• The ‘Donald Daters’ Trump Dating App Exposed Its Users’ Data
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That's actually not at all what I meant, sorry. I just meant that people like him permeate beyond politics and even people who dont like trump end up believing propaganda because it's so prevalent .
he single handedly changed the course of global politics, discourse. So of course people talk about him.
It's alright if people talk about him, but I rarely see level-headed, calm talking and more like just a whole bunch of shouting. Vocal minorities and all that, sure, but it does genuinely feel like that the talking I see is mostly just either sucking Trump's dick even when it means crediting him for things he didn't do or doing mental gymnastics to turn his obvious cluelessness and ineptness as President into genious, or applying the same mental gymnastics but in reverse in an attempt to say literally Hitler! every time trump breathes kinda funny, or unironically saying shit like "blumpf". I mean, everyone knows that the political climate in America is absolute garbage at the moment and that the toxicity is present in all ends of the political spectrum, but my point is that shit like Trump dating apps is an exact consequence of these aforementioned people who are petulant little children, blinded by hate and utterly scared of catching the cooties from the other side. That's how fucking dating apps based around liking or disliking a politician became something that actually exists. Since we are on the topic of dating, let me pose a hypothetical situation: You are dating someone and have been for a decent while now. You got close to them while gaming or on a pub or a convention or some sort of social arena, whatever. You love them, you like their voice, the tone in which they speak to you, you feel all nice and fuzzy and warm when you are being the focus of their attention. You know their cute side. You respect them and they respect you, you have a decent common ground unrelated to politics. But then while you're cuddling together on the sofa or whatever and they're messing with their phone, you see them browsing Trump's tweets and putting a like on some of them. In this hypothetical situation, you don't like Trump, so you ask them about what they're doing and if they like Trump. They reply with "yeah, I like Trump" and elaborate on that in whatever way, doesn't matter. Here's where the split, in my mind, happens: It's a difference, something you don't see eye to eye to. You can switch the situation around and play the Trumpist who finds out they're dating a Hillary supporter, whatever. While it's something deserving of a lengthy conversation and a finding of common ground in poltiics, I think you have to be off your fucking rocker to break up with them based on this single thing alone. You and this person click wonderfully, and yet it's the fucking orange man that breaks your relationship because Trump is so important to you and your life, that they having an opposing opinion on Trump throws everything else out the window. This is insanity. It's pure brain rot as a result of the utterly divisive, toxic political climate. But it's real, it's happening, that's what spawns a fucking Trump dating app, because god forbid you start dating someone and find out they don't like your fucking god emperor. That's why you gotta take the preventative step and eliminate anyone that doesn't like Trump from your dating pool, because Trump is that important to you and your life that it makes or breaks any potential relationship for you. And it's not just Trump supporters, the reason why in my hypothetical situation I reversed the "roles" is because it's the same fucking shit, I know that there are a ton of people who, if given an app or other method that would eliminate any chance of them dating someone only to later find out they like the man with the fake tan and nylon hair, they would take it because no nightmare is worse than finding out you're dating someone with the opposing opinion on the orange man, apparently. It's utter brain rot, the lot of it.
Trumpies sounds like a euphemism for having the shits. "I ate dodgy food and got the trumpies again "
This is typical behaviour for male Trumps. They inflate their vocal chords and emit high pitched wails as a defensive posture against opposing worldviews.
I'm not at all defending the toxic culture that's spawned as a result of all this. I'm just saying this is pretty clearly the efforts of one group more so than the other. Republicans have slashed, and attacked education funding for 40 years. We're literally seeing the results of that policy choice playing out in real time. People who are too stupid and too un-educated to think themselves out of a paper bag are the norm now because Republicans as far back as Regan worked very hard to destroy education. They've kept up on that. Republicans have created gerrymandered districts where to win as a democrat is a statistical impossibility, they've applied voter suppression techniques to all of the democrats voting block over the last 20 years. There is a reason people are hyperbolicly filled with hatred towards the republican party. Because they've earned it. Trump is just the most obvious emodiement of that, and while you're right to be mad at all the people who fall into divisive language, you're forgetting that the example that much of the united states looks up to, is openly attacking people over Twitter. If you expect the general populous to be better than that, they will disappoint you.
