skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But there is ample law and policy in place to protect the rights of minorities and LGBT.

The degree to which people believe this is striking. The reality is that these protections are very recent developments and are today easily reversed, particularly by an administration that cares less than usual about the details of how the federal government is run.
In all honesty: almost none. He just wanted to be president. Most of his time will be spend enriching himself by selling banal access and bloviating on the world stage. That's pretty awful, but not apocalypse-level awful.

Of your list:

The wall is a technical impossibility that everyone can recognize. There's no funding for a deportation force and the political optics of goon squads rounding people up is something congress won't do. No one actually wants to yank medical coverage from millions of voters (they'll just let the democrats filibuster it in the senate). There's nothing meaningful to renegotiate in NAFTA, no serious stakeholders have suggestions there. Coal hasn't really gone away, and permiting and regulation changes are going to take longer than four years anyway. "Bring back american companies" is just a fairy tale. Global economics simply doesn't work like that and there's nothing a chief executive can do.

That leaves: Muslim ban. Maybe, at least in some symbolic way. Tax cuts for the rich. Yeah, duh. But that's a republican staple and we've survived it before. US deficit spending is actually not nearly so serious a problem as people believe.
Except, you know, we don't have an Article 48, any proposed Enabling Act would be filibustered to hell, and our society is nowhere near as authoritarian as it used to be, much less 1930s Germany.
Why is any plan Farage might have come up with of the slightest interest? Are you suffering from the misapprehension that the referendum was an election for the leave campaign?

Boris? Who knows.

I'm not really defending Brexit here. My argument is that something along these lines was inevitable due to decades of ignoring people.

The conservative government wanted to put a lid back on this and make it go away, their strategy was to show it up for what they assumed was the obviously stupid, minority viewpoint it was. They failed, but they were just the latest in a line of governments suffering from the smugness identified in the article.
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Trump's hugs have been quite newsworthy http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/donald-trump-a... Apparently he's bad at them.
And let's not forget the Sahara, the Gobi Desert, etc...

Cleaning the atmosphere and terraforming those deserts is probably much easier than terraforming Mars.
I'd be interested in a non-binary option.

I am neither for nor against Trump, rather I'm interested in the relative merits or faults inherent in his policy proposals (where possible to investigate) and discourse.
> “Easy for you to say, white male blogger. I’m brown and I don’t feel safe here anymore.”

> Here’s what I’ll say to that:

> This country had your back yesterday and it’ll have your back tomorrow.

The whole point of not feeling safe is that the country doesn't have their back.
reddit user TPKM's comment on the sanders-would-have-won-thread:

"Support for Trump, much like Brexit, was based upon an extremely widespread feeling that average people are not getting their fair share of the benefits of globalisation. This is neither a specifically Democrat or Republican problem, and people have been saying it one way or another for years.

It was also the foundation of Sanders' campaign. The difference is that Sanders blamed deregulation and big corporate bonuses while Trump blamed immigration and open borders. I'm sure that there are elements of truth to both of these positions."

i'm sceptical that trump, as a big corp owner, will do much to regulate and reign big corps in; if that's really the case we'll now see if curbing immigration is an actual solution to the problem.

(personally, i doubt it - it has failed in other countries already)

so, let trump do what he promised and see how it works out. if it doesn't, try the other method next. for me it's easy to say because i'm not an u.s. citizen and have no desire to move there (i think my country will be in the same situation in a couple of weeks though); it's not like it wouldn't affect me, but i can't change it anyway.
The fact that Sanders was predicted to do significantly better than Clinton against Trump means that there's plenty of votes to be won by listening to poor people without being racist.
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> Wall Whitman

Is that what he will be known as from now on? :)

On a more serious note, it's interesting to reread his poem _America_, which was certainly written more as an aspiration than a description at the time. However, this election makes you wonder whether the aspiration is even there anymore (from either side, if we're being honest).

| Centre of equal daughters, equal sons,
| All, all alike endear’d, grown, ungrown, young or old,
| Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich,
| Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love,
| A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother,
| Chair’d in the adamant of Time.
The Democrats had a good candidate and they were scared he wasn't centrist enough.

If there's a lesson from this election, it's that when a candidate inspires a populist movement, the parties should just let it play out instead of trying to stop it in favor of an establishment candidate. Both parties tried to stop it, but only the Democrats succeeded. The general election was their punishment.

Bernie would have beaten Trump. The crucial "rust belt" states that Clinton lost were states where Bernie beat her too. They're states that want to vote Democratic but felt that the Democrat didn't care about their struggles. His platform was completely targeted at helping the lower- and middle-class. Oh, and he probably has no idea what an email server is, let alone how to run his own.
I wouldn't be too concerned, but I'm really bent out of shape of any idea of repealing gay rights or abortion decisions.
And this is why people are selling $50 t-shirts with a few grams attached to the tag.
Very cool app. +1
I agree, although I did not support Trump I hope this shows supporters of PC and SJW culture that attacking people not their ideas doesn't enact real change. More importantly the notion that ethics and morals are separate from opinions and feelings.
A very related comment I made on reddit last night...

