The American Politics Thread

Heck I don't know, I'm no native speaker and I'm just trying to say they have their mind set to banding together as 'the people' to focus on a common enimy, I thought mob mentality was a good term for that, I looked it up and yes, it seems like it's not semantically wrong to use there, I don't know exactly if it has a positive or negative connotation or stuff like that, I even tried to clarify what I meant in others words in other posts... I don't  wanna have this discussion either, that's why I closed the post you're quoting with 'Anyhow, I think the point is clear.'

I love the thread. It's some of the annoying ''I must have the last word" posts that bother me. If you can't grasp that, then feel free to check out anytime.

Edited by SteveG - February 17 2017 at 06:39

twseel wrote: My English must be worse than I thought... It's a great thread, and that's why I don't wanna fill with this useless discussion about what 'mob mentality' means. You know full wel what I meant to say, and I still don't really understand how my usage was incorrect but I have rephrased it and exemplified it and I would prefer it that you get off my back about it and instead respond to actual discussion points rather than semantic issues.

My English is not too brisk either. Just ask Dean and I'm sure he could count the ways.

Edited by SteveG - February 17 2017 at 08:08

Sounds as if the GOP is in the position of Goethe's "Sorcerer's Apprentice":

"Ach, da ist der Meister!
Herr, die Not ist groß!
Die ich rief, die Geister,
Werd ich nun nicht los"

In my translation:

"Ah, there is the Master!
Lord, the need is dire!
Ghosts I called as caster
Now just won't retire".

They called Trump, and now they can't get rid of him

lmao...

America.. get to know your 25th Amendment... perhaps coming soon to a history book near you.


Edited by micky - February 18 2017 at 08:40

Edited by omphaloskepsis - February 19 2017 at 13:09

In an episode of the German edition of Donald Duck comics Donald had to admit he had suffered from meningitis as a child. Maybe Donald Trump is Donald Duck in disguise; at least his incoherent utterings aren't more intelligent than the utterings of a person who is suffering from the unlucky fate of having had meningitis. And you have to admit his mouth has a surprising and uncanny likeness to a duck bill when he speaks:

"Quack quack Sweden quack quack yesterday".



Actually it appears that Trump watched his favorite channel (FIX, I mean FOX, sorry, they don't fix news) and saw their feature of a documentary about immigrants to Sweden by director Ami Horowitz and how the rape rate has allegedly increased drastically over the last few years, which corresponded with an increase of immigrants, from which both Horowitz and FOX seemed to conclude that those immigrants committed the rapes. That's like concluding the stork brings the babies from the fact that both the stork population and the birth rate have increased during a specific period of time. Just because the results of two statistics coincide does by no means mean these statistics are correlated; it's one of the first things you learn when taking statistic lessons. And how the heck Trump concluded that all these rapes happened yesterday is beyond me.

Oh, and by the way: The legal definition of rape in Sweden is by no means the same as the legal definition of rape in the USA. The law defining rape is so complicated you have to study jurisprudence to understand it. An example (really true): If a couple has consensual sexual intercourse using a condom this consensual intercourse becomes rape if the condom slips off during the act. Yes, really true!


Edited by BaldFriede - February 20 2017 at 07:42

There is little doubt that there is at least the perception of a large increase in reported sexual attacks in both Sweden and Germany, both countries which have had large increases in net migration. Note I said at least a perception. I do not live in either country, so cannot really comment on the facts, but I do know there is one hell of a lot of disquiet.

No smoke without fire?............

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