PensivePenny wrote:Personally, I "decry" trump on the cover because he stood out enough to be chosen as did Hitler and as did Stalin... NOT because I think it's an "honorific". Accompanying trump's rise are so many similarities with Hitler's and Stalin's, it's frightening. The Time cover is just another one.

Sendraks wrote:The Time magazine cover doesn't bother me. Certainly it bothers me less than the outrage about it which, to me, is indicative of a significant failure on the part of people to pay attention to what is going on and instead preferring to wallow in denial about reality.

Sendraks wrote:There's a historical precedent in the US for rounding people up and putting them in camps.

Sendraks wrote:There's an historical precedent in the US for rounding people up and putting them in camps.

Animavore wrote:I thought it was hilarious the clueless, unironic moron thanked TIME for giving him person of the year. He really doesn't get it at all.
About that TIME cover. http://forward.com/culture/356537/why-t ... tical-art/

Trump Admits His Threat To Lock Up Clinton Was Just For Show

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday acknowledged his threat to imprison Hillary Clinton for using a private email server during her time as secretary of state was simply an appeal to win voters.

As Trump spoke at a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, as part of his post-election “Thank You Tour,” some supporters began chanting “lock her up” ― a common refrain during the Republican convention and Trump’s campaign events.

“No, it’s okay,” Trump said as the crowd jeered a reference to Clinton. “Forget it. That plays great before the election. Now, we don’t care, right?”

Pulsar wrote:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-clinton-lock-her-up_us_584b5b53e4b04c8e2bb01274?m=false

Trump Admits His Threat To Lock Up Clinton Was Just For Show

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday acknowledged his threat to imprison Hillary Clinton for using a private email server during her time as secretary of state was simply an appeal to win voters.

As Trump spoke at a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, as part of his post-election “Thank You Tour,” some supporters began chanting “lock her up” ― a common refrain during the Republican convention and Trump’s campaign events.

“No, it’s okay,” Trump said as the crowd jeered a reference to Clinton. “Forget it. That plays great before the election. Now, we don’t care, right?”

SafeAsMilk wrote:He can sit there and call his followers credulous fuckwits to their faces, and they'll just take it

A mixture of gullibility and cynicism had been an outstanding characteristic of mob mentality before it became an everyday phenomenon of masses. In an ever-changing, incomprehensible, world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything is possible and that nothing was true… Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.

- Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951

SafeAsMilk wrote:

Pulsar wrote:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-clinton-lock-her-up_us_584b5b53e4b04c8e2bb01274?m=false

Trump Admits His Threat To Lock Up Clinton Was Just For Show

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday acknowledged his threat to imprison Hillary Clinton for using a private email server during her time as secretary of state was simply an appeal to win voters.

As Trump spoke at a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, as part of his post-election “Thank You Tour,” some supporters began chanting “lock her up” ― a common refrain during the Republican convention and Trump’s campaign events.

“No, it’s okay,” Trump said as the crowd jeered a reference to Clinton. “Forget it. That plays great before the election. Now, we don’t care, right?”

He can sit there and call his followers credulous fuckwits to their faces, and they'll just take it

The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

Sendraks wrote:There's a historical precedent in the US for rounding people up and putting them in camps.