And they have no qualms about cutting everything even further. McConnell recently went on record as saying that entitlement programs are a big reason why the national debt's gone up. The modern Republican party straight-up despises the poor and middle class. Framing people's dislike for Trump as 'waaah, he has a different opinion waah' is monumentally shortsighted and missing the point so hard, you're deliberately not even aiming for the target.
I mean, you also have to take into consideration the people who will not date anyone who agrees with Trump. I mean, I wish I could have been the mastermind behind this app. Between the people who don't want to date people who disagree with Trump, and those who are tired of people not wanting to date them because they like Trump, you have probably a decent size group of people to pull ad revenue and microtransactions from.
If someone supports Trump, that means they're 1) Pro seperation of Families at borders(A human rights violation which shows you don't care about human life) 2) Building a wall that will never actually exist, or be functional 3) Blaming everything on Hilary Clinton, the Democrats, and accepting no personal responsibility 4) Tax evasion 5) "Second ammendment people can do sometihng about that" (Pro civil violence) I don't really care if you're "For Trump" or against Trump in the context of him as a person. But him as politician? Supporting him is supporting those things if you support him as a politician. Which almost every "Trumper" does. Can you explain to me, why I should date someone who thinks "They were born in mexico, therefore separating them from their parents at the age of 3 is a legal acceptable, and morally correct thing to do"? Why should I do that if I have a single fucking shred of humanitarian belief?
I never said you should. I don't think anyone should date anyone they don't want to, including because of their political beliefs. I'm not even sure what you're arguing here.
I mean you brought up people who are tired of people not wanting to date them over supporting Trump. I'm just explaining why that would be a poor hill for someone to stand on, let alone die alone on.
Not standing or dying on that hill. I'm just looking at the potential userbase of this app. It's not just people who don't want to date people who hate him, but those who are ostracized for supporting him. That's a large pool of people, especially in urban settings like DC. It would be a clever way to cash in on this political divide that's going on.
Opposite of HumanAbyss, it is the context of Trump as a person I care about. I could talk all day about the myriad ways Trump is a repugnant, worthless excuse for a human being without ever getting into matters of policy or politics. Politics being written off as mere different tastes is an issue for another time, but Trump is such a phenomenaly awful human being in way that transcends politics that I can't imagine I could ever respect a person with the extreme willful ignorance or the warped moral compass required to like him.
When you date someone, you learn about who they are. What you learn is going to impact how you feel about them. No shit someone saying "yeah, the septic tank of a human being who spends all his time having tantrums, fellating murderous dictators, and terrorizing brown children trying to escape certain death? I like him" is going to impact how you feel about them.
If you have a shred of humanity and even the tiniest bit of self respect and respect for others, you aren't going to identify with someone who has none. Shit like this just proves to me there is a cesspool of people so hollow, their conveniently newfound political interest exclusively towards causing suffering to anyone not exactly like themselves is the only substantive trait they have. Also, obsessively creepy idol worship I suppose.
I understand what you guys are saying, but the problem is that you're projecting all of your percieved faults of Trump into anyone who supports him in any sort of way, which does not at all correspond with reality. In reality, I think you'll find that besides a couple of anecdotal characters, very few people support any politician and all their policies 100%. Many people who were voting for Hillary in 2016 didn't exactly like her and her policies, they were just voting for her on the basis of "she's not Trump", and many people who support Trump probably only do so because "at least it's not the democrats", but to be fair those kinds of people would probably not participate in a "trump dating app" so I digress. Anyway, to my point, not only are trump supporters not obligated to approve of everything he says and does; before you make these sweeping judgements of character, you have to get to know the person first to see if they see Trump the way you do and still support him anyway, or if to them Trump means something else entirely. That's why I said in my hypothetical situation that you gotta have a conversation, see why they support trump, because this makes a difference. To which you may say "But Trump IS racist and he IS against human rights and he IS a tax dodger, just look at this link and this link and this link", and you'd probably be totally right, but you are looking at it from your prism and assuming that the other person sees it as true as well. Sure, you can dismiss people on a whim online for whatever reason you fancy, but I maintain that you need to have a screw loose if, by some chance you're already dating someone and later find out they're a trump supporter, you end that relationship immediately without even hearing your partner out, what Trump means to them and why they support him, and how they react to whatever rebuttals you have to offer. They're likely to listen to you at least somewhat because you're their partner, and if you manage to bring a Trump supporter to the light, great! But you gotta at least try; That's what I mean by brain rot; if Trump is such a trigger word to you that you are unable to at least listen to your damn partner before dumping their ass because of what the orange man means to you, that's just idiotic. No politician is worth that much, and if you think it is, you are partially responsible for the toxic political climate in the USA
The extent of the argument I'm getting from you is; Some people tihnk the sky is green, and we have to be nice to them because otherwise we're worse than they are. It's just that in this instance, we're talking about the basics like "Are brown skinned people human enough to deserve human rights?"
