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Despite the fact that my Twitter feed often consists of taking shots at the appalling state of the world, I am not a morose or despairing person.
I’m a joyous cynic and a gladsome naysayer.
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@FormerlyFormer
Biscuits, potroast, fond hugs, and sundry aphorisms in bio.
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@yaqobhyndes @PageauJonathan I note that you left off the Christian lands part.
Which tells me you are not an honest interlocutor.
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@FormerlyFormer @PageauJonathan Which European lands were the crusades a response to and which European lands did the crusades retake
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The crusades were justified. It's okay to believe in something.
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Yep. Was every single thing done *during* the crusades justified? Nope. But the crusades themselves, the response to Islamic conquest of European and Christian lands, absolutely were.
Jonathan Pageau@PageauJonathan
The crusades were justified. It's okay to believe in something.
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@garysteveneaton @AceofSpadesHQ Gonna end up having to either do this for the UK, or airlift a ton of them here. Eventually.
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I still think that at some point, we're going to have to airdrop in pallets of guns and grenades and radios for the Iranian civilians and *someone* is going to have to send in competent troops to lead them and use the heavy guns when necessary.
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John Cleese has now reached the third panel of the comic.
John Cleese@JohnCleese
The UK has always been based at the deepest level on Christian values, regardless of dogma Despite the many mistakes made by churches, for centuries British people have been influenced by Christ's teaching If these values are replaced by Islamic ones, this will not be Britain any more
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When you zoom out, one of the biggest problems in the west right now is complete emotional incontinence. On both right and left.
You will master nothing if you cannot master yourself.
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The problem with politics drenched in hatred and anger (even if your positions are correct) is that humans get easily addicted to feeling anger. And sooner or later you stop being practical and rational, and start trying to keep your anger fix going. You’re just feeding your own demons at that point. Leads to some strange (and ineffective) places. This is why guarding your heart, even IF you are absolutely right, is still necessary. Maybe even more so when you are right.
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@PaulREhrlich Peer review is not science. Nor are awards science.
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60 Minutes extinction story has brought the usual right-wing out in force. If I'm always wrong so is science, since my work is always peer-reviewed, including the POPULATION BOMB and I've gotten virtually every scientific honor. Sure I've made some mistakes, but no basic ones
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I honestly miss the days of having a sane, patriotic, effective left lobbying govt to help our citizens. Some of y’all are too young to remember that, but I assure you it existed before they went all woke insanity.
KeepCalmAndDrawl ☦️@FormerlyFormer
This thread. Even if you **are** left-leaning enough to want govt services helping people, the money is streaming into every pocket but that of the people who might need those services. And yelling at the right for being big selfish meanies won’t change that.
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@AStratelates I have a fairly good grasp of the broad strokes and historic patterns, so I will opine and argue on that. But no one knows the accuracy of every detail, so I tend not to get bogged down in those.
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I don’t know how international relations work. But at least I know I don’t.
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@acrimonyand This was a great episode on St. Patrick. Told from an Orthodox pov, of course. But he’s our saint too!
youtu.be/IajTpcf_aBA?si…
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Brings the spring back every year too, just a good dude all around
Memento Mori@TempusFugit4016
St. Patrick, Bishop (464) Apostle of Ireland, he was sent there by Pope St. Celestine as a missionary. He baptized countless persons, ordained clergymen, and founded monasteries. He converted the kings of Dublin and Munster, as well as almost the whole island before his death.
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@David_J_Bier We were not paying for those immigrants’ kids in the early 20th century, therefore could still afford to have our own.
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This is a misunderstanding. The foreign-born share is rising because Americans aren't having many kids, so any immigration automatically increases the foreign share. The annual per capita inflow of immigrants in the early 20th century was far higher than it is today.
Geiger Capital@Geiger_Capital
Americans today are living through more immigration than the Ellis Island era… These past few decades, culminating with the Biden years, have blown the early 1900’s out of the water in both absolute number and percentage of population. We need an immigration moratorium.
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@nyaraVT The amount our govt spends on healthcare is actually more than the entire military budget.
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This is why you don’t have healthcare btw..
it’s not trans people
it’s not undocumented migrants
it’s not refugees
this..
BRICS News@BRICSinfo
JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 US war with Iran has now cost an estimated $21,000,000,000 since strikes began.
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No, you were clear. Just expanding my comments to include the general tenor of these discussions that I see all the time. Prettiest thing ever? No. And we could improve on that. But still a rational and perfectly comfortable and happy choice for many. Stop talking like it’s the gray gulag or something, people. It isn’t.
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@FormerlyFormer @MorlockP I’m not sure if maybe my original post wasn’t clear. I agree that these developments are good. Young people clearly want them or they wouldn’t sell. The benefits obviously outweigh the downsides.
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you see this sort of snarky crap all the time, and it's tiresome
we're looking at 2,000 square foot houses with heat, air conditioning, full kitchens, 2.5 bathrooms, garages for cars / workshops / storage / band practice, available to all
99% of the world would KILL for this
the absolute worst@guywithreplies
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@clinger643 @MorlockP I’m all in favor of paying more attention to aesthetics when designing neighborhoods - and some of that CAN be done reasonably cheaply if we’d try. No arg there. But I get tired of the sniffy dismissal of all suburbs as soulless wastelands. They aren’t.
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Some of y’all don’t know about cheese toast.
Mama would accept us turning up our nose at end pieces for a sammich, that’s fine.
But you then save it for cheese toast.
Respectful Memes@RespectfulMemes
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