I blame the cosmopolitan/coastal left for this. The same reason the shy Tories won in 2015, the same reason, shy Brexiters won, the same reason trump is winning, is because we didn't listen. On both sides of the pond we dismissed the concerns of poor,lower middle class, and rural, white members of society.

Economically, our respective Mining & Manufacturing towns (for Americans think Manchester, for Brits think Ohio) were left behind, left in the dust thanks to globalization. We didn't respond to their concerns. We waved them away as merely backwards and incapable of understanding the benefits of our ever increasingly connected and globalized world. Many of these people are struggling because the contract their parents and grandparents had known of putting in an honest, hard day's work, perhaps join a union, and you were set life, has vanished. They are struggling, they are angry, they are retaliating.

On the social front, we maligned them. Many on the far-left accused them of having privileges/benefits they had never once felt or known and still bashed and abused them for it. Theyve been portrayed as the anchor holding back social progress. Their religion (some variant of Christianity) has been mocked while the religion that has attacked both of our countries (some variant of Islam) has been molly-coddled in the mainstream media.

Politically they feel like they aren't represented. No one asks how they're doing?, how they're feeling?, what direction they'd like to see their country move in?, their vote is taken for granted. Finally, a situation comes along that speaks to their frustrations (Brexit, Trump respectively), and we just expect them to NOT jump on it after all this time? We on the left would be morons to think that they wouldn't have.
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Learn your facts.
What change are you hoping to see?
Yup. Remember Texts From Hillary? Back when we all thought she was cool and hip?

There was an orchestrated effort to portray Hillary as un-likeable and an out-of-touch elite. I remember this starting roughly with the Benghazi hearings, which is I think when it seemed like she was the likely Democratic candidate and politically worth attacking personally.

There was also an orchestrated phenomenon to portray many of the DNC backers of Hillary as unlikeable and an out-of-touch elite, which I think was quite legitimate, but rubbed off on the candidate herself.

(And, I suspect, there was an un-orchestrated phenomenon where Hillary happened to be less likeable than the very likeable Bernie. Which isn't to say that Hillary is un-likeable in any absolute sense.)
This app is seriously beautiful! The imagery, animations, and design language take what could be the 10,000th counter / to do list and instead create a truly unique app. Well done!!
It would be nice to have some indication when the asynchronous requests (votes, flags) fail.

For now I'm using dev tools.
I would like to see a reduction in H1B's and the ability of companies to move their manufacturing operations offshore when the driving factor is just reducing wages.
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> 4 years of aimlessness.

Keeping political engine running without dramatic changes - is a good outcome for the country.
> The people vocalizing their opinion by voting for Trump are beyond the age where education can be the key

I hate seeing this meme. It is ageist and makes older people less likely to be hired for even their same jobs.

Old people can still learn to do new things. The problem I see is that a lot of older people do not want to learn new things. Also, old people tend to have obligations such as family/child expenses, residence costs, etc. that they want to be compensated for even at an entry level.

Rural conservatism has a lot to do with preserving tradition, that is, making sure things don't change from the old status quo you loved before.
There's also the 100k+ who've left Puerto Rico in the last decade. I believe most of them made it to Florida.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/02/americas/puerto-rico-exodus/
There is never an age where education can't help you. It might not lead you into a new career, but it can broaden and deepen your understanding of the situation to help you make better choices. At it's, education could help the blue collar worker understand why his job is not coming back, and that he does need to do something else. Right now, those people believe Trump will someone bring those jobs back.
We don't have more than one server and HN proper (not counting caches) runs on a single core.

Believe me, we hate slow software at least as much as you do and have put a lot of effort into addressing this. HN is a lot faster than it used to be on median load. It still falls short on excessive load. We'll get there!
I think this is missing the part where Pence claimed, yesterday, that Trump will be repealing many LGBT rights. That's not a political opinion, that's a threat.
With this thought process it almost seems like you are saying we have to wait for a generation to die off before this problem is "fixed".

Not saying that you are wrong, but it is a sad idea that we can't fix it. Maybe instead of giving out "gov't handouts" we just give out VR headsets and give pple a Matrix like existance who can no longer bare the thought of their current living conditions. Sad.
Republicans already had a majority in the house and senate, and have tried to repeal the ACA many times. They still don't have a supermajority in the senate, though, so I expect Democrats will continue to filibuster any attempts to repeal.
The progressive Left supported Bernie Sanders. The moderate Left and Right and the Establishment forced the exactly perfect candidate for Trump to beat.
You can do what the democrats have talked about, which we have successfully done in Nordic countries which is to spend a lot of money on re-educating the workforce and making sure those at the bottom get decent skills.

