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BrickHorn

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  1. I think it boils down to the difference between reason and emotion. Our rational capacity is deliberative. It makes decisions based on reasoned analysis of facts. But it’s slow and rational choices aren’t always good for the real driver of human decision-making (gene propagation). So we also have things like instinct and emotions, which short-circuit our decision making process so that we don’t fuck up by deliberating too long. “Oh, a wife and kids will prevent you from reaching your financial goals on your preferred time table? Too bad. She’s ineffably hot and your balls are shutting down your brain for the next several minutes to make sure your DNA survives you and your smart little plans.” Every single brilliant mind is vulnerable to dumbass emotion. We’re human beings, not computers. Politicians appeal to emotion because it’s more powerful than reason. Some of us insist on thinking through policy at a rational level, but emotion is inevitable. (Even many policies we liberals believe are rational are only so in the sense that they tend to favor outcomes that we emotionally prefer.) My guess is that your friends indulge their emotional reactions to political issues, responding to things like fear, resentment, aggrievement, etc. They could think through issues logically, but it’s easier to go with their gut feeling. And they probably get a dopamine hit from it, to boot.
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    Yes. Hemp-derived THC products are legal, marijuana is not. But as to edibles, there’s no meaningful difference between the end products. So there’s a weird paradox where Texans have greater access to THC edibles than residents of states where marijuana is legal. Enjoy it while it lasts.
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    In a startling irony, D9 THC products are available all over Austin. I was recently disappointed by the selection and inconvenience in Colorado, where weed is legal. Here, it’s illegal but you can buy it all over town. Stay away from gas station gummies. Go to a specialty shop like Ropeace or Tribe. Once you find a brand / form you like, you’ll start noticing it’s available in random shops all over town. Good luck. Migraines are the worst.
  4. Cornette is awesome. I could listen to him discuss politics or tell war stories from the territories days for hours.
  5. Clown carton WHO DO WE APPRECIATE?!? the three possible conclusions to a story posted in the shart thread.
  6. *buys 120 guns and 250,000 rounds of ammo* “There. Just like the founding fathers intended. I’d like to see a tyrannical government come take me by force!” *gets arrested without incident*
  7. You’re on a dumb analogy roll today. The leopards eating faces metaphor applies when a minority knowingly aligns with a bigot and against an open-minded candidate for selfish or opportunistic reasons. That only seems to fit if you focus exclusively on the Trump side of the decision, and completely ignore the Biden administration’s (and Harris campaign’s) record on this issue. This is not a case where Muslim voters would knowingly chose evil over good because they calculate that they could be on the inside track with evil. It’s a case where they judge, based on an actual track record, that one side is more evil than the other. You just can’t see why they would ever consider the administration that has funded the Gaza assault as evil. Like I said, total blind spot. Y'all are seemingly incapable of seeing this objectively. It’s weird, but I guess that’s the shitty part of partisan politics.
  8. @Brisketexan concluded that, by voting their conscience, Muslim Americans were throwing a tantrum and seeking to harm anyone who disagreed with them. That is a ludicrous take. Meanwhile, @Js1 and others expressed rather startling schadenfreude, indicating no sympathy for the eventual suffering of Muslims who voted against the candidate of their choosing. His position was that if Muslim Americans don’t vote the way Js1 demands they vote, then he won’t do shit about it and won’t feel any sympathy if Muslims end up persecuted by Trump. Which is orders of magnitude closer to what Brisket accuses the Muslims of doing, as compared to what the Muslims are actually doing. Some of y'all are exceptionally smart but have a massive blind spot when it comes to partisan politics. I’m as liberal as it gets and a loyal Democratic voter. But on this issue, it’s understandable why Muslims could not bring themselves to support a Democrat or might come to a different conclusion on the risk calculus compared to the rest of us. I don’t agree with it. I think it reflects a massive underestimation of what a second term Trump would be capable of. But it’s based on legitimate concerns and the actual track record of the current Democratic administration, and being wrong or misjudging the likelihood of future events is not the same as being unreasonable. It’s too bad the DNC didn’t let a Palestinian speak at the convention, because I think that could have helped. As it is, the party basically signaled that four more years of Democratic rule would be more of the same and Palestinians could fuck off. So now many Muslim Americans are left with two shitty options, from their perspective.
