.
College used to be a place where, among other things, a student met people with whom he disagreed, . . . and a person confronted and discussed disagreement without somehow allowing fear of such disagreements to traumatize him and send him into some sort've torpor, unable to function.

Here's an exposition of how "[w]ith puppies, Play-doh and coloring books, safe spaces and therapy sessions turn universities into a joke": USA Today

How are these "students" going to face adversity in the real world when it happens, . . . and it does happen, . . . and it will happen. How will they hold a job with any responsibility? What will they do when a safe-space is unavailable?

Will the real Nanny-State take care of them? DonDiego doubts it.

Buck up, kiddies !

True that! Just don't say "Happy Holidays" around Christmas time to a Trump supporter....or refuse to kneel during the national anthem at a Football game...or claim people cling to their guns during tough economic times..or call people "deplorable". It makes Bill O'Reilly's blood pressure rise. But - true - don't cry after an election loss either - its not becoming.

I suspect Trump will be walking back most if not all of his divisive, stereotyped rhetoric that he used to rouse the David-Duke wing of the Republican party. Although with a Breitbart.com executive in his inner circle who can know?

In the meantime, there are millions of people who fell directly under the umbrella of Trump's callous rheotric and threats. Elections have consequences - and so does careless propaganda.

There will be incidents of police shootings, family-breaking deportations, Muslim hate crimes, and military rapes that occur over the next 4 years. How Trump responds to them will be a large measure of his ability to unite the country. If Steve Bannon is advising him in these matters then you can expect the 1960's all over again.

Good luck

Don

Nov 14, 2016
2:49am

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Originally posted by: pjstroh

True that! Just don't say "Happy Holidays" around Christmas time to a Trump supporter....or refuse to kneel during the national anthem at a Football game...or claim people cling to their guns during tough economic times..or call people "deplorable". It makes Bill O'Reilly's blood pressure rise. But - true - don't cry after an election loss either - its not becoming.

[blah, . . . blah, . . . blah, . . .]

Good luck

DonDiego fails to comprehend pjstroh's comments above, . . . with regard to he topic of overly sensitive snowflakes.
__He knows of no one who would be upset upon being greeted with "Happy Holidays" during the Christmas Season.
__He knows of no one who would be offended by anyone refusing to kneel during the National Anthem; in fact, they'd likely be delighted.
__Folks hereabouts who cling to their guns, cling during good times and bad, . . . and they even buy bumper stickers:

__Those whom he knows who identify themselves as "Deplorables" are proud of the label. Why, heck fire ! . . . they even buy T-shirts.

In short, poor old DonDiego knows of no one to whom pjstroh refers who'd seek out the comfort of balloons, play dough, and puppies to escape the torture of those who, f'rinstance, call them names, . . . or if their candidate lost an election.

pjstroh

Nov 14, 2016
3:01am

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Allow me to introduce DonDiego to some of those people he doesn't know - we have a board full of them.

Colin Kaeperknick - my GOD! What do we tell the children?

And just a word of adivce,DD, please dont bring up the subject of Obama's missing flag pin around this group unless you have a paper bag handy for hyperventilation.

Don

Nov 14, 2016
4:36am

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Originally posted by: pjstroh
Allow me to introduce DonDiego to some of those people he doesn't know - we have a board full of them.

Colin Kaeperknick - my GOD! What do we tell the children?
And just a word of adivce,DD, please dont bring up the subject of Obama's missing flag pin around this group unless you have a paper bag handy for hyperventilation.

Poor old DonDiego is puzzled.

At 8:35AM pjstroh posted: " . . . Just don't say 'Happy Holidays' around Christmas time to a Trump supporter....or refuse to kneel during the national anthem at a Football game,....or claim people cling to their guns during tough economic times..or call people 'deplorable'."
At 11:49AM DonDiego responded, that such behaviors was hardly likely to bother anyone he knows, citing specifically: " . . . He knows of no one who would be offended by anyone refusing to kneel during the National Anthem; in fact, they'd likely be delighted . . .".
At 12:01 pjstroh linked to an earlier post addressing Colin Kaepernick, who does kneel during the National Anthem, in which pjstroh suggests some posters are offended.

What does Colin Kaepernick have to do with "refusing to kneel for the national Anthem" ?