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Pouffy isnt a Hillary supporter??

I think the fact he said he was going to make all muslims carry cards that identified them as such is bad enough tbh and the fact he had to water down his promise from 'no muslims will be allowed in' to no musloms from countries which are unstable, suffering from terrorism issues says to me that he wants to be more extreme than the public is happy with.


Tbh even that watered down pledge is pretty ridiculous, he is a racist and I think he is just about the only politician that can make Hillary look like a viable president
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Closing borders to specifically muslims is a pretty racist idea yes, however you swing it



His original plan was to stop muslims entering and leaving altogether, not just from countries which are unstable. Its one thing arguing to close borders to unstable countries, its another thing to close borders to only muslims from unstable countries and entirely something else to plan to close borders to all muslims from all countries


no thats not a strawman
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Originally Posted by SmallBowl View Post
Closing borders to specifically muslims is a pretty racist idea yes, however you swing it

I don't understand how it's "racist", when Muslims aren't actually a race, but followers of Islam.
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I don't understand why you think a distaste for a religion automatically means a distaste for a race.

Originally Posted by SmallBowl View Post
no thats not a strawman

Yeah, that's a pretty obvious strawman.
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Ok sorry hes an islamophobe and still discriminatory, the effect is the same as racism except a different group of people.


I dont see the point in antagonising over my wording, the effect of his actions and words is the same and youre fully aware of it so why? Sure my wording was wrong but it didnt really have a bearing on the point I was making


Its not at all a strawman lol, lets substitute the word racist with discriminatory - please explain how thats a strawman? I used an example to show my point - I did not create a similar sounding argument to the one against me to argue against, thats what a strawman is
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Originally Posted by wibblefox View Post
lol nice way to frame the situation, if only that was true.

The real situation is desperately grasping at straws trying to manipulate the situation to try and talk shit.

If you want me to agree with you, you should highlight why I'm wrong instead of incessantly saying that I'm wrong.
Originally Posted by wibblefox View Post
Same people who say "omg Trump just put a hit out on Hillary" also say "omg Trump wants to fuck his daughter" and "omg Trump is going to deport all Muslims and even stop American troops who are Muslim from returning home!" After 1000 such bullshit lines what am I expected to think?

Funny, you really shouldn't expect anything since I've claimed none of these things. I guess that's just the same ignorance and generalization we should expect from the right eh?
Originally Posted by wibblefox View Post
The left puts out so much bullshit that any rational person has 0 trust in anything they say. So yeah when you started harping on about how Trump is calling for Hillary to be killed I jump right to ad hominem because crying wolf over and over again actually does leave an impression.

"Bill Clinton is a pedophile"
"Trickle down economics works :^) "
"The Iraq war was the proper decision"
"Climate Change is a hoax (propogated by the Chinese)"
"Why do they call it climate change instead of global warming now? Checkmate, liberals!"
"Barrack Hussein Obama is a muslim!"
"Obama is a Marxist!"
"Obama isn't even a born american! Lets see the birth certificate!"
"Nono, let's see the REAL birth certificate! Longform!!"
"Who cares about an article from a local Hawaiian newspaper, that's obviously faked"
"We all know he's actually Kenyan"
"Obama is the founder of ISIS"
"Obama is a part of the muslim brotherhood"
"Obama only beat Romney because of ACORN"
"Hillary did Benghazi!"
"Hillary is a communist in cahoots with Russia"
"Cruz' dad helped kill JFK"
"Bernie is a communist (we promise this time)"
And many more!

You must have a steel stomach to align yourself with the right, then.
Originally Posted by wibblefox View Post
From the amount of bullshit that is being put out right now I doubt there are many rational or moderate supporters of Hillary left.

To be fair, I can say the same of Trump supporters. Seems neither side has a monopoly on stupid.

Originally Posted by wibblefox View Post
Yeah saying you want to close borders because enemies are known to be sneaking in is a very racist idea, how dare he..............

Not at all, I personally wouldn't be opposed per se if we closed our borders to everyone after cutting deals on managing important travel amd trade.

Blocking travel to try to target Muslims is bigoted and stupid, though, seeing as it'd also be completely ineffective. They have recruited native citizens from all different countries in Europe (the ISIS beheader dude was a UK national), focusing solely on "oh god the arab looking muslims from Syria" is misleading and counter productive, as it propogates the "Middle east vs. The west" narrative ISIS LOVES.