  9. Apples and oranges. Trump altered the Supreme Court composition specifically to get rid of Roe. He has provably been worse for women than the Biden admin. That’s not at all similar to the situation for Muslims.
  10. Okay then. Lay out your argument.
  11. Holy shit that is the most gloriously ironic example of self-delusion I’ve ever read on this board. Are you serious? You understand that this entire discussion started because several posters reacted to reports of Muslim support of Trump by freaking out and wishing harm on them? If you’re looking for people having tantrums and demanding that anyone who doesn’t do what they want must suffer, look in the fucking mirror.
  12. For the last time: I am not saying Trump will be better on Gaza. In fact, I believe he will be worse. I am merely saying that reasonable people, based on a reasonable assessment of the information available to them, could conclude that he can’t be worse and that a change might improve things. And those same people might reasonably conclude, as a matter of moral principles, that they cannot support someone from an administration that has supported Israel in its Gaza actions.
  13. You say this and I tend to agree that a second Trump term will be far more dangerous to minorities. I’m terrified of it. But consider the other perspective: the current administration is provably a disaster for Muslims in Gaza. Meanwhile, Trump was president for four years and his anti-Muslim rhetoric ultimately amounted to ineffective bluster. If you’re a Muslim-American who survived the Trump presidency (despite facing frightening rhetoric and policy proposals) but whose friends or family did not survive the Biden term, which one do you view as the greater threat? I think they’re discounting the risk of Trump, but I can understand why they might make that analytical mistake.
  14. They’re not voting out or petulance, unless you think desperation to try anything to end the massacre of their friends and family is “petulant.” This isn’t a fucking tantrum. It’s a direct response to policy choices by the administration that resulted in the displacement and death of thousands of their fellow Muslims. Jesus fucking Christ. How hard is it to understand that genocide is a serious issue and it’s not childish to take a moral stand against it (even if that requires making risky trade offs)? I’ve had these conversations with Muslim friends who are far from petulant or unreasonable. Their decision to withhold support from Kamala or even vote Trump are measured and account for the risks and tradeoffs. Which is a lot more than I can say for the knee jerk reaction of the head-in-sand crew on this thread.
  15. You and everyone else debating me on this assume that your judgment call (which I share) is necessarily correct. It’s not and the opposite argument is defensible morally and logically, even though I tend to think it’s wrong.
  16. The current administration is funding the massacre of thousands of Muslims. Y’all conveniently always leave that inconvenient fact out, as if Trump’s white nationalist rhetoric is the only issue.
  17. You won’t feel sorry for desperate people who end up hurt because they misjudged a rock-and-a-hard-place situation? That’s shitty. Again: go fuck yourself.
  18. I tend to agree, but reasonable minds differ. It’s voting against the devil you know and it’s perfectly logical even if the assumptions on which it is based ultimately prove flawed.
  19. This is a judgment call. You and I may disagree with them, but many Muslims believe Trump could not be worse than the current admin (of which Harris is a part). And morally, they can’t pull the lever for someone associated with support for the ongoing slaughter and who did nothing to reach out to them. It’s entirely defensible and the Harris campaign fucked it up, presumably calculating that the losses of Muslim voters weren’t worth the trade off.
  20. They aren’t voting for their own genocide, you Reaganist twat. They’re voting AGAINST an administration that has paid for and supported their genocide, betting (maybe wrongly) that change at the top can only improve things.
  21. No. What they see is a slaughter that is being supported by the current US administration, and they refuse to support it. I don’t think they’re making the best choice, because I believe Democrats are more likely to come to their senses and rein in Israel. But I also can’t blame them for (a) not voting for the party whose current leader is providing material support to Israel and (b) believing a change will improve the situation, because it’s already as bad as it can get. If you can’t understand why someone might not vote for a party that currently has the power to stop a massacre but is instead paying for it, then you’re a fucking heartless idiot.
  22. You’re generally a good poster. That’s a really shitty take and you can go fuck yourself.
  23. Yep. Low hands, squared stance, and exaggerated backward lean are dead giveaways of a professional fighter.
  24. That depends. Check for maritime law fringes on any flags flying on the polling location.
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