44% of registered (and sometimes likely voter, depending on the poll). That's about 1/4 of the population, which is why he got around 1/4 of the vote in 2016.
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If you were an employer, would you hire a Trump supporter?
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I work in healthcare too but I don't see how politics would be brought up during an interview, unless someone went off on a tangent
Then why are you sitting at home only typing words on a screen? If YOUR PRESIDENT is as bad, no, evil as you claim, why not organize a weaponized rebellion now?
I'm sorry, but as a German I cannot understand that. If I was convinced that my government has been overtaken by literal nazis, I wouldn't sit at home, ranting on an internet forum. I'd try to get in touch with other people and look to violently remove the nazi.
That is if Trump was that bad. Maybe you don't think he is?
I do hire/fire people as part of my job and making your decision to employ someone or not can't be affected by something like that, as people have previously pointed out it's illegal (in New York anyway).
Sure, if someone I'm interviewing says something blatantly racist, I don't hire them and that is justifiable. But their political leanings can't legally inform your decision about whether or not they can do the job they are interviewing for.
Sure, if someone I'm interviewing says something blatantly racist, I don't hire them and that is justifiable. But their political leanings can't legally inform your decision about whether or not they can do the job they are interviewing for.
Yeah... trying to organize to overthrow your government leaders isn't exactly a great idea.
We can't even make significant progress to tell people that these fascists aren't worthy of civility in the public sphere.
Personally I think equating Trump with the Nazis totally diminishes the real horror of what the actual Nazis did.
I don't think the government would just allow an armed revolt. They have a lot of guns and most liberals aren't gun owners. None are tank or air force plane owners either afaik. Hell the NSA might get us If we ever even talked about starting this
He is. At the very, very least he is enabling outright nazism and the rise of facism as a normalized system.
It's incredibly dangerous and not something a shockers can be tolerant of if it has any hopes of remaining just. Lending people like this tolerance will only allow their intolerant systems to take hold wider and tighter.
Again: the paradox of tolerance.
Maybe people should be in the streets, that doesn't make this any less true.
Is the German government really that incapable of quelling a potential armed rebellion before it gets going? Because the US has systems in place to find out when stuff like that is happening and get rid of it pretty early. You'd be hard pressed to get enough people organized and armed in America without the government already knowing its coming and shutting it down well in advance with military or CIA intervention.
So a nazi is at the top of your country and you just roll over? Do you think you can defeat nazis through words?
I'd probably pass. People keep stating this bizarre logic that the person's political leanings don't make a difference, as if politics is completely divorced from their everyday societal interactions. People aren't just friendly and accepting Monday to Friday, then bigots on weekends. If they harbor hate, or support an administration that harbors hate, then they're hateful people ALL the time. At best they might hide it or keep it to themselves, but it still influence their worldview and interactions, if only just subtly. It'd be one thing if they were, say, Republican, but didn't vote for Trump and are vocal about their disagreements with the current party, but being a Trump voter is a very deliberate and telling act
You are trying to promote him to take up arms against the government? WTH?
Trump supporters are facism enablers that should be utterly ashamed of what their doing to the world. Dialing back progress by decades.
When you hire someone, you often want to make sure someone is a good fit for your organization beyond just possessing the right skills.
More often than not, diversity and inclusion are big parts of a company's mission.
Trump supporters are likely to be hostile towards that idea.
More often than not, diversity and inclusion are big parts of a company's mission.
Trump supporters are likely to be hostile towards that idea.
If I could tell during the interview process, no.
There's an election in four months.
one more for the ignoration list.
edit: you don't defeat nazis with votes either.
Against, as some of you say, a nazi? Yes, absolutely.
Of course, my point as a German is that you should be more careful what to label people of differing political views as. Trump is bad, but he isn't nazi-bad. I advice reading up on German history if you still choose to disagree. Or put your mouth behind actions and do something to remove Trump. Not hope he goes away.
Well, I'm positive people who express their political views openly in public are the kind that most employeers wouldnt hire anyway.
If it were concentration camps as Germans understand the word (i.e.: eradication camps) it would be imperative.
if they won't bring political things into the work yes
no hats no shirt every customer served normally
no hats no shirt every customer served normally
Gonna be honest. This is the way to go. Dont bring politics, religion, ect to work
No. We have a mission statement for our company that encompasses morals and ethics, so they'd be disqualified from the go.
Bro, we get it.
Tell the white people this though.
Apparently I can barely go to Starbucks, take a swim, let alone be armed without 10,000 eyes on me.
So let me get this straight, you say you want workplace diversity and that discrimination is bad, but then turn right around and say you're totally cool with Trump supporters even though what they support is blatant anti-diversity and pro-discrimination? Ok.
I'll quote the good post below to illustrate further why your stance is baffling.
LOL fuck no. These pieces of dirt can beg on street and I wouldnt piss on them if they were on fire.
If he's the best fit for the position then obviously yes. Anything else is discrimination and illegal
Through elections yes. I think military officials would revolt if he ever tried to impede free and fair elections in any manor. I also don't believe things are as bad as some claim. My area hasn't changed much since trump took over. The situation on the border is awful and he obviously won't be getting my vote but that's been a mess for a looooong time and when Reagan tried to solve it before by giving amnesty somehow immigration reform got put off again. I wish they'd go ahead and give him his wall and get quicker and easier immigration and a greatly increased number of immigrants allowed in in return. The cost of the wall is miniscule compared to most government expenses like the military budget so at this point I'll take that over kids in cages
I'll report this posting now. Come on, is that the level of discourse on Resetera? Sheesh ...
I think discrimination is a bad thing. I think discriminating against people because of their political views is intolerant and illiberal. I think the path that most people are following in here leads to increased polarisation and further poisoning of society. Which is why I'd definitely hire someone even if they have political views I disagree with. It would even marginally be a plus point, if they could articulate why they vote how they do.
Good thing we have this thing called voting to remove people we don't like in power.
They aren't literally nazi's, but it is a new wave of American fascism, and the nazi comparison can be apt with the excessive authoritarianism, bigoted, hateful policy and racial, xenophobic fear mongering and Trumps disturbing habit to imitate Hitlers speeches and parlance*.
Are we going to reach ethnic cleansing? No. Do American citizens need to start an armed revolt? No, but what is happening is appalling, and people are right to be shocked, outraged, and to carry that anger forward until they can vote, and past that so the nation doesn't make these mistakes again.
This isn't conservative ideology anymore, this is Trumpism, and it is fascism.
* - http://thehill.com/homenews/media/3...ty-for-reading-anything-were-the-adolf-hitler
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Ah yes it's the intolerance of bigotry that's poisoning society, not the people who are actively discriminating in the first place. Get a grip.
why are you hiring people to discuss politics
let them do their job til they inevitably fuck it up
nah wait I for one would love a jovial discussion over tea on the merits of putting children in cages and permanently separating them from their parents
Too slippery a slope. I'm not letting the zeitgeist dictate, even if I agree with the principle. This is how shit goes bad.
