Andante con Brioche

@ttemple1313 @60Minutes Thank you for this post.

I am completely speechless at the blatant racism of 60 Minutes. We lived through an actual disaster. The first few days, we couldn't get out until the men with chainsaws gathered to clear up the road. Then, a group of men like Greg Biffle volunteered their time and money to fly their own helicopters to drop off supplies to those trapped. They had to heroically land in the middle of wilderness in the middle of the FOREST to rescue some families. Then United Cajun Navy. Then Samaritan Purse showed up, two girls, at our house and gave us $500 in grocery gift cards. Samaritan Purse now has built an office here and they're STILL, a year and a half later, helping our neighbors to rebuild their washed away and DANGEROUS roads. But sure, its all about "dusaster tourism" and "improving their image". And white nationalism. And God forbid they mention Jesus. Which by the way the Samaritan's Purse girls did, and we prayed together, and it was one of the most profound moments of the whole disaster. Absolute moral bankruptcy on the part of Leslie Stahl and the 60 Minutes.

After natural disasters, white nationalists, militias, and conspiracists often arrive, offering help. But they also want to recruit and improve their image. Watch the full 60 Minutes report: cbsnews.com/news/some-whit…

@AnnSchurman @Yoda4ever He wasn't hunting elephants.

@ConBrioche @Yoda4ever “Legal” is what matters, eh? Not an intelligent , feeling creature. The elephant was defending his family and his life- as you would do.

A millionaire trophy hunter was trampled to death by angry elephants while hunting in Central Africa..🐘

@stewartspilkin @Yoda4ever The Roman gladiatorial games were a vile invention.

@ConBrioche @Yoda4ever Well, they're not destroying the mountain or the sky in pursuit of their sport. Hunting entails pitting one living creature against another to the death. I'm guessing there were plenty of people who cheered on the animals in the colosseum.

@GojiraEtern7k @Yoda4ever I'm stunned by your eloquent defense of your views.

@12thandWolf @Yoda4ever This standpoint is defensible, if cold. Celebration is not.

@ConBrioche @Yoda4ever He got what he got. Paid money to shoot something on another continent for no real reason other than to collect a trophy. C’est la vie.

@ko_lajna @Yoda4ever Money/effects from trophy hunting helps protect the population. The managers are careful in choosing which animals are chosen for hunts. Disease and starvation always an issue. Why would the length of time a species has been present on the earth make it more or less valuable?

@ConBrioche @Yoda4ever No, I really haven't seen it. But do you really think trophy hunting can justify killing animals. They existed long before us and somehow they were always in balance with nature which takes care of everything.

@CBrotti @Yoda4ever I might be reading more into it than is there, although the context of what is generally posted on this account ("funny, upbeat, good," pro-animal) seems to imply approval. The responses, however, are almost entirely gleeful and gloating. The OP seems to invite such.

@ConBrioche @Yoda4ever There is no cheering in this post, I think. It is just a matter of fact: he took the risk, he lost.

@ko_lajna @Yoda4ever Have you seen forests destroyed because starving deer strip them of bark? I have.

@ConBrioche @Yoda4ever Involving humans in any type of hunting (except for survival purposes) is, in my opinion, tampering with the eco system, which by itself can and must function without involving humans

@stewartspilkin @Yoda4ever People are more valuable than animals. Do you celebrate when someone dies while mountain climbing or skydiving?

@ConBrioche @Yoda4ever I don't understand what the problem is. All those people still got their money. If there was no danger, would it even be something that they would want to do? Nothing wrong with cheering on the animal, after all, they're the ones just trying to live their lives.

@ko_lajna @Yoda4ever He wasn't hunting elephants. He was hunting antelope. Regardless, if elephants are breeding beyond what the ecosystem can handle, they'll start dying of starvation and disease.

@ConBrioche @Yoda4ever Elephant hunting should never be legal. It is a barbaric act and he got what he deserved. As cruel as it sounds

@disparutoo This reminds me of how grateful I am that Christianity replaced Roman paganism.

Stop objectifying me 😡*Romans have entered the chat*

@kmbiamnozie If it's wrong to find opinions invalid when written by AI, then I don't want to be right.