I grew up in a rustbelt like industrial town in Norway. We has shipyards, glass factory, paper mill, textile industry, lock systems etc. Almost all of it got closed down and moved overseas as I grew up.

But we never ended up in the deep pit blue collar America ended up in, because government took a very active stance early to fight this with active policies. In towns where factories died, they moved public sector jobs from the capital.

People got a lot of retraining for new jobs. There is a strong system for vocational training in technical jobs like Germany so people could get skills for more advance jobs which was easier to keep when competing against asian industrial giants.

Our government offers free university education, so even less well off blue collar families could send their kids to good schools. And when economic times got harder it never hit blue collar works as hard as in America because we have free universal health care, heavily subsidized childcare, good pensions for everybody.

Basically the welfare system we built up saved our blue collar workers. Yet Americans pretend that there is no solution to this problem except attacking minorities, Mexico, China etc.

It is rich people like Trump and their agenda, which has made sure that blue collar workers in America have felt the influence of globalization harder than many other blue collar workers in the west.
And maybe I'll get a pony.

And even if that somehow happens, those scenes from his rallies are not going away. The videos of people cheering racist rhetoric, cheering the idea of an entire religion being banned from the country, the idea of not giving a shit that someone confessed to sexual assault, is not going away. If anything, it's going to flourish.
Four years ago, I wrote a sort-of tongue-in-cheek story for Kuro5hin.org (RIP) titled "Humanity's Second-Best Hope" [1]. I pointed out that the Democratic president had failed to deliver on the Change he had promised, and shared my faint hope that maybe Mitt Romney was a "political gladiator" who'd flip on the plutocracy once he was elected.

[1] http://www.TaxiWars.org/humanitys-second-best-hope/

Alas, Mitt Romney was no gladiator.

At some point in this election cycle, I noticed dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams' blog. On August 13, 2015 Scott had a post about Donald Trump titled "Clown Genius" [2]:

Like many of you, I have been entertained by the
unstoppable clown car that is Donald Trump. On the
surface, and several layers deep as well, Trump appears
to be a narcissistic blow-hard with inadequate
credentials to lead a country.

The only problem with my analysis is that there is an
eerie consistency to his success so far. Is there a
method to it? Is there some sort of system at work under
the hood?

Probably yes. Allow me to describe some of the hypnosis
and persuasion methods Mr. Trump has employed on you. ...

[2] http://blog.dilbert.com/post/126589300371/clown-genius

For the entire election cycle, the political media promoted Hillary Clinton as the presidential heir-apparent, as if she was The Chosen One. Usually the plutocracy runs a Chosen candidate against a backup - someone who, even if fickle voters decided to not select the Chosen candidate, would still be useful to them.

Donald Trump was not a backup candidate. He was give free coverage during the primaries because he was considered a clown-candidate that wouldn't be taken seriously, it was an easy story, and because it was thought that The Chosen One could beat him. This was covered in one of the Wikileaks emails...

Donald Trump is the Gladiator that Mitt Romney was not. I'm optimistic.
It seems to me that the system is just very inefficient. There's a huge amount of bureaucracy, and not a lot of serious competition between healthcare and insurance providers. It's hard to switch providers and the pricing structures are very confusing.

Similar to broadband and mobile phone services, the free market hasn't been able to drive prices down as effectively as it theoretically should. I think it's because the incumbent providers have successfully lobbied for a network of regulations that protect their monopolies. What's actually needed is better regulations (a la net neutrality) to level the playing field.

Or alternatively, just run it as a free public service like many other countries do. That approach works pretty well.
the main character is supposed to be japanese, or not?
I didn't vote for Trump, but what LGBTQ rights are you talking about? I don't recall any federal law that passed granting them rights.

Also, what sort of income equality were you hoping a Democratic government would implement? How would the mechanics of that work?
I've heard the alternative view, and do understand it somewhat (Disclaimer, I voted for Clinton).

This election wasn't about women. This election wasn't about immigration, or minorities. This election was about the working class (blue-collar folks) feeling like they're getting shafted by government.

I live in what's usually a heavily Democratic state, Michigan. This year it'll probably go for Trump. Not because of Muslims, not because of terrorism, but because of the economy.

For years, these people (mostly white, blue-collar workers) have been told the economy's doing great for most people, free trade is great for most people, unemployment is low for most people, and the ACA helps most people.

However, for these folks, they see themselves as not part of that most people that are benefiting from our economic policies. All they hear from the establishment is the same bullshit "promises" and corporatism that they've been given for the past 30 years.

