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@cassiee1919 twitter is my morning newspaper

big reminder to everyone that neither you, your parents, your grandparents or even your great grandparents know a life without a postal service, and amazon will never be able to go the extra mile like usps does!! it’s not for profit, it’s a service!!!

Just in case it’s been hard to keep track, in the past few weeks the Noboa dictatorship has: • Bombed Colombia • Bombed the Amazon • Deployed 75,000 troops to round up children in a drug purge while he continues trafficking cocaine through his shipping enterprise •Prohibited journalists from recording military operations •Expanded the work day to 12 hours •Kidnapped the mayor of the largest city in Ecuador for publicly criticizing him •Banned his biggest political opposition party from participating in elections •Disregarded a democratic vote and pushed through mining reforms that 65% of the country voted against •Was accused by the head of the Los Lobos Cartel for ordering the assassination of his opponent in the presidential election •Had unmarked cars chase and intimidate journalists The list goes on but my thumbs hurt

Correct. From a Christian perspective, if Jesus is not Jewish then Jesus is not the Messiah. Period. The Messiah MUST be Jewish and from the House of David. Without it Jesus doesn’t fulfill Old Testament prophecies, which makes Him not the Messiah. Any “Christian” trying to strip Jesus’s Jewish heritage away from Him is perpetuating an antisemitic (and literal anti-Christ) lie.

@9ersszn @AdenineLovesYou @Cjswrld_2 because the patriots chose to wear their home jerseys

@AdenineLovesYou @Cjswrld_2 really? whyd they wear white then?

ykw real talk why did the 49ers do that. literally what the fuck were they gonna gain

@seafish when xbox made this cod backwards compatible, the multiplayer servers were full. Felt like how it felt back in 2011 right before MW3 released

Mexico (and the rest of the countries further south) don’t have a reservation system. Colonization over there tried to assimilate natives (full or mixed) by getting them to integrate into Hispanic society and forget their own cultures. That’s why there’s Mexican mestizos who are-

@AndreaFra2000 @theAHEprincess @mirkocrok @MishimaFudanshi didn’t PT just vote against the electoral reform tho?

@theAHEprincess @mirkocrok @MishimaFudanshi Simple, PVEM are whores who align with whoever is the biggest party of the moment, as shown by PVEM being a conservative party. and PT is cool, but, they're to the left of Morena and aren't as good at this whole, messaging thing. Also, joint electoral lists for presidential elect

They're calling the fattest and most retarded user on the platform.

everyday i get angrier that elon bought this app and completely ruined it. sucks that blue sky is wack and threads is corny

LITERALLY THAT DAY

@Penguin57a @_CatholicWest a lot. Mexico had a reform war over the separation of church and state

@_CatholicWest How much did the Spanish form of Catholicism get transferred to Mexico. I remember hearing the Spanish form was considered perhaps the most conservative - which became a factor related to Spanish Civil War.

Nah. Spain/Mexico are their own thing so are French Catholics. Philippine Catholicism is subtly different too with its own regional inflection. This is just click bait and yes I’m falling for it

@VaGentleman @ElijahForCA agreed, this is unnatural

This is unsettling and bordering on necromancy. While not explicitly stated in the Bible, this digital homunculus is an affront to God and man. More than sinful, but in my opinion evil.

@MarkWerling5 good thread

In sum, I continue to oppose the war. If we win, via overthrow of the Iranian government, the cost will go up further. I would like to see us end the campaign immediately. /10-end

I've been sharing thoughts on the Iran War, as an American and as a Christian (LCMS Lutheran). Creating a new thread here, as the first week of war comes to an end. /1

If you have a car payment you’re also 30k+ in debt. All debt is debt. Credit card, house, any type of loan.

@OGBURGKATHOLIK @lutheranpeasant @TheDonStein exactly this, this war is not good for the United States of America at all. Praying that people in power come to their senses and we get peace soon.

