Quote from: PSU on November 10, 2016, 03:19:53 PM

Oh I can't do my schoolwork.
Oh I can't go to my job.
Oh I need a safe space cause I'm triggered by the news.
Oh I have PTSD.

Yes, the next generation's fear of policies that would inherently harm many of the values they stand for is something that would cause fear and upset.

Get over it. The guy isn't even fucking president yet.

Protesting and crying in a corner isn't going to do anything. Maybe they should have thought about this before a bunch of them didn't even bother to vote.

Quote from: PSU on November 10, 2016, 03:24:03 PM

Honestly, I feel bad for them. If they can't deal with this shit while still in school, theres NO CHANCE they'll ever be successful in the real world.

Well guess what - these students that you are deriding as immature, spoiled, whatever word you wish to use, they will be taking control of governments, both state and federally, in 10-20 years. You may not like it, but it is going to happen.

I can guarantee you that none of the kids crying in a safe space will be involved in government in anyway.

Quote from: PSU on November 10, 2016, 03:24:03 PM

Honestly, I feel bad for them. If they can't deal with this shit while still in school, theres NO CHANCE they'll ever be successful in the real world.

Well guess what - these students that you are deriding as immature, spoiled, whatever word you wish to use, they will be taking control of governments, both state and federally, in 10-20 years. You may not like it, but it is going to happen.

I'm guessing they'll be very different people in 10-20 years. From what I understand, a lot of the Baby Boomers that were involved with the counterculture of the 1960s later became conservatives and Republicans, so I imagine the pattern will repeat itself in some form.

No one's going to like this post, but after it's posted, I'll be actively avoiding all political discussion here for a length of time--for pretty obvious reasons. So I'm just going to get everything I want to say out now, because no one here hates Trump more than me.

I appreciate the attempt, but a 9 minute Colbert video is not going to change how I feel about this at all. I will NEVER accept Trump as my president, ever. His election has evoked in me emotions ranging from reclusive or violent behavior to even thoughts of suicide--the likes of which I haven't felt in over five years. There's not anything you or anyone else can say to make things better for me. Even if Trump were impeached or assassinated, as much as I want him to be, that wouldn't accomplish anything either. We would just get Mike Pence, who is 10x worse than the worst president we've ever had. Our balls are in a vice.

But you know what? I don't even want things to get better. I don't even want Trump to end up being a good president. Why would I? I want to continue hating him. And I want to continue hating his supporters. Because if he ends up doing "good," okay... Then what? Does that mean I'd have to start liking Trump? Fuck that. I want him to be the most horrible president ever. I want everyone in the world to be just as miserable and just as upset as I am. I don't want things to get better, because we don't deserve it. If America elects someone like Trump, we deserve nothing short of eight years of hell, with the Trump supporters getting the absolute worst of it. All I want is to watch them collectively eat their own shit and then die.

So no, there's literally nothing anyone can do to make me feel better. Except give the presidency to someone else. Someone who's not a conservative or a Republican--which obviously can't happen, EVEN IF Trump dies or resigns. We're fucking trapped, and it's all America's fault. It's all uneducated white college kids' fault. It's all white-washed minorities' fault. And fuck unification--I don't want to be unified with fucking anybody who's ever had a positive thought about Donald Trump. Whatsoever. They can all go straight to hell.

Every day since the election, I've been so drained. I don't have the energy to do anything. I just want to go home,  fall asleep, and never wake up again. I don't necessarily want to die or kill myself--I just want to sleep forever so I can be comfortably alone and at peace. And I think everyone else should feel the exact same way. Everyone should be depressed as fuck. No one should accept this. And absolutely nobody should just "move on." You're not moving on; you're being herded. I'm sorry if that upsets you, but it's the simple truth. It's the only outlook that makes any rational sense to me.

Here's a comforting thought: When Trump is through, I'll almost be 30 years old. 30 goddamn years old. And that's if I make it there.

By all means, call me a crybaby. Say I'm just overreacting. Say I'm just throwing a tantrum. It is what it is, and I'll wear my crybaby status with pride. But the bottom line is, in my opinion, if you are NOT currently prepared to throw an 8 year tantrum over this, I don't consider you a rational person. I don't consider you a principled person. You're complacent. You're acequiescent. You're submissive. You have no conviction. That's not me. That's never me.

"Never" is a word I'm going to be using a LOT over the next decade.

Quote from: Luciana on November 10, 2016, 05:50:12 PM

Tl;dr - I want the country to burn to validate my hate

good job

not only will you be 30, you'll be a 30 year old irrational man child

But I'll be right.

I don't want to burn the country to validate anything--I want the country to burn because it deserves it, period.

God you're so hypocritical

You knowingly threw your vote away on Stein

It's not a throwaway if it's the only correct choice. One more vote for Hillary wouldn't have made a lick of difference, and I don't want her as president. Like a crazy person, I choose to vote for people who I actually want to be president. Maybe if everyone else thought the same way, we wouldn't be in this situation.

you have the nerve to go and throw a temper tantrum when the candidate you didn't vote for didn't win?

Yes.

You have nobody to blame here but yourself.

Why? Trump's president-elect because more people voted for Trump. That makes it the Trump supporters' fault.

I can't be blamed for something I did not and would never do--vote for Trump.

Are you implying Hillary would have even been better?

No, I'm outright saying that she would've been a hundred million times better.