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BrickHorn

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  1. Dude, you are much too knowledgeable of history and world affairs to forget the Ukrainians and Armenians. And really, is there any such thing as a genocide that isn’t denied by some group (typically the perpetrators and their successor states)?
  2. See, this is exactly the bullshit I was talking about above. I don’t think you meant to do it, but you (probably subconsciously) muddled the Israeli state / military (which was the subject of Bernie’s criticism) with Jewish people generally. Bernie is Jewish but not a member of the Israeli state.
  3. Yes. It’s bullshit. The state of Israel and its military is not one and the same with the religious / ethnic group of Jewish people generally. One can wholeheartedly support the latter (including denouncing the barbaric acts of Hamas for what they are) while questioning or criticizing acts of the former. I certainly wouldn’t want the same illogic to apply to me as an American. We as a people are not the same as our government and foreign policy apparatus at any given time. I shouldn’t be judged for the stupidity of the Trump Administration, for example. Nor would I want friends abroad to condone that stupidity out of loyalty to me. tl;dr: apply a little nuance, y’all.
  4. Calm down, Beavis Brisket.
  5. NO GESTAPO IN MY TACOS.
  6. Are you saying that the Gestapo is in Bastropo?
  7. Yeah that makes sense. If there’s one thing Ukraine has right now, it’s a surplus of arms that they can afford to give away.
  8. Hamas undoubtedly murdered innocent civilians, including women and children, and that’s bad enough. But this decapitating babies / raping and pillaging stuff has all the hallmarks of wartime propaganda. Proceed with caution on that shit.
  9. Terminator X it!
  10. You’re muddling religion with religious people. The positive advances you rattled off were at best instances of religious people setting aside their religion to do something productive. Algebra isn’t religious. It’s a development that can only happen when one sets aside the superstition, mythology, and supernatural nonsense that constitutes religion and instead apply logic and reason. Religion isn’t the only worthless garbage out there, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t worthless garbage. Because it is.
  11. True. Religion deserves credit for carrying the torch of ignorance and superstition for millennia. Just imagine where science, technology, and medicine would be without all the innovative useless horseshit developed and foisted upon the world by religion.
  12. True. It’s good for con artists and creeps, I guess.
  13. That’s like saying lots of people die from stuff other than cancer. So what?
  14. Religion sucks.
  15. It was a game-changing non-call. That, coupled with the non-called PI on Worthy and the called PI on an out-of-bounds OU pass to nearly seal it, gave OU the game.
  16. Put in in reverse, Terry! OH LAWD!
  17. YES. I called it all the way from Section 113. Dude has a full sleeper hold on our DL. No call, of course. Infuriating.
  18. This is like a modern day Comanche raid.
  19. Well that solves the mystery of where my inside source got their super secret info. But I can say that cops are still knocking on doors in that area, looking for any surveillance footage.
  20. Latest rumors I heard: the victim was alive when the fire department arrived; accelerant was detected on the scene; there was a knife near the body but no sign of trauma; the cops suspect the perpetrator knew the victim and picked the neighborhood at random; and the victim was last seen by her family the day before and, at that time, was going to get her phone fixed at the Apple Store. That’s all 3rd or 4th hand, so apply generous salt.
  21. I’d love to know how much mortgage interest he’s deducted from federal taxes over the years. The student loan furor isn’t about taxes. It’s an attack on education.
  22. BrickHorn

    Meritocracy

    I was talking about this the other day in the context of the Harvard affirmative action case. For centuries, Ivy League schools gave preference to wealthy elites. Until 1773, Harvard literally ranked students according to their family’s social status (not grades or other academic achievements). It was money and prestige that got you in the door. Hell even in the 20th Century, the school changed admissions policies specifically to exclude qualified Jewish applicants. Only after the Ivies started giving preference to a few applicants from downtrodden minorities every year did conservatives decide Ivy admissions should be purely meritocratic. But of course, their preferred merit yardsticks (the SAT; high school GPA; attendance at fancy prep schools; legacy status) are really measures of income and social status.
  23. I’m sorry he got whipped and had to carry a heavy cross and shit. But I have to work for a living while this dude is literally immortal and the only living heir to an omnipotent deity who owns the entire fucking universe. So yeah, I don’t want to hear about a couple of bad days Mr. Gets to Live Forever on Dad’s Bankroll had in Jerusalem like two thousand fucking years ago.
  24. No wonder she’s a felon. Her posts are full of capital offenses.
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