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Welcome to 24 years ago…

Again? Because I can’t see any mother wanting to keep him.

Your point was correct (in context) and you made it well. I’m not criticizing you for how well you made your argument.

My point is that, Eric Trump is not a normal person and you are comparing this not-normal person to normal people. It’s like comparing apples to Hitler. Or Hitler’s son. Whatever. I think you see where I’m going with this….

If it were anyone else, especially someone who is not a celebrity nor under public scrutiny in any way, I would absolutely agree with you. If I was a dumb asshole, and I came back to you and apologized and admitted my mistakes, I would hope that you’d forgive me. But I’m also not encumbered by the totality of absolute shit that Eric Trump is. You can’t hold the same standards for a person like Eric Trump that you would for the rest of the 99% of the people on the planet whom share nothing in common with such a turd.

Eric Trump is not like normal people, and that is not what happened here. He’s obligated to a much higher standard, yet he continually succeeds at failing the basic tests of humanity. That’s my point. His actions should not be judged and/or criticized based on how you would treat your buddy who happened to get drunk and say something stupid. He has led a long public life where he has very publicly been an unrepentant piece of shit. If he happens to blink, and not be an absolute piece of shit for a second (by accident, btw), I don’t think he deserves credit for that.

And I think it’s worth noting here that, his so-called “admission“ was really just a pre-text to brag about how rich and privileged and entitled he is. If anything, he deserves more criticism, judgment, and derision for opening his mouth and saying such a terrible thing for attention. Because why else would you do such a thing as to post it on public social media? It reminds me of that Bible verse about praying in private because then God will hear you, but only the hypocrites and liars will pray loudly in public, because it’s not God’s attention they want, it’s yours.

Again, I acknowledge that you made a good point… If we were talking about some regular person. But we’re not.

Edit: edited a bunch of times to add some thoughts into fix a bunch of spelling and grammatical errors. I will not edit this comment again after a response… Unless I notice more grammatical errors.

Yeah, but we also shouldn’t be comparing him to other people. He’s not like other people.

Edit: and keep in mind that his “admission” came on the back of a shockingly, elitist statement, and the admission he was making was that his previously shockingly elitist statement happened to be too elitist to even be real. And what he’s really admitting here is that he is so shockingly out of touch with regular people, which is why he made the mistake.

What he’s really admitting is that he is a much worse person than any of us ever knew, and that admission was not intentional. I’m not giving him credit for that.

Oh, I hope this isn’t real. But it wouldn’t surprise me at all if it were.

The “King of the Jews”? A Christian?

400 or 800? I still use a FireWire 800 drive with an old Mac of mine.

The reason there are so dishonest is because they wrap their hypocrisy in such moral superiority that it creates enough, cognitive dissonance to make a person‘s head explode. So they lie. They lighter themselves, they lied to everyone else, and this delusion— they create a shared delusion between all of them because they’re all incredibly shitty people that constantly do terrible things who believe they are incredibly good people doing the right thing. The only way to make that make any sense to anyone is to lie about it constantly. Because these people lack not only empathy, they lack the capability for self reflection.

It’s very interesting to read what you think they think. It’s not. It’s what someone like you or I would think if we were put into their position, but we were still, basically, the good, unselfish people capable of empathy that we are now.

That’s why it’s so hard for you to wrap your head around it: they are not like us. They think inwardly, only of themselves, and will pursue their own ambition and profit, regardless of the negative effects on others. They believe they are owed this, and if someone can’t achieve it, it’s not because they didn’t try hard enough: is because there is something more wrong with them, and they deserved a sale. That’s why they don’t like helping poor people: poor people are poor because they are weak, and they deserve their fate. That’s what they think.

If you keep in mind that this is the mindset, they approach every situation with, why they behave the way they do makes much more sense.

Edit: more info

The Alt-Right Playbook - Endnote 3: The Origins of Conservatism

You don’t get followers and profit with Wikipedia

Ok, so why not mix the salt in as well?