Originally Posted by Moonshake View Post
I don't understand how it's "racist", when Muslims aren't actually a race, but followers of Islam.
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I don't understand why you think a distaste for a religion automatically means a distaste for a race.

Because we all know Trump isn't talking about the moderate muslim converts Sven and Ingrid (who we wouldn't even be able to identify). I think it's obvious he's talking about arabs. Either way, bigotry is still bigotry, whether talking about religion or race.
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Originally Posted by wibblefox View Post
Well no the original plan was to close borders to immigrants from problem areas until effective vetting measures can be implemented. But to the left this instantly became "BAN ALL MUSLIMS PUT THEM IN THE OVEN" or whatever happened to fit their Trump = """LITERALLY""" Hitler narrative.

Closing borders to those matching the descriptor of a group that wants to kill you is completely legitimate.

Stop using "racist" and "discriminatory" as buzzwords when in reality discrimination is not negative. Arab Muslim immigrants from Syria are inherently a more dangerous group to let in to the country than, for example an ethnic Japanese from Kyoto. Construing reality as being "racist" is counter productive and you will end up like Pouffy claiming that you should ban ALL travel of ALL kinds to avoid being perceived as "racist".

No originally it was:
Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States

Due to backlash this was reduced to what you are saying. He did originally intend to ban all muslims from entering the country.

Discrimination against innocent groups is negative, discriminating against all muslims or all middle eastern muslims based on a small minority of them is definitely negative. In the same way that discriminating against all Christians for the KKK existing would be negative.

Originally Posted by Hyde View Post
His specific suggestion was limiting immigration from high-risk countries like syria, iraq and afganistan. Please describe to me where he suggests that he hates islam?

No originally it was:
Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States

Due to backlash this was reduced to what you are saying. He did originally intend to ban all muslims from entering the country. Thats pretty islamophobic
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Originally Posted by wibblefox View Post
Yeah I'm sure that is what the leftist media originally reported (lol).

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-r...im-immigration

Is trumps own website leftist? Thats where the quote was from.


Originally Posted by wibblefox
If the KKK were hiding infiltrators in Christian immigrants and the USA was an active warzone, with the KKK committing atrocities and telling everyone they are hiding infiltrators in the immigrants and that they want to kill everyone in my country and any country like mine, and if we had seen evidence of this and it is known to be taking place, then yes I absolutely would vet Christian immigrants coming out of that area.

But the vast majority of the attacks in recent years have been done by nationals of the country, not by immigrants??
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Originally Posted by wibblefox View Post
Read the rest of the statement my friend. Don't just pasta one sentence without context when it is right in front of your nose.

"DONALD J. TRUMP STATEMENT ON PREVENTING MUSLIM IMMIGRATION

Yes I have been talking about IMMIGRATION because thats what its about IMMIGRATION is indeed the topic

Originally Posted by wibblefox
Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on."

This is exactly what I said: "the original plan was to close borders to immigrants from problem areas until effective vetting measures can be implemented."

TOTAL AND COMPLETE SHUTDOWN OF MUSLIMS ENTERING THE UNITED STATES this time its in bold and all caps so you cant possibly miss it

where does it say "from problem areas"?????????????????????????????


I see now how you are able to come to that conclusion, you read one sentence (probably one that someone tweeted at you as a tl;dr, no?) then figure "LOL I DONT HAVE TO READ SHIT I ALREADY KNOW". If you actually took the 5 seconds to read the title the narrative would be completely destroyed.

Let me read your statement again: "His original plan was to stop muslims entering and leaving altogether"
As you can see, what you said is DIRECTLY in contradiction to what the official source says.

1. No he is not going to ban Muslims from leaving, it clearly says "shutdown of Muslims entering the United States"
2. No it is not "altogether" it is "MUSLIM IMMIGRATION", ie immigrants. It's now bolded and in caps, there's no way you can miss it this time.
3. You completely missed the part where he said "until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on." This is only a temporary solution so that no one is slaughtered by extremists, once a solution is found then Muslim immigration will be reopened, hopefully with an effective vetting process.

I dont use twitter so no

Oh shit I didnt know the quote off the top of my head and added emigration as well as immigration well fuck I guess thats the most important thing in this discussion.

Until we can figure out what is going on, lol, lets make it as vague as possible so it could mean anything


So just one more time just so I can be 100% sure that you understand what you are reading. Not all Muslims. Not all travel. Not forever.

