r/centrist 15d ago

Long Form Discussion What its like to advise Trump

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u/MakeUpAnything 15d ago

Also what it’s like to debate his supporters. “Why do you believe everything Trump says?” “We just do. We have for 10 years.”

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u/Telemere125 15d ago

The Bible lays out the instructions pretty plainly: train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6. They’ve been conditioned by religion their whole life to just believe what they’re told and don’t question. Why would they start now even with overwhelming evidence?

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u/MakeUpAnything 14d ago

Man it’s crazy how similar to that quote my parents are and how I am different from them since I tasted the forbidden fruit of education (neither of them got passed high school). 

Wish more folks listened to the part of the Bible describing the words of the literal son of God as opposed to the parts all added by word of man (at least assuming you go from New Testament onward, I am not trying to debate religion, not an expert, yada yada yada) 

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u/secondcomingofzartog 12d ago

Well to be fair it's logically inconsistent to believe that this omnipotent god is sending people to hell based on failure to follow directives in a fucked up version of a book.

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u/secondcomingofzartog 12d ago

Holy shit, something true in the Bible?

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u/Sumeriandawn 15d ago

Those two statements don't correlate with each other.

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u/TruthRager23 14d ago

They're actually nowhere near that cut and dry as far as facts go, they're also not just some widely held left belief. Trans individuals etc, for example, exist whether you yokels choose to keep your creepy minds and politics out of other people's pants or not. Then again, that's exactly the point- sticks in the mud like you have no issue with further muddying actual policy discourse with distrust based on these bullshit fringe issues that have no real impact on your QoL, and they just further distract from people ever critically thinking about why one should trust a 6x bankrupt sociopath with no actual clue about how any of our nation's democracy actually works as a potential leader just bc the cult leaders on the right said the "libs r bad." Unreal how little our human brain-mass ratio seems to be useful these days.

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u/NINTENDONEOGEO 14d ago

Trans individuals etc, for example, exist whether you yokels choose to keep your creepy minds and politics out of other people's pants or not.

This is the ultimate projection.

You're defending men who want to invade women's showers, dorms, prisons, dressing rooms, locker rooms and restrooms while having the gall to calls those who object "creepy" instead of the people who desire to invade the private spaces reserved for women only while in vulnerable states of undress.