Aaarggghhh! Just needed to vent.

[LeftishBrit]

I know one should never argue with friends-of-friends on Facebook, but I have made the mistake of doing just this. This is someone (very highly educated, by the way) who says that Clinton is worse than Trump; that Trump is at least 'not aggressive'; that he feels this way because he is French, and as a Frenchman he is pro-Russian, and that to be anti-Putin is anti-Russian; and that Trump is the American Gorbachev, and will win!

At least if he's French, he probably can't vote in America, but gaaaah!!

I am even less patient with this sort of thing since the UK got itself into such an almighty mess due to Farage et al.

[johnp3907]

1. I just block people like that.

[Thinkingabout]

2. Guess Trump's statements showing aggression is unimportant to him.

[catbyte]

6. So he doesn't think that shooting an Iranian boat out of the water for making a rude gesture

to the sailors in our "beautiful, big ships" isn't aggressive? WTF planet does he live on?

[VMA131Marine]

3. Tell him to take his pro-Putin butt back to France

Putin is not to be trusted and he certainly doesn't have the best interests of the US in mind.

[LeftishBrit]

8. He does live in France

I don't think he (my Facebook opponent, not Putin!) has any influence on the US or its elections; but I am a little worried about what this implies about his attitudes to Europaean issues. Which are in their own crisis situation, not helped by my own country's current actions, I'm afraid.

[VMA131Marine]

10. Who cares what he thinks!

Do you think a lot of people share his views? I still don't think it's a big deal. As for Brexit, I'm a dual US-UK citizen, whose options just got a lot narrower if Trump gets elected.

[Warpy]

4. He's probably one of those Frenchmen who thinks

Jerry Lewis was the finest American comedian in history. There is no accounting for taste, especially among the French.

I say this as someone with half Alsatian roots who dined on frog frequently in her youth.

I don't mind non voters holding stupid opinions, they're irrelevant. I do mind the voters one has to deal with here in the US. Trump's Chumps are the absolute dregs of this country, no hopers desperate for someone else to look down on. Trump supplies them with that.

He'd be an unmitigated disaster in office. We'd be praying for a military coup if he got in.

[True Dough]

5. Yeah, I also "unfollow" those types

I can't recall an instance where they've ever been persuaded that Hillary is a far better choice than Don the Con. It feels good if they have other friends who pile on, but I find a lot of people would just rather avoid a political debate, especially when their identities are known.

[LeftishBrit]

7. There are indeed other friends piling on!

[pinboy3niner]

9. We'll give you a venting pass this time...

...as it's Talk Like A Pirate Day.

[LeftishBrit]

15. Make Trump walk the plank!

And Putin and LePen and Farage can walk it with him!

[HipChick]

11. I've got a bunch of mates from Luton

doing that to me, I wish there was a way to block them until the election...

They send and post the most vile stuff....wankers..

[LeftishBrit]

14. Oh, God, not wanting to stereotype, but if it's Luton, I can guess what sort of stuff it might be

[HipChick]

16. You got it....I'm from Stevenage

but emigrated to the US decades ago..

[Adrahil]

12. Why the hell would the French be pro-Russian?

What a strange world we live in.

[LeftishBrit]

13. That's what I was wondering too!

I don't think most French people are Putin fans, at any rate!