Shithole Countries

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Maxine Waters wrote:
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:I can tell you that 100% Peru isn't a ____ hole country. It's one of the most beautiful I've visited. Peru Lima South for the win.

You went their as a tourist with money. Go there as a missionary and live with the people.

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Ica (Nazca)
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Did he? Hah hah hah. I voted for the woman just to say I didn't for the crazy person.
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Shout-out to the couple of people I know who thought the racist rhetoric would tone down with Bannon being kicked to the curb.

It is interesting to me that Trump now denies that he used that specific language at all. Originally there was no denial but Trump decided this morning that he didn't actually say "shithole". I guess that ties nicely into sub's "the language was crass but what he said is right" defense.

ETA: It has been incredible to watch news anchors and pundits a like have to write out and say shithole repeatedly on national television and news print.
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EAllusion wrote:
subgenius wrote:Note that the cited article also reads,
"The person said the language was salty on both sides."
Both sides

Nevertheless, Trump without some yet to be defined Constitutional Amendment requiring eloquence, has literally spoken a truth that every poster on this board subscribes to. That immigration policy is necessarily judgmental, discriminating, and based on arbitrary values.


I guess we can file this in the same genre of Trump apologetic that contended that the problem with Trump bragging about sexual assault was that he used the word "pussy."

you can guess whatever you like i suppose. But the point was that once again hearsay fuels the hair fire and regardless of the vocabulary the sentiment is one that permeates and defines every immigration policy you have or would ever support.

But please, tell us all about how you thought-up an immigration policy that is not necessarily judgmental, discriminating, and based on arbitrary values.
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DarkHelmet wrote:Norway is a semi-socialist country with high taxes and huge government spending. We don't want those people coming here with their socialist ideas.
semi- ?
who are semi-pregnants? who are semi-deads?

norway is a socialist country - more socialist than ex-warsaw-pact-countries - and you (plural...) should learn what does 'socialist' mean

DarkHelmet wrote:Why would he want people from Norway to come to America?
if 'he' is Trump, then ask him !
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Maxine Waters wrote:You went their as a tourist with money. Go there as a missionary and live with the people.

to be fair, your suggestion here likely creates way more bias than being there as a tourist. I do not consider a missionary's experience to be insightful for any "place" due to their rather limited and myopic exposure.
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Yahoo Bot wrote:Did he? Hah hah hah.

... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo_mpwmashg ...
mmm bahh ba yahhh
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subgenius wrote:you can guess whatever you like i suppose. But the point was that once again hearsay fuels the hair fire and regardless of the vocabulary the sentiment is one that permeates and defines every immigration policy you have or would ever support.

But please, tell us all about how you thought-up an immigration policy that is not necessarily judgmental, discriminating, and based on arbitrary values.

Yeah. You offered two arguments here. One is that all immigration policies are inherently discriminating and arbitrary, so criticizing someone advocating for immigration policy based on crude racism is hypocritical. I apologize if you think this is worth anyone's time to respond to.

The second was that that other people used "salty" language too, which is plainly what you identify as the problem here, so Trump is not guilty of anything that isn't normally occurring behind closed doors. It's not the swear word that is the problem here, subs.
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It's fascinating and strange that Drumpf apologetics sound even dumber than LDS apologetics.

I suppose a cult is a cult, no matter the specific name.
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to be fair, your suggestion here likely creates way more bias than being there as a tourist. I do not consider a missionary's experience to be insightful for any "place" due to their rather limited and myopic exposure.


agreed that a missionary's view probably puts the country in a worse light but I don't think a tourist view of the country is accurate either, or even an expatriate who just lived in the few wealthier areas.
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