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BrickHorn

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  1. In my experience, the people who are by far the most biased against Christianity these days are Christians.
  2. The hard sciences and especially engineering (which treats the hard sciences as axiomatic) are objective. There is always a right answer. This can foster a bias for among engineers for black and white thinking. Legal education emphasizes litigation. Students are trained to argue both sides of an issue. The goal is to identify the best points in favor of your (arbitrarily chosen) side, and to marshal them as persuasively as possible. This can foster cynicism among lawyers. Truth doesn’t exist as an objective reality so there is no point seeking the truth. Any one of many answers may be true, depending on how well you craft the argument for it. This is why I describe people like Ted Cruz as “lawyer smart.” He’s wicked smart and can advocate for any proposition, no matter how ludicrous or false. But if your goal is to understand the nature of reality, he’s a worthless resource despite his raw intelligence.
  3. That’s awesome and it’s a critical first step. Before you know it, your parents will be quoting Noam Chomsky to their Facebook friends. I’m only half joking. My dad was a lifelong Republican. Real rah-rah, tribal affiliation type. My folks voted for Trump in 2016. I spent the next few years talking to them. I explained things to them, patiently. I yelled at them. I implored them to think about what the GOP was doing to their country and what it would mean for their grandchildren. Eventually it stuck. They voted for Biden in 2020, reluctantly. Then January 6 happened and that set off an avalanche of self-evaluation. My dad has been on a full sprint journey to leftism since. Just this week, he told me that Trump helped him realize the ugliness of his own (former) views and behavior. I’m pretty proud of him. He’s lost a lot of friends and family relationships over politics. But those people were assholes anyway.
  4. It’s a little more than that. Group identity and a sense of purpose are also big draws to religion. But, yeah. It’s weird to me that grown adults think to themselves “I’ll make a difference in the world by joining that club for people who ask for favors from an imaginary sky friend.” Clintonaldo seems like the good, principled breed of Christian that is a rarity these days. It’s not for me, but I don’t begrudge anyone who reads the Bible and finds inspiration to be a kind, selfless, charitable person.
  5. Thanks a lot, Obama Anastasis.
  6. I did not have “A former heroin addict Kennedy insulting their autistic children” on my Things Conservatives Will Enjoy in 2025 bingo card.
  7. Fear of the Darks, @HenryJames.
  8. Tusko: Oh fuck. Why am I suddenly seeing pink humans everywhere???
  9. I clicked on a headline about the Supreme Court declining to reverse the order requiring Trump to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia, fully expecting a tight 5-4 decision. Nope. 9-0. Which gave me a glimmer of hope. Maybe “the President can’t just kidnap people and fly them off to an El Salvadoran prison” is something we can all agree on.
  10. In my experience, the overlap between “always kinda shitty” and “full blown MAGA now” is essentially 100%.
  11. Trump and Dump, imo.
  12. Lol.
  13. That’s literally the entire purpose of education.
  14. Yep. Pandering to the puerile demands of morons instead of educating them is not a long-term solution. In fact, it’s exactly how we got here in the first place.
  15. In my more generous moments, I wonder if this is the play. JD and his backers encourage Trump to double and triple down on stupid, destructive policies, and then swoop in to “save” us all with the 25th Amendment. But then I remember that those guys are stupid fucking cowards. They have no grand plan. They’re bull-riding this bomb all the way down with the rest of the MAGA dipshits.
  16. Kennedy might have a point here. The brains of Americans who get vaccines are notably larger than those who don’t.
  17. My brain immediately translates all of these hindsight excuses as “I voted for the lie, because I’m an easily-manipulated dumbass.” That’s really what it all boils down to.
  18. Didn’t you get the memo? War is peace. So we need to end foreign peace, thereby ending foreign wars.
  19. This guy posts here as @Guadaloopy
  20. Ana: “College admission is too competitive and all the pressure to succeed is harming our children. We need a better way.” Unaccredited School: “We’ll let you in if you score in the 99th percentile on a three-hour exam, pass a background check, and can prove three personal achievements that make you worthy.” Ana: “That’s more like it!” What a fucking clown.
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