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@pegobry_en I would make an exception for the Japanese, if need be.

He’s obviously not talking about a literal nuclear suicide vest, he’s making the very cogent point that people whose beliefs lead them to engage in kamikaze attacks shouldn’t be allowed to have nuclear weapons.

@CatholicSmark The counterargument might be that had the regime not been decapitated you wouldn't have isolated elements launching attacks wily nily, and those at the top would have acted more rationally. Maybe.

Not a believe in pre-emptive war, but this might be the strongest argument why you could never let Iran acquire a nuclear weapon, and any attempts to restart their program had to be met with force.

@pegobry_en Thanks, PEG. I didn't realize Biden was shot too. Ok.

Do I even need to comment on this? x.com/RamboAndFrens/…

To sum up, we’ve found out - Jeffrey Epstein was an expert at tax advisory and offshore jurisdictions moving around money for rich people, that’s how he made his money. Unsavory but also legal and not Mossad blackmail. - He was a consummate networker spending lots of time hobnobbing with the rich for mundane reasons (getting new clients, narcissism) - He had sex parties with young women, some of them minors, but none of them were "children" in the conventional sense of the term - Some of these women were paid, not "trafficked" - To be clear underage prostitution is a crime and people who solicit/procure underage prostitutes should go to prison! - However, most of the Epstein "victims" are grifters. They were happy to be paid money to engage in high-dollar prostitution and now they’re engaging in a different kind of prostitution. - He filmed the sex parties to jerk off to the tapes, not to blackmail people or send them to the CIA or whatever - He killed himself because he didn’t want to spend the rest of his life in a prison cell - He was a standard issue MSNBC boomer lib Total waste of everybody’s time

@CE__Joey @ChristianHeiens This is it

Why do you all follow me? I’m genuinely curious why my account has grown so much over the past year.

@pegobry_en Frenchness I can accept, but light mode?

Great tweet

@l10475_louis @5eDragons @2edragons @5cuirassiers @GardeRepFR This really turned out well.

Tenue de combat moderne avec casque de cavalerie, couvre-casque, sabre et bottes, ça aurait de la gueule.

@TradVat2 @pegobry_en He's suggesting an AI wrote that brief.

@pegobry_en ?

You’re right to push back—my mistake

@prn_psicopaulo @AlbertoMiguelF5 @grok Salazar

@AlbertoMiguelF5 @grok who is this?

Not the "only" way.

@Emvolimos @pegobry_en I find it hard to believe the average is anywhere near 70 when the average age at this year's Chartres pilgrimage was 20.

@APLutrova @pegobry_en neither I, the OP, or the map are American

Imagine being 19 and describing yourself as a "social-democrat". Do you need some chamomile tea, grandpa?

@Emvolimos @pegobry_en Not in America

@pegobry_en Enjoyable dunks, but the median age is still 70 at the Traditional Mass

@RorateCaeli @pegobry_en @zjpea It truly is Paradise lost

@zjpea @pegobry_en And it’s a huge pity, because San Francisco has a perfect climate (for everything, including suits.)

Since you unblocked me just to post this, I’ll respond in earnest. 1. Obviously, a world in which suit wearing becomes an oddity, even low status, is a world in which the kind of fine tailoring that you and I enjoy so much disappears. I don’t just mean in some sort of vague social sense but just in a very practical sense. The market shrinks. Most tailors today (including mine) are elderly and cannot find people to take over or even do not want to train someone to take over because the business is dying. I would like for a talented young Frenchman or Brit or Italian with an eye and a taste for fabric to think that if he goes into tailoring he will have a happy, lucrative career with lots of customers. That was true in 1950, it’s just not today, and I find that sad. Increase the demand for bad suits and you increase the demand for good suits. So when I say you’ll destroy what you care about the most I mean that in a very literal way. Your political virtue signaling is, in a very direct sense, killing the thing you love. 1a. A good hoodie is better than a bad suit? Ok. Realistically, how many of those athletes will wear a good hoodie? Surely you can agree a bad suit is better than a bad hoodie. 2. Another point that should be obvious, but: social rules about wearing a suit, or black tie, or even white tie (bring back white tie!!!) are not some arbitrary imposition by Capital or the Patriarchy or whatever, they are an expression of respect. Respect for your peers, because you showed you went through the trouble of dressing well, and respect for yourself. (This is also, independent of everything else, why women shouldn’t dress like sluts.) 3. What I find fascinating about your discourse on this is that libs are usually the ones who are hyperaware of notions like social construction, social narratives and representations and of how people don’t make individual choices out of thin air but are always influenced by social representations. You claim to believe that anybody can just enjoy these abstruse rules about sartorialism totally independent of social context, just as a pure expression of personal choice, but that’s just not true. Those rules, that entire universe and culture, is the product of generations of a very specific cultural world, one with very specific values (which it indeed embodies), and cannot survive apart from that. It’s no coincidence that, as you often note, the best sartorialists still, to this say, remain European royalty. Again, in CS Lewis’ famous phrase, your "remove the organ and demand the function". 4. Ultimately your leftism is hostile to beauty because beauty is inseparable from judgment, and from hierarchy. For all the bleatings about how beauty is relative, as an empirical matter, people cannot encounter beauty without making judgments, without ranking some things as more beautiful than others. What is the point of all the abstruse rules of sartorialism if not to RANK, if not to be able to say, THIS is BETTER than THAT; THIS is MORE BEAUTIFUL than THAT. Ultimately the social purpose of beauty is to ENNOBLE the world, to ELEVATE it. Sorry but a world where most people wear suits is more beautiful than a world where most people wear hoodies, even if most of the suits are bad. All those notions are anathema to the left’s leveling spirit. It’s sad, and the fact that you’re simultaneously devoted to a noble pursuit and to a politics that aim to destroy it is sad. I choose to laugh about it but it’s sad.

