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BrickHorn

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  1. Exactly. They don’t even bother with the trickle down voodoo shit anymore. It’s just “Fuck you, this is mine.” You have to at least admire the honesty of the current generation of Republican class warriors.
  2. At its core, religion is a group identity based on its adherents’ collective willingness to believe a particular pile of made-up bullshit. It creates an inherent Us vs. Them dichotomy. And because abandoning any commitment to logic and empirical evidence is a prerequisite, the religious are uniquely manipulable. Laughably childish concepts like “Because God said so” are accepted as legitimate justifications for a lot of fucked up shit. Couple that with pressure or even rules requiring blind faith, and religion is a recipe for bloodshed and general strife. Tl;dr: getting people to bond over mutual belief in fairy tales is dangerous shit.
  3. You could have just said “religion is inherently fucked.” Because that’s the truth of the matter.
  4. BrickHorn

    Led Zeppelin

    Huh. The early days are what I find fascinating. The British Blues scene was an incubator for so much amazing music. Led Zep, The Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac, Cream, Clapton, Jeff Beck, the Yardbirds, Van Morrison… they all started as young limeys obsessed with American blues, R&B, and rock ‘n roll. And they all matured in different directions to create a sizeable chunk of what many of us grew up with as “classic rock.” Plus, the first two albums are by far my favorites. They include the best examples of British Blues ever recorded, the perfect reinterpretation of blues standards with a harder, fuzzier edge to them. (John Mayall with Clapton and then Green is a close second.)
  5. Okay, so according to the New 3-Day Rule, Israel has never hurt a Palestinian in the West Bank. Sure, it meant to. But it accidentally hurt an Israeli instead. I don’t see why y'all think this whole Israel-Palestine thing is such a big deal. In the grand 3-day scheme of things, it’s really not that bad at all.
  6. Man, some of y'all fall for the stupidest fucking propaganda.
  7. You’re also the same guy who, for fucking years, carried GOP water like a loyal Reaganist soldier on these boards. But you’re smart and you eventually saw the light once you took a breath and actually thought about things. I trust you’ll eventually do the same on this issue, too.
  8. Holy shit, what an obnoxiously terrible take.
  9. I’ve listened to Sam Harris with an open mind. I own one of his books. And I determined, based on the thoughts that he expresses, that he is an idiot.
  10. Those accounting firms fucking ROCK.
  11. “Hey, I know a great way to convince the board that I’m not influenced by idiotic propaganda: I’ll quote Sam Harris!”
  12. “NO FITBIT-Y IN BRIDGE CITY.”
  13. As in simplistic, biased, and naive.
  14. This is your brain on propaganda. Any questions?
  15. After visiting several dispensaries in CO, IL, and CA, I can say that full legalization is not all it’s cracked up to be. Far fewer options are available in legal states. Shit, Total Wine on 183 has 10-20x the selection of THC drinks compared to the best-stocked legal state dispensary I’ve been to. Hopefully the Leg figures out a way to regulate the current market without shrinking it. I actually think the House bill that Patrick killed would have been a good approach.
  16. Stop. Quoting. The Russian propaganda bot.
  17. Calmer than you are.
  18. Syril represents the run-of-the-mill fascist. He’s a white collar guy who likes things the way they are and has very basic ideas about justice. As long as he is comfortably seated at his desk or in his living room, he doesn’t see the horrible reality of fascism. It’s all an abstraction to him, and it’s natural to accept the party line that They are criminals and They sow chaos and They deserve justice. That changes when he comes to know Them. For the first time, he sees the victims of fascism as human. He cares about them. He understands their perspective. He sees how tyranny impacts them, and he sees that it is unfair and built on lies. And it wakes him the fuck up, if too late. Syril is not fundamentally a bad person. He’s just comfortable in his own life, has an overly simplistic moral code, and requires a personal connection to feel empathy. And unfortunately, he’s the kind of person whose support every fascist rise to power is built upon.
  19. Somewhere in South Austin, @Guadaloopy is clawing at the door handles and pressing a hand-scrawled “HELP ME” sign against the driver’s side window of a slow-moving Tesla robotaxi.
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