(November 14, 2016 at 5:21 pm)Faith No More Wrote: If some douchebag wants to punch me in the face because i was under no delusion that Clinton was anything but a shit sandwich, I'm fine with that, too.
In the article that Min linked, the author is saying that if you can live with President Trump as the price of passing on Hillary, then he has no issue with it. His anger was directed at those who either did not vote, or voted third-party and are now suffering from buyer's remorse. His specific example was of a guy who expressed outrage that Trump had won --and told the writer that he needed to "get back to work," presumably to mitigate the damage of a Trump presidency-- and then admitted that he had voted for Jill Stein.
I do think that a lot of people who either stayed home or voted third-party did so because they thought Clinton would win and they could then spend the next four/eight years smugly chiding their fellow liberals that they "didn't vote for her." But Trump won and now they're panicking and relying on those time-tested tactics of sobbing on Youtube and hashtagging their grief, neither being a viable substitute for actually getting out and voting for the outcome you either want or prefer.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
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