I understand, but I also believe this is a terrible reason to vote for Hillary Clinton.

By the same logic, one could pull the lever for Sarah Palin.

Most people vote for a particular candidate for emotional reasons (probably more men than women, actually). But try as I might, I cannot understand it.

I just can’t give a vote to Hillary Clinton because I know all that people overseas she’s going to kill, and I won’t have any part in that. I just don’t value American lives over those of people overseas. I can find no ethical justification to think or behave otherwise.

Can’t understand people who will, and can justify that to themselves.

Lesser evil == still evil.

As for Scalzi, he would have been in most respects a conservative Republican in 1950, and now he’s a “liberal.”

All that remains are pseudo-liberals these days. After GW and the wars that follow due to people like Clinton, all we’ll have is dead ones. Well, that includes everyone, actually.

Voting for Clinton is like licking a dirty toilet. Voting for Trump is being the toilet.

Someone at work was shocked that I knew to within 5% in square meters the size of the average European house vs. the average American one.

But that’s just the kind of thing my brain does. It remembers. It’s why arguments based on anything but emotion are almost impossible to win against me. I have a treasure trove of facts spanning back 35 years, and the urban legends, myths and outright fallacies have been mostly expurgated.

Of course it is mostly useless because 95%+ of arguments are based on emotion and ideological and tribal identification, not facts.

But it’s a fun parlor trick; more than one person has called me “human Google.”