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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • Irrational decisions are only irrational to people who misunderstand the decider’s reasoning. The things you value more, they value less. Your value assessment is by definition wrong for everyone besides yourself. People don’t vote solely based on how they expect to be affected financially, even though that’s really the only assessment you can make that doesn’t fail immediately due to the quantification problem. Since people typically vote based on unquantifiables, why do you assume that your valuation of said unquantifiables is correct for everyone?


  • i mean i used to belong to a cult where they believed and very quietly taught that democrats and liberals are worse than the devil. there’s reasons upon reasons someone might vote against their apparent self-interest and be behaving in a perceivably irrational manner, that’s just the first that comes to mind. the social effects of being one of two open democrats in a deep red county are far beyond unpleasant. they might value their immediate social standing (even though they never have to tell anyone how they vote) more than the business they could have had were the US tariff/trade waffling bullshit not drastically reducing the markets they have available for sales.

    i guess my point is what appears to be irrational behavior to an observer usually has a rational basis if you understand the person’s motivations and preferences