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BrickHorn

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  1. I have no interest in talking to Nazis. If you voted R in this election, you’re out. I’m fortunate that everyone in my close circle is educated and reasonable, and thus made the correct choice. But a bunch of aunts, uncles, and cousins are morons. And you know what? Fuck them.
  2. I have mixed feelings on this. On the one hand, fuck ‘em. On the other hand, education is the only way out of fascism. Further eroding the quality of rural schools will only expand the ignorant mob. And it’s not like these dipshits will ever understand the consequences. Replacing secular curricula with religion, pseudoscience, and ahistorical, performative patriotism is exactly what they want. They’ll be blissfully ignorant. Theres not much schadenfreude to be had from a bunch of idiots enjoying the fuck out of becoming even worse citizens.
  3. That is disappointing. I expect more accurate reporting from The Onion.
  4. Touché. That is unfortunately very true.
  5. Right. Because before last Tuesday, that is exactly how every reasonable person would react to some unhinged jackass posting pro-genocide rants on the internet. Some of y'all just decided to stop acting human after the election.
  6. Your take is not “more nuanced.” It’s just less informed. You’re deliberately ignoring the words he directly responded to, which make the meaning of “it” explicitly clear.
  7. Like everyone else on this thread, I’m angry and depressed. I’m mourning the loss of the America we grew up in and believed in. Unlike some or possibly many of y’all, I’m also forced to do risk-reward calculations about staying in the country. Depending on how far these fuckers go, people very close to me could find themselves deported or in camps. There are no illegal immigrants in my orbit, but that assumes the laws won’t be rewritten to expand the nets. In the past week, worst case scenarios that never occurred to us suddenly seem possible. It’s terrifying and would completely change my family’s lives and future aspirations. We’re preparing for the worst at this point. And yet, somehow I’ve managed to absorb this shock without hoping for innocent women and children to get murdered en masse.
  8. Notably, you don’t address his exchange with softlynow, in which Brisket states unambiguously that he is cheering on genocide in the Middle East. Why did you leave that part out? And how do you reconcile it with your view that he didn’t post what he explicitly posted?
  9. You sound like a huge asshole.
  10. Those of y’all sane-washing Brisket need to go back and read his posts on Page 13. A small sample: Dude clearly stated he was “cheering [genocide in the middle east] on.” It wasn’t ambiguous or misunderstood. If you want to defend him, fine. But at least understand what you’re defending.
  11. Not exactly. But I do expect decent people to feel sympathy for millions of innocents trying to survive an onslaught in Gaza (and, likely soon, the West Bank). I know this thread has moved quickly, but this discussion started when a few of our resident assholes cheered on the coming slaughter in Gaza as if it were some sort of karmic justice for the poor choices of Muslims in Michigan. Then said assholes doubled down on it. We can debate whether American Muslims who declined to vote for Kamala deserve what’s coming. I personally believe their decision presented a unique moral conundrum. But are you really going to defend Brisket and 956 as they celebrate the massacre of innocent non-Americans who had literally no choice to make?
  12. I agree with that. In the case of my friends, they just didn’t vote or voted third party. They were well aware of the danger. They just couldn’t bring themselves to affirmatively support a candidate who, in their estimation, had blood on her hands. It was a fucked up trolley problem, for sure.
  13. But she WAS the party’s candidate for President. And the party declined a request by Palestinian advocates to speak at the DNC, but allowed pro-Israel speakers (which, by the way, leaders of the Uncommitted movement supported). From my conversations with Muslim friends, merely allowing a Palestinian voice to speak briefly at the convention would have gone a looooong way. It was about showing a path forward and hope. The party fucked that up as badly as it possibly could have, which is a high bar for our lovable blue losers.
  14. I would rather us not lump divergent groups together. Muslim Americans were placed in a unique moral quandary, far different than, say, Latinos for Trump or pro-life women or just random selfish MAGA assholes who are just now learning that they are the welfare queens they always complained about. Those latter groups are selfish idiots eager to fall for Trump’s lies and willing to see others suffer. Nothing the Dems could say would have swayed those assholes and they deserve whatever pain they get. But the Dems could have taken fairly small, harmless steps to at least show some good faith to Muslims and earn their votes. And it would have been the right fucking thing to do, you know, to at least show a modicum of sympathy and concern for innocent victims of industrialized slaughter: The party chose not to. From where I sit as a heartbroken Democrat, the party fucked around and we all found out. We have no one to blame but ourselves. And I won’t take any solace whatsoever that desperate people who saw no good option end up suffering.
  15. This thread is more disheartening than last Tuesday’s results. I’ve been a cynical misanthrope for a long time. But it’s becoming increasingly clear that, even still, I had somehow managed to overestimate the good in mankind. Thanks for the wake-up call, you fucking maniacs.
  16. Good. We’re gonna need a lot of drugs to get through this shit.
  17. Right. That’s my point. Fascist policies have a way of hurting both good and bad people. It’s fun to see shitheads get their comeuppance. But that comes with a terrible price. I guess the solution is to enjoy the schadenfreude while committing to help those who don’t deserve what’s coming.
  18. See that’s the problem. Karma is a blunt instrument.
  19. Anyone have insight into international options like McGill, Univ of Toronto, or UK schools?
  20. It’s not a “we” problem. It’s a few habitual dipshits: Anastasis with his off-topic diversionary bullshit; Brisket with his signature histrionic “If I can’t have the perfect world, then everyone should die horribly” tantrums; and 956 with his usual racist sadism. The rest of us grasp the concepts of karmic justice and schadenfreude just fine.
  21. Oh, I have no problem with schadenfreude or karma. The only thing keeping me sane this past week has been the Leopards Eating Faces subreddit. I’m all for seeing those who selfishly chose fascism suffer the consequences they thought would only fall on others. But what a select few maniacs on this board advocate is not schadenfreude; it’s bloodlust, directed at innocent victims who never had a choice to make. I like to believe we’re above that, and I do believe most of us are. We’re angry, sad, and afraid, sure. But that doesn’t mean we should follow the emotionally fragile crybabies among us down the path to inhumanity.
  22. Since when is “effective” the goal? You do what’s right because it’s right. Brisket is acting like a puerile psychopath. We should hold ourselves to a higher moral standard than gleefully cheering on genocide because a few voters made a bad choice. Especially when the victims literally had no part in the voting at all. I mean, for fuck’s sake. Stand back and think for a fucking second about the position Brisket and the other butthurt buffoons are advocating here. It’s monstrous. They’re not merely hoping the Michigan voters get deported or hassled or suffer some other comeuppance at the hands of the fascists they helped gain power. They’re literally cheering on the mass murder of innocent human beings half a world away. If you don’t find that way over the red fucking line of morality, then something inside of you has broken and you need to look in the mirror. Edit: Not you, specifically. The editorial “you.”
  23. Gaze upon the Reaganist bullshit we let infiltrate the Democratic Party, folks. Muslim Americans on the margins aren’t the problem. We lost because we catered to the @Brisketexans of the world. They may have changed the color of their ties and started voting for Dems, but they remain the same soulless sociopaths they were back when they were jerking off to the Laffer Curve and singing along to Tony Keith during Desert Storm. America deserves better from its liberal party than childish pricks cheering on the slaughter of innocent women and children.
  24. Gazans don’t vote in US elections, you dumb fucksticks.
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