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@MericaCulture Literally me monitoring the situation right now.

Easter Sunday Morning (1959) by Norman Rockwell My favorite Rockwell painting, ever notice what's on the dads head?

@EvanWritesOnX A lot of this could be said for Ireland.

Australia was not established as a nation-building project. It was established as an extraction platform. The British did not colonize Australia to build a civilization. They colonized it to extract l; first convict labor, then wool, then gold, then minerals, then gas. The political architecture was built around that extraction logic from day one, and it has never been restructured away from it. You assume the state exists to serve the population, and therefore bad outcomes must mean the state is being run poorly. Australia is not a sovereign state that happens to have a mining sector. It is a private sector extraction platform that happens to have citizens. Every Australian who “owns” a home is servicing a debt instrument that enriches the FIC. The minerals get dug up by foreign-owned multinationals. The profits get distributed to global shareholders. The taxation office is structured; by design, through decades of lobbying, to ensure the extraction proceeds leave the country with minimal sovereign capture. The politicians are doing exactly what the structure requires of them: absorbing public anger, rotating every few years to reset the pressure valve. Australia is not mismanaged. Australia is managed perfectly, just not for Australians.

@pmarca Like aiming to be midwit only flipped from being a respectable viable thing to total pathetic cuckdom in a very short period of time.

@pmarca So many millennial were brought up specifically to be midwits. The rug pull literally only in last few years.

@BishopJaxi It's an April's fools isn't it. Looks like the L is all mine.

@BishopJaxi L move

After much prayer, deep study, and an intense personal journey of discernment, I have decided to leave Catholicism and become Protestant. I can no longer remain in submission to a visible Church with apostolic authority, valid sacraments, saints, councils, consistency across centuries, and an actual historical claim to be the Church founded by Christ. Instead, I have been led to the far more reasonable position that Christ left us a Bible, a highlighter, and me. From this day forward, I will be my own final authority on Scripture, history, doctrine, and the meaning of Greek words I looked up 7 minutes ago. I will now reject Sacred Tradition in the name of traditions invented in 1998, deny the authority of the Church that gave me the canon, and confidently explain Christianity through a sermon clip, a study Bible note, and a man on YouTube named Caleb. I have also come to see that the best way to preserve Christian unity is by joining a theological system in which everyone is their own pope, every disagreement creates a new church plant, and "being led by the Spirit" simply means agreeing with my current opinion. I will be launching my own denomination later this afternoon. Our distinctives will include symbolic communion, invisible church membership, a 36 sermon series on Romans, and a firm belief that every Christian in history was wrong until my favorite pastor with a podcast arrived. Please respect my journey during this delicate time.

@SeamusMor19 I wouldn't be surprised if the whole NGO led enshittification of the country was charted out in very early 2010s. The succession of psyops on the church, a node of spiritual resistance, was no accident. Tuam, Savita, referenda.

@SeamusMor19 Im hindsight there was obviously some surrender and regrant after the crash. We went bust and deals were done which populace was not privy too. 2015 possibly was when it was felt. Also feel like Brexit caused some back room deals to be made too.

An actual good post on r/Ireland is doing numbers.

@BowesChay Horrible - i hate this drone murder, whoever is the victim.

While the Professional Beggar Zelensky hands out medals to idiot Estonians in Kiev- Elderly forced Ukrainian conscripts die in another suicide assault at the front.

Protestantism as singular concept depends on Catholicism for its existence. Take away opposition to Rome and there is no common thread at all.

@AuronMacintyre Western science was rooted in Christianity (that is Catholic)

Oswald Spengler predicts a spiritual crisis in America and Europe that will lead to the end of science as we understand it

@NickCohen4 Don't forget you'll be adopting the euro this time.

The British right made a huge bet on the American alliance holding together when they took us out of the EU. Trump has blown up the American alliance and so we head back to Europe

@Rothmus Anglicanism was purely a geopolitical creation, hence its joke status. Not a real religion, and the english not a pious people.

@HarrisonHSmith Greece Rome Jerusalem - all synthesized through the Roman Church. The Catholic church is the essence of western civilisation. The unifier. Anglo-Saxon liberalism is just a spin-off of same. Human rights, dignity, freedom all spring from Christendom.

This Nation was founded on Greco-Roman-Anglo-Saxon-Christian Values.

Muricans still don't get how much trump has f'd up.

I know the US market is not as volatile and there was a glut pre-war but still it should still be much higher surely since 28 Feb.

Why is #naturalgas not higher?

@nativistconcern I mean, watch the opening pre credit scene of Diamonds are Forever. Bond strangles a woman with her own bra.

Who you think British Secret Service agents are Vs Who they actually are

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