I can sympathize with the fact that Iran truly has been a terror to the Middle East, and at time to the entire world. However I fail to see how this conflict is not objectively bad for our country. We are not in a position to fight this war which is costing us roughly 1 billion dollars per day. Oil prices are surging, and are estimated to go sky high because we have been unable to secure safe passage through the strait of Hormuz. The Chinese are actively providing accurate satellite surveillance and targeting to the Iranians, and the Iranians have already tested a few of Chinas new hypersonic missiles on Tel Aviv. So China gets to collect intel and data on how effective their weapon systems are on the U.S. and our partners, and collect data on how we move and respond to modern advanced weaponry. Our 5th fleet base in Bahrain, a base that was almost deployed to and that many of my friends have been deployed to in the past is being decimated, which is something that the pentagon is not allowing news media to cover fully. Thankfully our men were pulled back, but that base is very strategic, important and expensive, and will likely be rendered useless after this conflict. We have been unable to prevent the Gulf states from being harmed by this conflict which will create distrust of the U.S. and our alliances with these countries. Several refineries have been devastated in the gulf states, and some estimates are saying it could be months or years before they are fully restored from the damage and able to produce again. Because of this some Saudi investors are growing very weary and are already speaking very loudly about pulling massive investments and assets out of the U.S. economy. CENTCOM is running low on critical munitions like the Tomahawk missile, and other important weapons because of years supporting Israel and Ukraine, this is extremely disturbing considering our defense industrial complex is horribly defective in its current state and totally unable to mass produce weaponry to the speed and scale our adversaries(especially China) can. The Ayatollah was the religious head of Shia Islam which will no doubt stir the hornets nest of radical Shia groups world wide. Remember we have millions of these people in our country, and even I times of peace they have committed horrible acts of terrorism in our land and abroad, which is what these people want. Shia Muslims have prophecies telling them that it’s their duty to bring about chaos to usher in their messiah. This is what they want. The list goes on as to why this was just objectively not a good idea. It should also be noted that this is exactly what Trump promised he would not do when he campaigned. So it’s killing the voter base and possibly destroying the conservative movement right before mid terms. We all wanted America first, we all wanted to re build, re arm, to become wealthy and powerful again. We all wanted to cut government corruption and restore our nations ability to manufacture goods and weaponry. This will undoubtedly set us back greatly.

It’s real. It’s incoherent. It’s threatening the death of entire “groups of people,” even though Iran has “apologized and surrendered.” What?

@Cuauhtemoc_1521 Santa Anna is alguien muy interesante. De ser un héroe nacional de la guerra de independencia, a ser el presidente más odiado de toda la historia de México. Que vida

#Efeméride 190 años de la victoria mexicana sobre El Álamo 🇲🇽En el contexto de la Revolución de Texas, que surgió de tensiones entre colonos anglosajones y el gobierno centralista mexicano bajo la presidencia de Antonio López de Santa Anna, el sitio del Álamo en 1836 representó un episodio pivotal de confrontación armada. Santa Anna, autoproclamado “Napoleón del Oeste”, marchó con un ejército de varios miles de soldados hacia San Antonio de Béjar para sofocar la rebelión, sitiando la antigua misión del Álamo desde el 23 de febrero. Los defensores texanos, comandados por William B. Travis y James Bowie, junto a figuras legendarias como Davy Crockett, resistieron durante trece días contra un asedio implacable, simbolizando la determinación independentista. 🇲🇽El 6 de marzo, las fuerzas mexicanas irrumpieron en un asalto sangriento, aniquilando a casi todos los 200 defensores en una masacre que no concedió cuartel. Esta victoria pírrica para Santa Anna, sin embargo, galvanizó el espíritu texano con el grito de “¡Recuerden el Álamo!”, inspirando reclutamientos y moral en las filas rebeldes. 🇲🇽Como consecuencia inmediata, el revés motivó la decisiva victoria texana en la Batalla de San Jacinto en abril de 1836, donde Santa Anna fue capturado, forzando la firma de tratados que reconocieron la independencia de Texas. En retrospectiva historiográfica, el Álamo trascendió como mito fundacional de la identidad texana, ilustrando las complejidades del expansionismo estadounidense y el declive del poder mexicano en el norte.

We're at a point where there are no cheap options to retreat to and no price points that guarantee quality. Every run-down studio is $1400, every fast food meal is $17, every luxury condo has peel-n-stick tiles, every $300 pair of boots falls apart. Endless expensive mediocrity.

@TippetsCorey he really didn’t fail. He was tasked to transition this team to a post russ era and mike liked him enough that he wanted him back this season. I think he would do great on a team like the vikings.

You didn’t fail anyone geno. The comeback you had proved us all wrong.

@lutheranpeasant I asked a LCMS pastor once about what was the proper way to cross yourself and he told me that was mainly a catholic thing 😐

Sadly, this is true. I don’t know how theological training is for Catholic priests, but if a Protestant pastor wants to be educated in historic, Protestant theology, he basically has to train himself. We didn’t read Chemnitz or Gerhard in seminary, a little Walther, and barely any Pieper (influential 20th century LCMS theologian). If our own pastors aren’t familiar with the founts of our tradition, you can hardly blame those outside of our tradition from confusing it with evanjellyfish churches, which are way more visible.

zoomers have a unique inter-generational divide where older zoomers who grew up with desktops and computer labs act like millennials and younger zoomers who grew up with iPads and smartphones act like gen alpha