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RE: US Election & Presidency
(16-02-2018 15:19 )Doddle Wrote: .Not... THEM!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHHHHHH!! ![shocked shocked](images/smilies/veryshocked.gif)
And you're telling other people to grow up?
(16-02-2018 15:19 )Doddle Wrote: All evidence of history suggests they won't be stopped, however hard you try.
Your defeatist attitude is ridiculous. It's like saying some people will always break the law so it's not worth trying to stop them. Or, if you want to be topical, people will always find a way to take an assault rifle into a school...
(16-02-2018 15:19 )Doddle Wrote: Usually because the truly terrible people are often welcomed by masses of the people who evidentially support them, like it or not.
Not to mention the cases where supposedly nice people get elected and carry out some of the worst stuff.
If the election was fair and above board, without outside interference, then that's the way it goes, and everyone has to deal with the consequences. Just like Brexit.
(16-02-2018 15:19 )Doddle Wrote: Trump was elected by the same sorts of people who wanted Reagan and Bush II. There are lots of them in America. They don't need Russian help. The Russians will know that.
There aren't enough 'diehards' on either side to elect anyone. All candidates need the swing voters, the ones who are open to persuasion, to cross the winning line. These are the people the campaigns are aimed at, and they will be the ones the Russians will target.
(16-02-2018 15:19 )Doddle Wrote: Quote:A better analogy for you would be - hearing someone trying to jemmy your back door in and thinking "I'll just turn the telly up and worry about it if they actually manage to get in" ![Rolleyes Rolleyes](images/smilies/rolleyes.gif)
Not really. A better analogy might be is if two people running round a track, one gets bumped or harassed by spectators alongside.
The analogy wasn't about the alleged interference, it was about your attitude to it.
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RE: US Election & Presidency
(16-02-2018 09:40 )Doddle Wrote: The Russians TRIED (allegedly) to interfere with the result, but it can't even be proved that this cause had an effect - and this is the end of the world as far as these people are concerned. Shouldn't they just grow up?
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RE: US Election & Presidency
(16-02-2018 09:40 )Doddle Wrote: If a streaker ran on the pitch in the middle of the Superbowl, and the losing team then went "oh well, the streaker was in league with the other side", I'd think that was pathetic too.
Fine, I'll take the analogy as given.
That there was a streaker on the field shouldn't over-turn the result and the losing team shouldn't cry foul because of it. I get that.
But that's not really what's happening here.
It's more like the losing team saying, "win or lose, we have to stop pitch invasions by naked blokes! It's bad for the game and someone, one day, will get hurt."
And the winning team says, "naked bloke? What naked bloke? We didn't see any streaker. You're just sore losers!"
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