@megbasham @Matt070173 Religious engagement or openness or religious interest might describe some of it.
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Peter Coogan
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Peter Coogan
@Peter_Coogan
Jesus Christ is Lord. I am interested in mathematics, theology, law, and politics. The inerrant Bible (66 books) is the standard for life and practice.
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@Matt070173 True and maybe revival isn’t the right word to use there. I just can’t think of a word that’s kind of a synonym but lesser.
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This is why I have continued to say, in the face of statisticians who insist it’s not happening, that there is something of a revival among young men. Because anecdotally the evidence has just been too strong to ignore.
InteractivePolls@IAPolls2022
GALLUP POLL: 42% of men aged 18-29 now say religion is "very important" in their lives — a sharp jump from just 28% in 2022-2023. Monthly religious attendance among young men has climbed to 40% (up from 33%), the highest level in over a decade. news.gallup.com/poll/708410/yo…
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@SpecialPuppy1 Well I think at least many supporters of the EC think a state should be allowed to allocate proportionally if the state decides. But mandating it seems like unnecessary and unhelpful federal control to me.
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Would supporters of the Electoral College be okay with every state allocating electoral votes proportionally? For example, if Trump won 38% of the vote in California, he’d get about 21 of California’s electoral votes instead of 0. If not, why not?
James Surowiecki@JamesSurowiecki
There's no good civic argument for the electoral college. It was arguably necessary to ensure the ratification of the Constitution, but it's an anti-democratic device that gives some American citizens far more voting power than others, based purely on where they live.
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@Doublemindedman @jmhorp having a national sales tax and keeping FICA (which acts like or as an income tax) and other taxes sounds like close to the worst of all possible worlds tax wise (I know something worse could be devised but this would be quite bad).
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Federal spending is 7 trillion, but only 5 trillion is needed to be revenue neutral.
Further, This only replaces the income tax, not FICA. This brings in 1.77 trillion. So now the total is at 3.77 trillion. Tariffs are another 200 billion and then business taxes are about 500 billion (excluding FICA as I added that above) and total revenue sits at about 4.5 billion.
So it's really not far off at all.
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"A 10% sales tax would likely be revenue neutral" is wishful thinking
Consumption spending is about $21 trillion per year, so a 10% tax only raises ~$2 trillion (assuming ALL consumption is taxed -- unlikely). Federal spending is $7 trillion.
Joseph Brown@heresyfinancial
The best tax system would be a single flat sales tax 1. Most effective at promoting economic growth because the only disincentive is on consumption, and no investment/saving/earning is punished 2. It’s still progressive because the top 10% spend 50% of all consumption, so they would still be footing the most of the bill 3. No more tax filing for individuals, businesses are responsible for collecting and paying the sales tax 4. Tax code becomes obsolete, freeing up the brain drain and capital drain from the entire tax industry to productive work that contributes to economic growth 5. It’s somewhat voluntary because if you want to pay less in taxes you can consume less 6. A 10% sales tax would likely be revenue neutral after just a few years - and could balance the budget shortly after. Right now the government taxes about 17% of gdp. Re-aligned incentives and freed-up capital would stimulate massive economic growth that would more than make up for the short term revenue drop. The main problem people have with this is it feels unfair to the poor who will pay the same percentage of their spending as the rich. But same percentage is not the same dollar amount. Rich still pay more. If you really wanted fairness, it would be the same dollar amount for everyone.
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@Lynxempire1 @gracieveevee @GrimnirsThegn Well I think it might have been disrespectful or interested in attacking/being attacked by brothers but I do not recall all the details (to make it worse I think brothers were also reading it). Or perhaps it was something like swinging around a stick as a sword in the house.
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@Peter_Coogan @gracieveevee @GrimnirsThegn Uh oh
Someone was getting a bit too adventurous and intelligent! We can't have that, now can we?
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In 3rd grade I wanted to read Three Musketeers because it was worth an entire semester of “reading points” and I didn’t want to have to keep picking books off their dumb list of “approved books”. I wanted to read Redwall instead.
My teacher put up a huge fuss about how I was going to waste a bunch of time “reading” then fail the comprehension quiz because a 3rd grader could never understand a book that advanced.
I got 100% on the quiz so of course she raised my semester threshold of “reading points” to keep me picking books off the list.
memetic_sisyphus@memeticsisyphus
It’s true, every halfway intelligent right winger I know irl had a massive conflict with at least one elementary teacher over things like: reading ahead, reading too difficult books, not showing enough work, etc etc. it’s the first time we experience the uncaring tyranny of state bureaucracy and it sucks.
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@AdamPage85 @jm_larue Not sure if people think some will sue the SBC if it is passed or not or both but either would seem to this layman that they should fail under the legal doctrine.
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@AdamPage85 @jm_larue One would think a female pastor would not be able to successfully sue the SBC on this topic due to the Church autonomy (legal) doctrine. Something like the Law/Sanchez amendment is likely an excellent idea for theological and associational reasons.