So in other words, you are purposely misinterpreting my argument because god forbid you have to look at things in a way that isn't black and white, or in a way that doesn't make evil cartoon villain caricatures out of groups of people? Be honest with me here, do you think I'm a trump supporter, or a trump sympathizer? Because if you do then I'm sorry to say you need an oil change inside that head.
More that you're assuming they're fully conscious of his faults when the fact is they probably think most of the shit said about him is a lie.
I don't really care what you are. 1) I never suggested someone should just up and leave their partner because of a political dispute 2) I tried to lend context as to why, if someone did leave someone over political disputes, they might have justified reasons for doing so 3) I am not viewing any of this as black and white, despite your insistence that I am. This is a complicated issue. At it's heart the political divide is due to the education issues, and various other issues I brought up previously. I don't think people who support Trump are villains. I'm not generalizing anyone here, or using a black and white brush. But if you're with a liberal, as a trump supporter, and you are questioned on those things, and dispute that they're even happening, you are wrong. That's all there is to it, how do you recommend we coddle them? If you support Trump, and aren't questioning yourself, the person you support, or why you're doing it, you're way more "The problem" than some liberals who are genuinely concerned that the USA is going to cease being a democracy in all but name.
They are ignorant. The problem is that you're characterizing them as not only being 100% aware of these issues but also actively celebrating them. That's an entirely different charge and it's just not inherently true.
Jeez, I can get wanting to have political similarities when it comes to beliefs with a partner, but at this point you're revolving your whole damn personality around one thing, the current presidential figure. It ain't healthy. It's super basic and declares "I have no depth besides this interest".
That's part of my point; if a Trump supporter sees a CNN article titled "Trump is racist and here's why", regardless of if the contents of the article are true or not, they don't think (well, most of the anyway) "HAHA YEAH you tell those brownskins Trump! KKK! KKK!", they likely think something along the lines of "Oh great, here's another desperate character assassination attempt by CNN". They might be wrong but people tend to see what they want to see, even if that means mental gymnastics and lying to oneself. Part of the problem is that, while it is unjustified to immediately dismiss something due to bias before even reading it, is that the bias is a real thing on both sides; desperate attacking of Trump on petty things by left-winging mainstream media (like when they were going on about how rude Trump was for dumping the whole food container in the Koi tank when in Japan, completely glossing over the fact that he did it after Abe did it as well) that just taint their credibility.
a lot of people "support" trump because they were born in a republican family and support every republican as some default setting and dont think or read about it. you need to be careful and aware to seperate these people from the rest
I don't wanna date anyone who supports a man who has his steaks well-done and with ketchup
Given the number of articles I've seen about how Trump supporters find it impossible to use dating apps because they're immediately written off by the primarily left-leaning demographics using those apps, I imagine the users are more young Republicans who have little other choice rather than die-hard Trump obsessives.
Ignorance is not an excuse.
I honestly can't even tell where it ends or begins. It's like an Oroboros of chin, and I don't like it one bit.
If someone refuses to stop supporting Trump for the horrible shit he does because they refuse to believe any of it is real, even when he himself is the one stating that he's doing it, how are they practically any different from someone who "truly" supports him? If someone lights your house on fire, it doesn't matter if it was because they're an arsonist or they just don't believe fire is real, they're both going to burn your house down. People aren't angry at Trump because he might've maybe thrown too much food in a fucking koi pond. People are angry because he endorses child molesters for public office and actively punishes children for fleeing from death. If you're willing to completely ignore all of the shit Trump has done because you heard someone make fun of him, then of course people are going to judge you for that. The fact that you can't understand this is baffling to me.
No its not but you have to factor it in with how you talk to someone about it. Im going to approach a full blown neonazi far differently than an old lady who doesn't know better
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