@GrayConnolly Historic preservation laws exist because the public felt the need to defend itself from architects.

As the then Prince Charles said, whatever else may be said of the Luftwaffe, they never made anything in London as ugly as modern architecture.

@ldock93 @AlanMCole @cfishman @DouthatNYT What a beautiful ship.

@AlanMCole @cfishman @DouthatNYT Always been a big believer in going out and experiencing things. Part of why I love sports so much. But other cool stuff too, like last month my wife and I got to see the SS United States in Mobile before they sink it. Kinda spooky being so close to it

.@DouthatNYT's views aren't quite mine, but he's a much better writer than I. In his column he manages to put into words the feeling of dread I have about internet life, a diminishing "IRL," and a rapid decline in youth population. But the exhortation at the end is even better:

@ingelramdecoucy @chriswithans Culver's has the best fish sandwich of any fast food joint, and their house root beer is nice. They have plenty to offer even if you don't care for their burgers.

@chriswithans Culver is also mid, White Castle is actively not good

I’m sorry but I’m over In-N-Out. It’s just ok. The burger is fine, the toasted bun is neat, the fries are tolerable but subpar. If you ask for burger sauce on the side they give you this weird giant bag of it. They also automatically give you two fistfuls of ketchup immediately after they ask you if you want ketchup and you say no. The hype is all based on their low prices.

@JenCarsonTaylor @DurhamWASP Better to remain ignorant if education is what leads people to endorse Rogers' architecture.

“I don't go around criticising people's private artworks. I may not like some of them, but it is their business what they choose to put in their houses. However, as I have said before, architecture and the built environment affect us all.” King Charles III

@earlyvotedata @CatholicSmark Democrat Farmer Labor in Minnesota, not Dallas Fort Worth

@CatholicSmark I still get a kick out of DFW in Minnesota.

It will still exist, but not as its current coalition.

@CatholicSmark @DavidStandeven I'm interested in who Carolina G is, and why trad men are keen on her baptizing their children

@DavidStandeven Everyone has their nonsense, but i prefer the less bureaucratic kind. And today it tends to be the man who needs Carolina g to baptize the kid earlier, not the woman in most trad circles. At least my Michigan ones lol.

Once again, so glad we trads have none of this nonsense. Baptisms just happen. Or we find a random priest to just do it. Theoretically trads could be super bureaucratic, but in practice we're far more about getting the sacraments with as few barriers as possible

@redsteeze @travis_cook_ That remains as true as ever today.

@travis_cook_ Someone commented when Second Life came out it was a virtual building & gaming platform that could build limitless incredible renderings and worlds and all people used it for was to slap each other with giant floppy cocks.

"Sir, it's called AI image generation. You speak or type any prompt and it will generate the exact image you told it. Anything you can think of. It will do it." "Any image I tell it to?" "Yes sir. Here, give it a try." Trump:

@CatholicSmark One of the best things to come of Trump's second term so far

Owned

@CatholicSmark But do they need to moderate on abortion? It wasn't enough to carry them, but it's still winning as a single issue. Unless state level victories gradually erode its importance for D voters.

Dems gonna need some kinda trench warfare where they claw back voters, and start evaluating. There is no "dobbs effect". Even when abortion won last night, that didn't translate to Democrats winning.

If I were Democrats (and I'm not!), I'd give a serious look at Lindsey Graham's old 15 week abortion bill. Locks in place 90%+ of abortions with an aura of real popular legitimacy. Gives up nothing, appears conciliatory, and declares victory. And maybe erodes prolifers