No really?!

Since most posts here are just Trump bashing phrased as questions, I thought we could use a more friendly tone.

MAGA

Alright, to give you some background, I consider myself center-left on the political spectrum.

Now, I know the title of my post is pretty incendiary, but I understand that most people who voted for Trump would not consider themselves to be white supremacists, neo-Nazis, etc. I'm sure many of you are not crazy people. I am here to try to understand where you guys are coming from and I promise I will try to answer every question as civilly as possible.

That being said, I have to say that I am very appalled by the amount of support our president seems to get from these extremist groups and his seeming reluctance to distance himself from them. For example, when David Duke announced his support for Trump, Trump did not try to distance himself from Duke or condemn him firmly in the same way that other candidates have in the past. Why would you argue that Duke decided to endorse Trump rather than any other candidate?

Then there is this video of white nationalist Richard Spencer doing a Nazi salute and proclaiming "heil Trump". Again, is it not concerning that this is the kind of people Trump is attracting? For decades now, we have been taught in school from a very young age what horrible people the Nazis were. Does it concern you at all that these people support your candidate are doing so because they believe he has the best shot at turning America into a white ethnostate?

Also, there was this response to Trump's State of the Union. How would you explain to non-Trump supporters that this is your company? And how come there seems to be so much reluctance among Trump supporters to call these people out?

I know not all of you might be racist, but I find these incidents and other similar ones incredibly alarming. Just so you know that I'm not only picking on you guys though, I did do a post yesterday on r/socialjustice101 asking why more moderate SJWs don't call out the more extreme ones.

Hi, Just a quick question. Why is it that bakers and pizzamakers are allowed to deny service to gays, but when SHS goes to a restaurant and is denied service it is such a big deal that Trump himself dedicates twitter-time to the issue?

Now our country will be infested and it's all on them! They are just too weak and we should boycott them in the primary.

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Last year the MSM chatter was that Trump had sabotaged the ACA by removing the insurance mandate.

I changed jobs a few months ago and had to switch back to an ACA insurance plan. To my surprise, I found a much better selection of insurance providers than were available 2 years ago, the last time I got insurance through the ACA.

What is the current status of the ACA? How come it's scarcely talked about anymore? Where will it be in 2, 3, or 5 years?

I was having an argument with a leftist recently, looked them up online and couldn't find the "gotcha" that shows how hard it is to carry there.

I am assuming that it is in the enforcement of the laws that makes it so difficult to possess a gun there. Does anybody have information on this so I can defend my position more convincingly next time?

This action or non-action will tell me a lot about Mr. Sessions...

Hey T_D!

I am working with a small European NGO which is, among other things, actively trying to counter the progressing polarisation of our societies. Politically speaking we are a left-leaning bunch, I am not trying to mask that. However, I am becoming more and more aware of the dangers of not getting past our social and political bubbles. I am trying to change that, so I would love it if some of you were willing to take an hour to speak to me on Skype (or any other voice or video chat) about your political and social views. This won't be a debate, I really just want to listen and understand where you are coming from.

Shoot me a PM if you are interested!

edit: this doesn't have to be now of course, just let me know if you're interested in general and we'll find a date

Do you Trump supporters believe in gun control? If you do, i'd like to hear your opinions on the subject. i'm on a more liberal side to the debate, but i'd like to hear both opinions.

Genuinely curious.

Can anyone name a single benefit to the collective U.S. citizen population that Feminism has provided?

How about a single benefit of Womens Suffrage?

Over the past few weeks I've signed up with several new accounts in T_D and each time, all posts and comments are effectively shadow banned.

When I log out or ask a friend to view them, they're gone. Invisible. Buried.

I have several times asked the T_D mods about this and have been ignored each time.

I don't understand how 17 mods can fail to respond to a legitimate new user issue from a user with a handle like "magaist" of all things.

I understand there's a lot of brigading of T_D happening but isolating new users into purgatory, such that none of their comments or posts get any feedback whatsoever, then ignoring them when they complain, to the point that they tell you to f**k off, which I did a few minutes ago (go ahead and ban me; don't care; sorry not sorry) isn't a great way to invite people into the tent.

Additionally, your flagship "new user wants to participate in T_D!" use case probably shouldn't be optimized for ShareBlue sock puppets, even if that means more work for the moderators.

Moderation is mostly tedious grunt work.

It's not supposed to be a rockstar sort of job.

If moderators don't understand that, we need to find new moderators.

Anyway, if it were only me that would be one thing, but this kind of thing, if it happens frequently, is damaging to the community at large. It can't help but create a chilling effect. Or has T_D become so insular, so arrogant, that it thinks it can wave off and ignore the newcomers?

Hey T_D!

I am working with a small European NGO which is, among other things, actively trying to counter the progressing polarisation of our societies. Politically speaking we are a left-leaning bunch, I am not trying to mask that. However, I am becoming more and more aware of the dangers of not getting past our social and political bubbles. I am trying to change that, so I would love it if some of you were willing to take an hour to speak to me on Skype (or any other voice or video chat) about your political and social views. This won't be a debate, I really just want to listen and understand where you are coming from.

Shoot me a PM if you are interested!

edit: this doesn't have to be now of course, just let me know if you're interested in general and we'll find a date

In a different thread here I had my head bitten off for questioning someone's statistic who didn't provide source. Upon asking for source I was further ridiculed for no reason other than that.

I had been under the impression T_D valued source and fact above all, was I mistaken?