No, it is all muslims - of course this is the old proposal which he has since watered down due to backlash to what you were saying.

And you have to ask yourself anyway, whats the point in stopping immigration from problem areas if you arent stopping all travel?



If you are counting countries like Pakistan, Iraq, Jordan, then maybe you are right, but I think that's extremely dishonest.

We are talking about the west.

Let's talk a trip down memory lane:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Ansbach_bombing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_N..._church_attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_W...g_train_attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Magnanville_stabbing <- Finally a national (of foreign descent)!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_O...ng#Perpetrator <- Second national (although again of foreign descent)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Januar...station_attack

About all I could think of in 2016. If Trump's plan was enforced then at the least 4/6 would have been stopped. If the imaginary plan that the left has thought up was introduced, then all would be stopped - but no one is suggesting kicking all the Muslims out of the country is a good idea.

Normandy church attack had 2 attackers, one was a French national. So 1/2

If we bring in 2015 as well we get the Charlie Hebdo attacks by French nationals and the Amedy Coulibaly attacks, he is also a French national, thats 4 more attacks that would not have been stopped making it 3/10 stopped - sure its still quite a lot however*.


In any case, *Trump's suggestion involves not giving asylum to asylum seekers, which in the case of 2016 would have cause a far far far higher death toll than all of the terrorist attacks in the West in that year combined pretty undeniably given the numbers of asylum seekers involved.



This is not an imaginary plan thought up by the left, not allowing any immigrants that are muslims is on Trump's website, his website is not a leftist media outlet.



Ill leave this at the bottom to just make sure we both are understood on what the proposal was, although its not very complicated.

Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States

He wanted to stop all Muslim immigration to the US

this is not some muslims

or muslims from problem areas.

A total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states means no muslims can immigrate to the united states.
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Originally Posted by wibblefox View Post
Lol it doesn't say "from problem areas" that was just part of what Trump actually said at the time. But you are right it's talking about Muslim immigration from everywhere.

No thats what he said AFTER the backlash from this


If you've got no legitimate complaints may aswell imagine some huh?

Good thing I brought some up hey!!!!!!!


Muslim immigration <> Muslim travel. Eg if I go to Mexico for a holiday, I'm not immigrating there. I thought you understood the difference but I guess not.......

I do know the difference actually, the point is, if they can still go on holiday to the country they can still commit terrorist acts there. You dont actually have to be in your country of residence in order to commit a terrorist attack


You are just saying stupid things at this point so you have something to complain about. Time for some reflection my friend.

Stupid things like "a complete and total shutdown of Muslims entering the United States" is "not all muslims" right????????

Kek

xD XD Xd XD I got caught lying kek


Lol but again stop trying to create a dichotomy. Every time you complain that Trump's policy wouldn't have stopped an attack you know you are advocating for all Muslims to be kicked out of the country right? It is not an all or nothing situation.

No, Im not at all. What a load of shit.

I like how you threw out that 1/2 straight away and counted it as 1 though, very honest of you.

Yeah cause 1 person on their own totally cant do terrorist activities thats not possible that never happens.

Its far more dishonest to ignore the fact there were 2 attackers.

I think you might find that counting the attacks by a group of 2 people as 4 attacks is a bit dishonest too, but not as dishonest as not counting the attacks by Ghlam, the attacks at Chattanooga, Thalys, Parramatta, and Instanbul airport.

Actually I counted it as 4 attacks because it was 4 attacks, makes sense right??

Also there were more than 2 people involved in the 4 attacks, there were more than that in the Charlie Hebdo attack alone.


"Omg counting attacks that arent in the West, so dishonest"

"Omg not counting attacks not in the west that fit my narrative, so dishonest"



Lol I adore the assertion that if asylum seekers aren't alowed to travel the 10,000 km journey to USA then they will die. There's around 100 countries closer to the middle east than the USA, but sure it's their fault for being big bad bullys and not wanting terrorists within their borders!!!

If every country said no to asylum seekers and enacted the proposal that you seem to support then yes there would be a whole lot of deaths as a result... If youre taking this from a point of view of not giving a shit about the rest of the world other than america point of view we shouldnt be taking any attacks out of the US into account we certainly shouldnt take into account those not from the west, how dishonest of you.

