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@JJ_McCullough @TeeplesCY Being part of a community is good for your mental health, even if socializing or the community itself aren't the main reasons you're going.

@TeeplesCY I thought the point of going to church was to hear the received word of the Lord, not socialize

Poor Americans who attend church regularly are happier than rich Americans who never go. Behavioral scientist William von Hippel thought he'd made a coding error. He hadn't. "Regularly attending services has a bigger impact on your happiness than wealth," he writes. "Money buys a fair bit of happiness but connection gives you more bang for the buck." What's happening? Rich people already have most of what money buys. What they lack is what churches provide for free: weekly, repeated contact with people who know your name. Von Hippel is direct about the cost: "I suspect that wealthy, educated urbanites are paying a steeper price for their lifestyle than they realize. Many of us have paid too great a price in connection for our increased autonomy."

@pureMetatron It is. Maybe your definition of Communism is what's changed.

The Catholic church used to be publicly and strongly against communism. What changed?

@9mmballpoint People also be reminded that reading someone's book, enjoying the book, or agreeing with all or part of a book is not or should not be taken as an endorsement of every single thing that the author ever did, said, or wrote.

This is stupid (and probably bait), but in case anyone is really starting to feel this way, the solution is human contact. Give your brain a reminder of the difference between actual in-person friendship, and reading a stranger's book.

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@NotAvgLiberal At least you served, unlike Kid Rock. Thank you for your service.

I’m truly ashamed of what our country has become. I regret I ever served in this military.

Just so we’re clear. Trump and Pete Hegseth have fired top military generals and commanders. Last week Hegseth fired the Secretary of the Navy. At the same time… Fucking Kid Rock is addressing Pentagon Officials on the Strait of Hormuz. What the actual fuck is happening.

@KariLake The fact he's so senile that he fumbled a softball interview isn't the fault of CBS, Nora Connelly, or Bari Weiss.

The President is 1000% correct: CBS, Nora Connelly and the mainstream media are horrible. They are not journalists.

@9mmballpoint This is just going to ruin the word "nice" just like "ice" has been ruined. Like nowadays when you're at a restaurant and you ask the waiter for some ice, they look at you funny.

Teh intert00bz have been so epically pwned I literally cannot even!!1!!!11 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@BillyGribbin @uncle_deluge @EricRichards22 The article says that statues were in fact painted, just more subtly and less brightly than modern reconstructions.

@uncle_deluge @EricRichards22 The answer is they weren’t, really. worksinprogress.news/p/classical-st…

Yes ancient statues were painted but are we quite sure they were as awful and garish as the reconstructions make them out to be

@WTGardner @AaronRegunberg Then the apartment is occupied, which is the intent of the policy (to get more New Yorkers into homes), so it's still a success.

@AaronRegunberg I would think anyone with the intelligence to own such a high priced real estate property is going to find a way around that tax. They could pay a caretaker and have them live there at $1 rent per month. There is an exemption for rental properties.

It's literally -- literally -- a tax on empty luxury properties that nobody lives in. These people already live in Florida, you dumbass.

@9mmballpoint MAGA tomorrow: What's a corner store!? I've never heard of a corner store! The liberal woketards made it up!

CORNER STORE, YOU KNOW WE CALL THAT A BODEGA, DON'T WE FOLKS, BODEGA, THEY SAY YOU CAN GET ANYTHING THERE AND SOMETIMES THERE'S A CAT, RIGHT UP THERE ON THE COUNTER, BING, LOOKING DOWN AT YOU, BIG BEAUTIFUL CAT LIKE NO ONE'S EVER SEEN BEFORE, THE NEWS WON'T TALK ABOUT THIS

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

@ContraPoints Better than now though

I was there. It sucked.

@9mmballpoint @canceled4truth Neither Kate nor Marie watched the movie. The author's family were Communists who supported the revolution but were forced to leave Iran after the new regime turned on them.

@canceled4truth There's no way you watched the movie if this was your takeaway.

Imagine watching this dogshit and being like ah yes this is what we need to carpet bomb an elementary school for

@RichGinter @alezombieboy That's not a question, we know they aren't. A Cuban journalist who lives and works openly in Cuba is obviously going to be pro-regime.

@alezombieboy Are “journalists” truly independent in Cuba under a dictatorship, that’s the real question.

a cuban journalist living in cuba being pro regime? under a dictatorship??? groundbreaking

@CountryFirstRep I bet you've fallen for at least one crypto or wrong number scam and that you would try to pay "Special Agent John Martin from the IRS" with an iTunes gift card.

Sorry to disappoint the lefties who follow me, but I would absolutely vote for this man in 2028. I simultaneously believe Trump is a danger to America and the free world AND recognize that Rubio is a shining light of competence in this admin and is our best chance to move on from Trumpian-style politics.

@9mmballpoint “Well I never *really* supported him, but how were we supposed to know he would do the things he said he was going to do?” - Some German guy in 1965, probably

Check it out, the most popular song of 2050 just dropped:

@ggreenwald What!? Did your husband hide the drugs? I mean good for him if he did, but I'm pleasantly surprised you aren't defending the killer ICE agent or making false equivalency with Democrats

Matt Walsh can't understand and thus hates this "lesbian agitator" because -- unlike her -- he has never risked anything for a cause, and thus has to malign anyone who does, because they're a constant reminder of what he isn't and never will be. Only by demeaning people willing to take risks for their beliefs can he escape that loud voice inside his head incessantly telling him -- correctly -- that he's a cowardly zero who can never find the internal courage to exhibit the virtues of bravery and strength he constantly extols. That's also why he's obsessed with building a career screaming about how manly he is and strutting around glorifying wars fought by men and women who -- unlike him -- are capable of finding bravery in themselves. He vicariously leeches off of their courage because he knows he has none inside of himself. (It's similar to the huge numbers of people who publicly and vocally obsess about policing the private lives of other adults, only to be exposed for engaging in behavior identical or far worse than that which they flamboyantly condemn). These are the weak and cowardly men who are most insecure about their masculinity, about their character, about their fear of sacrificing in pursuit of some cause or values greater than themselves. Actually brave people don't strut around constantly yelling about how strong and manly and virtuous they are. It's weak men who have to resort to LARPing, to wearing campy hyper-masculine costumes, to constantly touting their own strength even though they can't point to anything they have ever done that reflects any of those attributes they loudly claim for themselves. And most of all, they need to demean others who do exhibit those attributes in a desperate hope to escape the shame that those people engender within them.

@yesh222 This type of rhetoric is dangerous and irresponsible

Well, it was a pretty good 100-year run for Jews in New York City. It's probably time to start making a plan where to go to next.

@DohnJaly @SpiralSine6 @KyleKulinski @Caitlyn_Jenner A court ruled that her negligence didn't rise to a criminal level. Also she paid a settlement of 800K to one of the victims plus an undisclosed amount to the family of the person she killed.

@SpiralSine6 @KyleKulinski @Caitlyn_Jenner Not a hot take at all. Manslaughter would definitely worse. You may not know this, but Caitlyn is not guilty of manslaughter.

I am more ‘masculine’ than this 🤡 Gov Walz

@DohnJaly @KyleKulinski @Caitlyn_Jenner IDK dude, manslaughter is just a littler worse than not knowing what farms look like from the air.

@KyleKulinski @Caitlyn_Jenner Remember when you didn’t know what farming is?