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As Al Mohler and Clint Pressley again call for the SBC to end once and for all the confusion on the office of pastor, and Heath Lambert has spoken to this as well, let me quote my friend @jm_larue : “(In Orlando 2026) Jeff Iorg will scare messengers again about the potential of a lawsuit of a female pastor suing the convention, so we can’t stand on what the Bible says. That was so embarrassing.” This can’t happen again. We need the Law/Sanchez amendment or something else similar in nature passed. We may finally be able to move on from this EVERY YEAR!
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@AdmiralPory @johnamonaco Did Nashville become safe? When I spent many months there in 2008 and 2010 it was not safe.
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@johnamonaco Nashville, TN. TLM and Byzantine both available. Many Catholic schools to choose from. Strong job market. Nice suburbs. Safe.
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Where would you suggest a young, Catholic family should move to in 2026?
Priorities: access to reverent liturgy (TLM preferred, Divine Liturgy); Catholic classical education; strong job market (in case remote work isn't possible); safe; affordable.
List your suggestions below⬇️
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@Legal_Fil @RickACamp I would go in the other direction advocate allowing state legislatures to admit people to the bar of state's courts without other lawyers (including the state supreme court which is normally lawyers) needing to approve.
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@Legal_Fil @RickACamp Sadly, this might exclude some good arguments it seems people trained in the law sometimes and perhaps often get trained to think about particular legal topics in ways that are likely correctly. The legal bubble should not decide what arguments are allowed.
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My general view is thay more lawyers should be disbarred for putting forward theories that they don’t believe.
I’d make an exception to this rule in criminal cases, but as a general matter, we have a real problem with prioritizing cleverness over truth.
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@EliasTheophany @ASFleischman Kitchen equipment is not cost free and for single guys I am not sure that eating out does not sometimes save money. I might have saved money if I ate more meals in the cafeteria instead of in my apartment when I was in graduate school.
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@EliasTheophany @ASFleischman I assume one could make food with the ingredients in the picture if one has the proper equipment for between 3 and 6 dollars, but that assumes one would be using the rest of those ingredients for other meals.
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Panda Express makes no sense to me in an economic level this would have cost me more to make for myself
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@FiatLuxGenesis @realpedroleo @michaeljknowles Should we militarily have stopped N. Korea from having Nukes most likely we should have. As for Isreal, China, and Russia likely not. Pakistan not sure. But that does not mean we should invade any of them currently.
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@realpedroleo @michaeljknowles I assume you are okay with invading North Korea, Pakistan, Israel, China, the US, and Russia?
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"I have nothing against the Pope...I'm not fighting with the Pope.... The Pope can say what he wants, and I want him to say what we wants, but I can disagree. [...] I'm sure the Pope is a great guy, I haven't met him."
Pitch-perfect example of how political rulers should handle disagreements with spiritual authority—much to the dismay of those would love to drive a wedge between President Trump and American Catholics, most of whom voted for him twice!
Rapid Response 47@RapidResponse47
.@POTUS: "I have nothing against the Pope... If the Pope looked at the 42,000 people that were killed over the last two or three months, as [protesters] with no weapons, no nothing... I have a right to disagree with the Pope."
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@FishEaters As a non-Catholic my understanding is we are not to hate Catholics but love them and want them to come to the truth and those who are lost to be saved.
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The psy-op seems now to be "hate Catholics, slur Catholicism, equate Catholicism with lack of patriotism, attribute false quotes and bad motives to the Pope." It is suddenly everywhere, with even some Catholics falling for the false quotes/bad motives angle. James Lindsay must be thrilled.
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@Avonleebythesea Also I would like a source for the data on the graph because sources like johnlocke.org/public-school-… suggest it is about 13k per student here in NC which is a massive difference from the 30k on the graph.
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@Peter_Coogan As you can see, that would not necessarily be the case at all, you could have a small groups of five children grouped by ability
Disinformation Expert Lizzy@StarChamberMaid
@Avonleebythesea Obscene amounts of money are spent on public education. Take California: if there are 25 students in a classroom, it costs $864,500 to run that class. ONE CLASS. Much cheaper to have small groups of students with a tutor. The whole enterprise is criminal.
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This used to be the norm before mandatory public education. Boys (and girls) had a governess and then transitioned to a male private tutor who taught Latin, Greek, philosophy, mathematics and was responsible for religious & moral education too (preparation for becoming a man-something impossible to argue a woman is better equipped for). I’m pretty sure every child could have a private tutor if the wastefulness of government schools was reallocated to this.
malmesburyman@malmesburyman
The bottom line of all these stories of teacher abuse is that somewhere around age 10 but certainly no later, boys should stop encountering female teachers. Women simply cannot understand what motivates young men, and as a result their modes of discipline become petty and cruel.
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@Avonleebythesea By the time you have a group of 5 children that is no longer my understanding of the private tutor model. But that would likely be a considerable improvement over our current system.
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@Avonleebythesea My impression is that historically the expert private tutor was the gold standard and I suspect would still lead to the best academic outcomes and would be very costly. I personally support home education by parents as often the best option.
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@Avonleebythesea Perhaps our educational model is so bad that limited tutoring or one split among several families would be an improvement but later sounds like it is approaching the one room school house idea for higher grades.
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@GamewithDave Mine sweeper and a shareware version of battleship were two very good ones.
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