However I would hope that the worlds biggest superpower would care at least



His plan is outlined very clearly on his website, to get from his plan to "He did originally intend to ban all muslims from entering the country" requires a certain degree of imagination, thus I call it "imaginary".

Do you have functioning eyes?





Nice of you once again to 17 word quote out of an entire article. As usual, why do you need to read the entire article when your leftist buddy on twitter facebook (?) can tell you what to think.

No I did not see it on facebook either!!!

I have read the whole article, it at no point suggests than it is not about all muslims, in fact it is pretty clear about the fact it is all muslims. The 17 word quote summarizes the article well. The rest of the article is "reasoning".






I am talking about immigration, it is still an issue. Before you get stuck up on that again, we are talking about people immigrating.
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Originally Posted by wibblefox View Post
So uh, just to be clear. You are unironically advocating a stricter policy than Trumps while simultaneously denouncing his policy as racist? *bloodymess*

No, Im not, Im saying his proposal achieves nothing without being stricter - however I dont think it should be implemented at all, nor the stricter version


Yeah, pretty stupid mate. Maybe you should go read the article.

Good thing I have :) it quite clearly says no muslims are able to immigrate.

Note

this: is wrong


More like "kek" because further in your post you count that attack as being native and I call you out on it.

inb4 damage control.

More like kek because you got called out and there was a valid reason to count it as not stopped given that 1 attacker is enough for an attack.

Yes, you are, and above you even started claiming that holiday goers should be blocked too, something outside the scope of Trumps plan.

Honestly your argument is so contradictory at this point that you are arguing opposites within the same post.

No, Im saying his proposal achieves nothing without being stricter - however I dont think it should be implemented at all, nor the stricter version.


Lol damage control detected, called that.

If your argument relies 100% on speculation, then it's not a very strong argument to say the least.

Im not seeing it, but wow you must be a genius to have called something would be in the post while the whole post was infront of you :O.

inb4 you have another picture of the trump article.


It's the same group, but sure I let you count them.

(Then bitched about the fact I counted them).



I only counted attacks in the west since we were talking about the west, I specifically said "Ignoring the 100 or so that happened in the middle east of course"... There was also a lot in Africa FYI but like I said we are talking about the west.

If you want to expand the discussion to the middle east I am happy to but just so you know, there were a LOT of attacks so you are only going to weaken your argument by admitting that they exist...

You were only counting attacks in the West, but said I was dishonest for not counting Istanbul. Turkey isnt a Western country.



Slippery slope fallacy - just because the USA temporarily blocks immigrants doesn't mean everyone else will.



And purposeful ignorance - Trump wants to TEMPORARILY block immigration so that an effective system can be set up to stop terrorists slipping through. Don't act like he wants to stop immigration altogether.

Yeah with temporarily being as vague as possible.

He does want to stop muslim immigration altogether though????


Do you have functioning eyes? I've already addressed this a number of times.


Called it
1. The article is about immigration.
2. The shut down is only until a solution can be found.

For God's sake, can't you see the absolutely huge bolded heading? Don't you realise you are copy pasting that quote with half the sentence cut off?



This is what I was responding to. Whether it is only immigration or whether it is temporary is entirely irrelevant to the response. I dont even know why you put that, its not relevant.

He did originally intend to ban all muslims from entering the country, thats what the article says, its pretty fucking clear. I am talking about immigration, he pledged to stop all muslim immigrants, whether or not they were from a problem area, i.e. a muslim from Norway would be affected the same as one from Syria, which is where the problem lies, and why there is an issue.

Buzzfeed? Who the hell is tricking you with clickbait?!

It was actually Donald Trump's website! They tricked me with their propoganda and patriotic chest beating!!


Well apart from literally the title if you can understand context.

It's like you read a statement saying "Rock originated in the 40s" and automatically assumed that they are talking about minerals, then you made a huge ranting post about how rocks are actually much older than that, all without reading the title "The History of Rock Music". Seriously, the title says "MUSLIM IMMIGRATION" in huge bold letters. How are you not seeing this?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Originally Posted by SmallBowl

I am talking about immigration, and have been the entire time, its been pretty clear


After spending a lot of time not talking about immigration and pretending that you can't even read the word "immigration", what is the context of this statement?

Everything I have said refers to immigration, Im not talking about holiday makers at all, other than when I said his proposal would be useless as a result of ignoring holiday makers
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