They're sick of it. They're sick of Democrats and Republicans toeing the same line, deferring to "the market" and not doing anything about it.

Donald Trump had answers. Whether those are the right answers remains to be seen (my guess is they're not). Trump said what they wanted to hear, and wasn't afraid of pissing off the establishment along the way. That's what these folks want.

They didn't vote for Donald Trump the person, they voted for Donald Trump the personality.
Totally agreed, I read this earlier which is basically my view in a nutshell:

The melt down right now is mental. What certain folk on the left don't seem to understand is that you cannot simply disregard other peoples views because they do not align with your own. Huge swathes of 'I'm more educated than you, you're stupid if you voted for Trump' tweets flooding in. It's just embarrassing to be honest. As with brexit the people have spoken and fair enough if you don't like it, but you can't just denounce everyone who voted differently to you as an idiot. I used to be one of those people, then I realised I was being a tit and tried to be more open minded and crucially doing my own research rather than only paying attention to mainstream media. I don't like Trump and wouldn't even class myself a right winger but I am very glad Clinton didn't win. Corrupt career politicians who cause untold havoc and then try to dupe people into thinking they're actual, decent human beings can fuck right off. Make me sick
What. The. Hell? That is absolutely civil, and it is substantive and it's a fact we should all aspire to!

This is an unmitigated bit of bastardry, and you ought to be ashamed of yourself.
The time for talking seems over. The days of toleration, of nodding along and trying to engage with the crazy uncle over thanksgiving dinner seem to have failed. It may be time for more direct action, for properly ostracizing such people. The racists and homophones aren't going to be invited to my family gatherings anymore. And when they ask I will make sure they understand why.

Everyone thinks that such people can be negotiated with. I don't think they can until they understand exactly what they are doing. They don't know that they are racist, they now believe they are the normal people. They need to told exactly how dangerous we believe them to be.
Policies aside, why does he always look so orange. It's not even a little bit.
My takeaway from this is that our strategy of "shaming" people into voting a certain way doesn't work. Exit polls seem to suggest that plenty of people understated their support for Trump because they were embarrassed to admit they voted for him. But they still did.

In effect, you don't stop people from supporting racism, homophobia, or misogyny by calling attention to it. That only makes them support it quietly. You have to counter it with something. We failed to adequately counter his arguments, content to simply point at them and say that they were racist, sexist, or Islamophobic, because we (naively) assumed that drawing attention to it would be enough.
The Democrats passed the ACA essentially without any Republican support. They had the power to create almost any bill they wanted. Why would anyone reasonably believe they would fix it? It is functioning exactly as designed and is enriching their donors as expected.
for me it was the way she talked. like the umpteenth "career politician" who is trying to spoon feed me exactly what baby-food formula her focus groups think I want to hear. We've heard that so many times from so many candidates, that you stop believing it.

What I believe is she is funded by wealthy corporate donors and will always put their needs first.

I voted for trump because "I'm not falling for that again". I'm sick of hearing it, the boilerplate speeches about making things "better" while they go off and do whatever they want once they're elected. When trump spoke, he didn't have that "mask" on, he talks like a real, genuine human being who's speaking from his mind/heart. His crude statements were unfortunate, but those also reinforce that he's genuine, speaking whats inside. Not through a triple-stage reverse-osmosis speech filter scripted by his handlers.
Your first suggestion is "raise wages for programmers". That's not remotely the demographic being discussed and you know it.

I'd be curious about your suggestions for implementing the second, because it sounds a lot like Bernie Sanders. No way is a republican congress going to regulate manufacturing like that.
If you would like, PM me. I can give you a quick basic overview on at least my perception what some reasonable arguments for Donald Trump is. Another decent resource is blog.dilbert.com, where Scott Adams goes over some reasons why he believed Trump would win (going on for over a year) and why a lot of the criticisms about him were unfounded.
I'm forgetting the details; can you explain how the birther movement, no matter how stupid, was about race?
Isn't that what the internet is for?
Once again - please don't think I'm defending the outcomes.

The attitude that anyone disagreeing with you is insane is the problem. The fact you call leaving a political union 'insane' is part of the problem.

And if the views on restricting migration hadn't been dismissed as insane for years, we might not be here.
You are correct that favorables of both candidates were low. But when you run a negative campaign, and Trump ran the most negative campaign ever, you drag your own ratings down as well. It was his only chance.
Your bundle.js file is 4.4MB and took 30 seconds to load (given several attempts). I would consider getting that under control, at the very least gzip the file.
It's interesting reading through comments and seeing "them" mentioned. A lot of it will be because HN has a lot of international posters, but descriptions of Clinton voters don't read like this.
They do not have a majority, silent or not, she will win the popular vote. Stop this nonsense of pretending they're a majority, they are not. Trump won the electoral college, not the majority of votes.