I find myself not angry - no, anger is far too crude a companion for what I feel, but profoundly disheartened. The kind of disillusionment that settles quietly in the bones, like winter that never quite leaves. There was a time when certain things were untouchable. Sacred, even to those who did not believe. A time when reverence wasn’t negotiated, and dignity wasn’t subjected to the vulgar theater of politics. But now, now we watch, almost numbly, as the President of a nation once draped in the language of divine purpose, descends deliberately, unapologetically into the desecration of what millions hold holy. And what’s more tragic? Not the act itself. No, history is littered with powerful men behaving badly. What is truly unsettling is the applause. The defense. The eager chorus of those who should know better, twisting themselves into moral pretzels to justify what, in quieter times, would have been unthinkable. You see, when reverence dies, it doesn’t die loudly. It erodes, slowly, politely, disguised as opinion, cloaked in ideology. Until one day, you wake up and realize that even the Vicar of Christ, the spiritual shepherd to over a billion souls has become just another target in the carnival of ridicule. Our Pope @Pontifex is not equals with the President of the USA, and they will never be. “Woke,” they say. “Senseless.” “A puppet of this or that.” How pedestrian. How painfully small. Because whether you kneel in pews or scoff from a distance, there are symbols in this world that demand a certain restraint. Not out of fear, but out of an understanding that once you reduce everything to mockery, you are left with nothing worth respecting. And that, I’m afraid, is where we are. A society so desperate to win arguments that it has forgotten how to preserve sanctity. So intoxicated with noise that it no longer recognizes silence as wisdom. I would hope, perhaps foolishly, that those entrusted with spiritual authority might summon the courage to speak. Not in whispers. Not in carefully crafted evasions. But with the kind of clarity that reminds the world that some lines once crossed are not so easily redrawn. Because here’s the inconvenient truth: What you tolerate, you teach. What you excuse, you invite. And what you repeatedly mock eventually loses all meaning. And when that happens, when nothing is sacred, you don’t just lose your faith. You lose your soul. President Trump is losing the faithfuls, he is, and whether he is doing this intentionally to hurt JD Vance will be a subject for another day. He must apologize to the Pope.

@ingelramdecoucy Seeing videos from Massimo always makes me chuckle; I commented on a repost once that it has too many AI videos and CCP propaganda and they blocked me. 😆

There’s something inherent foreign and, therefore, Communist, about not wearing shoes in the house

@RossFischer13 @conservmillen @michaeljknowles Paul addresses this in Romans 6.

@conservmillen @michaeljknowles By your logic I can murder people and grace will be my loophole. The commandments are to be followed so we can receive grace and salvation. Jesus never said, "believe in me and you can be a scumbag that doesn't need to follow me."

How many times does the phrase "faith alone" appear in the Bible? And what specifically does the Bible say about "faith alone"?

@D_B_Harrison May I ask where this resource by Sara Lee may be found? I haven't been able to find it online.

@Nerdrotics x.com/i/status/20256…

The better of two bad options. Still horrific news for Hollywood. A production company will end up owning two major studios. Let that sink in.

@TheFP Was one ratio not enough?

You won a hockey game, dear Southern neighbors, not World War III, writes Rupa Subramanya. thefp.com/p/this-week-in…

@RobertCruzeJr1 @LCplLoPro That's from the Babylon Bee: x.com/i/status/18643…

@LCplLoPro In another thread, I found the best description for Canada ever: "Gay North Dakota."

Imagine even PRETENDING that Canada wouldn't be talking mad shit against the US if they won gold, like they were such gracious winners last year at the Four Nations Face-Off. This is typical Canadian behavior, though. They've ALWAYS been like this, way back before 2016.

@monsterhunter45 I wonder how many women actually like that crap, though?

Threads like this are always a hoot. Some sanctimonious Dunning-Krugerand talks about how MEN DON'T READ and then to justify their view they tell a story which makes reading sound absolutely horrific, boring, and incredibly fucking lame to regular dudes. Men didn't come to my gay/feminist book club to discuss Proust! And then they go SEE?! SEE?!? Meanwhile, I'm just here happily writing book #34, after selling millions of copies worldwide of my other books, mostly to an audience of dudes who are nothing like the idiot bullshit caricatures cooked up by these perpetually angsty feminists. Go figure. Lots of dudes read, and more are inclined to read when they know about books that actually sound interesting to them. The biggest issue is our system shoves pseudointellectual academic boredom or feminist girl power manifestos down teen boys' throats and then acts baffled why those guys grow up thinking reading sucks. Well no shit regular dudes think reading is a chore. You assholes forced them to analyze the Great Gatsby for four months straight. I've written longer books faster. Then if they survived that boring ass pretentious slog of vapid New Yorkers being horrible to each other, you made them read the Scarlet Letter for the rest of the year, where everything sucks, everyone is sad, people are garbage, the end. Now make them write another essay about the transsexual Marxist symbolism that's not actually in the book but some professor hallucinated a hundred years later. OR... crazy idea... hear me out... Let boys read books that they actually find entertaining so that reading becomes fun and natural. GASP. OUTRAGE. HOW DARE YOU INSULT THE CLASSICS!?! REEEEE This shit isn't nearly as complicated as twitter weirdos make it out to be. But what do I know? I'm just one of the writers that men who read actually read. :D