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Question: Did they?
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They caused me to vote for Clinton
 
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They caused me to vote for Trump
 
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They caused me to vote for someone else
 
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They caused me to not vote
 
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They had no effect
 
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I can't vote
 
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« on: December 30, 2016, 04:08:55 PM »

A common assertion I see is that Trump won because of discontent with "SJWs." I know Atlas isn't representative, but I wonder if anyone here was so influenced.
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« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2016, 04:14:12 PM »

Not specifically, though annoyance at "SJWs" has probably influence my general political views in some capacity.
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« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2016, 04:25:34 PM »

Of course they did. That really turned me away from Stein.
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« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2016, 04:27:51 PM »

No, they did not. But had Bernie Sanders won the nomination, I was considering not supporting him due to dislike of them (most Internet SJW were Sanders supporters).
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« Reply #4 on: December 30, 2016, 04:28:40 PM »

What's a SJW?
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« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2016, 04:28:57 PM »

Not really, but they made me feel less sympathetic towards Clinton and made me vote for Johnson more enthusiastically.
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« Reply #6 on: December 30, 2016, 04:30:01 PM »

Some of the so-called SJWs, that is who are largely ignoring the economic issues, are part of the problem. There are plenty of those who describe themselves as SJWs who care about these both equally important sides.

And no, I'm not a citizen, but I remained a Democratic supporter despite my misgivings about the nominee
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« Reply #7 on: December 30, 2016, 05:20:59 PM »

They certainly didn't affect my vote, and I doubt many people went to the voting booth thinking "Hmmm, I'm not sure who to vote for. I know! I'll vote for Trump, since he'll piss off those SJWs the most!" However, I do think that a lot of his supporters liked that he was sort of the antithesis of so-called "PC culture", and I think that some of his success was part of a backlash against what at least a faction of the left has become (and backlashes end up being pretty extreme.)
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« Reply #8 on: December 30, 2016, 05:59:43 PM »

It made it a bit more fun, sure, but they had no baring on the actual choice.
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« Reply #9 on: December 30, 2016, 06:20:56 PM »

They had no effect at all on how I voted, but I find them annoying. I voted for Gary Johnson. I am basically a NeverTrump moderate Republican who is not affiliated with any party.
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« Reply #10 on: December 30, 2016, 07:28:26 PM »

The borderline SJWs I know influenced me to vote for Hillary. They weren't the deciding factor, but I probably would've been more inclined to vote for Jill Stein if she weren't crazy, and if my friends hadn't hammered into my head how importance it was to vote for Hillary.
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« Reply #11 on: December 30, 2016, 08:20:52 PM »

They are one of a multitude of factors that caused me to make the difficult decision to vote for Gary Johnson instead of Hillary Clinton. Trump was obviously never on the table for me. But they were not the largest factor. I ultimately decided to vote Johnson to send a message to my own party that they need to shape up, drop the white identity politics and racists, and go back to fighting against redistribution and for limited government. Not that my vote makes much of a difference anyway since I live in Illinois.

I did feel, however, that the prospect of a unified Democratic government and liberal Supreme Court could give SJWs more power than I'd feel comfortable with them having if Hillary didn't put her foot down, and I just didn't trust her to have the courage to stand up to them, even though I don't think she really agrees with them.
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« Reply #12 on: December 30, 2016, 09:51:42 PM »

They're not an "internet" thing.  Theyre very, very real.
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« Reply #13 on: December 30, 2016, 10:15:07 PM »

Not in the general. In the primary, it probably lowered my opinion of Sanders, but only as one of several factors.
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« Reply #14 on: December 30, 2016, 10:19:25 PM »

I was a Trump supporter the entire time, but continued SJW presence has continually slid me further to the right in general.
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« Reply #15 on: December 30, 2016, 10:57:14 PM »

Why would a bunch of boring centrists who obsess over personal pronouns affect me in any way?
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« Reply #16 on: December 31, 2016, 12:29:45 AM »

It didn't really influence my vote in any way (I was likely to vote Stein again since I voted for her previously).

It was mildly amusing watching some of the Democrat SJWs practically foam at the mouth when saying I was wasting my vote and that "we need Hillary". I've even had some of them throw some of my "disadvantages" (such as race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, etc.) in my face to try to push me to vote for who they wanted.

As for the SJWs on the Greens, some I agreed with to an extent. But I'm not unreasonable, and have laughed at my fellow party members when they talk crazy, too.
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« Reply #17 on: December 31, 2016, 07:23:59 AM »

They are one of a multitude of factors that caused me to make the difficult decision to vote for Gary Johnson instead of Hillary Clinton. Trump was obviously never on the table for me. But they were not the largest factor. I ultimately decided to vote Johnson to send a message to my own party that they need to shape up, drop the white identity politics and racists, and go back to fighting against redistribution and for limited government. Not that my vote makes much of a difference anyway since I live in Illinois.

I did feel, however, that the prospect of a unified Democratic government and liberal Supreme Court could give SJWs more power than I'd feel comfortable with them having if Hillary didn't put her foot down, and I just didn't trust her to have the courage to stand up to them, even though I don't think she really agrees with them.

I wavered on Trump initially, after the Billy Bush video came out.  For a day or two, I had decided to vote for Johnson.  I learned about this video during Hurricane Matthew, watching a TV clip in a restaurant as I had no power in my home.  My opinion shifted when I learned that this was from 2005. 

Hillary doesn't have the guts to confront SJWs when their demands become outrageous.  That's one of several bottom lines for me.  I'm for criminal justice reform, an end to over-criminalization and over-sentencing, and I think racial disparities in sentencing are real problems that require immediate solutions.  But these issues are not issues of policing; they are issues of legislating, and I consider a good deal of the attacks on police over the past 2 years to be more than a little unfair. 
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« Reply #18 on: December 31, 2016, 09:46:52 AM »

I was a Trump supporter the entire time, but continued SJW presence has continually slid me further to the right in general.
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« Reply #19 on: December 31, 2016, 10:56:07 AM »


Social Justice Warrior. Bill Maher did a great segment on them: https://youtube.com/watch?v=luhSVN5mgNY
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« Reply #20 on: December 31, 2016, 11:12:49 AM »

They caused me to delay my eventual heeling to Clinton and may have influenced me downballot to be less accepting of bad democratic candidates.
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« Reply #21 on: December 31, 2016, 11:18:40 AM »

There are no contexts where this is an acceptable thing to say.
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« Reply #22 on: December 31, 2016, 11:22:15 AM »

They caused me to delay my eventual heeling to Clinton and may have influenced me downballot to be less accepting of bad democratic candidates.

What do dumbf[inks] at Oberlin and on Twitter who rave about pronouns have to do with Hillary Clinton or any Democratic candidates.
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« Reply #23 on: December 31, 2016, 11:22:30 AM »

That man is far more annoying and self righteous.
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« Reply #24 on: December 31, 2016, 11:23:11 AM »

They caused me to delay my eventual heeling to Clinton and may have influenced me downballot to be less accepting of bad democratic candidates.

What do dumbf[inks] at Oberlin and on Twitter who rave about pronouns have to do with Hillary Clinton or any Democratic candidates.
See, it's like internet trolls and Donald Trump.

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Oh wait.
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