MichaelK
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You can just… make things up
As real oil analysts have pointed out, these numbers are nonsense and with the strait closed the world’s daily oil supply deficit is well over 10MM
But reality doesn’t stop this bit of White House-flavored hopium from getting a million views
James Bull@thejbullmarket
The myth of the Strait of Hormuz closure. 80% (16.25M bpd) of the 20M barrels per day supply of the Strait of Hormuz has already been replaced or been rerouted. 🇸🇦 7M: Saudi Reroute 📈 4.25M: Pre-War Surplus 🇨🇳 2M: China Safe-Passage 🇦🇪 1.5M: UAE ADCOP reroute 🇮🇷 1M: Iran Jask Bypass 🇮🇳 400k: India Safe-Passage Deficit? Only 3.8M bpd and even just 2 more tankers per day would reduce the deficit to 0. With 1.3B and 500 millions barrels in combined reserves for China & India respectively, they have a 3-4 month reserves before they run into a deficit. This is why stocks are back at nearly ATH again. Opening the Strait of Hormuz has now merely turned into an afterthought.
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@esjesjesj True prices go up but also there’s all this money now poured into the Southern states in the US and they boom, which means the economy of the whole nation booms.
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Yeah they were using the strait of Hormuz because it saves billions of dollars. This is not a win, it’s prices going up
C3@C_3C_3
President Trump just rerouted the World’s energy production. Unbelievable.
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@cabsav456 The pope constantly attacked him. Trump finally retaliated after days and days of constant nonsense. You are rewriting history.
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I don't think people fully grasp the impact of Trump constantly attacking Pope Leo XIV. As Catholics, we believe the Pope is the supreme moral authority on Earth. Forcing believers to choose between their President and their Faith is a dangerous (and stupid) game.
Does he want to alienate the entire Catholic base? I don't understand.
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Before Trump got Roe overturned this didn’t even matter, the red states had to be pro abortion, and there was nothing at all they could do about it. Now planned parenthood has shut down in a bunch of red states. Look, the reality is this anti christian electorate is overall pro abortion. The way to get real change done is to make a few pro abortion noises while acting ultra decisively against it. It seems to be working, even plebs like you have fallen for it.
Meanwhile planned parenthood has to be removed from red states.
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All this hate for evangelicals when, statistically, we are the only bloc consistently holding it down for biblical marriage, the pro-life cause, secure borders, and every other issue.
We are by far the most conservative and united in every political, cultural, and moral area. This is not statistically contested. Without the strength and cohesion of this group, conservatives lose everything. Consequently, the country loses everything. Not an exaggeration.
So ask yourself: why would someone want to divide, destroy, and demoralize this stalwart group?
The answer is obvious if the person is progressive, but it becomes a bit murky when the people targeting this group are on the “right,” right? Something to ponder
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@darwintojesus Sure they can. They can just follow the Christian ethics they were brought up with. Why? Because that’s what they know and it was the ethics of everyone in their community growing up.
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You can’t be good without God. You can make things up, you can pretend and play with words, but goodness itself only makes sense if God exists.
Not Evolution@NotEvolution1
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@foster_type The pope has been attacking him constantly countless times. When has Trump ever been one to just quietly take nonstop white anting?
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I've seen it a hundred times. Given Trump's deep Presbyterian roots it was only a matter of time before he attacked the authority of the Pope.
Acyn@Acyn
Reporter: Why did you attack Pope Leo? Trump: I don’t think he’s doing a very good job. He likes crime I guess. We don’t like a pope who says it’s ok to have a nuclear weapon. We don’t want a pope that says crime is ok. I am not a fan of Pope Leo.
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@benjamincowen @btc4me2 Just imagine a world with no nuclear weapons! A world with no war, with no rich or poor and everything hunky dory, everyone nice to each other! Just imagine! Wow so deep.
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Now Trump is going after the Pope.
He says "I don't want a Pope who thinks it's OK for Iran to have a nuclear weapon."
However, Pope Leo XIV has called for a world "free from the nuclear threat."
This is gaslighting and straw-manning and everyone should be able to recognize this.
Those in power need to grow a backbone and start calling it out for what it is.
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@Ozarkandia He put the SC justices which overturned Roe V Wade, which everyone was talking about my whole life. Yet symbolism is more important than millions of actual dead kids to you losers.
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@rd_whitley @Saltyseabee76 @ComeHometoRome we should be grateful for that work they did back then. But times have changed hundreds of years ago.
We should be grateful for Catholicism’s role in preserving the faith. But also deeply thankful for the Reformation.
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@Saltyseabee76 @ComeHometoRome @MLJK87 The clergy and monks in the Middle Ages preserved the Bible, its commentaries, encyclopedic knowledge, even the Greek and Roman classics in abbeys and they shared the Bible in the mass and in vernacular homies
This “gatekeeping” myth is from Petrarch and the Renaissance Humanists
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I was assured Catholic don’t read Scriptures. I never went to a Protestant service that read this much on one Sunday.
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@keimiasmoon @Saltyseabee76 @ComeHometoRome Well the early christians specifically brought us literacy for the express purpose of reading scripture, an effort you are lamenting. You are literally claiming to be opposed to one of the main historical movements of the last 2000 years.
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@CumberlandAcad3 @Saltyseabee76 @pjdmanwhale @ComeHometoRome It’s totally reasonable for them to translate it into Latin in the 3rd century or whenever. But then the language of the educated was, say English, in the 16th. Imagine being pro the Vulgate translation but against the KJV. I like both.
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@Saltyseabee76 @pjdmanwhale @ComeHometoRome @MLJK87 The Bible was translated into Latin by St. Jerome because, along with Greek, it was the language understood by every literate person in the entire Christian world, and remained that way until late into the Middle Ages.
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@Ozarkandia my own support for abortion? we literally had a sermon on it today.
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@MLJK87 @ComeHometoRome And yet somehow there were Christians long before most people could even read, and long before it was financially viable for even most chapels to have a full Bible.
Almost like Christianity isn't actually dependent on the Bible for its existence.
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@Ozarkandia @conservmillen So you voted for Biden who, on Easter, called it trans day of visibility and had a topless transgender on the WH lawn instead? Well I guess he was a true catholic at least lol
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@MLJK87 @conservmillen It's weird to me how evangelicals will swear they're the most pro-life, pro marriage group, but then vote overwhelmingly for the most pro-gay, pro-abortion GOP candidate ever.
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@Polandish3 How do you interpret the Pope saying God does not bless any conflict. That’s just a super simple retarded statement of a toddler or Lennon. All a catholic can do is ignore it or try and explain it away because it’s obviously retarded and unjustifiable.
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Me to the arrogant preschoolers who have the nerve to believe they understand the subtleties of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”
MichaelK@MLJK87
@ComeHometoRome Are you aware that someone else reading to you is not the same as you reading something by yourself?
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@Danials_Conquer @F0ODHub For me, given that I do weights daily and am male. Yes I know it’s not great for my heart but given all the exercise I do I seem to be healthy enough
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@staleyexpress @sola_chad They have been trying that from the start, but it's never God's plan is it?
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@MLJK87 @sola_chad America is part of the great apostasy and is going down
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Any Christian who builds their platform on “America First” rather than “Christ First” is more than likely not a Christian at all.
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