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[POLL] U.S. Presidential Election 2016

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In other amusing news!
https://twitter.com/AmRenaissance/status/776851299417620480

He just did the rapes the Americans didn't want to do!:D
Americans should stop labelling Spanish people as "Hispanics" or "Latinos" if they were born in America then they are Americans. If one is born in Britain he/she is British. Plain and simple.

I don't think you know what Islamophobia is.
When you come to the point of using that buzzword (or in this case, buzzterm) you just lost whatever argument you had left. The media uses that and hardly anyone takes them seriously or criticise them for it.

Say, what's next, transphobia? Is that having phobia of Transformers or Transporters? I'd make a joke about fatphobia but the "womyn" already went ahead of me. :P
 
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Americans should stop labelling Spanish people as "Hispanics" or "Latinos" if they were born in America then they are Americans. If one is born in Britain he/she is British. Plain and simple.

Yeah, if we tried that, they'd accuse you of trying to remove their culture or heritage.
 

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When you come to the point of using that buzzword (or in this case, buzzterm) you just lost whatever argument you had left. The media uses that and hardly anyone takes them seriously or criticise them for it.

Say, what's next, transphobia? Is that having phobia of Transformers or Transporters? I'd make a joke about fatphobia but the "womyn" already went ahead of me. :P
Islamophobia and transphobia are substantive terms, not buzzwords. The use of them doesn't invalidate any of my arguments.

In other amusing news!
https://twitter.com/AmRenaissance/status/776851299417620480

He just did the rapes the Americans didn't want to do!:D
This doesn't excuse any of Trump's deplorable comments.
 
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What an interesting definition. Though i would argue our definition in american English has expanded that meaning and it might confuse native american English speakers if using a specialized definition. I mean, i figured your intent was something close to that, but i try not to assume intent.
I would argue that it's not the definition of the word that's changed, it's the concept that was usurped and twisted. Nowadays tolerance is synonymous with acceptance - that's not what tolerance is. I can tolerate the shenanigans someone's up to, but I don't have to enthusiastically approve of them at all - just me allowing them to take place is tolerant enough.
 

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I would argue that it's not the definition of the word that's changed, it's the concept that was usurped and twisted. Nowadays tolerance is synonymous with acceptance - that's not what tolerance is. I can tolerate the shenanigans someone's up to, but I don't have to enthusiastically approve of them at all - just me allowing them to take place is tolerant enough.
To be clear, I am not using the word tolerance to mean acceptance.
 

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I wasn't accusing you of that. ;)
I know. I just wanted to make sure the record was clear. We all saw the South Park episode.

Speaking of South Park, the new season started Wednesday, and they're bringing back Giant Douche and Turd Sandwich for this election.
 

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I know. I just wanted to make sure the record was clear. We all saw the South Park episode.

Speaking of South Park, the new season started Wednesday, and they're bringing back Giant Douche and Turd Sandwich for this election.
That would unironically make it a better election.
 

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Heh, this is too amusing!
 
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I'm sick of hourly, daily news about the presidential election now. Every time, this candidate said this, this candidate did that. Half of what I read is so unnecessary on social media.
 

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GBATemp is already great, you unpatriotic sonofabitch.
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What would the GBAtemp equivalent to illegal immigrants even be?
Idiot noobs? Trolls? Shitposters? Weebs?
Dupe accounts, obviously. Already banned, but still trying to sneak through the border. Not with Donald P1ng around, not on his watch! The wall grew by 10 feet.
 

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We can make it betterer, always. I have my top men working on it around the clock, and let me tell you, those men are experts. They're great experts, and they're telling me that this site is great, so I know for a fact that it's great. Now, I'm not saying that it's the greatest, but it is definitely one of the greatest sites out there. With your help, I can make it even greaterer. It will be yuge, bigger than China.
Woah, there. Can we really aspire to be bigger than China? I mean, they're pretty much the epitome of human greatness.
 
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Woah, there. Can we really aspire to be bigger than China? I mean, they're pretty much the epitome of human greatness.
We will be the biggest. We will rebuild the GBATemp's middle class. First, we need to build a wall around the 3DS Hacking section... and the 3DS Hacking section will pay for it!



Salute. Bald eagle.
 
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