Eamonn

🧵When I took an econ graduate degree in Spain in 2014, my friends were always curious about how Canada had been so historically successful on one economic topic: Immigration. Let's dig into immigration science and talk about why Canada needs an Immigration Election, NOW. 1/21

@martianwyrdlord 2 of 4 nations on the crest are Republican. Just sayin

@McLeanChronicle Why would we protect a competitors marketing channel?

Where is Canada's contribution, we could throw money at this if nothing else, cause we have nothing else, are we going to leave our allies and world out there with no help? #Carney

@romanhelmetguy And if your mom is still around give her a shout every now and then.

One weird trick to be loved and admired by multiple women: Have a wife and daughters and be faithful and good to them.

@MemoryMedieval People yearn for strength in their history without the baggage of remembering the victims. Ancient China waited 100 years before attempting to write a biography of a deceased emperor for that reason.

History is funny. Genghis Khan is one of the worst (if not the worst) mass-murderers in history. But the same people handwaving away this incredible slaughter because (incidentally) trade improved would try to ruin my life if I had a similarly framed argument/opinion about Hitler. Is modern scholarship going to move on from their wholly negative views on Hitler too? Does this say something about human nature? Any villainy can be rehabilitated with enough time? I find the casual way people both dismiss the great slaughter of the medieval Mongols and lionize them as great instruments of civilization (or worse, Genghis as a great man of history) to be a very strange contrast with more modern conflicts and the way we think about them (and the people involved) today. Maybe all that matters right now is winning? And with enough time, "academics will move on from any wholly negative view" and vindicate you in the end?

@DrMichaelBonner Congratulations!

Major-league news: tonight our second daughter and fourth child Penelope Artemis Xenia was born. Hearty congratulations to Mrs Dr Bonner. Mother and child are well!

@GrenadaLoyalist @DrMichaelBonner @howardanglin Good perspective. The EU and USA seem to agree with your last sentence.

@Eamonn_Gamble @DrMichaelBonner @howardanglin Dominion doesn’t necessarily mean subjecthood. In fact, it was Canada adopting the title which gave it a colonial connotation, rather than Canada adopting it *because* it had a colonial connotation. Dominion merely means a territory which is ruled; it says nothing about by who

It seems to me that the whole point of the Dominion of Canada was to avoid absorption into a vast, continental political order...

@TristinHopper @AndrewJWHaynes I’m starting to think they are accelerationists who know this process leads to empowerment of public and private unions as the only “solution”. See BCGEU

The weirdest part of this whole migrant surge is how blue-hair progressives have been actively providing cover for a plutocratic, cronyist plot to flood the country with infinity cheap labour. It's one of the most brazen examples I've seen in modern times of government policy where big business wins at the *direct expense* of the lower classes.

Heresy is much more commonly associated with boring theological debates between monks, it’s just Hollywood that wants us to believe it was primarily used to burn witches. I was raised Protestant and still am. But learning about the Orthodox Church was eye opening. I highly recommend the first 3 episodes of the podcast Paradise & Utopia for a quick overview. Good chatting!

I would never seek to overthrow someone else's values except when they infringe upon mine. I have and do consider myself a Christian, but I have been greatly disappointed in most churches, Protestant and Catholic. I am surely a heretic by medieval church standards, so when someone uses those words, and to silence others, I'm not going to sit down. There also seems to be this rebirth of antisemitism with Integralists that is very disturbing. But I am willing to be disabused of that idea.

Catholic Integralism is a political and economic doctrine that insists the Catholic Church should order the state and the economy. It is unAmerican. Get out.

@American1068 @kolasi78083 @ConceptualJames Fair. I see it the other way around, where the Orthodox Church provides a stronger connection with the transcendent values of Jesus than modern churches.

@Eamonn_Gamble @kolasi78083 @ConceptualJames I have absolutely no problem with the modern catholic church, its not like the Protestants didn't have their issues as well. When some people start throwing around words like heresy and heretic, that does not lead to a good place for anyone.

@kolasi78083 @American1068 @ConceptualJames The Orthodox Church still uses the same liturgy as was written by John Chrysostom in the 4th century.

@Eamonn_Gamble @American1068 @ConceptualJames Disagree. Lots of changes and reforms. The Church of Victor was very different in practice from that of Gregory the Great, which was differently run from that of Gregory VII & Innocent III.

They were fairly consistent for the first 1000 years, and even after that in the East. It’s true that post-reformation Christianity became more concerned with Utopian political ideologies that have damaged its credibility and stability. I think we could learn from the medieval church in that regard.

@Eamonn_Gamble @American1068 @ConceptualJames The administrative practices, disciplines, and Church precepts and laws that are best suited to the salvation of souls change as the culture and social order changes. This is why they were different in Apostolic times than in Augustine's time, than in medieval times, etc.

@American1068 @kolasi78083 @ConceptualJames True. Again all post medieval period though. Pre-reformation they were careful about the split.

@Eamonn_Gamble @kolasi78083 @ConceptualJames The Church then was about earthly power not spiritual. They wanted to control the sacred and the secular.

@American1068 @ConceptualJames American Christians burnt ppl at the stake. America didn’t have a medieval period. Medieval Christendom was the first place globally to recognize the heliocentric model. Indulgences were certainly a heresy but as Dante highlighted (medievally) there are plenty of clergy in hell

@Eamonn_Gamble @ConceptualJames You mean beside burning people at the stake? Denying the world was round and claiming the earth was the center of the Universe and if you didn't they would excommunicate you or selling indulgences .... Nothing I suppose.

@kolasi78083 @American1068 @ConceptualJames The Church existed to lead its members to the City of God, not the City of Man. Culture changed many times before the US existed. The Church doesn’t exist to fulfill the civic needs of any one country.

@Eamonn_Gamble @American1068 @ConceptualJames It's not an indictment of anything. Just a recognition that Church administrative practices, disciplines, and Canon Law (not doctrine) need to change as the society the Church serves changes.

@kolasi78083 @American1068 @ConceptualJames Perhaps that’s an indictment of modern society, not the medieval church. In other words, that’s a relativist argument, not an objective one.

@Eamonn_Gamble @American1068 @ConceptualJames It was fine for the medieval social order as it existed then. It would not function well in a modern society.

@ConceptualJames Didn’t a bunch of medieval church folk settle America?

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@American1068 @ConceptualJames What’s wrong with the medieval church? Honest question.

@ConceptualJames I really had no idea there was a whole group of Catholics who were trying to bring back the Medieval Church. This seems like something out of a Dan Brown Novel.

@TristinHopper Late Qing period right before the Opium Wars. Actually there are a large amount of parallels you could draw between that period and modern Canada. Including the forced importation of opiates from a hostile power.

I take a lot of strength from history, so I'm asking for suggestions on another era whose defining characteristic was "the populace had literally no idea what was happening to their own country and thought everything was fine."